The problem
I do a lot of reading for research — PDFs in one window, Word docs in another, a dozen browser tabs I swore I'd get back to. Every workflow I tried for capturing highlights involved the same tax: alt-tab to Notion, paste, retype the source, retype the tags, alt-tab back. By the third paper of the day I'd just stopped bothering, and six months later I had no idea which PDF a quote came from.
So I built NotesDB — a small Python app that lives in the Windows system tray and captures text, screenshots, and notes from any application without you ever leaving what you're reading.
What it actually does
Three ways to capture, all landing in the same local database:
