Capturing your first note

Clair Mind is built around one idea: capturing a thought should take a single tap, so you never lose an idea because saving it felt like work.

There are three ways in — typing, scanning, and sharing from any other app.

Capture by text

  1. Open Clair Mind. The capture bar is right there on your home screen.
  2. Tap it, type your thought, and you're done — the note lands safely in your Inbox.
  3. Sort it into a notebook later, or leave it in the Inbox. Either way it's fully searchable.

Everything is saved on your device and works completely offline. No account needed.

Capture by scanning a page

Have a handwritten note or a printed page you want to keep?

  1. In the composer, choose Scan.
  2. Point your camera at the page — Clair Mind detects the edges and captures it.
  3. The text is recognized on your device and dropped into a note, ready to edit.

Scanning happens entirely on your iPhone, so the page never leaves your device.

Capture from any app — the share sheet

You don't have to open Clair Mind to save something. Reading a message, an article, or a post worth keeping?

  1. Select the text (or use the page's share button) and tap Share.
  2. Choose Clair Mind from the share sheet.
  3. A small compose sheet appears with the content prefilled — add a word of context if you like, and tap Save.

The thought is queued instantly and lands in your Inbox the next time you open the app — even if you were offline when you shared it. The share sheet accepts text and web links, so a chat message, a paragraph you selected, or an article's URL all work.

This is the capture habit at its cheapest: you never leave the app you're in, so ideas get caught before they fade.

What happens next

Once a thought is in Clair Mind you can move it into a colorful notebook, find it instantly with search, or ask Clair about it. See how Ask AI works to get answers across everything you've captured.

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