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Using Dhaga

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.

Dhaga quick-add in paste-text mode, ready to accept an email signature or card text

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.

Dhaga quick-add in card-photo mode with a camera area, a Scan card button, and the Voice / Camera / Upload capture dock

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:

  1. Check the name, title, company, emails, phones, and links.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

Dhaga manual add-person form with fields for name, jobs, emails, phones, and links

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