New update today has made the Graph view loading super fast. Also larger collections feel like they're loading faster. Thanks.

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New update today has made the Graph view loading super fast. Also larger collections feel like they're loading faster. Thanks.

Great to hear! They actually do

Slash “/” as an alternative to “+” added - music to my ears. Excellent QOL addition. Thank you

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I had to re-tool the plus sign. forward slash MUCH better. Thanks.

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Hey, I thought I'd make my first post here. I see a lot of potential in Capacities, I've played around with it a bit, but I'm still waiting for some things on the roadmap to go live before really diving in. This is my experience. I've been a long-time Notion user, but I've recently been enticed by these newer PKM features it lacks, like bi-directional linking and graph view. I messed around with Obsidian for a while, but I found it too "raw" for me. I like the visual nature of Notion (links appearing as bookmarks with thumbnails, embedded media, page banners and icons, etc.). So I had this need for "Notion + extra features". I feel like Capacities checks a lot of those boxes for me. I like the global tags, I like the bi-directional linking, and I like the inclusion of those visual elements Notion has. These days, I will write down a note in Apple Notes, save an article I want to read to Raindrop.io, and if there's a bigger project going on, organize all my data in Notion. I'd like to try using Capacities to do all those things someday, but there needs to be a mobile app I can quickly launch and capture things with, there needs to be a desktop version that doesn't live in my browser, a browser extension I can quickly save pages with etc. I might continue to mess around occasionally but I can't "live within it" just yet. So Capacities has kind of stood out for me and my particular needs (one thing I didn't even mention I liked is the potential to moodboard, like a Pinterest but with tags), and I'm going to be eagerly observing and waiting. Happy to be here on the inside and share some thoughts on what I'd like to see.

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Hey, I thought I'd make my first post here. I see a lot of potential in Capacities, I've played around with it a bit, but I'm still waiting for some things on the roadmap to go live before really diving in. This is my experience. I've been a long-time Notion user, but I've recently been enticed by these newer PKM features it lacks, like bi-directional linking and graph view. I messed around with Obsidian for a while, but I found it too "raw" for me. I like the visual nature of Notion (links appearing as bookmarks with thumbnails, embedded media, page banners and icons, etc.). So I had this need for "Notion + extra features". I feel like Capacities checks a lot of those boxes for me. I like the global tags, I like the bi-directional linking, and I like the inclusion of those visual elements Notion has. These days, I will write down a note in Apple Notes, save an article I want to read to Raindrop.io, and if there's a bigger project going on, organize all my data in Notion. I'd like to try using Capacities to do all those things someday, but there needs to be a mobile app I can quickly launch and capture things with, there needs to be a desktop version that doesn't live in my browser, a browser extension I can quickly save pages with etc. I might continue to mess around occasionally but I can't "live within it" just yet. So Capacities has kind of stood out for me and my particular needs (one thing I didn't even mention I liked is the potential to moodboard, like a Pinterest but with tags), and I'm going to be eagerly observing and waiting. Happy to be here on the inside and share some thoughts on what I'd like to see.

Hi @Omar, happy to have you onboard. Thanks so much for your feedback!! I absolutely agree with the importance of these features. You find all of them on our roadmap (https://roadmap.capacities.io). We are working full steam on delivering them.

And happy to get your feedback at any time! (edited)

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I lost the rights for the bugs-and-issues channel? I think this is at least an issue...

Steffen started a thread. 7/30/2022 10:55 AM

So happy you guys made a discord and shocked I just found it now. Thank you!

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Letho

So happy you guys made a discord and shocked I just found it now. Thank you!

We launched it just a couple of days ago, so you didn't miss much yet. Cool to have you on board!

Hola a todos! Saludos desde argentina

jploza

Hola a todos! Saludos desde argentina

hola muchacho (o muchacha)

@gestaltist muchacho jajaja

jploza

@gestaltist muchacho jajaja

a si, me olvide que mujeres no existen en Internet

Jjajaja

@Steffen Data ownership is very important to me. And I find that data ownership is directly limited by the ability to export data to an interoperable format. As much as I like Capacities, there’s always the possibility that it will turn out to not be a good fit at one point, and I need the security of a global export. What are your plans in that regard?

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In case you were having issues using the WhatsApp integration, this should be fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience

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Hey, I learned about this from Anne's newsletter. I currently use Obsidian and Notion; this app seems like both in one. I'm curious how this app is different from these two, as a combo and separately.

Steffen started a thread. 8/7/2022 1:33 AM

The worst thing happened today - I opened the article summary I was working on Sunday evening at about 11 pm, and it was empty. The picture and new hashtag that I created and attached remained in the database, but were not linked to the page. I had similar problems yesterday, but I thought it was just a problem with my internet. I hope it was accidental, but just in case, I decided to let you know, maybe you can track down what caused the problem. If I can reproduce the problem I will provide more information.

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Adelon

The worst thing happened today - I opened the article summary I was working on Sunday evening at about 11 pm, and it was empty. The picture and new hashtag that I created and attached remained in the database, but were not linked to the page. I had similar problems yesterday, but I thought it was just a problem with my internet. I hope it was accidental, but just in case, I decided to let you know, maybe you can track down what caused the problem. If I can reproduce the problem I will provide more information.

Thanks for letting us know!

This should definitely not happen. We did not have any issues like this recently. Having the same content open in several tabs could potentially cause something like this. I will talk with @Steffen also to investigate further.

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Steffen started a thread. 8/9/2022 9:27 AM

Spaces in Capacities are a way to fully isolate domains. How many spaces do you use? And what are they for? Spaces always have an overhead, unfortunately. For example, to use the messenger integrations you need to specify a default space or specify a space in every message, etc. And you have different daily notes for different spaces. Just curious what you think.

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We have been silent in terms of product updates this week. Just wanted to let you know that we shipped a small update. See the biggest changes here: https://capacities.io/whats-new. There will be a lot of exciting things coming up, we are working on making many interactions smoother and faster. A small feature is already live now

(based on your ideas and feedback here

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the new breadcrumb system actually sped things up quite a bit on my side as some of my pages were getting quite a long list stacked at the top!

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Oh man such useful updates

10:56 AM

This is turning out to be better and better everyday

10:56 AM

Heres a random question for people -- has anybody foudn a note taking method that works well that I could use capacities with? I am literally struggling just learning how to take notes properly

Steffen

We have been silent in terms of product updates this week. Just wanted to let you know that we shipped a small update. See the biggest changes here: https://capacities.io/whats-new. There will be a lot of exciting things coming up, we are working on making many interactions smoother and faster. A small feature is already live now

(based on your ideas and feedback here

)

Niiiice

phil started a thread. 8/13/2022 11:08 AM

phil started a thread. 8/14/2022 6:35 AM

(Don't have rights to write in #⚡・bugs-and-issues , so put it here) Small bug: Tried to paste line from article "a skillset can be rare and valuable if you specialise in it before* it becomes clear that it is valuable", but get only **before*** part (edited)

Steffen started a thread. 8/15/2022 7:27 AM

I’m new to the app, is there a way of placing a time stamp?

OZone

I’m new to the app, is there a way of placing a time stamp?

/time

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Thank you

Hi community, I'm currently drafting the import feature for Capacities, including import via Markdown, CSV to Collection, even type conversion (so you can turn a page into a meeting for example), and batch imports of media and md files. For which note taking apps would you like to see custom import support? 1️⃣ Evernote 2️⃣ Notion 3️⃣ Obsidian 4️⃣ Roam Research 5️⃣ Logseq 6️⃣ Other (comments please) And maybe a general question: Would you even say that full imports are useful? Or is it better to start from scratch and import the parts you really need/want? Thanks already

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Notion and selective import. Thank you

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Regarding the recent roadmap announcement - @Michael_v_H et al. Desired Order of Priorities: 8, 7, 1, 4

Regarding Tool Imports: Selective, file based (MD, CSV) But back to the roadmap. What I have heard (and I feel this way too) that #8 is the biggest stumbling block to getting into Capacities. The limited capabilities regarding search is a huge turnoff for folks. Search fulfills two functions: find what you don’t know the location of AND verification of trust (that your data is there and secure). Linking to specific blocks of text is also a HUGE differentiator and a huge advantage of Roam (especially, because its easiest there), Logseq, and to some degree Notion and Obsidian. IF, as is claimed, Capacities aims to be a “typed” note-taking app, its advantages lie in the ability to view blocks/data in different ways. The databases are already a huge advantage and provide unique capabilities that aren’t as afforded in other tools that focus on note-taking. For me personally, the backlinks (editable) and hopefully in the future, sortable/filterable/searchable, along with the improvements I am most excited marked above in my roadmap opinion, would allow me to transition completely to the tool. Last thing, one thing I would hazard to emphasize, export options are not necessarily about leaving the tool, but instead moving your workflow into a more specialized tool. So being able to export in CSV would allow me to use that data in another tool with functions not available here. But importantly, I would not want to remove that data from here, only use it elsewhere. Looking forward to seeing how the product matures over time.

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Amazing Roadmap announcement! My dream priorities would be 7, 3, 8

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Michael_v_H started a thread. 8/16/2022 6:01 PM

My dream order of priorities: 8, 7, 1, 4, 3, 5

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Milestones 7, 8 and 1 would be amazing. I did notice a big omission of native mobile apps, though. A while ago @Michael_v_H had said possibly end of the year or next year. Does that mean you are planning to ship all 8 milestones by the end of this year/early next year, or has the estimate for mobile app been pushed farther? Thanks for all the hard work!

Nusquams

Milestones 7, 8 and 1 would be amazing. I did notice a big omission of native mobile apps, though. A while ago @Michael_v_H had said possibly end of the year or next year. Does that mean you are planning to ship all 8 milestones by the end of this year/early next year, or has the estimate for mobile app been pushed farther? Thanks for all the hard work!

It's definitely still planned! We did not put it on there because it's hard to estimate how long everything will take. It will still be very important. The end of this year/early next year should be about right.

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My personal waitlist - 1, 8, (full-text search is really a must-have. For example, Mem.ai sells their smart-AI-search as the main feature), 3 (for backups), and 6 (for faster capturing) (edited)

Milestone 3. Is there a plan to export by date range? Given the central role played by dates (which is a good thing) it makes sense to be able to export several specific dates or a whole week or month? Thanks. Loving the way this is developing.

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Milestone 3. Is there a plan to export by date range? Given the central role played by dates (which is a good thing) it makes sense to be able to export several specific dates or a whole week or month? Thanks. Loving the way this is developing.

This sounds interesting. Could elaborate a bit. What would you expect to be exported? Everything you created in that week? everything you worked on?

Hi Steffen. As you've dispensed with traditional folders I tend to work within each calendar day, dump in there everything personal/work & let the databases/tags sort everything for me. Where necessary I add input to individual pages. This is very different (for me) but works well. However, let's say, I want to combine my journal notes for July. I kept a journal for 20 of 31 days. How do I export those days? Or if I have recurring project meetings every Tuesday afternoon and I want to export them each month? Or if I'm interested in the trend in plant based wellness cafes and have pasted links of different types into different days, how do I export them as a whole? Of course it may be that I'm not using Capacities optimally, so please feel free to suggest a better way. I'm happy to experiment :))

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Hi Steffen. As you've dispensed with traditional folders I tend to work within each calendar day, dump in there everything personal/work & let the databases/tags sort everything for me. Where necessary I add input to individual pages. This is very different (for me) but works well. However, let's say, I want to combine my journal notes for July. I kept a journal for 20 of 31 days. How do I export those days? Or if I have recurring project meetings every Tuesday afternoon and I want to export them each month? Or if I'm interested in the trend in plant based wellness cafes and have pasted links of different types into different days, how do I export them as a whole? Of course it may be that I'm not using Capacities optimally, so please feel free to suggest a better way. I'm happy to experiment :))

This makes tons of sense and I think it's a great way to use Capacities! I think what could be a great extension here is that you can at different points in the app download subsets of your content. For example, you could download a collection with all content included as md + csv or you can download all content of a week (all daily notes and all content included) and so on. I'll put it on the list, thanks for bringing this up!

Exactly! And if I may add one more thought... is exporting as a pdf an option? Glad my thoughts made sense!

Deleted User

Exactly! And if I may add one more thought... is exporting as a pdf an option? Glad my thoughts made sense!

Currently no. We thought about it as well but it's a lot of work and we see a much better value-to-work ratio in a lot of other topics we are working on. Hope that makes sense. Long-term it will absolutely be part of Capacities. Just imagine having such beautiful pages as sharable PDFs

OK thanks. Yes, I believe we should always try to allow space for beauty, even if it's not always possible...

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edit: working already (edited)

Is there still a todo/task from basic checkbox to entity on the roadmap? Sure with the "/task/task title" option it is a bit better but checkbox works with telegram entries. (edited)

GijsEp

Is there still a todo/task from basic checkbox to entity on the roadmap? Sure with the "/task/task title" option it is a bit better but checkbox works with telegram entries. (edited)

It's definitely on the roadmap. Task management will be amazing. This roadmap is only for the next few months. After that, we'll definitely focus on that and the mobile app.

Great features and announcement!! Can't wait to see next update

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Working with tags became much more powerful this morning.

We added filter options for all custom properties. Filter for your book ratings, workout types, tags, page icons, ... Thanks for the discussions here that lead to this improvement @Fred Markle.

1:52 AM

This allows for building powerful dashboards based on tags

Just link a tag on a page and change the view to "embed". You now have a local set of filters and sort options that allow you to build a dashboard based on your routines.

Steffen

Working with tags became much more powerful this morning.

We added filter options for all custom properties. Filter for your book ratings, workout types, tags, page icons, ... Thanks for the discussions here that lead to this improvement @Fred Markle.

Great news! Would custom properties also work for sorting in future? Like sort the reading list by Person or Tag field (edited)

Adelon

Great news! Would custom properties also work for sorting in future? Like sort the reading list by Person or Tag field (edited)

Great idea!!

Will write it down!

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Adelon

Great news! Would custom properties also work for sorting in future? Like sort the reading list by Person or Tag field (edited)

@Adelon will be live in a few seconds

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Steffen

@Adelon will be live in a few seconds

Both sorting and filter are working great! This is a game changer feature for me. Thanks! One small critique would be to remove the "| Database" from the table column titles. It takes up too much space and is redundant because the tables are already grouped by database type.

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Tip, if you don't want the collection take the whole width of the page Group it.

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Cool roadmap announcement! I am very pleased with the direction Capacities is taking and truly amazed by the speed at which you guys are delivering new features: great work!

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@Steffen Hi , thank you for your reply but what do you call zettel? (edited)

@carab0uille Zettel for me is loosely inspired by the "Zettelkasten" system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten). Basically it's a small note (not big enough for a page) that contains information about a topic/term/... in a condensed format and is connect to a lot of other zettels.

ahhh okay it's like zettelkasten

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9:09 AM

thank you

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@carab0uille Zettel for me is loosely inspired by the "Zettelkasten" system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten). Basically it's a small note (not big enough for a page) that contains information about a topic/term/... in a condensed format and is connect to a lot of other zettels.

