Afterthought Inbox
Keep a thought in Afterthought when you want to review it or choose another destination later.
Set up Afterthought Inbox
- Open Afterthought and make a short capture.
- Choose Transcribe Only when you want transcription without classification or delivery.
- Keep the capture in the inbox, or use review to prepare an action when you are ready.
How delivery works
No external app handoff is needed to keep a capture in Afterthought. If you later route it elsewhere, that destination’s setup and delivery rules apply.
Try saying
These are phrases to try, with the details to check. They are illustrations, not records of verified deliveries.
“Try the green version of the icon”
In Transcribe Only, this remains a transcription rather than an instruction to create something in another app.
“Remember the idea for a quieter morning routine”
Keep the capture locally, then review it before choosing another destination.
Details you can send
What stays in Afterthought
- The inbox is local Afterthought storage. The readiness model describes it as always ready.
- Keeping a capture does not create a task, note or message in another app.
- There is no integration capability entry for this destination. Its absence does not mean that local note fields or attachments are unsupported.
- Transcribe Only, Classify & Review and Classify & Send do different jobs. Use the manual’s capture-mode guide when choosing your default.
- No special phrase is promised to force inbox routing. Choose the capture mode and destination in the app.
Attachments
The supplied export does not define a local attachment capability matrix. Check attachments on the capture itself; when sending elsewhere, use that destination’s attachment guidance.
If something goes wrong
I only want to keep the transcription
Choose Transcribe Only. Naming an app while classifying can prepare an action for that destination.
I want to send a kept capture later
Open it in Afterthought, review the prepared destination and details, and complete that app’s setup before sending.
For capture modes, review and Watch setup, read the user manual. If delivery still fails, contact support with the destination, selected route and error message. Leave out account tokens and private content.
About this guide’s source
Based on the app data exported on 9 November 2026 from a local source snapshot labelled 2.7.4. This is not a statement that this version has been released. Options can differ in your installed app.
Capability declarations and inspected runtime code informed this guide. They are not live delivery tests. Where setup or behaviour is not established, the guide says so.
Afterthought is an independent app. Third-party apps and services are provided by their respective owners.