Capturing people
Add a person to your graph from pasted text, a card photo, voice, your webcam, or a file — with a review step that confirms the fields before saving.
Capture happens in two places: the capture dock at the bottom of every
screen, and the dedicated /app/quick-add page. Both run the same
extraction, keep the original input as a receipt, and meter AI usage per
account (the free tier allows 25 cloud AI actions per month).
Quick-add modes
Open /app/quick-add. It defaults to paste text — drop in an email
signature, the text off a business card, or a LinkedIn intro, and Dhaga pulls
out the name, title, company, and contact methods.

Switch modes for however you captured the person:
- Card photo — take or upload a photo of a business card. Dhaga runs OCR and also reads a LinkedIn QR code if one is on the card.
- Voice — tap the mic and describe who you met; the dictation is transcribed and extracted.
- Camera — grab a shot straight from your webcam.
- Upload — attach an image or file you already have.

AI extraction needs a key
The card scan, voice, and text extraction run through Claude. On a self-hosted
instance without ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, capture falls back to simpler heuristic
parsing. See Self-hosting for the env var.
Review, disambiguate, and save
Extraction never saves silently. A review dialog shows the fields it pulled so you can correct them before the person lands in your graph:
- Check the name, title, company, emails, phones, and links.
- If the details look like someone you already have, Dhaga flags the match so you can merge into the existing contact instead of creating a duplicate.
- Optionally attach the person to an event right from the review dialog — handy when you're clearing a stack of cards from one conference. See Groups & events.
- Save.
Adding someone manually
When there's nothing to scan, go to /app/people/new and enter the person
by hand. You can add multiple jobs, several labelled emails and phones, and
links, then save.

Using Dhaga
A task-oriented tour of the Dhaga app — capture people anywhere, turn notes into a private knowledge graph, and query it in plain language.
Notes & facts
Add notes to a person by typing or voice; Dhaga extracts structured facts automatically, keeps a receipt on each, and cascades deletions.