It should say “angel” investors, not “angle”

gestaltist

It should say “angel” investors, not “angle”

Hahaha

very attentive, thanks

my weekly capacity hype comment.

One thing I've noticed after using capacities for about a month now is that it's changing my thought process. I have a lot more confidence in my process now because I'm no longer afraid of "losing thoughts"; everything eventually gets connected. It's so great to see everything unfold. It really feels like a lot of mental stress is being removed. capacities, approved by ADD

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my weekly capacity hype comment.

One thing I've noticed after using capacities for about a month now is that it's changing my thought process. I have a lot more confidence in my process now because I'm no longer afraid of "losing thoughts"; everything eventually gets connected. It's so great to see everything unfold. It really feels like a lot of mental stress is being removed. capacities, approved by ADD

@phil, this is so great to hear!! Thanks for sharing, really appreciate it

Is there a way to create a bullet journal inside capacities?

diego#84

Is there a way to create a bullet journal inside capacities?

Yes, you can, the daily note is perfect for that. Use the weekly view to get an overview and define a template that gives every daily note a structure. Does that answer your question?

Steffen

Yes, you can, the daily note is perfect for that. Use the weekly view to get an overview and define a template that gives every daily note a structure. Does that answer your question?

One other great feature I just discovered about the week view is you can drag unfinished to-do items into today from yesterday very easily.

7:39 AM

Full Width Blocks - Another feature I have been wanting and for some reason I thought didn't exist in capacities yet, was making a block full width. I think this feature has been there for a while and I just kept missing it. Just thought I'd pass it along encase other missed it as well. (edited)

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Yes, you can, the daily note is perfect for that. Use the weekly view to get an overview and define a template that gives every daily note a structure. Does that answer your question?

Cool, I wasn't aware of the template functionality. Do you mind sharing your templates?

Sure, mine is actually pretty simple. Habits, what I did and thought. I use the last two in combination with a lot of links, I tag the people there that I interacted with, and link content that I worked on / created. This automatically creates an amazing timeline for all content and especially people. e.g. had a super constructive meeting about data models and link recommendations with @Michael (@Meeting Notes) creates the perfect timeline functionality I need. When I click on Michael or the notes I see on what day with which people, etc. this happened.

Fred Markle

Full Width Blocks - Another feature I have been wanting and for some reason I thought didn't exist in capacities yet, was making a block full width. I think this feature has been there for a while and I just kept missing it. Just thought I'd pass it along encase other missed it as well. (edited)

Especially powerful in combination with group or multi-column blocks

Steffen

Especially powerful in combination with group or multi-column blocks

It ONLY works with group or multi-column blocks.

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Steffen

Yes, you can, the daily note is perfect for that. Use the weekly view to get an overview and define a template that gives every daily note a structure. Does that answer your question?

Kind of ... In case I have unfinish task in one day... Can I move them easily from one day to another?

diego#84

Kind of ... In case I have unfinish task in one day... Can I move them easily from one day to another?

Yes, you can use the weekly view and just drag and drop selected blocks or just cmd+x and cmd+v to move it. I stopped using the daily note for task management personally because this happened to me all the time. I now use one single page for tasks until Capacities fully supports task management.

Steffen

Yes, you can use the weekly view and just drag and drop selected blocks or just cmd+x and cmd+v to move it. I stopped using the daily note for task management personally because this happened to me all the time. I now use one single page for tasks until Capacities fully supports task management.

Thanks Steffen!!

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Any idea when tasks will be supported? Don’t see them mentioned on the milestones (unless I missed them)

3:16 PM

Never mind. Search answered that question

rawkode

Any idea when tasks will be supported? Don’t see them mentioned on the milestones (unless I missed them)

Yes will take a while, after the current roadmap. I have to wait untill it is implemented, currently on amplenote and can't do without good task management. Hope they finish the roadmap sooner

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Was there an update? I got a popup message but dont see any changes

phil

Was there an update? I got a popup message but dont see any changes

Just a small fix! Big update is coming next week

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After bouncing around lots of productivity apps, I feel like capacities.io is going to be my home o.O

10:16 PM

Anytype.io is a close second but I am still on the fence...

kluzten

After bouncing around lots of productivity apps, I feel like capacities.io is going to be my home o.O

Agree on both points. It is very good, with some offline capacity/ app, this will really be next level. Can't wait for the updates next week

@Ed Nico which app do you use mainly?

kluzten

@Ed Nico which app do you use mainly?

At the moment, I am mainly in Obsidian. I need offline mode for confidential documents (I don't sync across devices and mainly use laptop). I am thinking of maybe splitting my workflow up a little and having work in an offline app like Obsidian or Logseq and everything else in Capacities. I love the database and layout. The only thing holding me back is the 2 apps aspect. Especially as a lot of work things I like to read more of and kind of became a hobby. What about you? I tested Anytype and looks interesting but a little too confused and muddled to my liking (edited)

Ed Nico

At the moment, I am mainly in Obsidian. I need offline mode for confidential documents (I don't sync across devices and mainly use laptop). I am thinking of maybe splitting my workflow up a little and having work in an offline app like Obsidian or Logseq and everything else in Capacities. I love the database and layout. The only thing holding me back is the 2 apps aspect. Especially as a lot of work things I like to read more of and kind of became a hobby. What about you? I tested Anytype and looks interesting but a little too confused and muddled to my liking (edited)

Yeah I can undestand. I got anytype access yesterday and found it bit too confusing too. Also, going all-in on alpha software doesn't make sense. But on other hand, anytype is free.. I mainly need task management, note taking and gathering resources functionality and I think capacities is the best I've come across so far..

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12:33 AM

task management isn't capacities' strong suit so far and it's a WIP..but I think I can whip up something using custom type.

12:33 AM

and I need to learn some stuff so will be using zorbi.cards for spaced repetition

kluzten

task management isn't capacities' strong suit so far and it's a WIP..but I think I can whip up something using custom type.

Yes agree. The plugins ecosystem in Logseq and Obsidian really help.to.add these features on the side. Looking forward to seeing what Capacities does in this areas. Never tried Zorbi, going to check it out

Ed Nico

Yes agree. The plugins ecosystem in Logseq and Obsidian really help.to.add these features on the side. Looking forward to seeing what Capacities does in this areas. Never tried Zorbi, going to check it out

Yeah true. OSS has its benefits but I like how capacities works just the way my brain thinks!

kluzten

Yeah true. OSS has its benefits but I like how capacities works just the way my brain thinks!

So true - using what makes you comfortable cannot be beaten.

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@Steffen would be great to get capacities.io added to https://www.noteapps.info/

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Is split window a functionality? Would be so helpful!

kluzten

Is split window a functionality? Would be so helpful!

@kluzten, I agree, this will be possible with the side panel system which is currently part of milestone 4 on our roadmap: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1009120665032470539/1009223778091417691

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I just tried to export a page as a Word document. Tried all the different options (with or without images and subpages), but every time I get the message: Download failed. I'm using a Mac, and I'm on Chrome. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

as a user of a million different note systems I just want to say I'm very grateful to have found a tool with both good linking AND db type entities and I can streamline so much now

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I agree!!

4:02 PM

I feel 1 thing I personally miss is lack of mindmaps. If they add that, then I don't need to jump around anymore lol

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Gonzales Gee

I just tried to export a page as a Word document. Tried all the different options (with or without images and subpages), but every time I get the message: Download failed. I'm using a Mac, and I'm on Chrome. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

That should not happen, we'll look into it! Seems like some error during export from our side, but just to make sure, you could also check if your browser is blocking downloads (you can check that by clicking on the look at the start of Chrome's URL bar, if you click on it, I think it's the toggle next to "Popups and redirects".)

kluzten

I feel 1 thing I personally miss is lack of mindmaps. If they add that, then I don't need to jump around anymore lol

Atm, we only have the graph view, to visualize relationships and to navigate to related content. But we are definitely thinking beyond that. Visualizing the structure of your content and key information does not necessarily have to be a force-directed graph layout, it could be all kinds of different layouts, depending on what relationships you want to visualize. If you add interaction with the visualization and the option to add new nodes by clicking somewhere, you get some really nice mind-mapping use cases. This kind of stuff is super exciting, but rather on our long-term roadmap.

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Fair enough @Michael_v_H . One thing I can think of it at high level, you just need to provide logic to create mindmaps. Each node will be a page entity and you would need to store child nodes as metadata. Serialize/deserialize it and bam! You've mindmap support without too much effort

On more thoughts, if this is implemented, you'd have implemented scrintal app more or less!

Michael_v_H

That should not happen, we'll look into it! Seems like some error during export from our side, but just to make sure, you could also check if your browser is blocking downloads (you can check that by clicking on the look at the start of Chrome's URL bar, if you click on it, I think it's the toggle next to "Popups and redirects".)

No, Downloads are not blocked by Chrome.

Gonzales Gee

No, Downloads are not blocked by Chrome.

We'll look into it, I guess it happened on a just one specific page? Or does it happen for every entity of that type? If possible, it would be super helpful if you could: 1. create a ticket at https://capacities.io/feedback 2. if information in that content is not private share a link to that content with us at team@capacities.io or in the ticket

Requests, ideas, bugs

Get an overview of requested features and ideas.

Steffen

We'll look into it, I guess it happened on a just one specific page? Or does it happen for every entity of that type? If possible, it would be super helpful if you could: 1. create a ticket at https://capacities.io/feedback 2. if information in that content is not private share a link to that content with us at team@capacities.io or in the ticket

I just checked. It’s only this page. Exporting other ones works. Unfortunately the content is quite sensitive, so I won’t be able to share the link with you.

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‼️ Important We'll be shipping a big update tomorrow morning which requires us take Capacities offline for a while. You won't have access to it tomorrow morning, September 3, from 6:30 am to 7:00 am UTC time. Hope that's ok, the update is going to be amazing. Many small improvements and most of Milestone 1.

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‼️ Important We'll be shipping a big update tomorrow morning which requires us take Capacities offline for a while. You won't have access to it tomorrow morning, September 3, from 6:30 am to 7:00 am UTC time. Hope that's ok, the update is going to be amazing. Many small improvements and most of Milestone 1.

Milestone 1 Completely reworked linking, date handling, and navigation.

All linking interactions and drop downs will be reworked with support for double bracket syntax, frictionless inline entity creation, and direct choice of which entity view to use. Dates can be quickly created with text-based syntax (or a visual date picker). All dates will be first-class citizens – mention them anywhere and see all links in your calendar and daily notes. The reworked navigation will make all navigating back and forth faster and overall more consistent.

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The update is taking way longer than expected. ⏱ Everything works as expected but our user base and the sheer amount of content in Capacities is so much bigger than expected. I'll keep you updated here. Current estimate is 11 am UTC. (edited)

Steffen

The update is taking way longer than expected. ⏱ Everything works as expected but our user base and the sheer amount of content in Capacities is so much bigger than expected. I'll keep you updated here. Current estimate is 11 am UTC. (edited)

Thanks @Steffen You're going to need a bigger boat.

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It's worth waiting for the double bracket syntax.

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If you already want to read about the update, the release message is live: https://capacities.io/whats-new

What's new?

New features, releases and current improvements

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Steffen

If you already want to read about the update, the release message is live: https://capacities.io/whats-new

Wow so much in this release. Great work. Excited to try out all these new features.

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Steffen

If you already want to read about the update, the release message is live: https://capacities.io/whats-new

Wow, what a feature packed update.

Also thanks a lot for the 'Add content directly from the tag page'.

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omg I so love the way that capacities is turning out!

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The update is live

Thanks for your patience. You can now use the updated version of Capacities. Feel free to explore and share your thoughts! We'll share the release on social media and via email in the next days. (edited)

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Steffen

The update is live

Thanks for your patience. You can now use the updated version of Capacities. Feel free to explore and share your thoughts! We'll share the release on social media and via email in the next days. (edited)

Thx. I'm in

I'm having some issues in Safari with the new update. @, +, /, [[ don't pull up any menu for me. I also couldn't add a date for a property. Seems to be working in my Chrome based browser.

arminta7

I'm having some issues in Safari with the new update. @, +, /, [[ don't pull up any menu for me. I also couldn't add a date for a property. Seems to be working in my Chrome based browser.

I'll look into it right now, thanks!

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arminta7

I'm having some issues in Safari with the new update. @, +, /, [[ don't pull up any menu for me. I also couldn't add a date for a property. Seems to be working in my Chrome based browser.

I found the issue, we'll ship a patch later today.

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Seems to be an issue with adding content type in Filters. I can't select any content types.

Why do the YT links not have proper pictures?

8:56 AM

somtetimes they are displayed correctly and sometimes they aren't

Fred Markle

Seems to be an issue with adding content type in Filters. I can't select any content types.

Fix is live in a few minutes

tatqoo

Why do the YT links not have proper pictures?

The first one seems to be a short. Not sure if youtube provides a preview image for that. I'll look into it.

Steffen

The first one seems to be a short. Not sure if youtube provides a preview image for that. I'll look into it.

It is a short.

Steffen

Fix is live in a few minutes

Awesome! Thanks as always.

This one is not a short. I copied it from another capacities space where it wsa displayed correctly

9:20 AM

9:22 AM

Could you please try this one? I was able to save it with a proper picture few months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnMTX56wYCM

9:23 AM

Axtually, all the YT weblinks I saved today have no picture.

9:26 AM

It was working correctly few days ago

I am sure, that even when I copy the link directly from the adress bar or YT share (copy to clipboard function) the link is saved without a picture. Would somebody else be able to confirm the same behaviour?

Fix is on the way, thanks for reporting

(edited)

General information Please use the feedback board (https://capacities.io/feedback) to report bugs. See #⚡・bugs-and-issues .

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Get an overview of requested features and ideas.

Steffen

Fix is on the way, thanks for reporting

(edited)

Thanks for a quick fix

Hi, I've been using your fantastic app|software and it's been an extraordinary experience. It fits perfectly with the type of tool I've been looking for some time. Congratulations! My only concern is not knowing what space I'm using and want to be a pro user to make my contribution! I already signed the waiting list. Thank you!

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redfox1904

Hi, I've been using your fantastic app|software and it's been an extraordinary experience. It fits perfectly with the type of tool I've been looking for some time. Congratulations! My only concern is not knowing what space I'm using and want to be a pro user to make my contribution! I already signed the waiting list. Thank you!

Hi @redfox1904, thanks a lot for your message, happy to hear that! Feel free to share your journey of exploring it here, I think others are very interested in that. We'll keep you updated about the pro plan

Thanks!!

