Daily notes & follow-ups

Most of what you want to keep never arrives as a document. It arrives as a half-sentence while you’re doing something else. Quick capture is for that: type it, forget it, and deal with it later.

Capture

Press ⌘⇧N (Ctrl+Shift+N on Windows and Linux), or click Capture in the toolbar. A box opens over whatever you were doing. Type, press Enter, and it’s saved — the box stays open, so you can keep going. Esc closes it.

The shortcut works while Wikai is focused. There’s no global hotkey or menu bar icon yet, so it’s not a capture-from-anywhere tool.

Captures land in today’s note for the wiki you’re in — one page per day, timestamped, append-only. A wiki has to be open, since Wikai needs to know which one you’re capturing into.

Today

The Today button opens today’s note. It’s a log: each capture is a card, in the order you wrote them. It lives at pages/notes/daily/2026-07-12.md, and it’s an ordinary page — you can edit it, link to it, and search it like any other.

The caret next to the button browses earlier days.

What the agent does with a capture

When you open today’s note, the agent reads the captures and makes suggestions:

It classifies each one — todo, question, idea, fact, person, place, meeting.
It spots references to pages you already have and offers to link them.
It offers a tidier wording of shorthand you typed in a hurry, which you can accept or dismiss.

Nothing is written without a click. The agent proposes; you accept. Your captures stay exactly as you typed them until you say otherwise.

This runs when you look at the note, not in the background — Wikai isn’t processing your notes while you’re away. In Settings you can set enrichment to Automatic (as captures land), Manual (only when you click Enrich now), or Off. On the Anthropic API backend, automatic is unavailable — it’s a metered backend, and quietly spending your credits in the background isn’t a thing we’ll do — so use Manual there.

The end-of-day digest

Open End-of-day digest and the day’s captures are sorted into what you might do with them:

File to the wiki — a fact, person or place that matches an existing page. File appends it there, with a note of the day it came from.
Research — a question becomes a work document the agent can dig into.
Follow-ups — to-dos, listed. They stay in today’s note; you’ll find them in the Follow-ups view.

Again, one click per item. The digest is a review, not an inbox that empties itself.

Follow-ups

A follow-up is just a Markdown checkbox — - [ ] — anywhere in the wiki. In a daily note, in a book chapter’s margin, in a project page. The Follow-ups view collects every open one.

Lists stay lists. If two or more checkboxes sit together on a page, they show up as one row with a count, which you expand to see the items — so a shopping list is one follow-up, not thirty. A lone checkbox is its own row. Rows remember whether you left them open.

Tick a box here and it’s ticked where it lives — Wikai writes the change back to the source page, touching nothing else on the line.

You can add a due date and tags in the text of the checkbox itself:

- [ ] call the school @2026-07-01 #admin

Dated items sort first, an Overdue filter picks out what’s past, and you can filter by tag. The date has to be written as @YYYY-MM-DD — Wikai doesn’t parse “tomorrow”, and it won’t remind you. It’s a list, not an assistant with a calendar.

Worth knowing

Enrichment only runs on notes you actually open. Never open Today, and nothing gets classified.
Only timestamped capture lines get the agent’s treatment. Prose you type into the daily note by hand is left alone.
Editing a capture after it’s been classified means it gets re-read the next time you look.
File appends to the end of the destination page. It doesn’t try to guess the right section.
Ticking a grouped list means ticking its items — there’s no “check them all” box on the group.

Last updated 2026-07-12.