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General announcements from Capacities
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to integrate your suggestions right away. Along the way, we will keep working on reported bugs 
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There's definitely a lot to do! 
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Also, the Capacities mobile app was something we did not address appropriately in our prior milestones. 
We decided to increase its priority together with some other highly requested topics. Some of them are considered fundamentals for many users.
So, for the next couple of months we want to focus on the following big topics: 
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To celebrate this, we want to invite you all to a Community Special! 
It will be an online live event here on Discord to
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The following dates and times are available 
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Feel free to join and leave whenever you want. Don't be shy to join when the event has already started or to leave early if you have to go. ♀️
We are planning the event to take around 90 Minutes. ℹ️⏱️
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The ultimate goal of knowledge work is to create valuable outputs, so we encourage you to share your knowledge. 
You can decide on the form of your contribution. It can be very short, or a long article, it can be in text form, with some screenshot or visualizations, small explainer screencasts, or even a full video. Feel free to be creative!
We'll share your post here in the community, in our documentation as an inspiration for other users, and also as use cases for Capacities on our home page, or even on YouTube if you want.
Please send an email with the following to team@capacities.io:
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To accelerate this, we are launching Capacities Believer today! It’s a way for you to support us on our mission to build the best software for knowledge work – a tool that is powerful, accessible, and beautiful.
As a believer, you will:
Support an independent team
You will help build a big vision. Capacities has the potential to transform how individuals think and work in a digital world. We are building Capacities to be a powerful tool that is still accessible to everyone.
We get up every morning because we believe in that. Your support will let us stay independent and help us build this vision with an unconstrained focus.
Boost a product you love
All subscription revenue will flow into building Capacities – it’s as direct as it can get. It will accelerate the development of a product you love and use every day.
And you can shape what Capacities will become: All your request and ideas get higher priority on our roadmap.
Get amazing extra features
As a believer, you will always be at the cutting edge of what Capacities is capable of.
You will have direct access to all Pro features as soon as they are developed. Starting today, you get three beautiful content layouts, colored type labels, and a curated icon set (Read more here: https://capacities.io/believer-features).
Many have already asked how they could support us – Capacities Believer is the best way. Thanks so much, it really means a lot to us.
Become a believer now! -> https://capacities.io/believer
A believer subscription costs $12/month (paid monthly) or $10/month (paid yearly). If you have questions feel free to reach out to us personally.
We’re happy to have you onboard! 
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You could see features that were planned and in progress on our feedback board (https://capacities.io/feedback) but there was not a central place where you could have a look at all features that are planned and the once we are currently working on. 
We are happy to share that we have a public roadmap now: https://capacities.io/roadmap.
We think it sums up the most important requests and features quite well. Feel free to share thoughts in the #🚀・features-and-ideas channel. 17 13 3 2
We're happy also to share that we already received our first contribution to the object studio from Hanna, a early user of Capacities. She shared an article on "Taking notes on books and readings" (https://capacities.io/use-cases/book-notes) where she uses the Book Summary type to organize her readings. We could also convince here to publish an article on Medium, so feel free to give here a few claps there as well (https://medium.com/@hannah_roth/how-i-finally-remember-what-i-read-2a2812cfe4c5).
Both, @Michael_v_H and I, created use-case articles that you can also find when you browse the Object Studio. You can start here:
How can I contribute?
If you want to share your workflow and use-cases in Capacities with others just send us a small post with screenshots, a video, or whatever you think is valuable via email to team@capacities.io. We'll publish your contribution on our landing page, will credit you, and link your social media if you want. If you have a content type that could inspire others, just describe it and share some info about its properties with us. It will then be available for all other users as a template in the Object Studio.
We're excited to receive your contributions. 
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We wanted to center our communication more around objects as a central building block of Capacities and the concepts that come along with it.
So we created some visualizations that illustrate what this novel combination of objects and thinking of your notes as a network means. 
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We even introduced a dedicated term for working with objects—objective note-taking—which of course comes with a small wink. 
Have a look, we would love to hear your feedback! 
If you like, you can comment in the thread I've just created in the #general channel.
https://capacities.io/
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Official Subreddit for Capacities
There's now an official subreddit for Capacities r/capacitiesapp. You can join it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/capacitiesapp/. A big thanks to u/gfcacdista for creating it so early.
