Pick Anything, Use Pickmix
People who capture a lot and need the shortest path from source material to usable knowledge.
Notes, links, PDFs, images, screenshots, Markdown, and plain text captured from multiple entry points.
Chrome extension icon or right-click, upload, drag-and-drop, and direct text entry in the web app.
Mobile capture for photos, quick notes, and eventually voice or audio.
If something matters, you should be able to pick it immediately. A pick can start as a note, a web page, a selected paragraph, a Markdown file, an image, a screenshot, or a PDF. Once saved, it becomes part of your knowledge base instead of staying scattered across tabs, downloads, folders, and separate note apps.
If you are evaluating the broader system around this workflow, see our guide to AI knowledge management. If your main question is how to keep PDFs, notes, and web pages inside one reusable system, that guide goes deeper on the mixed-media side.
What a pick is
A pick is the basic saved object in Pickmix. It keeps the original source useful while making it easier to organize, search, edit, and reuse later. The format can be different, but the result is consistent: one item in your personal knowledge base.
This matters because useful material rarely arrives in a clean order. Research may begin with a link, continue with a PDF, include a screenshot, and end with a rough note. Pickmix is designed so those pieces can live together first, so you do not have to redesign your workflow just to keep them.
What you can pick
In the current beta, Pickmix supports three practical pick families:
- Note Picks for typed thoughts, selected text, plain text, and Markdown files.
- Page Picks for URLs, web pages, links, and image URLs saved from the browser.
- Asset Picks for uploaded images and PDFs.
Markdown files become Note Picks. Images and PDFs become Asset Picks. Links and pages become Page Picks that keep source context available, including the URL and page metadata when Pickmix can read it.
How you pick
Pickmix gives you several capture paths so the entry point can match the moment. If you are browsing, the Chrome extension is usually the fastest path. If the material is already on your device, upload or drag-and-drop is faster. If the idea is still rough, type it directly as a note.
- Click the Chrome extension to save the current page.
- Use the right-click menu to save a page, link, selected text, or image URL.
- Type a note directly in the web app.
- Upload images or PDFs from your device.
- Drag and drop Markdown, images, or PDFs into Pickmix.
The important part is speed. Capture should happen while the context is still fresh, before a useful source turns into another forgotten tab, screenshot, or file.
What happens after capture
After capture, a pick is not just stored. It can appear in search, live inside a mind space, open in a detail view, and become reusable context for later reading, writing, research, and AI-assisted work.
You can review the source, edit fields such as title or notes, group related picks by topic, and return to the material when a project, question, or draft needs it. The model is simple: capture first, structure later.
That is also where this workflow starts to overlap with knowledge graph note-taking: the value is not only that the material is saved, but that it becomes easier to recover, connect, and reuse later.
What comes next
Mobile capture is a future direction. A phone should become another capture device for photos, quick notes, and eventually voice or audio, while keeping the same model: save the raw material first, then let Pickmix help you organize and reuse it.