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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.
@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.
I tested the most popular note-taking apps, but none felt right like Capacities. It offers a great balance between structure and flexibility that suits my needs. Its unique object-based approach makes capturing your ideas and thoughts intuitive and standardised, reducing cognitive load. Moreover, it provides powerful features to view, embed, and layout information, catering to both visual and analytical thinkers!!
@boonikad93 Thanks for sharing your experience, Boonikad! There's much more to come!
Late to the party but just sent some PH love over. lets definitely connect via LinkedIn
@sentry_co Hi André,
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.
In addition, 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.
It's not a whiteboarding tool like Scrintal or Heptabase, but it has great support for all kinds of media.
Hope that helps!
@mvhohnhorst Love Tana, Obsidian and roam. I would highlight your USP and differentiate strongly. In this day and age opinionated products wins the day. I would be careful with marketing my product as a "pizza product" with little bit of everything. IMO. Good luck today 🚀
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/
I can't stress enough how much I absolutely adore Capacities! This incredible personal knowledge management app has quickly become my go-to alternative to Notion. The best part? Its user interface is so much friendlier and its speed is unbeatable! Even though it's still in its early days, it already offers amazing features that make organizing my thoughts and information an absolute breeze. I'm truly blown away by what Capacities has to offer and I can't wait to see how it continues to evolve and improve in the future! 👏🏻
@denisale Wow, thanks for the positive feedback, Denis! We're super excited about all the things we still have in our pipeline.
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
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.
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!
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.
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