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What the capture box understands

Amounts, dates, times, people — what the parser reads, and how it decides where things go.

4 min readUpdated Aug 2026

The capture box is a small on-device parser. It scans what you type for a few signals — an amount, a date or time, a person's name, a keyword — and uses them to decide which section the item belongs in and how to fill its fields.

The signals it reads

  • Amounts like 4.50 or $120 suggest a Finance transaction.
  • Dates & times like tomorrow 7am, Fri, March 3 suggest a Calendar event or a due date.
  • Names like call Sarah tag the item to a person in your Network.
  • Action words like buy, email, finish lean toward a task.

How routing decides

The parser weighs those signals together. coffee 4.50 has an amount and no date, so it's an expense. coffee with Mia friday 10am has a time and a person, so it's an event tagged to Mia. When two readings are plausible, the live preview shows its best guess and lets you switch before you commit.

Three captures routing to Calendar, Tasks and Finance Plannr.do — Capture THREE THINGS, THREE DESTINATIONS gym tomorrow 7am Calendar · Tue 7:00 EVENT call Sarah — lease tagged @Sarah TASK netflix 15.99 monthly posts to Finance SUB

Examples to try

You typeIt becomes
coffee 4.50Expense · Finance
gym tomorrow 7amEvent · Calendar
call Sarah about leaseTask · tagged to Sarah
netflix 15.99 monthlySubscription · posts to Finance
idea: newsletter redesignNote · Inbox
Not sure how something will parse? Just type it and look at the preview before you hit enter. Nothing is filed until you confirm.
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