Capture tasks from any app with one keyboard shortcut

You think of something while you're in a browser, a call or a game, and by the time you've opened a to-do app it's gone.

How quick capture works

1. Press Ctrl + Shift + Space anywhere in Windows. The prompt appears over your current app.
2. Type the task in plain English: standup notes tomorrow 9am #work. Chips under the field show what was recognised.
3. Press Enter to save or Esc to dismiss. Focus returns to the app you came from.

Change the shortcut to anything you like

If another program already uses the default combination, set your own in Settings, Behaviour, under "Global quick-capture hotkey": click the field and press the keys you want. If another app has taken the combination, PineTodo says so and keeps the old one. The shortcut is registered system-wide, survives restarts, and works on any keyboard layout, including non-Latin ones.

Why use a hotkey

Capture works when the friction is near zero. A global shortcut costs about a second and no context switch, so the thought actually gets written down. Everything you capture lands in your Today list, where dates and priorities you typed are already filled in thanks to natural-language parsing.

PineTodo is for Windows 10 and 11. Open this page on your Windows PC to download it.

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