Everything you do in ASIOS starts the same way: you drop an idea somewhere it can be captured, and
the system turns it into something trackable. This page walks through that loop once, end to end.

## 1. Drop an idea

Find the capture drop-zone in your Workspace and type — or paste — whatever's on your mind. It
doesn't need to be organized. A single sentence is enough:

```
Follow up with the vendor about the delayed shipment.
```

## 2. Let it become tracked work

The drop-zone assigns your idea a stable id and spins it into a piece of tracked work. From this
point on, that id is how the system refers to it — in views, in links, everywhere.

:::hint{type="success"}
You don't file anything by hand. The capture step is the only manual part; everything after it —
naming, linking, showing up on your board — is automatic.
:::

## 3. Work it in place

Open the tracked item and write into it directly — there's no separate "session" to spin up
first. Whatever you type is read as an instruction for the system to act on; when it responds, it
writes its answer back into the same place, in the same file.

## 4. Watch your board update

Your day-board reflects tracked work automatically, grouped by status: what's active, what's on
hold, what's finished. You never update the board by hand — it's generated from the same items
you've been working in.

## Next

Read [Layers](../concepts/layers.md) and [Activities](../concepts/activities.md) in Concepts once
you want the "why" behind this loop, rather than just the steps.