Using ReticulOS
Capturing Content
Capture is the heart of ReticulOS, so there are several paths in — pick whichever fits the moment. They all land in the collection you currently have open.
How types are detected
You never choose a type manually. ReticulOS looks at what you captured:
| Content | Saved as |
|---|---|
| An image on the clipboard | Image cell |
Text matching a URL (http:// / https://) | Link cell — clickable, opens in your browser |
| Anything else | Text cell |
When the clipboard holds several things at once, images win over links, and links win over plain text.
1. The widget input
The classic path. Type or paste into the text area at the bottom of the widget, optionally add a title, and press Ctrl+Enter or Add to Collection. Pasting an image into the textarea saves it directly as an image cell.
2. On-screen selection capture
Select any text anywhere on screen with your mouse — without copying it — and press Ctrl+Shift+=. The selection is grabbed and added to whichever collection is open in the widget, which pops up to confirm.
This uses the X11 primary selection (via xclip), so it works in any application — terminals, PDFs, browsers. On Wayland sessions this shortcut is currently limited; see Troubleshooting.
3. Quick-add in Reticulum
The bar at the top of Reticulum's stage. Click it to expand, type a title (optional) and your content, then press Ctrl+Enter or Save. Paste an image into it to capture the image directly. Clicking outside while the fields are empty collapses the bar again.
4. Global paste in Reticulum
Press Ctrl+V anywhere in Reticulum — no field focused, nothing clicked — and whatever is on your clipboard becomes a cell in the current collection. A toast confirms what was captured.
Two sensible exceptions, so paste always does what you expect:
- If a text field is focused (quick-add, search, a title, the cell editor), Ctrl+V pastes into that field normally.
- If the cell editor is open, paste belongs to the editor — see The Cell Editor for its paste rules.
5. Copying back out
Capture is a two-way street: every item and card has a Copy button that puts its content back on your clipboard, ready to paste wherever you're working. Link cells also offer Open, which launches the URL in your default browser.