Send notes where the work lives
Edmund can keep a note to itself, or hand it onward as a real, well-formed issue in the tool you actually track work in. Here’s how connecting a destination works.
So Edmund routes a captured thought onward, into Linear, GitHub, Jira, a Notion database, or one of a dozen others. Connecting one takes a minute; here’s the shape of it before the exact steps.
Three ways to connect
Every destination authenticates one of three ways, and Edmund uses the least-faff option each one offers:
- OAuth: the tap-and-approve flow. You sign in on the provider’s own page and Edmund gets a scoped key back. No copying tokens around. Most destinations support this.
- API token: for the ones without OAuth, you paste a key from the provider’s settings. It goes straight into your Keychain, synced across your devices, and never onto any server of mine.
- On-device: Apple Reminders needs no account at all. It’s just a permission prompt.
It’s a per-project decision
You don’t connect Edmund to a service once and route everything to the same place. You point each project at a destination (“Website bugs” at a GitHub repo, “Marketing” at a Notion database) and Edmund sends each note where it belongs, automatically. Open a project, tap into its integration setup, and pick your team, repo, database or list from a list, with no hunting through URLs for workspace or database IDs. While you’re there you can set a default label, priority or destination, so routed issues land ready to work on.
A few honest quirks
Most connect without a second thought. A handful have their own personality, so I’ll be straight about them:
- Linear: a personal API key goes in raw, with no “Bearer” in front (their API is fussy about it). Edmund handles that for you, which is worth knowing if you’re debugging.
- Jira: Cloud sites route via a cloud-id that Edmund works out from your site URL, so you just paste the URL and sign in.
- GitLab: self-managed instances are fine; give Edmund your instance URL alongside the token and it’ll talk to your server, not just gitlab.com.
- Shortcut: token-only for now, since there’s no OAuth on their side yet.
Pick your destination above for the exact steps. Whichever you choose, your notes stay on your device until the moment you deliberately route one, and nothing’s synced anywhere you didn’t ask for.