---
title: "Capture — record & organise stand-up comedy ideas fast — Tough Crowd"
url: https://toughcrowd.co/features/capture
description: "Capture is the fastest way to land a stand-up comedy idea — voice or text, auto-transcribed and auto-tagged into one searchable library, so you never lose a joke again."
lang: en
---

Capture

# Capture ideas the moment they strike

## The problem

Comedy ideas strike anywhere — on the bus, in the shower, mid-conversation. If capturing one means opening an app, navigating menus, filling in fields and typing it out, the moment is gone. Most ideas are lost before they are ever written down.

## On your phone

Tap the mic, speak your idea, and watch it land in your library — auto-tagged and searchable before the moment passes. Brain Dump mode turns a whole pasted set into labelled, tagged bits in one move.

9:41

Capture

Brain dump — speak or type

So I was at the dentist and he said I grind my teeth at night. I said I don't. He said look at the evidence. I said that's exactly what my ex said about the cheating.

AI is processing…

Auto-tagged

Dentist Teeth Ex

People: Dentist, Ex Theme: Denial

Title: Dentist Grind · 15 sec

## The solution

Capture every idea in **seconds** — voice or text, auto-transcribed before the moment passes.

A **Brain Dump** mode that turns a whole pasted set into labelled, tagged bits in one move.

Everything auto-tagged with **people, places, themes and topics** — organised without you lifting a finger.

One **searchable library** — find any joke by words, tags, topics, people or places.

**No menus, no forms, no friction** — the idea lands the second it hits you.

Every captured connection is automatically organised — tagged with people, places, themes and topics — and made instantly searchable. You never see an AI message or a suggestion; it all happens silently in the background.

## Common questions

## Try it with a free day pass

Full access for 24 hours. Cancel anytime in one click — if you don't cancel within 24 hours, you'll be charged for the annual plan.

Start your free day pass: https://toughcrowd.co/register

See what's included: https://toughcrowd.co/pricing

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        "@type": "Question",
        "name": "I keep losing comedy ideas before I can write them down — how do I capture jokes faster?",
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          "text": "Ideas vanish because of friction — by the time you have opened a notes app, found the right list and started typing, the thought is gone. Capture removes that friction entirely: one big button, press it and speak, press again to stop, and your words are transcribed automatically and saved as a searchable connection. No menus, no forms, no fields. There is a type mode for quiet places and a Brain Dump mode where you paste an entire set you have already written and it breaks it into labelled, tagged bits. The idea lands in your library in the same second it hits you — so the only funny thought you ever lose is the one you chose not to say."
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        "name": "I have so many jokes scattered across notes apps and voice memos — how do I organise them?",
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          "text": "This is the real problem — the jokes exist, but they are spread across a dozen places so you can never find the one you need. Capture does not just store what you record; it automatically tags every bit with the people, places, themes and topics it mentions, so the organising happens without you lifting a finger. Everything goes into one searchable library, and because each bit is tagged, connections between them surface on their own — every joke about your ex, every bit set in a supermarket, every callback — grouped automatically. You stop organising and start finding."
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          "text": "Speed is the whole point. Open Capture, hit the single large button, say the idea out loud, hit it again — done. It transcribes in seconds and saves instantly. There is nothing to name, no category to pick, no form to fill. If you are somewhere you cannot talk, switch to type mode and write it. Either way it is in your library, tagged and searchable, before the moment passes."
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          "text": "Yes — that is exactly what Brain Dump is for. Paste your existing set in one go and it intelligently breaks it into individual, labelled connections (setups, punchlines, tags, callbacks, transitions, stories), preserves the flow, and tags each one. You do not retype or re-split anything; your whole set lands in the library structured and searchable in one move."
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        "name": "Does it rewrite or change my jokes?",
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          "text": "Never. Transcription turns your speech into text exactly as you said it, and the app never rewrites, summarises or suggests changes to your material. The tagging and labelling are organisational — they help you find and group your bits — but your words stay your words."
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          "text": "Every captured bit is instantly searchable by the actual words in it, and by its tags, topics, people and places. You remember you wrote something about your dentist? Search dentist and it is there. You remember it involved your ex? Filter by that person. Because Capture tags everything automatically as you go, you never have to file anything — you just search and find."
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