Everything you capture arrives here, triaged but not yet filed. The Inbox is the one moment in Edmund where you make a decision, and there are only two you can make.

Confirm, or send it onward

If Edmund guessed right, Confirm. The note is filed into its project and drops out of the Inbox. That’s it, and it’s what happens to most notes.

If the note belongs somewhere outside Edmund, Route out instead: a bug that ought to be a GitHub issue, a task that lives in Linear, a reminder that belongs in Apple Reminders. Edmund creates it there, links the note to it, and keeps the link so you can jump back to it. Details on that are in connecting integrations.

Either way you’re never sorting a note into a folder by hand. Triage already did that. You’re confirming a guess, which is a much smaller job.

Getting through a full one

Skim for the Review pills first. They mark the notes triage wasn’t confident about, so they’re the only ones that really want reading. Everything else is usually a confirm without breaking stride.

Confirm all clears the lot in one go, and it skips anything under seventy percent confidence rather than bulk-confirming guesses nobody has looked at. So it’s safe to reach for on a busy morning: the shaky ones stay behind, waiting for you.

Fixing a guess

Open the note and change whatever’s wrong: the project, the type, the tags, the title. It takes a couple of taps and, as covered in how triage works, Edmund uses your corrections as examples for next time, so the same mistake tends not to keep happening.

Done, and staying done

Notes you’ve kept can be ticked off when they’re finished. Completing a note also clears any reminder on it, so a job you’ve done stops nudging you, and reopening it doesn’t bring the old reminder back from the dead. If you want another nudge, set a new one. Done means done.

Deleting things

Deleted notes go to Recently Deleted and stay recoverable for thirty days before they’re cleared for good, which is the usual arrangement and exists for the usual reason.

When the Inbox gets on top of you

An Inbox of sixty is a symptom, not a failing. Usually it means either the confirming has fallen out of your routine, or triage is guessing badly enough that confirming has become work. The second one is fixable, and the fix is nearly always sharpening your project descriptions rather than anything in the app’s settings.

Edmund will nudge you about a piling-up Inbox if you let it, which you can set up under reminders and nudges.

Next: reminders and nudges, or back to Help.