Write it down
Photos
A thing can carry photos, and NewTwos can read the text inside them.
Why you'd care
Photographing something is the fastest capture there is. A whiteboard, a receipt, a page of a book, a label on the back of a bottle. Because the text inside is searchable, it is also a real filing strategy rather than a dead end.
The 60-second version
Add a photo from the capture bar or the edit bar. It attaches to the thing, which keeps whatever text it already had.
Step by step
Several photos on one thing
A thing can hold more than one. They stay together as a group, which is what you want for a set of pages or a few angles of the same object.
Cropping
Photos can be cropped when added. GIFs skip cropping, since cropping them would break the animation.
The text inside
NewTwos reads the text in your photos so search can find it later. That is what makes photographing a receipt useful six months on. See reading text in your photos.
Going further
Photograph rather than transcribe. For anything you only need to find again, a photo is faster and loses less than typing a summary.
Add a word of context. A photo with one typed word next to it is dramatically easier to find than a photo alone, because you will search the word before you remember the image.
Settings that change this
- Settings Lists & <i>Things</i> Default photo size sets how photos are displayed by default.
- Settings Smart Features Search text in photos controls whether text is read from your photos.
Tips
- Photograph the thing, not a note about the thing.
- Book pages, wine labels and business cards are the highest-value photos to capture, because the text does all the work later.
If it's not working
The photo will not upload. Usually a weak connection. It retries, and the thing is already saved with its text either way.
Search cannot find text I can clearly see. Text reading may be off, or the scan has not run yet on older photos. See reading text in your photos.