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Quick capture for Diarly

Quick Notes for Diarly

Use Capture as a fast inbox before an idea becomes a note in Diarly. Create a new Diarly note from a Capture, or append it to a daily entry or to one fixed note, with an optional journal.

To send a capture to Diarly, open Capture Settings, choose Export, and add Diarly as a destination. Install Diarly on the device where you use Capture. Choose Create or Append, and optionally enter a journal. To always append to one note, use Copy Link on that note in Diarly to get its Note ID. With Create, text becomes the note text, and a selected Capture date is added as a “Selected date” line. With Append and a Note ID, the captured text is appended to that note. Diarly is offered as a destination for Text and Links captures.

A quick capture workflow for Diarly

  1. 01Catch it

    Write or share the thought into Capture while it is fresh.

  2. 02Keep moving

    Save the Capture without stopping to organize the destination.

  3. 03Send to Diarly

    Use your configured export action when the capture is ready.

What gets sent to Diarly

  • With Create, text becomes the note text, and a selected Capture date is added as a “Selected date” line.
  • With Append and a Note ID, the captured text is appended to that note.
  • With Append and no Note ID, the text goes to the entry for the capture’s selected date, or to today’s entry when the capture has no date.
  • Links send the fetched page title and the URL on separate lines, or only the URL when no title is cached.

Set up Diarly in Capture

  1. Open Capture Settings, choose Export, then tap Configure if this is your first destination or Add new destination.
  2. Choose Diarly from the app picker.
  3. Install Diarly on the device where you use Capture.
  4. Choose Create or Append, and optionally enter a journal. To always append to one note, use Copy Link on that note in Diarly to get its Note ID.
  5. Review the destination name and icon, then tap Save.

Supported Capture types

This destination appears only for content it can receive.

TextLinks

Fields and options

Field or optionWhat it changes
ActionCreate (default) adds a new note for every capture; Append adds to an existing entry.
JournalOptional journal name or identifier; blank uses the default journal.
Note IDAppend only; optional ID of a note to always append to instead of a daily entry.

Example: a quick capture to Diarly

Set Action to Append and leave Note ID blank. A capture with 14 March selected is added to Diarly’s entry for 14 March; an undated capture goes to today’s entry.

Send the capture

  1. Open an existing Capture and choose its configured Diarly export action.
  2. Capture hands off only the supported types listed above. Complete any confirmation or compose screen shown by Diarly.

Limits and troubleshooting

Limits

  • Images and files are unsupported.
  • With Append, Note ID and Journal cannot both be set.
  • The “Selected date” line is only added with Create.
  • Capture does not check that the journal or note ID exists.

Troubleshooting

  • If Capture reports that Note ID and journal cannot be combined, clear one of the two fields.
  • If text goes to the wrong entry, check the date selected on the capture, or set a Note ID.
  • If Capture shows “Couldn’t open Diarly”, install Diarly on this device.

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Checked against Capture 3.5, last verified 12 November 2026.