Welcome to the Cricket Productivity Suite

One cricket at sunset is easy to miss. Ten thousand crickets at sunset have the world's attention.

Hello, and welcome. This blog is the home of the Cricket Productivity Suite, a small set of tools for people who read a lot, think about what they read, and want to keep it.

The first tool: Cricket Capture

Cricket Capture is a free extension for Brave and Chrome. Version 1.0.2 is finished and waiting for Chrome Web Store review. Here's what it does:

  • Highlight while you read. Select text and click Highlight, right-click, or press Alt+H. Your highlights come back when you return to the page.
  • Smart bookmarks. One click saves the article with its title, author, date and link already filled in, plus your tags and notes.
  • A private, local Library. Everything stays in your browser. Nothing leaves your computer. Search, filter by tag, and export to JSON, Markdown or CSV whenever you like.
  • X post composer. Pick a highlight, add your take, and Cricket opens X's post page with your draft filled in. Nothing posts until you press Post yourself.

Coming next (planned)

These are plans, not promises yet:

  • Connections to note apps, starting with Joplin and NoteTab Pro
  • Citation export (Bluebook and APA)
  • Capturing links to charts, images and video
  • An optional "Check with Cricket" fact-check

Where this is going

The bigger idea is timeline-based productivity: connecting what you knew in the past, what you're looking at now, and what's coming up, right at the moment you have to decide something. It follows the original PowerLeads design, which tied that timeline into email, Zoom, PowerPoint and messaging. Cricket Capture is the first step.

Cricket Capture was built with help from Cricket, my Grok Bot assistant, which wrote code, made the images and walked me through the store forms.

Thanks for stopping by. More soon.

~ge~

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