Entanglements among humans, nonhuman objects, and spatial matter in a research site necessitate greater attention to the interwoven and sometimes invisible connections across relational bodies. This piece comments on how reevaluating approaches to participant observations in qualitative research can lead to better understandings of the dynamic interconnectedness among participants, researchers, and observational tools. Drawing from the theory of thinking without method, this research explores the complexity of documentation in an out-of-school literacy setting and argues that ethico-onto-epistemology can highlight intersections between literacy researchers and technological attachments.