Feel free to join it. It will become an additional forum for people to talk about Capacities. The Discord community will nevertheless stay the primary community for Capacities. We'll also check the subreddit but won't be an active part of it.
"Capacities Made Simple" - The first course on Capacities.
@pkmbeth, together with Francesco from KeepProductive, launched an excellent course on Capacities. It's a great resource for learning about Capacities – from basic things to advanced workflows.
You can read more about the course here: https://toolacademy.xyz/learn-capacities/
Capacities community members can purchase it with a 20% discount by using this link: https://tool-academy.teachable.com/purchase?product_id=4781003&code=CAPACITIES20
Thanks for being part of such a wonderful community
And finally, this can't be mentioned enough: @Michael_v_H and I are super grateful about this community. It's a place to exchange ideas and learn from each other. Thanks to everybody, who contributes and spends time here.
We see this community as a "full-time employee" of Capacities. Your comments and ideas help us organize our roadmap, spark discussions about various topics, and the feature forum even helps us conceptualize and design new features. This is truly remarkable. It speeds up the development of Capacities so much and ensures that we focus on what's important to you.
Thanks all! We're so excited about the next months. 
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We put together a "What's next" paper on our landing page. It's an overview of what we think is important right now and in the near future. We're also sharing some insights in how we plan to operate. We intend to update this regularity based on our roadmap, vision, and all ideas shared here in our community (btw, we are more than 2000 members now 
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You can read our paper here: https://capacities.io/roadmap/whats-next
We'd love to get your feedback and ideas on it. I just opened a thread in #✨・general. Feel free to comment there. 64 24 31 12 7 Nightly version for the new release
Hi @everyone,
we added a lot of improvements to our query infrastructure and are excited to slowly introduce it to a larger user base.
For all Mac Users: You can test the latest version now. You can download a nightly version of Capacities here (in case the folder is empty, we paused access to it):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13JNG8g0XpL5llEXC4gAX3LqiLBVp2ZTc?usp=sharing
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This is due to changes in the Twitter API after the takeover by Elon Musk. They announced the changes a while ago and other apps and services that were built around the Twitter ecosystem already shut down. It seems like the new rules started kicking in for us today. The pricing and rate limiting of the API are so steep, that we can no longer support this feature. We are really sad about this because we loved this feature and how it allowed you to create a nice collection of tweets and threads in Capacities by just pasting the link. 
You can still save tweets (or better said, the URL of tweets), but the only thing we can display is the URL and the standard iframe embed of a tweet in the page and embed views.
All we can say is that this feature is now on hold for the foreseeable future but we are actively looking for ways to bring it back! If it comes back, we will most likely have to make it a Believer/Pro feature. We would love to offer it for believers right away, but due to other limitations of the new API, we have to rewrite the whole integration and set up a new auth system which unfortunately takes a lot of engineering time and it would still be very expensive to run.
Let us know your thoughts in the #✨・general channel!
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To enable the exchange of ideas around note-taking, PKM and Capacities in more languages, we've just added an "International" category to the server.
We've seen some requests for languages already, so we're starting out with Spanish and French. We're happy to open more language-specific channels if there is demand. Just let us know in #✨・general!
Here we go:
Bienvenido, ¡nos alegramos de tenerle aquí!
#🇪🇸・español
Bienvenue, nous sommes heureux de vous accueillir !
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Capacities is collaborating with @pkmbeth.
Most of you probably already know her. Beth has published many articles and videos on Capacities (https://pkmbeth.typedream.app/capacities, https://medium.com/@pkmbeth). In cooperation with KeepProductive, she created an incredible course on Capacities. She’s very active on Twitter (https://twitter.com/pkmbeth), sharing her takes and thoughts on PKM and Capacities. On top, she is an incredibly helpful, thoughtful, and supportive member of this community. She helped and inspired many here and shared how she’s using Capacities and what can be built with it.
Beth will support us in creating more educational content on Capacities and will make it easier for you and new users to understand the core concepts of Capacities. Beth will help us manage this community and support us in communicating news and releases.
Not only will this help you get more value from Capacities, but it will also free some resources for Michael and me, so we can focus on building a better product.
