Pictures & book quotes

Turn the words in a picture into text you can search and link: a screenshot, a slide, a whiteboard — or a page of a paper book, photographed with your phone.

Text from a picture

1. ⌘K → Text from a picture, or / → Capture.
2. Paste a screenshot, drop a picture, or choose one.
3. Check the text — paragraphs are rejoined where the column wrapped, bullets become a list — and correct anything misread.
4. Add to the note puts it at the end of the note, with the picture or without it.

Quote from a book

1. ⌘K → Quote from a book (photo). On a phone, Take a photo of the page opens the camera.
2. Tap the lines worth keeping — shift-click for a run of them — and fix any misreading.
3. Name the book and the page, and Keep this quote.

---
title: "Dune"
type: book
author: "Frank Herbert"
---

# Dune

> I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
> — p. 8 · 2026-10-12

Book notes are found by spaced reading, so every quote comes back to be reread alongside your PDF highlights. The photo itself is not kept.