A single interruption costs 23 minutes of recovery time. Quick Capture exists to eliminate that penalty — two keystrokes, no context lost, no thread broken.
The Research
Gloria Mark at UC Irvine has spent two decades studying attention in the workplace. Her finding that changed everything: full focus recovery after a single interruption takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds.
The average knowledge worker is interrupted or switches tasks 275 times per day (Microsoft). Average screen attention span has collapsed from 2.5 minutes in 2004 to 47 seconds today.
These are not productivity stats. They are measurements of a crisis in human thinking.
The Writing Problem
You are deep in paragraph four. A thought arrives — a connection to something you read last week. Important. Relevant to chapter six, not chapter three.
Without Quick Capture: you open a new tab, find your notes app, create a note, type the thought, return to the editor. Elapsed time: 45 seconds. Recovery time: 23 minutes. The paragraph-four thread is gone.
This is not a "nice to have" problem. This is the mechanism by which writers lose their best material — not because they forget it, but because capturing it destroys the state that produced it.
How Quick Capture Works
Alt+Q. A modal appears above the editor. Speak or type. The thought is captured literally — no polishing, no AI rewriting. Filed into a specific book, chapter, and category.
The editor state is untouched. Cursor position, scroll position, mental state — all preserved. Two keystrokes in, two keystrokes out.
This is the Two Microphones philosophy at work: Alt+M serves the manuscript, Alt+Q serves the writer’s thinking. Both are faithful — what you say is what lands. They differ only in where it lands, which is the whole reason there are two of them.