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We forgot to communicate a small but neat feature in the last update: Linking and creating content from your messenger and via email You can create new entities and link existing content from your messenger. Use the following syntax [[page/Wendelstein reactor]] to link to a page with title "Wendelstein reactor". If this pages exits in your space it will create a link to it, otherwise a new page will be created. This works for all content types in your space. If you have a content type Person you can link or create it by using [[person/Steve Jobs]]. You can use this at the beginning of a paragraph to create a new block and somewhere in your paragraph to link it in your text. Alternative ways of "create or link" are +person/Steve Jobs/ and @person/Steve Jobs/, similar to the syntax you can use in the app. If your content type contains spaces, like "Book Summary" you need to specify it in upper camel case format: [[BookSummary/Sapiens]], +BookSummary/Sapiens/, @BookSummary/Sapiens/. If you only want to link and not create you can do this by just referencing the title: [[Steve Jobs]] (edited)

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yaaaaaaaay nice! thank you this will help a lot. Is it also possible, to directly add content to the newly created page? (edited)

phil

yaaaaaaaay nice! thank you this will help a lot. Is it also possible, to directly add content to the newly created page? (edited)

No, but I'm thinking about a syntax. Maybe if you start your message with [[page/Wendelstein reactor]] as your first line then everything will be appended to that.

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Jeah, I tried that intuitively

7:37 AM

I mean it would be overkill to be able to add something to different pages in one message. So this solution should be good enough

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phil

I mean it would be overkill to be able to add something to different pages in one message. So this solution should be good enough

It would be awesome if you could create a ticket for that so it doesn't get lost.

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@Steffen Hello , in the last newsletter there is a mistake :)

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Hi, what can I read/watch about how Capacities is different from / better than Notion? Why should I switch? Thanks.

@Steffen / @Michael_v_H https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/9864/0/capacities-a-new-mega-pkim-app

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12:42 PM

lot of founders of various PKM apps are active on the forum - hyperbrain, taskade etc

Ed Nico

Yes agree. The plugins ecosystem in Logseq and Obsidian really help.to.add these features on the side. Looking forward to seeing what Capacities does in this areas. Never tried Zorbi, going to check it out

I created a feature request for the plugin ecosystem. https://capacities.io/feedback/p/plugin-system-for-capacities Anytype is also very confusing to me. Their advantage is to be open source and have apps for all platforms at the moment. Additionally, the plugin ecosystem could allow for workflows that are impossible in any other app. But an intuitive UI like Capacities cannot be beaten with having more features.

Requests, ideas, bugs

Get an overview of requested features and ideas.

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Steffen

The first one seems to be a short. Not sure if youtube provides a preview image for that. I'll look into it.

Hi @Steffen , YT shorts weblinks seem to be working correctly and miniatures are created

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Hello ! After trying out several note-taking and organization apps, I've started using capacities. It works so well and I just love the design ! I've found the tool I always wanted haha. Keep it going and thanks for the great app !

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Hi everybody, we are currently testing the backup feature for Capacities. If you're interested in getting beta access to test, report problems, and share ideas on how to improve it please send me your email (the one you signed up with) via direct message here in discord.

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We are having server issues at the moment, we are investigating and will keep you updated.

Steffen

We are having server issues at the moment, we are investigating and will keep you updated.

Seems to be more stable now. We continue working on it.

Hm... still having issues on my end. Keep getting Retry and then this page.

Steffen

Hi everybody, we are currently testing the backup feature for Capacities. If you're interested in getting beta access to test, report problems, and share ideas on how to improve it please send me your email (the one you signed up with) via direct message here in discord.

Is this local backup?

Nusquams

Hm... still having issues on my end. Keep getting Retry and then this page.

It just connected!

Nusquams

It just connected!

We're still having issues. Could be unstable at the moment.

Starting this morning at 6:00 UTC we've had very unusual CPU and memory spikes throughout the day. Since then we've been investigating the root cause and are still working on it. We may have to restart the server on occasion until we find the issue. Due to this there may be short periods of unavailability of our server. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Ok, everything seems to be running stable again now! We've also added more redundancy to our servers so this hopefully won't happen again. (edited)

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Michael_v_H

Ok, everything seems to be running stable again now! We've also added more redundancy to our servers so this hopefully won't happen again. (edited)

Great news! Thanks.

Steffen started a thread. 9/16/2022 4:39 AM

I'm having difficulties to connect right now EDIT: it works now (edited)

Server down again?

Yes. :/ Looking into it right now.

It's up again. But it has not been stable the last couple of days. We'll make it our top priority right now to get to the root cause. Solution could be as simple as doubling server capacity since we've been getting many new users recently.

Michael_v_H

It's up again. But it has not been stable the last couple of days. We'll make it our top priority right now to get to the root cause. Solution could be as simple as doubling server capacity since we've been getting many new users recently.

Hi @Michael_v_H Any update on server status? I can’t access the app. But the status pages says everything is operational.

Have been debugging the server the whole weekend so far. But I really need @Steffen 's expertise at the moment to fix it sustainably. He won't be back until Monday evening though. So until then I'll give my best to keep it running most of the time.

4:53 PM

One of our services keeps running out of memory for no apparent reason, runs over and then blocks database calls that are coming in.

Michael_v_H

Have been debugging the server the whole weekend so far. But I really need @Steffen 's expertise at the moment to fix it sustainably. He won't be back until Monday evening though. So until then I'll give my best to keep it running most of the time.

OK thanks for the update. Will

for you and the server.

All I can do at the moment is restart the server and then it will work fine again for a while.

4:54 PM

Thanks!

Hva

4:55 PM

Have you maybe checked what's wrong with file uploads?

Michael_v_H

All I can do at the moment is restart the server and then it will work fine again for a while.

The “turn it off and on again” tactic. Always worth a go.

tatqoo

Have you maybe checked what's wrong with file uploads?

Haven't had the time to look into yet.

Michael_v_H

Haven't had the time to look into yet.

Adding images from the database is not working as well.

@Michael_v_H I keep getting the “You are offline” message. Is it worth adding some more accurate message if this issue is going to last a few more days?

Yes, great idea! I'll do that right now, thanks.

Is capacities down?

Yes, unfortunately. We are having issues with the server availability and are trying to get to the root cause. Until we find it, Capacities will be unreliable in the next couple of days.

Michael_v_H

Yes, great idea! I'll do that right now, thanks.

Thx. I got in for about 30-40 mins. Then out again. Was exciting for a while. New message is super clear, thx. (edited)

okay happy bug hunting

Thanks! Have to go to bed now (with the bad feeling that the server could go down again). Fingers crossed that it won't!

Did you find the root cause? Just curious

No, but it has something to do with the database driver taking too much memory over time until it comes to an out-of-memory situation (which is blocking incoming queries from being served). It was running very smoothly for months but starting two days ago, the above situation started to occur several times during the day (even with little traffic).

oh interesting

7:55 PM

what language is the backend in?

TypeScript. But the database tech we're using is written in Go.

okay gotcha

Good luck with debugging. Tha app has a lot of potential

Does the system accepts mp4 files ? I have some, and tried to import them without success

Haasie

Good luck with debugging. Tha app has a lot of potential

Thanks!

petros

Does the system accepts mp4 files ? I have some, and tried to import them without success

No, we do not support and video format, yet. At some point we will add video as an entity to combine YouTube, vimeo and uploaded videos as a content type.

Michael_v_H

No, we do not support and video format, yet. At some point we will add video as an entity to combine YouTube, vimeo and uploaded videos as a content type.

Thanks

Reliability issues solved

Just wanted to share some updates on the availability issues we had this weekend. We found the root cause and already have a fix for it. You can expect Capacities to be working reliably again. We apologize for all inconvenience and hope that nobody experienced serious data losses. Capacities is serving a growing user base, and we are working on making it better and more reliable every day. Thanks for all your ideas, reporting, and supporting words. ✨

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Oh hey I hadn't noticed the addition of Julia to highlighted languages. Nice! I get to brighten up a couple notes.

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So happy about the backups update ! Thank you so much for bringing such an amazing tool

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Great new release @Steffen & @Michael_v_H plus I like the new design of the What's New page. Clean and easier to see the amazing progress you're making.

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Steffen

Reliability issues solved

Just wanted to share some updates on the availability issues we had this weekend. We found the root cause and already have a fix for it. You can expect Capacities to be working reliably again. We apologize for all inconvenience and hope that nobody experienced serious data losses. Capacities is serving a growing user base, and we are working on making it better and more reliable every day. Thanks for all your ideas, reporting, and supporting words. ✨

For anyone who's interested, here's the memory usage of one of our backend services before the fix and after (the fix was implemented on September 20th).

As you can clearly see, it was an out-of-memory issue. Has been super stable since.

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Loveeeee the new update!

Thank you

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Love the new update! @Steffen I discovered one issue with the Markdown export

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4:51 AM

it appends a space to every note display name

4:51 AM

a minor thing but it's a bit weird

gestaltist

a minor thing but it's a bit weird

Awesome, thanks for sharing!!

and I would like to suggest an option to export links as wikilinks with aliases instead, Obsidian style

4:52 AM

so the above would become simply [[Growing plants]]

4:53 AM

or if you want a different display name: [[Growing plants|alternative name]]

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4:53 AM

these days, less apps support the proper Markdown linking you use than wikilinks

gestaltist

these days, less apps support the proper Markdown linking you use than wikilinks

Though about this option as well. Will be added

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I really like the direction you’re taking the app in. The main thing I need now is a good iPad app with offline support.

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Steffen started a thread. 9/24/2022 12:57 AM

CALLING ALL USERS! Who is enjoying the graph view? Say something nice to the crew if you like it!? (edited)

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Oh heck yeah I like the graph. Managed, zoom, type icons , labeled relations, pictures if the item has one. It's not just a blob of dots and lines!

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Bigspud#0101

CALLING ALL USERS! Who is enjoying the graph view? Say something nice to the crew if you like it!? (edited)

The graph view is OBVIOUSLY great! But maybe you are right and we should mention it more often. So, @Steffen and @Michael_v_H , the graph view is great!

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Bigspud#0101

CALLING ALL USERS! Who is enjoying the graph view? Say something nice to the crew if you like it!? (edited)

yess! The graph view. It's awesome! Not a lot of apps give it and I'm glad this one does!

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The Ness Labs interview opened the gates to Capacities. Because Anne-Laure is an independent thinker and massively successful at community owning/building, she has earned the reputation as nobody's front man. If she finds the co-founders of Capacities interesting and approachable, that was all I needed to take a look. So far, this looks a bit geeky and a lot like Notion; however, here's the one piece that intrigues me. NOBODY has figured out the time dimension and Capacities founders put it out there as their goal. Impressive and I'm rooting for you! Very specifically, I bear witness to 40 years of knowledge management and tools. NONE of them have done the ONE THING I NEED: Have everything in the PKM, and I mean everything, hit one calendar for one person. If you can achieve that for an individual, then there is possibility for doing a team. More specifically, for EVERY note I enter, I put a date indicating when in the future I will need or use this. Wouldn't it be great when I show up on October 25, 2022, for example, I see absolutely everything I was ever thinking about for impact on that day..... shows up in one place?

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@Bigspud#0101 @random geek @📝Anna @BlackCat1176 thanks so much, really appreciate it

I currently have a ticket open for graph view 2.0. A lot of great ideas there but would love to hear what you would like to see there as well. Feel free to comment in this thread

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Steffen started a thread. 9/25/2022 12:51 AM

only just discovered CMD+U !! what a timesaver!

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Just wanted to give a shoutout to the « time stamp » That add a time stamp with the current time. This is genius. It’s so useful for time tracking !!

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Windows font size and ratios A question to all Windows users of Capacities

Is the font size and all ratios on your web app the way you'd expect it our did you adjust the zoom level? See expected sizes and ratio on the screenshot attached. 1️⃣ as expected 2️⃣ to big 3️⃣ to small Thanks for your help

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Windows font size and ratios A question to all Windows users of Capacities

Is the font size and all ratios on your web app the way you'd expect it our did you adjust the zoom level? See expected sizes and ratio on the screenshot attached. 1️⃣ as expected 2️⃣ to big 3️⃣ to small Thanks for your help

Is there a difference between browsers? I use brave and/or firefox and both seem to work as expected

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📝Anna

Is there a difference between browsers? I use brave and/or firefox and both seem to work as expected

Can be but in case of Capacities it should be dependent on our OS settings.

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@Steffen It depends on the screen size. and distance to it. On Ultra wide I increase the size. On a laptop I would rather make it smaller. Bear in mind young people will not be the only users of Capacities

12:01 PM

Just give the option to zoom in/out with ctrl+mouse wheel

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The ratios look right to me. On my machine I zoom text — because yay old eyes — but leave everything else alone, via Settings > Accessibility > Text Size

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I wanted to upload a pdf as a file. Then an error popped up. It would be easier to ask the user if the intended format is not a pdf instead of a file. This would save some clicking around. Also we should be allowed to upload multiple files at one time instead of going back and forth.

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David

I wanted to upload a pdf as a file. Then an error popped up. It would be easier to ask the user if the intended format is not a pdf instead of a file. This would save some clicking around. Also we should be allowed to upload multiple files at one time instead of going back and forth.

If you're adding a file somewhere everywhere except from in databases or collection the correct type should be inferred and added to the corresponding database. Batch upload is planned

After all this hype with Tana on Twitter, I think you guys could increase priority queries/dataview for Capacities, and get some additional audience from this theme while Tana is still invite-only. IMHO Capacities has a more user-friendly interface and a very good foundation for this type of workflow.

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Adelon

After all this hype with Tana on Twitter, I think you guys could increase priority queries/dataview for Capacities, and get some additional audience from this theme while Tana is still invite-only. IMHO Capacities has a more user-friendly interface and a very good foundation for this type of workflow.

(edited)

Cool idea, @Adelon.

I'll discuss this with @Steffen, but I have the feeling that's not as central to Capacities as it is to Tana. Atm we're in the middle of implementing the sidepanel in combination with a way better version of tabs. We are also building the first prototype for full-text search.

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Michael_v_H

Cool idea, @Adelon.

I'll discuss this with @Steffen, but I have the feeling that's not as central to Capacities as it is to Tana. Atm we're in the middle of implementing the sidepanel in combination with a way better version of tabs. We are also building the first prototype for full-text search.

Yeah, I understand, if core architecture is not ready and there are no fast ways to implement this, it's better not to rush and focus on the plan you already have.

I just assumed that it's not a big problem as you already have filters in databases, and this query/dataview thing looks like an advanced filter you can embed everywhere.

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I have the feeling that's not as central to Capacities as it is to Tana

I agree with that, I feel like Capacities focuses more on writing, like Obsidian, and Tana on Outlining, like Roam, so basically different target audiences. Personally, it looks like, if in this generation of mainstream TfT tools (2020-2022), we see Roam vs Obsidian philosophy battle (basically, outliners vs writers), in the next generation of TfT for non-geeks (2023-...), it can become Capacities as writing tool vs Tana as outliner

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But be careful, it looks like these guys are already targeting your audience

Oh, and glad to hear about the full-text search, really waiting for this, thanks a lot! My space becomes a bit messy already and sometimes it's hard to find needed information

As I understand, it'll become a base for Unlinked Mention/Smart suggestions, another feature I liked in Obsidian and waiting for in Capacities, so it'll be easier to find related information https://capacities.io/feedback/p/smart-link-suggestions-unlinked-mentions (edited)

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I see Capacities more for multimedia stuff and Tana for plain text. It will be interesting to see how the tools are once we start with AI. Just imagine to send a voice note to Capacities which is then transformed to tect via OpenAI's whisper model. Or text generation via GPT-3.