This collaboration is only possible due to the incredible support of all Believers. We are super happy to invest it back into the product. A big shoutout and thank you to all our Believers. We really appreciate it. 
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You can already check out our product hub with our teaser to get notified on launch day. It would be really cool if you could already leave a brief review.
Any support for our launch is much appreciated! I hope we can introduce Capacities to a lot more people!
https://www.producthunt.com/products/capacities 
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We're super grateful for any support today!
You can head over to our launch here where you can upvote or leave a comment: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/capacities-2
Let's go!
It would also be great to help us make some waves on social media by reposting/liking our post:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CapacitiesHQ/status/1679028611599282176?s=20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CulsgtOMtm1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7084796506137866242
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/capacitiesapp/comments/14xhce0/capacities_is_launching_on_product_hunt_today/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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Right now, we're investigating and discussing everything that's happened and are developing a strategy to improve robustness of our system, but also how to eliminate the damage (such as data loss) that unknown errors and outages like this one can do, or at least reduce them to an absolute minimum by design. We'll communicate more in the coming days and will talk about all the measures we will take to make our system more reliable, both, in the short and the long-term. We highly appreciate the offer by some dev-ops experts in the community to discuss the issue und our strategy going forward — we'll get in touch. While we completely understand the justified anger and frustration of everyone who was affected, we also want to thank the voices in the community who gave us some emotional support to deal with this situation. We're lucky to have a community like this. Thanks! 23 107 26 26
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Task integrations allow you to simply send todo blocks to your favorite task or project management app.
We are currently thinking about which task management apps we are going to integrate. It would be great if you could vote on them or add yours if missing in the thread below. You can of course vote for multiple options.
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@Daniel Püngel is an excellent backend engineer. He'll support us in making Capacities faster and more reliable. Together, we'll work on improved search, a batch import system, better offline support, and much more. We onboarded Daniel last week and can already see how much of a big impact having him onboard will help us to develop Capacities. We're super excited about our journey! 
The one and only reason why we can grow our team is because of the incredible support from all our believers. We never could have imagined being in this position when we first launched Capacities Believer.
To keep up with our promise, we think it's best to invest as much of our resources back into the product as possible – to build our vision and to make Capacities better every day.
Thanks for your support; it means a lot ❤️ And welcome on board, Daniel 
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You can read our new "What's next" here: https://capacities.io/roadmap/whats-next
You will find a link to the previous version at the top of the new one.
We have to make a lot of hard choices regarding prioritization and not everyone will find their most important feature at the top of the list. But we are super excited about everything that comes next and we try to get there as fast as possible.
We'd love to get your feedback and ideas on it. Feel free to comment in the thread in #✨・general I just opened. 2 59 12 6 25
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) to introduce myself to you today as Capacities' new Social Media Manager.
My job will be to bring some personality to our online presence, spark some conversations 
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I'm looking forward to this journey, learning the ins and outs of Capacities, and making a mark in the social sphere. Get ready for some creative magic! 
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There are two videos that tell you the three fundamental pillars behind Capacities that will help you understand why it works the way it does, and a video to help you get started if you've just started using the app.
Feel free to check them out!
https://youtu.be/iSJcw81pYx0?si=sc9W8cbnA4wGtl3c
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We will work on it, but please don't expect it soon. It's really hard to do it right as all apps are based on different paradigms. Importing data in the wrong structure can cause more harm than good. ❗
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1 Our diverse experts in various fields are shaping the future of Capacities, making it even better. Meet the faces behind the innovation in our latest Instagram video. Check it out here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C07OjBTt9gh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 53 12 24 1 14 17
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We currently have an open position for a full-stack developer. More here: https://capacities.io/career/developer
If you think you might be the right fit for our team, we'd love to hear from you.
Or, if you know someone who knows someone who might be a great fit, please spread the word! 
A really big thank you goes out to all Capacities Believers! You're the sole reason we can continue to hire and invest your support back into the product. It really means a lot to us. 
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https://www.producthunt.com/golden-kitty-awards/bootstrapped-small-teams
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Here's everything you need to know now. ️
What will Capacities Pro be?
Capacities Pro is the premium version of Capacities for everyone who wants to level up their knowledge work.
