Triage Mode
A focused, card-based workflow for processing the inbox one item at a time. The rest of the UI fades; the current card takes center stage.
When to Use Triage
When the inbox has piled up and you want to clear it. Triage is built around quick, low-cognitive-load decisions: archive, snooze, file, or convert.
Entering Triage
Click the Triage tab in the inbox view, or hit the triage button in the inbox header. The current pending item appears as a card.
Card Anatomy
Each card shows:
- The item type badge (link, note, image, voice, clip, social, etc.)
- A title (or filename for files)
- A snippet of content or preview
- Source URL (if any)
- The capture timestamp
- Action buttons
Actions
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Archive | Done; file the item and move on. The item is searchable but out of the active inbox. |
| Snooze | Defer until later. Item disappears from inbox until wake time. See Snooze & Archive. |
| Quick file | Move into a folder, project, or tag without converting. |
| Convert to Note | Create a note seeded with the item's content. The original is archived with a back-reference. |
| Convert to Task | Create a task in the current default project, or pick a project, due date, due time, and priority. |
| Convert to Event | Create a calendar event from the item: start (and optional end) time, an all-day toggle, and a location. The item body becomes the event description. |
| Convert to Reminder | Create a note from the item and schedule a reminder for it at a chosen time. The time must be in the future. |
| Open | Open the source URL in your browser. |
| Delete | Discard. (Confirms first.) |
Keyboard Shortcuts
When the inbox or a triage card has focus:
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Refresh | R |
| Open source URL | O |
| Archive | Delete or Backspace |
Cards stack — finishing one slides the next in.
Multi-Action Patterns
Many items map to a sequence:
- Article you want to read → Snooze 1 hour, then Archive after reading
- Task hidden in a link → Convert to Task, the source is preserved as a reference
- Reference material → Convert to Note with a tag, then Archive
- Already obsolete → Delete
Converting from the Detail Panel
Opening an item shows a Convert row beneath the filing section with four targets: Note, Task, Event, and Reminder. Task, Event, and Reminder open a small form so you can set details before converting:
- Task — project, due date, due time, and priority.
- Event — start time (required), end time, all-day, and location.
- Reminder — the time to be reminded (must be in the future).
File-based items (images, PDFs, videos, and clips) can only become a Note, so the other three are disabled for them. Voice memos convert using their transcription, so they keep the full set of options.
Speed-Run Mode
Working through a long backlog? Use only the keyboard. Each card has the same set of actions in the same place — repetition makes the muscle memory cheap.
What Triage Doesn't Do
Triage doesn't auto-decide. The choice is always yours. memrynote doesn't apply ML to guess what you want — partly to keep behavior predictable, partly to keep content out of any provider's training pipeline.