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was just reading the requests page...... That's a lot to think about @Steffen @Michael_v_H !!! how do you work to carry that kind of mental load? I'm in awe!

Bigspud#0101

was just reading the requests page...... That's a lot to think about @Steffen @Michael_v_H !!! how do you work to carry that kind of mental load? I'm in awe!

Long term thinking. You gotta do one thing after another.

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Bigspud#0101

was just reading the requests page...... That's a lot to think about @Steffen @Michael_v_H !!! how do you work to carry that kind of mental load? I'm in awe!

A big driver for us is actually you, our community. It gives us a lot of energy and confirms that we are working on something that really matters

We are convinced that we build a very powerful foundation, executing on what's left is basically utilizing its power. We are very excited about that.

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Capacities is of course amazing but having a team behind it that's so close to its community is a big big success factor, kudos to you guys for that!

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AntoineFou

Capacities is of course amazing but having a team behind it that's so close to its community is a big big success factor, kudos to you guys for that!

Thanks @AntoineFou, really appreciate that

Hi, As a teacher I’m always looking for the best tool to create my online version of my lessons for my student. Do you offer a teacher price like Notion does ?

Chris

Hi, As a teacher I’m always looking for the best tool to create my online version of my lessons for my student. Do you offer a teacher price like Notion does ?

The basic version for Capacities will remain free. Capacities Pro is still under development. You can sign up here: https://capacities.io/pricing/waitinglist. We plan to have educational discounts for students but unfortunately not for teachers. Hope that helps.

Are the servers currently down?

8:43 AM

seems back now

Fred Markle

Are the servers currently down?

I just checked. Everything should be fine...

I did confirm it was just Capacities. In the desktop app and web app. It said unable to reach server. All other web sites were reachable during that time. Just happen to be activity working at the time. Only seem to last for a couple minutes, no worries.

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Fred Markle

I did confirm it was just Capacities. In the desktop app and web app. It said unable to reach server. All other web sites were reachable during that time. Just happen to be activity working at the time. Only seem to last for a couple minutes, no worries.

Alright, thanks for letting us know!

The "Roadmap" link on this page seems to be incorrect. When I try to access it, I get "Page not found. https://docs.capacities.io I think the correct link is to this page. https://roadmap.capacities.io

Deleted User

The "Roadmap" link on this page seems to be incorrect. When I try to access it, I get "Page not found. https://docs.capacities.io I think the correct link is to this page. https://roadmap.capacities.io

You are right! Thanks for reporting!

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Super excited to share the new sidepanel and a big update for tabs with all of you later this week!

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Michael_v_H

Super excited to share the new sidepanel and a big update for tabs with all of you later this week!

This is going to be killer for workflows!

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Fred Markle

This is going to be killer for workflows!

I feel like it's a huge multiplier in many ways.

Michael_v_H

Super excited to share the new sidepanel and a big update for tabs with all of you later this week!

So, show us now?

Bigspud#0101

So, show us now?

It's not ready yet, but very soon!

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I just created an account for Capacities today. Seems like a cool app! I'm surprised there isn't more people talking about it online (e.g. Reddit, YouTube, etc). I only found out about it after someone left a link in a random, buried Reddit comment (which I upvoted). Not even a single YouTube first impressions/review video. Hopefully that changes soon! Very much looking forward to using the app.

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Grand

I just created an account for Capacities today. Seems like a cool app! I'm surprised there isn't more people talking about it online (e.g. Reddit, YouTube, etc). I only found out about it after someone left a link in a random, buried Reddit comment (which I upvoted). Not even a single YouTube first impressions/review video. Hopefully that changes soon! Very much looking forward to using the app.

True, we are working on getting better visibility. Feel free to share the word

That would help us a lot!!

Been playing with Tana and it's cool I guess but Capacities just feels more user-friendly. Plus I can write notes about code with it. Keep up the great work!

random geek

Been playing with Tana and it's cool I guess but Capacities just feels more user-friendly. Plus I can write notes about code with it. Keep up the great work!

Great to hear that

I guess Tana appeals to a slightly different user group, I'm waiting to try it out.

Yeah, if use Anne-Laure terminology (https://nesslabs.com/how-to-choose-the-right-note-taking-app), it feels like currently, Tana is more for "architect/gardener" style, where you can build any workflow, but you should know what you want to build. And Capacities, in my feelings, is more for "librarian/gardener" style, where you can just save and categorize any information without special workflow in mind

Anne-Laure Le Cunff

How to choose the right note-taking app

There's a note-taking app for everyone. The challenge: it's hard to decide which one's the best for your use case and your note-taking style.

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Any plans to share Capacities on Product Hunt?

Grand

Any plans to share Capacities on Product Hunt?

Yes, we are planning to do this soon.

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How do you guys use capacities? In a chrome tab?

7:51 AM

cant wait for the desktop app tbh

Kendaryth

cant wait for the desktop app tbh

Desktop app is currently in beta

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Kendaryth

How do you guys use capacities? In a chrome tab?

I use it in Chrome as a pinned tab

Are we able to beta test the desktop app yet?

Kendaryth

How do you guys use capacities? In a chrome tab?

You can create shortcut in Chome\Edge and set it to open it in full windows https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/3060053

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I use it as an Edge app. Using it on Chrome was quite significantly slower but I suspect it's more due to one or several of the extensions I use there rather than Capacities itself.

Any recommendations on how to organize spaces? Should each 'project' have its own space, or should you have a space for all projects (even if the projects are not related to each other in any way)?

How do I download the desktop beta?

Ambitendency

How do I download the desktop beta?

I just sent you an invite to the beta-tester channel.

5:19 AM

Our next release (new side panel, new tab system) is going live on Monday. We're just testing the final details very thoroughly. I think you're gonna love it! (edited)

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Adelon started a thread. 10/14/2022 5:30 AM

Michael_v_H

Our next release (new side panel, new tab system) is going live on Monday. We're just testing the final details very thoroughly. I think you're gonna love it! (edited)

You all are awesome!

Is anyone else unable to create a daily note template? Nothing happens when I click the create template button

Grand

Is anyone else unable to create a daily note template? Nothing happens when I click the create template button

Works ok for me. But now I can't delete them

Adelon

Works ok for me. But now I can't delete them

It just started working for me in 1 of my spaces but not the other ones. No idea why...definitely a bug it would seem! I also can't delete them

Michael_v_H

I just sent you an invite to the beta-tester channel.

Can i pls get aninvite

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Man looking at al lthis stuff is amazing. I start to work at it and get frustrated and have to start over cause its a ball of spaghetti

After loading the release you will see a small "New updated available" badge in the top right which will not disappear. This will be fixed later today

Steffen

After loading the release you will see a small "New updated available" badge in the top right which will not disappear. This will be fixed later today

Thx @Steffen Also I've just posted a ticket about the Show More/Show Less buttons in Graph View not working.

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Steffen

After loading the release you will see a small "New updated available" badge in the top right which will not disappear. This will be fixed later today

If you reload the web app the badge should not appear anymore.

Hey, these new side panels are outstanding! Great work all.

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Yes, I agree, awesome job! Also, a big fan of the new graph view option, I waited for this. Now I can keep it open all the time and explore connections with other notes, "traveling" through my knowledge base. Great way to procrastinate

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Could I get an invite to the beta-tester channel to test out the beta apps?

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sundar

Could I get an invite to the beta-tester channel to test out the beta apps?

Just added you to the beta-tester channel, you should see the instructions there.

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Hello all, are there any openings for the beta testing ?

Would love to be added to the beta channel as well

+ 1. Thank you

FYI, there is also a new article in our docs about the recent navigation features (tabs, side panel, etc.).

https://docs.capacities.io/reference/navigation (edited)

Capacities Docs

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Damn the new tab system is perfect. Nice work

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I, like everyone else, tend to point out things we would like added or things that need to be changed. But, I would like to also commend the team on the amount of positive changes/enhancements to capacities in the time I have been using it. A lot of these changes have been driven by feedback. Also, communication on what is being done and what is planned is always top notch. Thanks…..

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scott

I, like everyone else, tend to point out things we would like added or things that need to be changed. But, I would like to also commend the team on the amount of positive changes/enhancements to capacities in the time I have been using it. A lot of these changes have been driven by feedback. Also, communication on what is being done and what is planned is always top notch. Thanks…..

Thanks @scott

please rename "Schlagwörter" to "Tags" in german. "Hmm, ich sollte heute unbedingt mal alle meine Notizen verschlagwörtern!" <-- geht garnicht

is it intentional that type names are not unique?

Wonderful update! Beautiful as always, love the possibility of toggling notes in the sidebar and change their position! Also the graph view in the sidebar

and the tabs are like workspaces! Really well done!

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Botwin

please rename "Schlagwörter" to "Tags" in german. "Hmm, ich sollte heute unbedingt mal alle meine Notizen verschlagwörtern!" <-- geht garnicht

I guess the correct spelling is "verschlagworten", but I agree that many German words are a bit "sperrig" in comparison to their English equivalents.

We will stick with Schlagwort/Schlagwörter though. It's the correct term used by librarians and in information science. https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/verschlagworten#:~:text=verschlagworten%2C-,verschlagworten,damit%20besser%20zug%C3%A4nglich%20zu%20machen https://www.uebertext.org/2009/07/schlagworte-oder-schlagworter.html (edited)

Schlagworte oder Schlagwörter?

In letzter Zeit sind mir öfter Leute begegnet, die beim Sprechen (und leider auch Schreiben) nicht zwischen Worten und Wörtern unterscheiden...

verschlagworten

Botwin

is it intentional that type names are not unique?

Not really intentional, but why would you create the same type several times? We think there is no need to enforce this as users would be fooling themselves if they did.

Would love to join the beta-tester channel if there's still any opening!

Botwin started a thread. 10/22/2022 8:00 AM

Michael_v_H

I guess the correct spelling is "verschlagworten", but I agree that many German words are a bit "sperrig" in comparison to their English equivalents.

We will stick with Schlagwort/Schlagwörter though. It's the correct term used by librarians and in information science. https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/verschlagworten#:~:text=verschlagworten%2C-,verschlagworten,damit%20besser%20zug%C3%A4nglich%20zu%20machen https://www.uebertext.org/2009/07/schlagworte-oder-schlagworter.html (edited)

Yes, you're right - it also sounds much better "verschlagworten". Fun with German Words

: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Flexion:verschlagworten (edited)

Flexion:verschlagworten

Jeah I would be up for beta testing too. If you still need people

@AntoineFou @phil I added both of you to the channel, thanks for your help

@Steffen I would like to be a beta tester, too.

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same

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I am loving how easy thenew search is; having written it so that you don't need to use a particular syntax is really great

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@Steffen any places left for beta ?

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Can we get a glimpse of what the next big release will be?

David

Can we get a glimpse of what the next big release will be?

Right now, bug fixing and lagging issues are our biggest priority.

David

Can we get a glimpse of what the next big release will be?

We'll let you know what's next soon! (we have several candidates in mind..)

David

Can we get a glimpse of what the next big release will be?

I think the next will be the official Desktop release, as it's almost done

And next feature can be block-based linking/unlinked mentions, as with the new full-text search algorithm, Capacities can now analyze all content through the Space.

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10:43 AM

But this is just my speculation, I have no affiliations with development

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Hi

5:35 AM

I have a quick question

5:35 AM

If any of you have the sheer time, would you mind teaching me the basics on the app (Capacities)

Ant

If any of you have the sheer time, would you mind teaching me the basics on the app (Capacities)

It is already outdated, but you have here the main and general features: https://medium.com/@tosny/the-best-new-app-i-discovered-in-2022-39b277cabf97

The Best NEW App I Discovered in 2022

It’s Capacities if you wanted to save time but let me tell you what that is.

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Just wanted to say, I am thankful for the active community here and the active interactions with the Dev team. You all rock!

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Thanks @Fred Markle. Cannot agree more, incredibly happy to have you all!

Ant

Hi

I can answer some questions for sure. Is there anything specific you want to know or just the baiscs? Btw the documentation on the app is quite good!

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I think it's time to update landing

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here too https://capacities.io/features

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Oh my... I just embeded an excalidraw link.... and I can even edit my sketch inside Capacities

5:22 AM

I'm so impressed of what you did here !

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Don't know where to ask that so... do you limit yourself on creating new tags ? Or do you have somme rules/logic about them ? (edited)

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Anna

Don't know where to ask that so... do you limit yourself on creating new tags ? Or do you have somme rules/logic about them ? (edited)

Steffen had thread about tags https://twitter.com/steffenBle/status/1499119720758497280

Steffen Bleher (@steffenBle)

Tagging

can be a game-changer in your note-taking. But very often it's used poorly with little to no value. Four heuristics that help me maximize the value of tagging:

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Thanks !

Anna

Don't know where to ask that so... do you limit yourself on creating new tags ? Or do you have somme rules/logic about them ? (edited)

in the notes app I used before I didn't do much tagging. But now in capacities I love tagging due to the great possibilities to use them (embeds, filtering, wall etc.). I use tags as semantic/ topic tags for topics that do not need further explanation (health care, iron, italy, dogs, brain physiology, ...). Topics that do need further explanation (at least for me,) deserve a dedicated page I can link to. (edited)

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We just shipped a batch of smaller fixes and improvements.

✅ Including:

Performance improvements (the reported lagging issues could be resolved or at least reduced significantly).
No constant re-rendering of side panel entries after navigation.
Several improvements to PDF rendering, experimental text layer in PDFs (to select text).
More contextual info for backlinks (name of property where link occurred, time of the link) and backlinks sorted by newest first – most recent backlinks will always show at the top.
Redesign of how the list of properties is rendered based on this user feedback: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001365576314261555/1034905421787439205
More functional time picker, highlight time on link to date that have a time set.
Facelift of filter and sort menus.
Right clicking on a block opens the block context menu.

And more... You can read the full release notes here: https://capacities.io/whats-new

What's new?

New features, releases, and current improvements

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(Am I too enthusiastic ? Maybe... but I'm SO hype with the app !)

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Anna

(Am I too enthusiastic ? Maybe... but I'm SO hype with the app !)

same here

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Michael_v_H

We just shipped a batch of smaller fixes and improvements.

