Amplecap is a browser extension aimed at making the first phase of the Idea Execution Funnel more convenient by augmenting "Jots" to facilitate easy web capture.
link📦 Where can I get it?
For Firefox: to be released in July/August 2021!
link📸 Capture modes
Amplecap Capture sources include: Screenshot selection, Page excerpt, Full page, Quick note, and Url
As of our beta launch, five modes of web capture are supported.
Once Amplecap has been installed in your browser, you can open or close it using Cmd-Shift-A on macOS, or Ctrl-Shift-A on PC any time your browser is focused.
To start your capture, use Cmd-Enter on macOS or Ctrl-Enter on PC.
linkScreenshot selection
In this mode, you drag a key portion of the screen that's currently visible in your browser, and it gets captured as a screenshot. For example,
Choosing a screenshot region in Screenshot selection capture mode
Screenshot selection mode allows you to capture any part of the screen into a task, bullet point, or note. Once the screenshot is in Amplenote, you can use our OCR functionality to find it in search, or paste the text into your note body if you want to do something with it.
linkText excerpts
In this mode, you can capture the points that interest you most when you're reading an article.
Selecting interesting quotes in Text excerpts capture mode. Individual excerpts are editable, so you can add additional text to any item before capturing them to your Amplenote.
Depending on how you choose to format the captured paragraphs in the destination note, your excerpts will look differently:
If you capture your excerpts into a bullet or a task, the excerpts are stored in a Rich Footnote
If you capture them to a note body, then the entire set of excerpts is inserted into the note as a quoted block
In both cases, a link to the excerpted page, and a timestamp, accompany the excerpted content.
linkFull page
In the "Full page" capture mode, a screenshot of the entire URL being visited is saved to a note, task, or bullet point.
linkQuick note
This capture mode helps you quickly create a new note, add a list item or create a new task in one of your notes, without opening Amplenote. This mode does not capture information off of webpages.
Capturing a task in Quick note mode
Since the options on both sides can be switched using hotkeys, this means that you're never more than a couple keystrokes away from capturing a task idea into Amplenote on desktop.
linkURL
This simply captures the URL that you're currently visiting into a task, bullet, or note. Useful if you want to use Amplenote to catalog your bookmarks, or if you want to remember to explore a site more deeply at some later date.
link🥅 Formatting captured content
Any capture type can be captured into any of the following destinations, as described in greater detail here.
Note body. The most luxurious landing pad for your newly captured content. When Note body is selected, we'll put your captured content straight into a new note, or appended to the end of an existing note.
To-do item. If you want to remember to follow up on this captured content later, capturing it into a To-do item makes that easy. You can capture any content into your main task list, or into a new note in a tag that has a tag shortcut in Tasks view mode.
Bullet point. Sometimes you want to keep lists of non-actionable items, or you want to keep a list of actionable items that remains in the note after being completed. In these cases, choosing the "Bullet point" option puts your captured content into a Rich Footnote that fits into a bullet that is prepended to the note chosen (or inserted at the beginning of a new note)
link🤓 Amplecap keyboard shortcuts
For macOS, Linux and PC
Ctrl-Alt-Up and Ctrl-Alt-Down moves selection up and down in the list of "Capture Types"
Ctrl-Alt-Left and Ctrl-Alt-Right moves selection left and right in the list of possible formats for the captured content
On macOS keyboards, the "Alt" key is also labeled "Option."
link🏃 Adding a browser shortcut to open Amplecap
Here are the steps for adding your own personalized shortcuts for Chrome extensions.
Navigate to: chrome://extensions/shortcuts
Click the "Type a shortcut" input for AmpleCap
Enter a shortcut