Write it down
Every way in
Every route a thing can take into Twos, in one place.
Why you'd care
Most people use one or two of these and never learn the rest. The one that fits your day is often not the one you started with.
Inside the app
| Route | Best for |
|---|---|
| The capture bar | Everything, by default |
| The Capture view | Writing at length |
| Voice | Hands busy |
| Ramble | Talking for a minute Plus |
| Photos | Anything easier to photograph than to type |
Without opening the app
| Route | Best for |
|---|---|
| Quick Capture | A hotkey or a widget |
| Siri and Shortcuts | Speaking to your phone |
| The share sheet | Links and text from other apps |
| Apple Watch | One thing, arm back down |
| Wear OS | The same, on an Android watch |
From somewhere else entirely
| Route | Best for |
|---|---|
| Forwarding things to yourself | |
| Text messages | A phone without the app |
| Where you already message | |
| Slack | Work chat |
| Discord | Community chat |
| X | Saving posts |
| Bluesky | Saving posts, off X |
| The browser extension | Pages you are reading, on Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox |
| Raycast | A launcher on a Mac |
| MCP | Claude, ChatGPT and other AI assistants |
| The Claude skill | Claude, with Twos conventions built in |
| Zapier, Pipedream and IFTTT | Wiring up another app with no code |
| The API | Anything you build yourself |
Bringing across what you already have
These run once, or on a schedule, rather than being a route you use every day. See what comes across for what survives the trip.
| Route | Best for |
|---|---|
| Apple Notes | An existing notes library |
| Obsidian | A markdown vault |
| Evernote | An .enex export |
| Todoist | Tasks and projects |
| Google Tasks | Tasks with subtasks and due dates |
| Microsoft Loop | A Loop page, pasted in |
| Apple Reminders | Reminders, in both directions |
| Calendars and birthdays | An .ics file of events |
| Kindle | Book highlights |
| Apple Books | Highlights, from Apple's reader |
| Libby | Highlights from library books |
| Kobo | Every highlight on a Kobo e-reader |
| Readwise | Highlights from everything you read |
Tips
- Pick two and set them up properly rather than trying all of them.
- Run the importers once, early. They are the only rows here you are meant to stop using.
- Turn on auto-tagging so you can tell later what arrived from where. See Settings Integrations Automatically tag things from integrations.