✅ Including:

Performance improvements (the reported lagging issues could be resolved or at least reduced significantly).
No constant re-rendering of side panel entries after navigation.
Several improvements to PDF rendering, experimental text layer in PDFs (to select text).
More contextual info for backlinks (name of property where link occurred, time of the link) and backlinks sorted by newest first – most recent backlinks will always show at the top.
Redesign of how the list of properties is rendered based on this user feedback: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001365576314261555/1034905421787439205
More functional time picker, highlight time on link to date that have a time set.
Facelift of filter and sort menus.
Right clicking on a block opens the block context menu.

And more... You can read the full release notes here: https://capacities.io/whats-new

nice!!! love the new properties section - clean and better visible. Also - did you change the backlinks section or did I not recognise the frame of notes until now?

📝Anna

nice!!! love the new properties section - clean and better visible. Also - did you change the backlinks section or did I not recognise the frame of notes until now?

Only on hover, I think the mouse cursor is the backlink on the last screenshot.

Michael_v_H

Only on hover, I think the mouse cursor is the backlink on the last screenshot.

on hover it changes the colour and when you open the toggle to see the full note, it has a nice black frame (just tried it, but maybe it was always that way?) (edited)

📝Anna

on hover it changes the colour and when you open the toggle to see the full note, it has a nice black frame (just tried it, but maybe it was always that way?) (edited)

Yes, we also did some subtle changes there.

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I wish that column with property name was resizable, and side panel resizable as well. (edited)

4:34 PM

My ultra-wide monitor cries every time I open the side panel, especially with a custom type

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tatqoo

My ultra-wide monitor cries every time I open the side panel, especially with a custom type

Ok, thanks for letting us know. We will try to add this!

The properties are perfect now in the side panel, still look bad (truncated) on the page itself.

tatqoo

The properties are perfect now in the side panel, still look bad (truncated) on the page itself.

Ok, I think that can also be solved with better and more responsive CSS.

also I do not understand why some of the pages show the properties in the previous way in the side panel

4:40 PM

and some show them in the new way

4:41 PM

new look:

This depends on the available width. If there is enough space, properties are formatted in one line, with the property name on the left and the value on the right. In a more narrow situation (which is often the case in the side panel) the properties are displayed in one column with the label above.

Correct, that is what I just understood after I maximized the screen.

4:46 PM

that's why resizing the side panel would be great, as I like the narrower version better

4:47 PM

Anyway, keep doing the great job you are doing, and I call it a day

Thanks guys!

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Since its hyped now, what do you people think about mastodon

Is there no way to embed databases in a page?

Ambitendency

Is there no way to embed databases in a page?

No only collections

Ambitendency

Is there no way to embed databases in a page?

But with smart queries in some sense this will be possible: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/smart-queries-to-collect-content-based-on-rules

Requests, ideas, bugs

Get an overview of requested features and ideas.

Collection are embedable ?

2:44 AM

I didn't know !

Anna

Collection are embedable ?

Yesss!

and tags too (I am sure you already knew, but it's so cool, so I needed to say it

)

3:12 AM

I never tried before !

3:13 AM

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Steffen

But with smart queries in some sense this will be possible: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/smart-queries-to-collect-content-based-on-rules

Bummer. I think being able to embed databases themselves would be a major boon for my workflow. I am trying to create a dashboard page for my business and instead of having to embed each collection separately from my "Products" database I wanted to embed the whole "Products" database instead to display all the collections in one easily accessible place under a toggle.

1:24 PM

I think I just discovered a pretty big bug as well, my understanding was that Spaces are supposed to be independent of each other and not share any relation

1:25 PM

Well, since there isn't a way to move items between spaces at the moment I decided to copy an entire pages content with CMD + C and go to the other space, create a new page, then paste the content and when doing so it gets linked to the data in the other space. It even deletes the data from the other space when deleting it in the current space.

1:27 PM

@Michael_v_H

Ambitendency

Bummer. I think being able to embed databases themselves would be a major boon for my workflow. I am trying to create a dashboard page for my business and instead of having to embed each collection separately from my "Products" database I wanted to embed the whole "Products" database instead to display all the collections in one easily accessible place under a toggle.

I know what you mean. Like Steffen said, this will be possible with the query builder.

Ambitendency

Well, since there isn't a way to move items between spaces at the moment I decided to copy an entire pages content with CMD + C and go to the other space, create a new page, then paste the content and when doing so it gets linked to the data in the other space. It even deletes the data from the other space when deleting it in the current space.

It is somewhat intended like this. We built the whole architecture in a way, that collaboration between spaces and different users will eventually be possible (things like shared documents, shared collections etc.). This functionality should be still disabled, so we will fix that. Did you get a modal like this, when pasting the content?

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I don't believe I did get any modal at all upon actually pasting the content, only the normal one that shows up when deleting content asking if you want to actually delete the content from your database or just the page

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Ambitendency

I don't believe I did get any modal at all upon actually pasting the content, only the normal one that shows up when deleting content asking if you want to actually delete the content from your database or just the page

Ok, thanks. That should normally show up when you paste content from another space. We'll look into that.

Is there a way to bring back what we delete by mistake ?

Anna

Is there a way to bring back what we delete by mistake ?

If you deleted something as a block or while editing the text, you can do cmd-z (on Mac) or Ctrl-z (on Windows) to go back and shift-cmd-z (on Mac) or shift-Ctrl-z (on Windows) to go forward again. Another way to bring something back is to go back in the browser history to the URL of the content (see screenshot) and click "Undo delete". If the content is still linked from somewhere, you can also use that link to get to this page and click the "Undo delete" button.

Ok. But no real « trash » (not a problem just asking)

Anna

Ok. But no real « trash » (not a problem just asking)

No, we don't have that (yet). If you think that feature should exist, feel free to create a ticket on the feedback board.

https://capacities.io/feedback

Requests, ideas, bugs

Get an overview of requested features and ideas.

Oh if it’s not already the case, yes I will add that !

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Anna

Oh if it’s not already the case, yes I will add that !

Here is the link to it: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/a-place-for-recently-deleted-content

Requests, ideas, bugs

Get an overview of requested features and ideas.

Yes I added my vote

Ambitendency

Well, since there isn't a way to move items between spaces at the moment I decided to copy an entire pages content with CMD + C and go to the other space, create a new page, then paste the content and when doing so it gets linked to the data in the other space. It even deletes the data from the other space when deleting it in the current space.

At the moment, we don't recommend doing that because it can lead to unknown bugs. We are looking into how we can solve this. But as you already observed: making it transparent if your content is shared across spaces is really difficult, like when you delete, share, or create a new subcontent.

INFO: Capacities will go into maintenance mode soon

‍

We are shipping some fundamental updates today, Capacities will be offline for a bit. Should be done in 15 minutes (hopefully), I'll keep you updated here. You'll love the update

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Starting now ⏲️

!!

11:55 AM

Thanks for your hard work ! (edited)

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12:01 PM

Can't wait

Will be a bit delayed..

Ahah

12:22 PM

No prob. It's Sunday evening and you offer an update, so no prob at all !

yo guys why isnt it working

12:23 PM

oh

12:23 PM

how long is this expected to take?

We've had a minor issue during the maintenance process, but we were able to fix it just now. It will take another 20 Minutes or so until everything is up and running again. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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One updater is still running and is more than half-way through. Most accounts can already access Capacities, but we would ask you to wait a little longer, as we need all server resources to run the updates in the database. We'll let you know as soon as everything went through.

Alright, the update is now completely done and everything should work as normal again. ✅ Please let us know if you still have issues logging in. The update was mostly about improvements under the hood. But we've also added some features around customization:

You can now set a wide layout mode for your content. ↔️
In addition, you can now configure how preview images are displayed. ️

You can read the release notes here: https://capacities.io/whats-new

What's new?

New features, releases, and current improvements

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I was out of the loop for a bit. Will we get some kind of reminder system anytime soon?

5:31 AM

App down or is it just me?

phil

App down or is it just me?

It was down for a moment, should be working again.

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Michael_v_H

Alright, the update is now completely done and everything should work as normal again. ✅ Please let us know if you still have issues logging in. The update was mostly about improvements under the hood. But we've also added some features around customization:

You can now set a wide layout mode for your content. ↔️
In addition, you can now configure how preview images are displayed. ️

You can read the release notes here: https://capacities.io/whats-new

I think this should also go into the releases channel for better visibility.

David

I think this should also go into the releases channel for better visibility.

You are right!

phil

I was out of the loop for a bit. Will we get some kind of reminder system anytime soon?

Hi @phil, This will be part of task management, which will still take a while, so at least not very soon.

‍♂️

Update with maintenance tomorrow ⏲️ We will run another update tomorrow morning from 7:00 am UTC to 7:45 am UTC. Hope that works for you. Should be it for a while then ✨

yk here are discord timestamps so u can use that instead of postting huge images of time conversions

1:55 PM

Monday, November 7, 2022 11:00:00 AM

1:55 PM

example

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eirk

Monday, November 7, 2022 11:00:00 AM

Thanks, I just changed it.

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hello, i been using capacities free plan. for long time but now i urgently need, Pro-Intelligent features is there any chance, to get it im student, cant subscribe yet and in need of it urgently is there any refferall link way! or any invites to beta-pro plan i will be, really really greatful please help, just once (edited)

Do Capacities' users already have a name? What about Capables as @kursor said?

David

Do Capacities' users already have a name? What about Capables as @kursor said?

We thought about Capacitors once, but weren't happy

Capables would be kind of funny

UPDATE START ⏲️

Hi @Steffen , what is the expected time for the system to be operational ?

UPDATE SUCCESSFUL ⏲️ Everything is running again

@petros

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Steffen

UPDATE SUCCESSFUL ⏲️ Everything is running again

@petros

Everything went through? That's all I can see...

Telegram integration needs to be reconnected after update

David

Everything went through? That's all I can see...

We found a fix, will be live soon

Capacities followed by Tiago Forte

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Hehe

I'm wondering, why there is so much on Medium and YT about Tana and co, and not so much on Capacities ?

Anna

I'm wondering, why there is so much on Medium and YT about Tana and co, and not so much on Capacities ?

I guess you have to start writing

Yeah, we'd love to see more about Capacities as well, obviously.

Steffen

I guess you have to start writing

Yeah, we'd love to see more about Capacities as well, obviously.

I plan to ! But I guess in French.

Anna

I plan to ! But I guess in French.

That's totally fine

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I'm planning a bunch of post on Linkedin about how amazing your app is !

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Anna

I'm planning a bunch of post on Linkedin about how amazing your app is !

Feel free to share them, so we can repost them

Oh thanks !

Yeah, I was also surprised about the lack of it on youtube.

6:46 AM

Did you guys try to get onto Producthunt?

Novi

Did you guys try to get onto Producthunt?

Planned for this month

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@Michael_v_H Can you use Discord’s built-in event feature to create the event? That way, people who’re interested can get notified automatically when it’s starting

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UNDFND

@Michael_v_H Can you use Discord’s built-in event feature to create the event? That way, people who’re interested can get notified automatically when it’s starting

https://discord.gg/Fxuz6uBM?event=1040619107709616219

Michael_v_H

https://discord.gg/Fxuz6uBM?event=1040619107709616219

Thank you

Michael_v_H

https://discord.gg/Fxuz6uBM?event=1040619107709616219

Perhaps, announce it on Twitter too?

Ahah our community is so much in it

NewBee

hello, i been using capacities free plan. for long time but now i urgently need, Pro-Intelligent features is there any chance, to get it im student, cant subscribe yet and in need of it urgently is there any refferall link way! or any invites to beta-pro plan i will be, really really greatful please help, just once (edited)

anyone!!

Sorry I had to jump out of the call today. I had to run my daughter up to volleyball tryouts. Didn't realize the time.

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Thanks for having the call today. It was interesting to hear some different uses of capacities and how people organize things.

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Thanks everyone!

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NewBee

anyone!!

They are really reactive and in communication, but they are also doing their best. If they didn't answer, I guess it's becaus what you ask is not ready yet. I'm sure you can find some turn around in the waiting.

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Hallo! I've been using capacities for about a week, getting my brain around it. I do have a few questions but I'll just a simple one for now, is there any way to save to a specific place from telegram?

theblackcat

Hallo! I've been using capacities for about a week, getting my brain around it. I do have a few questions but I'll just a simple one for now, is there any way to save to a specific place from telegram?

Hi @theblackcat, at the moment you can only specify a space where it will be added to the daily note of that day.

Thank you for the quick response. I will have to settle for tags then

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theblackcat

Thank you for the quick response. I will have to settle for tags then

Yeah, some people use a tag such as #inbox for example, to gather all content from say Telegram in one place.

That's exactly what I was trying to figure out!

It all started when I couldn't really understand the purpose of "databases" or "types". It might be me but it's sorts misleading - I would honestly call them folders

@theblackcat no way...

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5:17 AM

your name...

When are we getting the desktop version of capacities

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Shamama

When are we getting the desktop version of capacities

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This month

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Steffen

This month

Bruh that's exciting!

Steffen

This month

will that be an electron based client or native?

Akira

will that be an electron based client or native?

It will be electron based

Steffen

It will be electron based

yeah, makes sense for fast multi-platform launch, looking forward to trying it out, hope it's as lightweight as possible

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https://youtu.be/0mYBSayCsH0 Keep up the great work guys. You rock!

SmashMouthVEVO

Smash Mouth - I'm A Believer

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I was genuinely excited to see the email about Capacities Believer come through. Really happy to get to contribute to the continued development of capacities. Keep up the amazing work!

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There is a lot going on in the "app sphere" with Ai writing ...

10:18 AM

Am I the only one who think this is a bad idea ?

10:19 AM

AI can be really nice in certain function or for specific task, but to write something I'm really in doubt

Anna

AI can be really nice in certain function or for specific task, but to write something I'm really in doubt

I'm really interested in how this turn out, but I think I agree with you, I'm also very skeptical. But augmenting a text (as grammarly does) and these kinds of features powered by AI are very useful.

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Anna

AI can be really nice in certain function or for specific task, but to write something I'm really in doubt

I personally think it's currently a trendy buzz word that everyone is looking to throw around. I saw that notion announced an AI writing feature, and was definitely trying to figure out how that would possibly be a widely used tool. But I guess we will see with time.

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GabiVJ

I personally think it's currently a trendy buzz word that everyone is looking to throw around. I saw that notion announced an AI writing feature, and was definitely trying to figure out how that would possibly be a widely used tool. But I guess we will see with time.

Also Evernote just got acquired by an AI company

Anna

Also Evernote just got acquired by an AI company

Really? I hadn’t heard that yet. So strange. AI as a supporting tool is fairly interesting, but I don’t understand this urge to move towards generative AI. At least personally I see no need for it in my workflows, I can’t imagine where these companies are hoping to go.

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https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/16/bending-spoons-acquires-evernote-marking-the-end-of-an-era/

Kyle Wiggers

Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era

Milan-based Bending Spoons has acquired Evernote, making the end of an era for the long-running note-taking app.

