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Capacities — A studio for your mind
Like an artist's studio, Capacities is a place for all your information. It’s your own studio to collect, connect and reflect – a place to make sense of the world and to create amazing things. It's a thinking environment for modern knowledge work.
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@mvhohnhorst congrats, seems super cool, can you briefly tell the your difference between notion, heptabase, obsidian or scrintal?
@josooba_at_fabrie Sure!
It's similar to Notion in terms of block-based editing and databases but has the linking powers of networked note-taking tools (such as Obsidian or Roam) with transclusion, contextual backlinks, and support for tagging (with very visual pages to browse your tags). It also has daily notes built-in in a calendar-like layout.
Then, our concept of objects is similar to supertags in Tana where you assign a type to your content to make it distinguishable and to give it certain properties.
However, it's not a whiteboarding tool like Scrintal or Heptabase, but it has great support for all kinds of media.
Hope that helps!
@ianwdj we built our own text editor from scratch. Handling all the edge cases and the support for different browsers was something we definitely underestimated.
@ianwdj Our user feedback system (we use canny.io) helped a ton!
@mvhohnhorst congrats Michael. I’m an obsidian user and I can’t tell you enough how much I’m enjoying your product. Keep up the excellent work.
Congrats on the launch! Been using Capacities for *well* over a year now, and knew there was something special about it when I first stumbled upon it.
To be completely honest, I was worried about the longevity of the project when I first discovered it, as the (perceived) community and number of users was small (like I said, perceived) at the time. So glad that I was so wrong and y'all have continued growing and innovating, at an incredible pace, I might add. Such a polished product (and team)!
Can't wait to see where y'all go and wish you continued growth and success!
@undefinedprocess Hi Chris, thanks for sticking with us for so long and sharing your experience here! Much appreciated. We're more motivated than ever and super excited about what's coming next. We have a lot of things in our pipeline. Stay tuned. :)
@mvhohnhorst Congratulations on the launch team, keep up the good work
Looking forward to the Ai integration any time soon
@ifranchini Thanks, Nacho! Yes, the AI integration is just around the corner.
Moved to this from obsidian some months ago and have gone all in for now. It still has some issues but the ideas and direction have me pretty excited for this apps future
@treebel_solimani_masihi Thanks, Treebel! Hope you find it helpful and it suits your use case.
I have been tracking you guys since long. I tried signing up a few months ago as well as yesterday. No luck, but I still love what it says it can do.
🔌 Plugged in
Capacities has a like if notion and roam research had a beautiful, very user friendly child and than that child got given superpowers. A great PKM, highly recommend it.
moved to capacities a while back, and it's one of the most promising tools in the space, it is already working great and I look forward to its growth!
Seems powerful! Feel like no need to worry about how to organize my stuff anymore (which is a headache for me🥹...）Just wondering when can AI be integrated, that'll definitely be a game changer!
@xinzhu_chen Hi Carly, thanks for your feedback. AI is just around the corner, most likely later this month!
The tool has a lot of potential. I've been using Notion for a very long time, moved to Obsidian, and have been digging into all of the other tools. Such as Tana, Anytype, and of course: Capacities. While Anytype is local and I like that, and Tana has a strong AI, the thing with Capacities is that things just seem to work.
It is obviously still new, and I can't import anything as of the time of this writing. However what I can do from the ground up is still impressive. The user interface in particular seems to be one of the strong suits. Not too spacious like Anytype, but not too condensed like Logseq. Not to mention the object based note taking will change the game.
@polyinnovator Thanks for your detailed ideas, Dustin! There's still a lot of work to do but we're super excited about everything we have planned—among other things, bulk import of course!
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?makers will you offer a data export that is interoperable with any other services?
@chrismessina There already is a bulk export feature of all your content as standard markdown files with all media files attached. Bulk import from other apps will be added later this year. Import and export of individual markdown, word, HTML, and LaTeX files is also supported. And there is a PDF export. :)
For tools such as ReadWise (reading highlights) or task managers, we're tending more towards API driven uni- or (eventually) bi-directional synching between Capacities and those services.
Hope that helps! :)
As always with these tools the bigest danger is losing your database: What will happen to my database if Capacities end?
What are the migration paths out of Capacities? Can the content be exported into a reasonable format like markdown? Would there be an opportunity in the future for self host or some open source model that would secure user databases?
Congrats on the launch though!
@reb_sadran Thanks, Reb! We already offer bulk export of all your data including all media files to standard markdown. In the future, our solution will be an automated backup service that will back up all your data periodically.
Congrats on the launch @mvhohnhorst!
I was a Believer for a while, as I want to support people that take this space seriously, but I'm still lacking some things (thankfully those are planned in your roadmap). As soon as you have task management and calendar integrations (after queries, of course :) ) I'll be glad to resume my subscription.
I can't encourage people enough to try this, it's an amazing piece of software, I'm simply too demanding and have a very complex use case that now needs to happen in two separate tools, but I can't wait to have everything under Capacities in the near term.
@alvaroybanez Thanks for the feedback, Álvaro! Super excited to work on these things! We're just getting started.
I've used almost all of the second brain apps. Capacities is by far the best. While not perfect (it's still a young app) its very intuitive and powerful for anyone who is familiar with PKM applications. Please support them, you won't be dissapointed.
I gave Obsidian a friendly thank you but goodbye and welcomed Capacities.io with open arms, and the reason? A desire to break free from the traditional shackles of files and folders.
You see, Capacities.io is rather like a modern, savvy chameleon. It effortlessly adapts to various media forms: be it a weblink, some text, an image, a PDF, a video, or a sound clip. These different elements can interact, mingle, and create a vibrant knowledge graph. It's a pretty neat trick, if you ask me, and a definite upgrade from Obsidian.
And here's the kicker - it's so intuitive that you won't need anything as sophisticated as Tiago Forte's PARA method to stay on top of your organisation game. Not much effort is required at all.
And the cherry on top? There's no need for plugins. Capacities.io has matured just right, boasting a variety of in-house features, such as an in-built calendar. So, you won't have to turn detective to find the plugin that will do what you want. The plugin frustration I used to face with Obsidian, you know, when developers would drop support? That's a thing of the past with Capacities. So, here's to a smoother, more streamlined digital journey!
Such an ingenious way to stay organized on the busy online landscape. Congrats on the launch! 🚀
This looks to me to be the future of PKM. Moved from Obsidian a few weeks ago after absorbing the object oriented approach which is a real game changer.
Considering that this is a relatively new product, the user interface is tuned for ease of use and extremely polished. It has been big-free during my use and I can’t wait for the one thing I feel is currently missing - task management/
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