I’ve been trying a lot of PKM tools (Obsidian, Notion, etc.), and they’re great once things are organized.

But most of what I actually need to capture day-to-day is much smaller and faster:

• quick thoughts
• links I don’t want to lose
• random snippets
• stuff I don’t have time to organize

And this is where everything starts to feel… slow.

Capturing should be instant, almost no friction.

But most tools immediately push you into structure: folders, tags, decisions…

So either I don’t capture at all, or I dump things and never find them again.

Lately I’ve been trying to separate the two:

• one layer just for capture (fast, no thinking)
• another for organizing later

Curious how others here handle this.

Do you separate capture from knowledge building? Or use one tool for everything?