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@GabiVJ @Anna I think AI writing is being hyped by the same people that stand to benefit the most from automated content generated on demand: marketing and social media copywriters! However, I have no doubt AI generated content will only get better based on training and the queries you feed it....

12:47 PM

However, for the PKM and TfT community, I am intrigued by AI "readers" which can create content summaries, highlights, and relevant links to other content. See Readwise tweet yesterday describing their new "Ghostreader" service: https://twitter.com/deadly_onion/status/1592990487257829376

Daniel Doyon (@deadly_onion)

Introducing Ghostreader

to @ReadwiseReader Your AI "Copilot of Reading" who will: • Define words in context

• Lookup people & places

• Simplify complex language

• Summarize

• Generate flashcards

• And much more. The only limit is your imagination

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I’m a marketer and I know that AI writing is not a good text to read

but yeah I agree on some task AI is wonderful

12:59 PM

I also just started trying Napkin and evaluate its ability to apply AI to learn and suggest tags to new notes to assist in collection, linking, and knowledge graphs creation.... nice article here by TfThacker https://tfthacker.medium.com/collecting-connecting-and-inspiring-with-napkin-748bb1337ee1

Collecting, connecting, and inspiring with Napkin

This is the first article in a series I call “Tools for Thought designed for humans”.

@Steffen

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Anna

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just spam

Yes, I just removed it. Thanks

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owh

I bought a believer plan because I’m a believer, keep up the good work guys. I just have one major feature request

1:13 PM

I feel there needs to be a multi-select property

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1:14 PM

Like to be able to choose between predefined options. Say if you have a Movie or Book watchlist, something like type or category

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1:15 PM

Then have predefined options to choose from like “Horror, Action, Comedy, etc."

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Ambitendency

Then have predefined options to choose from like “Horror, Action, Comedy, etc."

Will happen soon.

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I do not understand. In 2022, why there is so much app focus on note taking and « helping your brain to process life » who do not support a lot of media type.

4:16 AM

Yes text is important but now we encounter a lot of media type

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I would like to know the timeline for mobile app especially iOS. I can’t seem to commit to the app unless there is a mobile app on the way. Is there a timeline?

sundar

I would like to know the timeline for mobile app especially iOS. I can’t seem to commit to the app unless there is a mobile app on the way. Is there a timeline?

Our current ETA is Q1 2023. Depending on the App Store and Play Store review processes, it could take longer though. (edited)

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Michael_v_H

Our current ETA is Q1 2023. Depending on the App Store and Play Store review processes, it could take longer though. (edited)

hum, Q1 2023 no ?

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Anna

hum, Q1 2023 no ?

Sure.

ahah

3:21 PM

But anyway, it's really close to present time !

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Anna

But anyway, it's really close to present time !

Yeah, hope I don't promise too much here. #nopressure

If you need alpha/beta tester, you know where I am

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Great roadmap, can't wait to try Block linking!

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2:31 AM

Does it mean that, technically, Unlinked mentions also can be implemented in the future? Or it requires different architecture?

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A big thanks for the roadmap ! Also a big thanks for your transparency and dedication to stay in comm with us about the direction you take with the app (edited)

I agree, very nice roadmap, thanks for sharing this. I am very excited to see task management fairly high on the list, that’s the only major feature missing that stops me from completely transferring my whole workflow to capacities! (edited)

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Simple table and web clipper

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Adelon

Does it mean that, technically, Unlinked mentions also can be implemented in the future? Or it requires different architecture?

Unlinked mentions are definitely possible

We have concepts and ideas that are much more powerful than unlinked mentions but we don't have them on the very near term roadmap. I hope that makes sense.

Steffen

Unlinked mentions are definitely possible

We have concepts and ideas that are much more powerful than unlinked mentions but we don't have them on the very near term roadmap. I hope that makes sense.

Ok, glad to hear it’s on your radar! Totally agree, it’s not a feature needed for everyone, so can wait. Just was curious, ‘cause currently I use my Capacities backup in Obsidian for this and to watch how my Global Graph grows

Will wait when it become a part of Capacities, thanks for the respond and your hard work!

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Ambitendency

Then have predefined options to choose from like “Horror, Action, Comedy, etc."

Little preview

Not in production yet, but quite soon.

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Ran across this page this morning, and I know you are working on launching Capacities on Producthunt : https://previewhunt.com/

Preview Hunt

A tool to preview and prepare your Product Hunt submissions

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+1 Believer. Thank's very much for you hard work @Steffen and @Michael_v_H (edited)

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Michael_v_H

Little preview

Not in production yet, but quite soon.

Woah! This is awesome! That's also one of my favorite books as well.

https://medium.com/geekculture/3-new-note-takers-right-now-f8a1b96bc572

3 New Note-Takers Right Now

Rising stars in the PKM and note-taking space

1:12 AM

Ok ok getting into serious business

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1:12 AM

“Capacities is one of the more interesting applications right now. Connecting all your ideas together and a little like Anytype below brings the idea of entities to the PKM tool market — the focus on objects being the centre of your experience versus blocks. Think book summarises, maps, journals — all available in Capacities and something at Keep Productive we’re checking out soon.”

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Anna

“Capacities is one of the more interesting applications right now. Connecting all your ideas together and a little like Anytype below brings the idea of entities to the PKM tool market — the focus on objects being the centre of your experience versus blocks. Think book summarises, maps, journals — all available in Capacities and something at Keep Productive we’re checking out soon.”

That's awesome, thanks for sharing

With pleasure, I also commented the article, if Keep Productive publish a video on Capacities it will boost the users nicely (edited)

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Anna

With pleasure, I also commented the article, if Keep Productive publish a video on Capacities it will boost the users nicely (edited)

I'll reach out to him later today

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Best app for personal knowledge management, big thanks for your work guys!!!

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mistcat.

Best app for personal knowledge management, big thanks for your work guys!!!

Thanks so much for supporting us!!

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Keep up the good work on the development!

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0ta2_

Keep up the good work on the development!

Thank you!

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Hello, I don’t know where to search/ask Is it planned for believer/pro to come with custom url(s) to publish selected content, like Obsidian Publish or Notion? That’s the feature that would make me suscribe Regards

cmjn

Hello, I don’t know where to search/ask Is it planned for believer/pro to come with custom url(s) to publish selected content, like Obsidian Publish or Notion? That’s the feature that would make me suscribe Regards

We currently do support a simple share feature, which allows you to share content on the web via link (you can edit the access rights for each entity that is linked in the shared content). But we are definitely planning more extensive sharing and publishing options and a way better experience around this. But's quite a bit further down the roadmap. We will probably get there in the second half of next year.

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Michael_v_H

We currently do support a simple share feature, which allows you to share content on the web via link (you can edit the access rights for each entity that is linked in the shared content). But we are definitely planning more extensive sharing and publishing options and a way better experience around this. But's quite a bit further down the roadmap. We will probably get there in the second half of next year.

Thanks!

Any timeline on a beta for the mobile app next year? The web app is actually pretty darn good, but I wish it was a PWA.

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Joseph

Any timeline on a beta for the mobile app next year? The web app is actually pretty darn good, but I wish it was a PWA.

Desktop is coming very soon

mobile timeline is very hard to estimate but we’re working full steam!

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Capacities on Mastodon We just opened an account on Mastodon, you can follow us here: https://pkm.social/@capacities. We will share important updates, inspirations, and more on Mastodon from now on.

PKM.social

PKM.social is an Mastodon instance that is open to anyone who is interested in Personal Knowledge Management.

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We launched a forum for you to share your ideas on specific features Capacities is under constant development and we are brainstorming a lot of ideas.

We created the #💻・features-forum as a place for you to become part of it.

We'll create topics for bigger projects we are working on. You can contribute with ideas and thoughts. A great way to have an influence on the product.

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Ambitendency

I feel there needs to be a multi-select property

Here you go! We just released this with the newest update.

https://capacities.io/whats-new/release-15

Single and multi-select dropdowns

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Really nice release

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Michael_v_H

Here you go! We just released this with the newest update.

https://capacities.io/whats-new/release-15

Awesome update! Any chance for a kanban view since we have a single-select?

Adelon

Awesome update! Any chance for a kanban view since we have a single-select?

Select property is step one towards that. Kanban is on the roadmap

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@Steffen @Michael_v_H I’ve spent the last week ramping up on Capacities and reading the channels on this server. I continue to be pleasantly surprised with all of the apps capabilities and your thoughtful approach and roadmap….. But what stands out the most is your consistent engagement, responsiveness, and professionalism on this forum. The transparency, respect, and enthusiastic response to user feedback (solicited and unsolicited) is very refreshing and gives me strong confidence in your future… (edited)

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RangerBen

@Steffen @Michael_v_H I’ve spent the last week ramping up on Capacities and reading the channels on this server. I continue to be pleasantly surprised with all of the apps capabilities and your thoughtful approach and roadmap….. But what stands out the most is your consistent engagement, responsiveness, and professionalism on this forum. The transparency, respect, and enthusiastic response to user feedback (solicited and unsolicited) is very refreshing and gives me strong confidence in your future… (edited)

Thanks @RangerBen, really appreciate that

Thanks for being part of it!

Hi, Capacities Team. I also use saveToNotion Chrome Extension to save webpage url and metadata into Notion database. So how can I save these info to Capacities in Chrome?

Hi @Summer2022 . A Chrome Extension is not released yet. A webclipper is on the roadmap though: https://capacities.io/roadmap

Roadmap

We ship new features and improvements nearly every day. Heres an overview on what will come next.

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A small click to support us We got on the list of considered apps at https://www.noteapps.info/. Getting your vote would really help us (no login required)

Vote here with a single click: https://nextnoteapps.featureupvote.com/suggestions/345269/capacities (edited)

Capacities - Next NoteApps

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Steffen

A small click to support us We got on the list of considered apps at https://www.noteapps.info/. Getting your vote would really help us (no login required)

Vote here with a single click: https://nextnoteapps.featureupvote.com/suggestions/345269/capacities (edited)

Done. Really was just a click.

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7:49 AM

The new Update is such a game changer! The full potential behind the concept has now beeing released. I am so exited

. Great work, thank you soo much

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8:08 AM

I'm happy about the update, but I can't figure out how I will use it

Steffen

Capacities on Mastodon We just opened an account on Mastodon, you can follow us here: https://pkm.social/@capacities. We will share important updates, inspirations, and more on Mastodon from now on.

what the heck is Mastodon??? The next Twitter Killer?

Anna

I'm happy about the update, but I can't figure out how I will use it

It's a great way to bring a system into your tagging for example. Let's say you have a People database and you'd like to categorize them, you can create an entity property "Category" with a fixed set of the following tags: "Customer", "Business partner", "Influencer", ... whatever works for you

Botwin

what the heck is Mastodon??? The next Twitter Killer?

Probably not, but interesting to watch

Botwin

what the heck is Mastodon??? The next Twitter Killer?

ahah I had the same reaction, even if I work all day long on social media !

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Steffen

It's a great way to bring a system into your tagging for example. Let's say you have a People database and you'd like to categorize them, you can create an entity property "Category" with a fixed set of the following tags: "Customer", "Business partner", "Influencer", ... whatever works for you

I see. I think it will click when I need it !

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Hello ! Just wanted to write this appreciation message for the new functionalities, I’m using Capacities for worldbuilding, and the new layout options for believers are amazing (especially the people one for characters), and the new tag selection is a lifesaver, thank you for building such an amazing app

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Yoojeeny

Hello ! Just wanted to write this appreciation message for the new functionalities, I’m using Capacities for worldbuilding, and the new layout options for believers are amazing (especially the people one for characters), and the new tag selection is a lifesaver, thank you for building such an amazing app

Happy to hear that, thanks so much

Steffen

It's a great way to bring a system into your tagging for example. Let's say you have a People database and you'd like to categorize them, you can create an entity property "Category" with a fixed set of the following tags: "Customer", "Business partner", "Influencer", ... whatever works for you

Hi @Steffen, so to create a fixed set for a content type, do I need to go into the property and then content picker on one entity (like dummy entry) and choose ALL the tags I want for that type? And then those will show up first for all future entities of that type?

trexxy

Hi @Steffen, so to create a fixed set for a content type, do I need to go into the property and then content picker on one entity (like dummy entry) and choose ALL the tags I want for that type? And then those will show up first for all future entities of that type?

Yes, that's pretty much right. But you can of course expand the set over time. In the picker, there is a section below that shows options from the whole database. If you select them, they will be added to the selection set.

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Anna

I'm happy about the update, but I can't figure out how I will use it

I use it for journaling f.e. to rate my day or to select what I did for my health from a dropdown list (Yoga, workout, take a walk etc.). And I will also use it for literature, movies, series etc. to rate them

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@WowaIs there one way that send a tweet or thread to @Capacities with twitter message?

Capacities is so Cool. I'm frustrate with save webpage, website, video, twitter or many url in one place.

1th is save

I see that I can save link by telegram or save tweet by commenting tweet, These methods have met my needs (Only hope add save tweet by twitter message)

2th is arrange.

I like Capacities tags design thougt! its so efficent for giving every item one or more tags,

3th is review.

Suggest sth: visual format improving. Some weblink can't get appropriate image or icon. So get picture or capture screenshots manually with Chrome Extension or in Capacities opening weblink frame, like one amazing picture Chrome Extension"Eagle". Other : the price for Chinese student is more expensive, Hope for education discount or less-rich countries. Love Capacities. Waiting for desktop and mobile!

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The tags input has't fuzzy matching. like one tag 'video-vo' then I input 'vo' , the Capasities can't show the tag 'video-vi' . Why with it? because I will input some abbreviations by mobile, so I want to set my tags with tagname-abbreviation-some-abc

9:50 AM

[database content type for youtube link ]

want a media content type, If I send youtube link or other video link to Capacities. Can I set this workflow auto by creating new dataset type?

[database - new collection]

database's filter can be or not saved to a new collection
or the collection of database can collcet some items automatically by some conditions (like if one link has tag video, then it will be collected into the video collection of the weblink database)

Summer2022

@WowaIs there one way that send a tweet or thread to @Capacities with twitter message?

Check this: https://docs.capacities.io/reference/integrations/twitter I hope, it answers your question. (edited)

Capacities Docs

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getting capacities is not reachable errors in app and web -- status looks like servers are having issues @Steffen @Michael_v_H

scott

getting capacities is not reachable errors in app and web -- status looks like servers are having issues @Steffen @Michael_v_H

same here

same here but when you go to the status page it says servers are operational

scott

getting capacities is not reachable errors in app and web -- status looks like servers are having issues @Steffen @Michael_v_H

Thanks for letting us know! The server was overloaded for a while, should be back now. We are very sorry for the outage. As always, we'll look into the root cause and make sure it doesn't happen again.

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Oops it's dropped for me again

trexxy

Oops it's dropped for me again

Hm, don't now what happened there. It's running again.

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Wowa

Check this: https://docs.capacities.io/reference/integrations/twitter I hope, it answers your question. (edited)

Thanks, I get this way.

