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Quick-capture a resource

Getting something into Latte takes seconds — a lecture slide deck, a photo of the whiteboard, a useful link, or a quick thought. On the web that's the Share sheet; on mobile it's the Capture button.

Capture now asks one extra question — Turn this into — with two answers: Keep as a note, filed in your Library and shareable with your groups, or Add as a task, with an optional deadline, which goes straight into your task list and competes for a place in your next three.

Either way, you always see exactly who will get it before anything is shared.

Before you start

To share with classmates you need to be in at least one group — see Create a group or Explore and join your school's groups. No groups yet? You can still capture and keep it private.

  1. Click the Share… button in the top bar — it's there on every page. (The Library's Share something button and a group's + Share menu open the same sheet; from a group, that group is already selected as the audience.)

  2. The Share sheet opens with the audience first. Next to To, use Add group or course to pick the groups that should see it. Under the pickers, the sheet counts who that reaches — Visible to N members.

    The Share sheet opened from the app bar's Share button: the To audience row with Add group or course, the File / Link / Note content picker with Note selected and a note typed in, the Title field, the collapsed Add details section, and the footer with Save privately instead next to the still-disabled Share button
    The Share sheet opened from the app bar's Share button: the To audience row with Add group or course, the File / Link / Note content picker with Note selected and a note typed in, the Title field, the collapsed Add details section, and the footer with Save privately instead next to the still-disabled Share button

  3. Pick what you're sharing: File (drop it or click to browse), Link (paste a URL), or Note (write it right there).

  4. Under Turn this into, choose what it becomes: Keep as a note ("It becomes a note you can share with a group.") or Add as a task ("It becomes a task of yours and joins the ranking on Today. Nobody else sees it.").

    Screenshot coming soon
    The Turn this into row in the web Share sheet — a Keep as a note segment and an Add as a task segment with note selected, and the caption underneath explaining that a note can be shared with a group

  5. Give it a Title — a name others will recognize.

  6. If you chose Add as a task: Add details opens by itself, with the date field renamed Deadline so you can't miss it. Fill it in, or leave it empty for something with no fixed date. The button at the bottom becomes Add to my tasks — a task has no audience, so the audience row no longer applies. Latte confirms with Added to your tasks.

  7. If you chose Keep as a note: optionally open Add details to set a Course, a Date, and a Description — course and date help classmates find it later.

  8. When you've selected a class group, an Also visible to future cohorts toggle appears. It's off by default — turn it on if next year's students should find your resource too.

  9. Click the big button — it names its audience, Share to your group (or Share to N groups). Until you've picked an audience it stays disabled: nothing is shared until you press the button, and sharing with nobody is impossible. To keep the capture to yourself, use Save privately instead. Latte confirms with Shared. or Saved privately.

On the Latte desktop app

The desktop app has the same Share button and sheet.

Note or task?​

Use this rule: if it has to be done, make it a task. If it has to be kept, make it a note.

Keep as a noteAdd as a task
Lives inyour Libraryyour task list
Can be shared with a groupyesno — it stays yours
Can carry a datea Date, for finding it latera Deadline, which Latte acts on
Shows up in your next threenoyes
Reminds younoyes, as the deadline approaches

A note with a date on it is still just a note: the date helps you and your classmates find it, and nothing will ever bring it back to your attention. That is the single most useful thing to know here — a deadline captured as a note is a deadline you will miss.

When your capture already carries a date, Latte offers task first, because a dated capture is almost always something to do.

A captured task is an ordinary task​

It goes through the same place everything else does. It can be edited, completed, linked to a course or broken into subtasks, and it competes on equal terms in your next three — Latte does not rank a task lower just because you captured it in two seconds during a lecture. That is the point.

tip

Sharing from a group's own page? The sheet opens with that group already selected as the audience, so the big button already reads Share to that group — check the title and press it.