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A `!` now means force or everything and nothing else (`:w!`, `:search!`,
`:export!`, `:logout!`). A command that did a second thing behind its bang
takes a word for it instead: `:space new|name|rm`, `:list name|rm`,
`:task [add]|edit`, `:upload seal`, `:import zip [/]`. `:card` while reading
a document makes a card about it, so `:card!` is gone.

Merged: `:export` downloads what has focus, a file as it is or a document as
markdown (`:download` folded in); `:share [off|new]` replaces `:unshare` and
`:link`, and the list's `s` and `y` give way to it and the info sheet;
`:noh` replaces `:clear`; `:vault [unlock|lock|passwd]` replaces `:unlock`,
`:lock` and `:passwd`; Esc in the list puts down what `m` picked up before it
closes the document, replacing `:unmark`.

The old spellings run as their new lines for one release through a table in
commands.ts; help and Tab leave them out, and the wiki lists them.

A settings sheet (`,` or `:settings`) holds the options, the vault, the
backup, the signed-in browsers, ssh keys and capture tokens. Each row runs
the command a line would. Bare `:set`, `:vault`, `:backup`, `:sessions`,
`:sshkey` and `:token` open it at their part.

`?` shows the keys and commands to start with, flagged in the keymap and the
command table; a second `?` (or `:help all`) shows all of them, and a filter
always searches all of them. Help rows are keyed by key and description, as
two contexts can share a label.
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Capture

A thought arrives when no tab is open. POST /api/capture writes it down from anything that can send a request: a phone shortcut, a script, curl. It takes a token in place of a login.

Tokens

:token add phone     makes one, shows it once and copies it
:token               the settings sheet's tokens, each with when it was last used — x there retires one
:token rm phone      and that one captures nothing from the next request on

A token opens this one route and nothing else. It cannot read anything, not even the list of spaces. Only its SHA-256 is kept on the server, so it is shown once, when it is made. Wrong tokens slow down the way wrong passwords do, on a line of their own, so guessing at them does not hold up the login.

Sending

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer nwc_…" -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"text":"call the bank"}' https://your-host/api/capture
field meaning
text what to write down; for a card, the first line is the title and the rest its notes
to "card" (the default), "diary", "note" or "document"
space for a card, the slug of the space whose inbox it goes in; for a document, the space its title is looked for in first
document for "document", which one, as a link names it: Plan, [[Plan]] or /n/work/plan
note the id of the scratch note the text came from; it is dropped once the text has landed
  • "to": "card" puts a card in the inbox of the space named by space, or else of the first space that has a board.
  • "to": "diary" adds - 14:05 call the bank to the end of today's entry, in WORKSPACE_TIMEZONE, and starts the entry from templates/day when there is none yet.
  • "to": "note" puts it on the scratchpad, for when it is not clear yet where it belongs.
  • "to": "document" adds it as a paragraph at the end of a document. The text it replaces is kept in the document's history, as a save keeps it.

The answer says where it went: {"to":"card","id":7,"where":"work/backlog"}.

From a phone

iPhone: in Shortcuts, make a shortcut with Ask for Input, then Get Contents of URL:

  • URL: https://your-host/api/capture
  • Method: POST
  • Headers: Authorization = Bearer nwc_…
  • Request body: JSON, with text set to the Provided Input, and to set to diary if that is where it should go.

Android: in HTTP Shortcuts, make a shortcut with a text-input variable, method POST, the same header, and a JSON body {"text": "{{input}}"}.

Either one can sit on the home screen, or behind the share sheet.