I suggest that send twitter message to @CapacitiesHQ with the tweet url (or thread) then Capacities can save it.

like Readwise or @savetonotion.

(edited)

8:20 PM

Saving Url By Telegram message

response one error message if Capacities bot save it failure.
not response when save info successly.

(edited)

7:31 AM

So can I comprehend the Capacities team attach great importance to 1 capture every-info-quick into Capacities 2 arrange them clearly (like database ,collection,tags or graph view) for review . (edited)

[Smart Collection - auto rule instead of select entity into collection]

I try to search "collection+auto" in suggestion forum, there is nothing
If Collection add a new mode like "smart Collection"
- set rule like database filter : that if one entity has tags of "video" and "todo", then the smart Collection "Todo watch Video" add this entity automatically.
- I see the suggestion like "save database filter to reuse" , like notion.
- Perhaps save filter == smart collection

Summer2022

[Smart Collection - auto rule instead of select entity into collection]

I try to search "collection+auto" in suggestion forum, there is nothing
If Collection add a new mode like "smart Collection"
- set rule like database filter : that if one entity has tags of "video" and "todo", then the smart Collection "Todo watch Video" add this entity automatically.
- I see the suggestion like "save database filter to reuse" , like notion.
- Perhaps save filter == smart collection

This is a feature I am also very much hoping comes soon. Manually adding things to collections can be distracting, and time consuming. Having collections which automatically update based on a set of rules would make collections 100% more useful.

GabiVJ

This is a feature I am also very much hoping comes soon. Manually adding things to collections can be distracting, and time consuming. Having collections which automatically update based on a set of rules would make collections 100% more useful.

Yes, I agree this is much needed. I think this can be huge! To give you a rough estimate, we are planning this for February. But take the timeline with a grain of salt.

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Another Question: [related tags : why not design click one related tag then filter it]

when I make 2 tags to one web-link (tag-a & tag-b),
and review database [weblink]
- then I see the card (of the weblink with 2 tag) in gallery
- I click tag-a in card ,
- then I see the tag-a view and related tags : like tag-b,tag-c and others
  - so I want to click tag-b to filter some rules (like the cards which has tag-a & tag-b)
- but if I click tag-b , then I will jump to tag-b view.
The above mentioned , I think just want a tag-to-tag-click-filter in database view.

10:06 AM

In order to be compatible with the previous mode , the user can click related tags with ctrl to jump tag-a → tag-b .

❓ [create tag or page or toggle in daily-note]

I saw the Capacities doc and twitter thread for tag, and the tags of Capacities is brilliant for me
My understand for the introduction of tags is that tag is more accurate and less.
and tags although like objects, but we can't label tag for tags object. so we can't arrange or filter more rules for tags database.
So I want to create more objects like pages. such as some concepts , I think its appropriate for more and more concepts.
Isn't it better that some trivial text or note should create block in dailynote and backlink with @concept page

[message from Telegram]

when I send a message with image,text and link by telegram

❓ - then Capacities save these info to One image object, and image has note (contain text and link)

Perhaps save with page format is more convenient.

- and image need show more info like note(at least title and tags) in card view

Hi @Summer2022, thanks for sharing all these ideas and questions. It would be great if you could ask questions in #❓・help-and-questions and share feature ideas in #🚀・features-and-ideas. If you have an explicit bug, or feature request, please use our feedback board at https://capacities.io/feedback. That's the fasted way for it to get processed by us and to allow others to participate. Hope that makes sense

@Steve_Noosa Welcome to Capacities. You asked about research. I don't yet use capacities for it but look forward to doing so in the future. I would require to have a good Zotero and PDF integration, including annotations. I hope Capacities gets there somewhen in the near future. P.S. please upvote the individual feature requests.

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Steffen

Hi @Summer2022, thanks for sharing all these ideas and questions. It would be great if you could ask questions in #❓・help-and-questions and share feature ideas in #🚀・features-and-ideas. If you have an explicit bug, or feature request, please use our feedback board at https://capacities.io/feedback. That's the fasted way for it to get processed by us and to allow others to participate. Hope that makes sense

ok I get it . thanks

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Yesterday I got access to Tana, and here are my first impressions after some testing and comparison with Capacities. Maybe it would be useful for someone and will help improve Capacities. This is not an objective comparison, just a comparison of features that are important to me.

Tana pros
- Everything is a node
  - just like the general concept and flexibility which comes from outliner, but not a big deal
- Queries
  - main feature and source of hype, you can build any database and view it in different ways - like it, great for personal project managing
  - But it's already planned for Capacities, so eagerly waiting for this
- Very fast, instant page loading, feels like a native app, not web
  - But not perfect, frozen a couple of times
  - In Capacities sometimes I can wait for 2-4 seconds to load and render page/database and links
- Unlinked mentions
Capacities pros
- Personally feelings, easier learning curve, more intuitive, UI/UX feels more user-friendly and visual
  - Tana feels geeky. It's okay if you come from another TFT tool, but complicated if totally new in this space
- Better images/media supports, more ways to format text and page
  - Tana doesn't have headers, colors, can't place bullets side by side etc
- Great graph view
  - My favorite Capacities part, Tana doesn't have it at all
- Export to md
  - Important for the longevity of my notes
- Basic free plan
  - Tana will be only premium $10
- Сan work if the connection is lost
Overall, I feel like Capacities is much better suited for my needs than Tana, and I will continue to stick with it. And after a few features, which are already planned, and some polishing, Capacities becomes a perfect PKM/LifeOS tool for me Great job, guys!

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Adelon

Yesterday I got access to Tana, and here are my first impressions after some testing and comparison with Capacities. Maybe it would be useful for someone and will help improve Capacities. This is not an objective comparison, just a comparison of features that are important to me.

Tana pros
- Everything is a node
  - just like the general concept and flexibility which comes from outliner, but not a big deal
- Queries
  - main feature and source of hype, you can build any database and view it in different ways - like it, great for personal project managing
  - But it's already planned for Capacities, so eagerly waiting for this
- Very fast, instant page loading, feels like a native app, not web
  - But not perfect, frozen a couple of times
  - In Capacities sometimes I can wait for 2-4 seconds to load and render page/database and links
- Unlinked mentions
Capacities pros
- Personally feelings, easier learning curve, more intuitive, UI/UX feels more user-friendly and visual
  - Tana feels geeky. It's okay if you come from another TFT tool, but complicated if totally new in this space
- Better images/media supports, more ways to format text and page
  - Tana doesn't have headers, colors, can't place bullets side by side etc
- Great graph view
  - My favorite Capacities part, Tana doesn't have it at all
- Export to md
  - Important for the longevity of my notes
- Basic free plan
  - Tana will be only premium $10
- Сan work if the connection is lost
Overall, I feel like Capacities is much better suited for my needs than Tana, and I will continue to stick with it. And after a few features, which are already planned, and some polishing, Capacities becomes a perfect PKM/LifeOS tool for me Great job, guys!

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Thanks for your super helpful comparison, @Adelon. I agree that queries are very powerful. @Steffen is doing some amazing ground work these days to make queries of any kind possible. I think, conceptually, this is probably the biggest missing link in Capacities. Adding this will help people view different subsets of their content more naturally (a lot of questions around this are being asked in the community). There are some big performance improvements coming up (a huge part of all the app logic will now run completely in the background, making rendering way smoother). We're currently testing this in our development spaces, and I honestly don't want to go back to my non-development space right know.

This will probably land next week. Queries are planned for February next year. As a small holiday gift, we're also shipping some nice quality of life improvements around editing and drag and drop very soon. Re Everything is a node: I think block references (and in the future potentially property references) will remove some barriers on that front. But we are still convinced that treating every block/node the same can be quite intimidating for many people and the concept of a page/entity really helps to orientate oneself. If everything goes smoothly, we'll ship this before Christmas. In addition, we want to add several improvements to the embed view of entities, to allow it to blend in better with all the other blocks and remove the friction when editing. This also includes faster inline creation of entities using a #-syntax. Unlinked mentions is the only thing in your list we'll not address very soon.

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@Adelon I also received invite this week to Tana. Going through training now to fully understand functionality but your first impressions nailed mine as well… excellent write up. Thanks for sharing

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Funny that I also got an invite today

As a very early Tana tester I personally think they’re two different programs geared towards two different use cases. While Tana is very useful as an outliner and a structured data tool, it isn’t geared towards long-form writing and isn’t equipped with the formatting abilities required for publishing. I think it’s more geared towards managing your projects and for quick capture and retrieval where as Capacities is more aligned with the Second Brain methodology and geared toward long-term storage and publishing.

9:23 PM

I honestly think there was just a lot of hype and fomo around Tana due to the viral social media publicity it received from creators in the TfT communities. I don’t see it as being the end-all-be-all of TfT, nor do I think it’s geared towards being an all-in-one tool that’s meant to replace everything. I think people are just intrigued with the intuitive way they created to handle queries as opposed to something like Logseq or Obsidian.

9:24 PM

That being said, it is a nice tool for the toolbox.

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Michael_v_H

Thanks for your super helpful comparison, @Adelon. I agree that queries are very powerful. @Steffen is doing some amazing ground work these days to make queries of any kind possible. I think, conceptually, this is probably the biggest missing link in Capacities. Adding this will help people view different subsets of their content more naturally (a lot of questions around this are being asked in the community). There are some big performance improvements coming up (a huge part of all the app logic will now run completely in the background, making rendering way smoother). We're currently testing this in our development spaces, and I honestly don't want to go back to my non-development space right know.

This will probably land next week. Queries are planned for February next year. As a small holiday gift, we're also shipping some nice quality of life improvements around editing and drag and drop very soon. Re Everything is a node: I think block references (and in the future potentially property references) will remove some barriers on that front. But we are still convinced that treating every block/node the same can be quite intimidating for many people and the concept of a page/entity really helps to orientate oneself. If everything goes smoothly, we'll ship this before Christmas. In addition, we want to add several improvements to the embed view of entities, to allow it to blend in better with all the other blocks and remove the friction when editing. This also includes faster inline creation of entities using a #-syntax. Unlinked mentions is the only thing in your list we'll not address very soon.

Thanks a lot for the response! Great to hear it! You guys have a great vision for this, and it's very inspiring! Seeing your passion for Capacities inspires me to work harder on my personal projects. I understand that all kind of these things and features is just a matter of time. Sometimes I wish I was a programmer and could help you more than just talking

Adelon

Thanks a lot for the response! Great to hear it! You guys have a great vision for this, and it's very inspiring! Seeing your passion for Capacities inspires me to work harder on my personal projects. I understand that all kind of these things and features is just a matter of time. Sometimes I wish I was a programmer and could help you more than just talking

So nice to hear

It's never to late to learn

and it's easier to get started than you think

Steffen

So nice to hear

It's never to late to learn

and it's easier to get started than you think

Yeah, I have a basic understanding of programming. Actually, I study computer science at university, so I remember a thing or two from that time.

Completely forgot how to work with OOP or databases, but still can write some simple python scripts or web pages, also played with Obsidian plugins a bit, but nothing too complicated. So I'll be waiting for API to dive back into programming again and try some ideas

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Steffen

So nice to hear

It's never to late to learn

and it's easier to get started than you think

the hardest part about learning to code for me was having stuff to code.. lol it was easier when I was in school and I was given prompts, but once it was all on me to progress my ability, I didn't really know where to go... I figure, when I compare the process to making music (since I'm a musician), I get the most results when I follow my passions and curiosities, so that probably just means I'm not a programmer

(or that I should go back to school, but all the schools I've attended would just tell me to "solve the problems I have" and that's just ambiguous)

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@Steffen is there a plan to introduce an outline indicator line like this?

@Steffen it can;t full-text search right now ?

Charlie 45872984

@Steffen is there a plan to introduce an outline indicator line like this?

We already have ticket for outlining features, you can vote for it https://capacities.io/feedback/p/outliner-mode

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Adelon

We already have ticket for outlining features, you can vote for it https://capacities.io/feedback/p/outliner-mode

I need chinese full-text search function

Charlie 45872984

I need chinese full-text search function

It not supported currently, but guys are looking for the solution, you can vote and leave comment here to show that it's important for you https://capacities.io/feedback/p/full-text-search-does-not-work-correctly-in-japanese

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this is japanese not chinese

Charlie 45872984

this is japanese not chinese

yeah, but the root of problem is the same as guess

5:40 AM

We cannot support logographic languages at the moment

could you tell me when it will be fixed? plz (edited)

Charlie 45872984

could you tell me when it will be fixed? plz (edited)

idk, I'm not a dev, just casual user as you

@Steffen need east asian full-text search urgently

Adelon

idk, I'm not a dev, just casual user as you

you're nice

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5:48 AM

i think this is definitely a good product, and i look forward to the block link if it can't support Chinese full-text, just like giving a microphone to a mute person.

Adelon

idk, I'm not a dev, just casual user as you

hello , Could you tell me what is the markdown hotkey to start a quote in Capacities?

| followed by space

Michael_v_H

| followed by space

so thankful

Michael_v_H

| followed by space

hi, do you know how to recover a deleted database?

Charlie 45872984

hi, do you know how to recover a deleted database?

That's not possible, unfortunately.

that's weird , thank you

Charlie 45872984

that's weird , thank you

That's why we show this before you delete:

i got that

Share your ideas on task management We started a discussion in #💻・features-forum on task management and would love to hear your thoughts! ✅

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could you tell me how to rapidly jump out of the code box ?

There has been a lot of chatter about Capacities in the Craft.do Circle forum in the past two weeks. One of the most active contributors in the Craft Community has been Numeric Citizen. He recently started creating YouTube videos targeting the Craft community. I just saw he posted an hour long video about his first experiences testing Capacities. I haven’t watched it in its entirety yet. I expect it may be a bit biased given the strong focus on Craft in his previous posts but is a good indicator of the early interest in Capacities. https://youtu.be/NXVLEQLDhBs

Numeric Citizen Videos

Testing "Capacities" — The 60 Minutes Experiment

RangerBen

There has been a lot of chatter about Capacities in the Craft.do Circle forum in the past two weeks. One of the most active contributors in the Craft Community has been Numeric Citizen. He recently started creating YouTube videos targeting the Craft community. I just saw he posted an hour long video about his first experiences testing Capacities. I haven’t watched it in its entirety yet. I expect it may be a bit biased given the strong focus on Craft in his previous posts but is a good indicator of the early interest in Capacities. https://youtu.be/NXVLEQLDhBs

Interesting. I was an early Craft user, then stuck with it for 18 months but got frustrated with its direction. Heavily towards teams and leaving individual users without important features. No interest in supporting column layouts. No tags, still. Then they hired a new community/comms person and every new release had “amazing” new features, which were really just tweaks. Apps can gain a lot of momentum, build users in their first 1-2 years but keeping hold of users, in a world where every week it seems there’s a new entrant, is tough.