It will include additional features to the free version, like the AI assistant, smart queries, color customizations, and much more. Over time, we'll extend the feature set by task management, calendar integrations, and much more.
The price for Capacities Pro will be shared when we launch it. Later on, there will also be a discount option for students.
What happens to Capacities Believer?
As long as there are people believing in Capacities, there will be a Capacities Believer plan. Anyone who has an active Believer subscription will stay a Believer with no price changes.
Capacities Believer will get early access to many upcoming features before they become part of the Pro or the free versions of the app, as well as priority support.
Going forward, for all new Believers, it will have a higher price than the Capacities Pro plan as it’s meant to be the highest level of support for Capacities.
What about all existing Capacities Believers?
In short, nothing will change. Anyone who has an active Believer subscription will stay a Believer with no price changes.
On top of that, everybody who currently supports Capacities or did support Capacities for at least three months before the launch of Capacities Pro in the form of a Capacities Believer subscription will get an "Early Believer" badge in their profile.
With the "Early Believer" badge, you will forever stay a Capacities Believer as long as you have an active subscription – even if you purchase a Capacities Pro subscription.
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Drafting a roadmap is always accompanied by making difficult trade-offs. Nevertheless, we are super happy and excited about what we'll be working on in the next months. We took your feedback and all the amazing and interesting discussions here into account and hope you also like our roadmap.
You can read the article here: https://capacities.io/roadmap/whats-next
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Zain is an incredibly talented engineer with 8 years of experience in buliding large-scale software projects. He's highly passionate about knowledge work, AI and basically any topic in the space. Already in our first meetings we got lost in endless discussions about note-taking and recent advancements in AI. ️
Zain will be leading big parts of our AI and scaling strategy. We made huge progress in the first two weeks and we're so excited about what will come. ✨️
A big thanks goes out to all Capacities Believers and Capacities Pro users. This step would not have been possible without your support. Thank you!
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Zain is an incredibly talented engineer with 8 years of experience in buliding large-scale software projects. He's highly passionate about knowledge work, AI and basically any topic in the space. Already in our first meetings we got lost in endless discussions about note-taking and recent advancements in AI. ️
Zain will be leading big parts of our AI and scaling strategy. We made huge progress in the first two weeks and we're so excited about what will come. ✨️
A big thanks goes out to all Capacities Believers and Capacities Pro users. This step would not have been possible without your support. Thank you!
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We had some major shifts due to our commitment to becoming an offline-first and the immense potential of AI technologies that will profoundly change knowledge work. Once again, we had to make difficult trade-offs and some of you might not be happy with the prioritization. We are super excited about what we'll be working on in the next months. We took your feedback and all the amazing and interesting discussions here into account and hope you will also like it.
You can read the article here: https://capacities.io/roadmap/whats-next
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If you need access to the app in the meantime, here is the signed universal APK of the latest stable version (1.37.8, Versioncode 216) we downloaded directly from the Google Play Console. Please don't download the app from anywhere else, we can only verify the APK file we are providing here. In addition, you can also use the browser version on your phone as a fallback (just go to app.capacities.io on your phone).
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We want to thank everyone who helped us test and improve the mobile app, it made a huge difference!
We'll of course continue to develop and improve it and add more features over time. All future updates will now all go through the official app stores. All the info will follow over the next couple of days, stay tuned!
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It took us longer than planned and we had some unexpected issues on the last mile, but we're super excited to finally share it with everyone and are very happy with the result. Thanks for your patience!
You can get the app here:
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We want to spread the word about the Capacities Mobile app, so we will be launching it on Product Hunt on Thursday this week (July 25, 2024)!
Any support for our launch would be much appreciated!
You can visit the product page to be notified of the launch.
https://www.producthunt.com/products/capacities
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Follow this link to support our launch, comment and help us spread the word:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/capacities-mobile-app
Let's go! 
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It's a constant source of inspiration for us as a team, and it helps us in developing Capacities in so many ways.
The community has grown quite a bit in the last few months, and of course, the atmosphere is changing as more and more people join.
Nevertheless, we're simply amazed by everything that's going on here!
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On top, we created a comprehensive AI roadmap including short term features and long-term, more fuzzy ideas. We hope you like it! ✨
Read about our general roadmap here: https://capacities.io/roadmap/whats-next
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