Inbox
Triage Markdown captures stored under .octarine/inbox until you resolve or promote them into your workspace notes.
Inbox requires a Pro license on desktop. Captures stay on your machine as markdown under .octarine/inbox/ inside the workspace—plain files next to your notes so sync and backups behave like everything else.
To record captures from anywhere, see Quick Capture. For swipe-based triage and Capture Tags chips on mobile, see Inbox & Quick Capture on iOS.
Opening the inbox
Choose Inbox from the workspace sidebar or open it as its own editor tab. Active (non-done) items show a badge count on the Inbox shortcut.
On a narrow window you get a single column; widen the inbox view and Octarine splits into list + detail so you can scan and edit side by side.
Triage lanes
New captures appear in the inbox list grouped for triage (Open, In progress, Cold box, Done):
- Open — actionable, not snoozed.
- In progress — you marked the capture as currently being worked.
- Cold box — snoozed with a wake time (
snoozed_until) still in the future. - Done — resolved, converted to a note, appended to a daily note, or explicitly marked done.
Tags on captures (desktop)
When saving from Quick Capture to Inbox, you can attach up to five tags (#-style labels) drawn from tags already present in your workspace index, or add new normalized tags from the picker. Those tags are persisted in YAML frontmatter on the capture file.
Triage actions
Typical workflows from inbox item detail:
- Mark done, re-open, progress states, priorities, pinning, snooze (with presets such as later today, this evening / tomorrow evening, tomorrow morning, this weekend, next week—each shows the computed date/time).
- Convert to note — creates a normal markdown note under a folder you pick, merges capture metadata where appropriate, and marks the inbox item resolved with linkage back (
converted_to). - Append to today’s daily — merges the capture body into the current daily note, then clears it from active triage (
appended_to).
Searching the inbox scans capture bodies across states when needed.
On disk
Each capture is a markdown file—for example {workspace}/.octarine/inbox/YYYY-MM-DD_HH-mm-ss-SSS.md—with YAML frontmatter for triage (priority, tags, done, snoozed_until, inbox number, timestamps, provenance).
Snoozed items
Until the snooze expiry passes, captures sit in Cold box / snoozed grouping and disappear from immediate open lists. Clearing snooze wakes them instantly.