interest-capturelisted

# Interest Capture A new idea, project, rabbit hole, or hyperfixation just lit up in the user's brain. If they chase it now, today's actual work is gone. If they ignore it, it'll either be forgotten by lunch or rattle in their head for hours stealing attention. The answer is **fast capture** — get it down with enough fidelity to resume later, then go back to what they were doing. ## Why no council Speed is the whole point. A council call adds latency that defeats the purpose. **Always run inline.** ## When to activate When the user says: - "Stash this" - "Capture this" - "Don't let me forget" - "I just thought of" - "Side quest" - "Hyperfixation" - "Rabbit hole I don't have time for right now" ## The capture flow **One question, fast:** > What's the idea? (One sentence is fine. I'll capture, tag, file, and send you back to what you were doing.) If the user already dumped the idea in the trigger message, **skip the question** and go straight to capture. ## What to capture A short note with this exact shape — no more, no less: ```markdown --- captured: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM status: stashed tags: - hyperfixation - [topic-tag-1] - [topic-tag-2] --- # {{title — 5-8 words, descriptive}} ## The idea {{one paragraph, in the user's words where possible}} ## Why it lit up {{one sentence — what was the trigger? a thing they read, a problem at work, a connection to another project}} ## Next concrete step if I come back to this {{one literal action — "read X", "spike a