Very Craft-like interface, with a touch of Tana thrown in in the way Capacities sets up templates. There are “Pro” features mentioned but apparently not yet released. Documentation is slim, but anyone who has kept up with note-making trends will know what to do.
Desktop app available.
I suspect this might have had another name at some point. Anyway, I like it – and would probably prefer it over Craft if Craft wasn’t part of SetApp. But neither Craft or Capacities will replace Obsidian for me.
I saw this app last year, and really liked it. The way all of it works is exactly what I want out of “Daily Notes” PKM. They have different categories, or silos, and they all funnel into dates. So when I go back and look at, Dec 14, 2021, I could see all the individual items I’ve saved across my “buckets” on that day in one location. This is a view I’d love to have in Notion, but only possible if you have a single master database (which is annoyingly hard to maintain).
Anyway, I’d love to use this app, but I’m uncertain of it’s future, and there is no mobile app, which I could workaround but I’d rather not have to.
Can you say more about this? Not clear what you are actually describing. I often tack on a couple of topic headings at the end of a Daily Note to collect notes on that topic for that day. I’ve always wanted an easy way to collect those Topic Notes into their own files so they aren’t just buried in the Daily Notes.
I’ll hop in if that’s ok as I just spent a couple of hours reading the documentation.
Your daily pages are objects, the type of of object is daily page. You will always find your daily pages inside the daily page database and inside your calendar.
All pages have this basic units which are blocks (like craft), you can tag a specific block with “topic note” and only that block will show when you search for that tag in your tags database.
That and also that it’s the kind of app whose primary data store is on their own servers (no matter how easy it to back up or export) that makes it a non-starter for for me. Gotta have data primarily stored on my own Mac, preferably in a non-proprietary format. I know this limits an app’s design, but that is what I require for my note and task management.
And it still works great. I feared electron apps but have found that every time I need to access information outside of the apple ecosystem, in general native apple apps don’t offer that solution (craft is an exception of course). Another electron app I enjoy using is 1password. Amplenote has a nice post in their documentation regarding the difference between native and electron apps.
I have been using the macOS and iOS Testflight app for about a month now and can say that I am incredibly impressed, particularly given the size of the team and the fact that it’s only been around for a year or so.
Highlights:
Block-based approach of Craft + database approach of Notion.
The team is incredibly engaged on Discord/Canny.
Very transparent about their roadmap on both their website and in Canny.
Hey, welcome to the community! I plan to subscribe the following month to check out the apps. In the meantime I added them to my homepage with my iPhone, which has been working great.
As a long-term paying Obsidian customer, this is the first alternative option I’ve seen which actually does something useful (for me) that I can’t (easily) do in Obsidian.
I really like Capacities approach to defining everything as objects & types, and the fact that it supports the concept of people.
Also, even as a relatively early beta, the product & documentation smack of thoughtfulness.
Capacities still has a way to go, and Obsidian has enough advantages (for now) that I’m staying put, but I’ll keeping my eye on Capacities development.
I just found capacities.io and I like the look. However, it doesn’t seem to support global search with Spotlight whereas Craft and Obsidian do. I like that Obsidian is indexable by DEVONThink since it stores files in plaintext. Does anyone know if global search is on the Capacities.io roadmap?
been QUITE a while since the last comment on this game-changer of a pkm tool. The description up top is woefully out of date.
mentioned on NYTimes Hard Fork podcast (that’s how i discovered them)
it’s like “Obsidian for Dummies”
the dev team (currently just 5 people!) are intimately connected with their users on Discord and have carefully polished the UX to be simple and helpful, yet powerfully complex
simple templates of objects that everyone can use and implement
network-model frees you of the limiting concepts of typical folders-and-files hierarchy
their content creator for training and demos is very precise and her content just makes sense, as does the product.
GAME CHANGER
i went to Notion after 15 years in Evernote, plus Obsidian, for the last 4 months
discovering Capacities has been the eye opener, the how-to implement Obsidian which may elude most folks except for those accustomed to technical and process architecting
Capacities is like the film “Limitless”, but without the blue pill.
if you’re a writer of words as your method of making thoughts real, Capacities might change your life.
and also that it’s the kind of app whose primary data store is on their own servers (no matter how easy it to back up or export) that makes it a non-starter for for me. Gotta have data primarily stored on my own Mac, preferably in a non-proprietary format. I know this limits an app’s design, but that is what I require for my note and task management.