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nashi

Interesting. I was an early Craft user, then stuck with it for 18 months but got frustrated with its direction. Heavily towards teams and leaving individual users without important features. No interest in supporting column layouts. No tags, still. Then they hired a new community/comms person and every new release had “amazing” new features, which were really just tweaks. Apps can gain a lot of momentum, build users in their first 1-2 years but keeping hold of users, in a world where every week it seems there’s a new entrant, is tough.

Well said @nashi those are my observations as well. And the focus on teams, collaboration , and diversifying from Apple ecosystem to web and Windows coincides directly with taking $20M in Series A and B rounds over last 18 months. Craft ownership is likely positioning company for acquisition by Apple, Adobe, MS, etc. (venture capitalists focus on ARR, valuations, and exit strategies not users…)

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9:40 AM

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/craft-cacb

9:44 AM

Which begs the question of @Michael_v_H @Steffen I noticed the Capacities.io web site mentions looking for a angel investor and third founder…. How goes that? Any thoughts on a Kickstarter or Indiegogo approach to raising capital (crowdfunding from committed users vs “vulture capitalists”)?

9:44 AM

Hi, is there any problem with the servers? it seems that the app is not available

petros

Hi, is there any problem with the servers? it seems that the app is not available

Should be available again now.

RangerBen

Which begs the question of @Michael_v_H @Steffen I noticed the Capacities.io web site mentions looking for a angel investor and third founder…. How goes that? Any thoughts on a Kickstarter or Indiegogo approach to raising capital (crowdfunding from committed users vs “vulture capitalists”)?

Logseq (https://opencollective.com/logseq) seems to have a decent donation system to get crowdfunding from their committed users, versus Joplin's (https://joplinapp.org/donate/) more open-ended approach

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@Michael_v_H need a feature quickly to jump out off the codebox

@Timoy interesting… I am familiar with Open Collective for open source software projects (like Logseq). I did not realize other software initiatives may also use it…

RangerBen

Which begs the question of @Michael_v_H @Steffen I noticed the Capacities.io web site mentions looking for a angel investor and third founder…. How goes that? Any thoughts on a Kickstarter or Indiegogo approach to raising capital (crowdfunding from committed users vs “vulture capitalists”)?

Thanks for sharing your observations in the Craft Community, that's really interesting! I'll look into the video later. A brief comment on funding: We are not decided on this yet, and we are definitely looking for alternative ways of funding Capacities. We just get approached by a lot of funds and angles. The mention on the landing page is there to funnel these requests for now. (edited)

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Maintenance Info We'll be running an update on Capacities very soon. The service will be unavailable for 40 minutes. We'll keep you posted here.

Maintenance started

Update successfully deployed We'll be updating the app itself later today and share what changed. It's going to be great

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Steffen

Update successfully deployed We'll be updating the app itself later today and share what changed. It's going to be great

I hope will include the desktop app

Yay. O

8:43 AM

I’m excited, hopefully I can start using the Desktop app again without issues. I’ve had to take a break from Capacities while I wait for the fix. I’m just a little OCD and stuck in my ways so adapting to change is hard for me.

some of my databases don't load... still another maintenance?

Update will be shipped tomorrow ⏲️ If you want to read about what will be in it you can do that here: https://capacities.io/whats-new under "Recent improvements".

What's new?

New features, releases, and current improvements

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Steffen

Update will be shipped tomorrow ⏲️ If you want to read about what will be in it you can do that here: https://capacities.io/whats-new under "Recent improvements".

that sounds exciting. I can't wait!

Hi all! First of all, I want to say that Capacities is amazing and I am loving the direction it is headed. Just wanted to ask if anyone is facing issues with file uploads that are greater than around 10MB? I have been trying to upload PDFs that are close to say 30MB. It seems to use a lot of resources and the file upload just crashes the entire tab...

RangerBen

@Timoy interesting… I am familiar with Open Collective for open source software projects (like Logseq). I did not realize other software initiatives may also use it…

I have no idea if Open Collective is open for just any initiative but I was mainly just looking at the ways they structured their donation system - offering specifics for each level of support vs. how Joplin doesn't have any specifics at all, just "donate here"

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@Steffen @Michael_v_H New Update sounds great! Cant wait to try out desktop app on Mac OS. How can I access it (under Believer Plan)?

7:30 PM

Also noticed some (unintended) comments included on "Recent Improvements" web page: (edited)

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Pre-Release for the Desktop app is live Feel free to test it and please report any issues that you have. The desktop app will then probably go live today.

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Where can I get the update? It’s not showing in my app

Ambitendency

Where can I get the update? It’s not showing in my app

Here: https://capacities.io/download-app Make sure to close and uninstall the version you currently have on your computer.

Download the app

Capacities is available as a desktop app for Mac and Windows and as a web app for all other devices.

I saw your post a little to late sorry. It works again for me YAY!

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1:59 AM

Good job guys! Thank you so much

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Ambitendency

I saw your post a little to late sorry. It works again for me YAY!

Awesome!!!!

Good morning!

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Oh man great job team! I was just wondering last night when the app was coming out. This is great thank you all

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If I'm not mistaken it looks like some Tana-esque functionality found its way into this release!

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Just loaded up the app, oh its so nice!

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is capacities down?

11:29 AM

cant seem to login

11:30 AM

zahed

Click to see attachment 🖼️

Yes sorry, should be back up!

Steffen

Yes sorry, should be back up!

Amazing thanks

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solid work on this so far, and the desktop app has been a welcome addition so far

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3:33 PM

excited to see where you guys go with it

Great job team. Love using the app on Windows

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is capacities down again?

Akhilesh singh

is capacities down again?

Hm no there wasn't any incident anymore. Are you still having issues?

Hi guys, is it possible to setup project management within capacities?

3:23 AM

With eg. kanban board?

Just caught up with the desktop version... so far, excellent job guys! It pushed me into taking up the Believer offer. Not that my money will make a big difference but it's great to see the work going into this

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What is the difference between the the web and the desktop version?

Deleted User

Just caught up with the desktop version... so far, excellent job guys! It pushed me into taking up the Believer offer. Not that my money will make a big difference but it's great to see the work going into this

Thank you, @Deleted User! Actually, it makes a big difference.

Gerwin Schalk

What is the difference between the the web and the desktop version?

There are no major differences in terms of features. But you get better offline support and the convenience of it being an app on your computer, not a website in your browser.

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Main reason i like Notion is that you can have a topic, and all related stuff for it in one place, with fast access In Notion it's possible to do with multiple inline databases on one page How would recommend doing something like this in Capacities? attached image Still not sure if i'm suing spaces & databases in a right way, so an example would really help

another example, for more clarity https://chief-ease-8ab.notion.site/List-of-200-Notion-Resources-e1b46cd365094265bd47b8a2b25bb41e

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HoXsan

Hi guys, is it possible to setup project management within capacities?

Hi @HoXsan, not yet. We will introduce task management early next year which should enable project management workflows as well, but the current version is not built for it.

Michael_v_H

Hi @HoXsan, not yet. We will introduce task management early next year which should enable project management workflows as well, but the current version is not built for it.

I would really like to get using Capacities as I find it "simpler" in the UI than Tana. And I do also like the process of defining new types and etc. But the Task and Project management is really important in my case. Tried to build a type that could hold the task, and maybe just give it a simple "done" checkbox. But could not find any way to do a simple "Status" with select options. Is it possible for you to guide me how I can achieve a simple task and project management? Maybe something like in the Roadmap?

RangerBen

There has been a lot of chatter about Capacities in the Craft.do Circle forum in the past two weeks. One of the most active contributors in the Craft Community has been Numeric Citizen. He recently started creating YouTube videos targeting the Craft community. I just saw he posted an hour long video about his first experiences testing Capacities. I haven’t watched it in its entirety yet. I expect it may be a bit biased given the strong focus on Craft in his previous posts but is a good indicator of the early interest in Capacities. https://youtu.be/NXVLEQLDhBs

the topic that started int the comments of the video - is the complexity and the time reading of the manual to "understand" what are the benefits and what sets it apart from other apps. I agree a little bit. The average user is lazy, and as an idea @Steffen: make little short video tutorials on your youtube channel. As a very good example (in my personal opinion) are the instruction videos from Coda.io https://www.youtube.com/@Coda_hq. Each video is not longer then a few minutes (which would be great to put them as youtube shorts to gain extra attention), and by the way they are also very funny (but that is not the point)

Botwin

the topic that started int the comments of the video - is the complexity and the time reading of the manual to "understand" what are the benefits and what sets it apart from other apps. I agree a little bit. The average user is lazy, and as an idea @Steffen: make little short video tutorials on your youtube channel. As a very good example (in my personal opinion) are the instruction videos from Coda.io https://www.youtube.com/@Coda_hq. Each video is not longer then a few minutes (which would be great to put them as youtube shorts to gain extra attention), and by the way they are also very funny (but that is not the point)

I definitely agree, this is a valid point. We will update you soon on this. We started drafting a content strategy around use-cases and getting started. Definitely agree that there's not enough material on this atm.

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can I change image type(image database) to other type?

mistcat.

Main reason i like Notion is that you can have a topic, and all related stuff for it in one place, with fast access In Notion it's possible to do with multiple inline databases on one page How would recommend doing something like this in Capacities? attached image Still not sure if i'm suing spaces & databases in a right way, so an example would really help

another example, for more clarity https://chief-ease-8ab.notion.site/List-of-200-Notion-Resources-e1b46cd365094265bd47b8a2b25bb41e

No advice, but I’ve been wondering something similar, so I’ll just piggyback, if it’s ok. I have a Video Game type that I use to track games I own, want to play, etc. I also like to keep notes about specific games, links to guides, fan art, etc. I’m not sure the best way to organize it all, but I’d like to be able to find it all together for each individual game. Currently I just rely on backlinks, but I’m early on in setting this up. It seems similar to mistcat’s question about collecting things together on a specific topic. (edited)

Discussion moved to #❓・help-and-questions

I’d like to be able to find it all together for each individual game

What do you mean by this? Like how tags show notes in various styles?

I have a lot of "suggestions", but not sure where to write them Not really fitting the "requests" or "features & ideas" categories, cuz most are just small changes & improvements to stuff that already exists And main thing idk if what i want to suggest will actually be found useful by other ppl, so would be cool to discuss what would be the best option But also don't wanna constantly spam in channels like "help and questions" where ppl are asking important stuff so yea, just quick response would be really apreciated, about there to write all those, i thought of a separate chanel, but idk ofc, up to you guys (edited)

I love Capacities (I'm a Believer), but it's been almost impossible to do anything in Capacities in the last days. Maybe it's just me...

Telegram, WhatsApp and email integrations are not working with me (it worked very well before). If, for example I send an email, it does not appear in the daily note. Sometimes the attachments appear in the respective database (pdf or image for example), but not the message. Sync is always failing with the red notification in the left-up corner. Some databases take forever to load, especially with more than 50 entries. In some cases, I'm composing a page and suddenly I lose all the inserted information (text, images, tag, description, etc). Sometimes, I insert 3 times the same information and 3 times happen the same I don't think it's the quality of my internet, because it's pretty fast. I've tried with Chrome and with Edge and the same results. I already tested the desktop version and the same thing happens to me. Will it be my problem? I think it worked fine until the launch of the desktop application.... Thank you

redfox1904

I love Capacities (I'm a Believer), but it's been almost impossible to do anything in Capacities in the last days. Maybe it's just me...

Telegram, WhatsApp and email integrations are not working with me (it worked very well before). If, for example I send an email, it does not appear in the daily note. Sometimes the attachments appear in the respective database (pdf or image for example), but not the message. Sync is always failing with the red notification in the left-up corner. Some databases take forever to load, especially with more than 50 entries. In some cases, I'm composing a page and suddenly I lose all the inserted information (text, images, tag, description, etc). Sometimes, I insert 3 times the same information and 3 times happen the same I don't think it's the quality of my internet, because it's pretty fast. I've tried with Chrome and with Edge and the same results. I already tested the desktop version and the same thing happens to me. Will it be my problem? I think it worked fine until the launch of the desktop application.... Thank you

Hi @redfox1904, sad to hear that! It must have had to do with the last update which included restructuring of a good portion of code for better performance. The most feedback we got so far was better performance and responsiveness of the app. We will look into this and we'll get in touch with you tomorrow!

Michael_v_H

Hi @redfox1904, sad to hear that! It must have had to do with the last update which included restructuring of a good portion of code for better performance. The most feedback we got so far was better performance and responsiveness of the app. We will look into this and we'll get in touch with you tomorrow!

Thank you so much. No problem, my only concern is if it's me. But it was working well until a few days. I wait as long as necessary because as I said, in my opinion, Capacities is a fantastic application. Thank you very much.

redfox1904

Thank you so much. No problem, my only concern is if it's me. But it was working well until a few days. I wait as long as necessary because as I said, in my opinion, Capacities is a fantastic application. Thank you very much.

We'll look into it asap. I send you a DM.

Steffen

We'll look into it asap. I send you a DM.

Thank you so much for your support!

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@Michael_v_H sorry to bother you. could you tell me when the block based linking will be released?

Charlie 45872984

@Michael_v_H sorry to bother you. could you tell me when the block based linking will be released?

The first version is basically ready. We wanted to release it today, but I got sick and could not do anything over the weekend, and am still recovering. The most optimistic would be tomorrow, more likely Wednesday or Thursday. Important note: The first version of block-based linking is an early-access feature for Capacities Believers. It will become available for everyone after a while.

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Michael_v_H

The first version is basically ready. We wanted to release it today, but I got sick and could not do anything over the weekend, and am still recovering. The most optimistic would be tomorrow, more likely Wednesday or Thursday. Important note: The first version of block-based linking is an early-access feature for Capacities Believers. It will become available for everyone after a while.

thanks for your reply. Taking care of yourself is the most important right now.

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Please fix Korean issue https://capacities.io/feedback/p/seamless-korean-support I really want to use Capacities

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Hey there, while fiddling with the many great tools which got released in the past I noticed that my use pattern boils down to these main points:

I don't create big documents and write endless pages. Often times I simply collect different kinds of "snippets" like weblinks, screenshots, maybe some pdf, code snippets, ... and combine all this in one document (if it needs further explanation)
I need to put stuff into the system quickly. Create a task on the go, save a weblink for later, ...
Tasks I need to do, often appear while writing meeting notes or similar. So right in the (text) pages. I would love to have a overview over my open tasks, so I don't need to jump between my knowledge base and my task manager

Capacities does a good and sometimes great job at some topics of these. Saving content, tagging it and keep going is a breeze. A mobile app is kinda a deal breaker for me, but I am sure you will provide one in the future. I love how I can simply put stuff into capacities but I am also able to find it later without trouble. Overall the interface is a breeze. Everything is clean, fast and I am able to spot content easily. I really like to work in capacities. Really a great job! Sadly I have one big problem: The lack of encryption. I know your privacy policy and red every information about this topic on your website. But it simply boils down to "simply trust us". And that's something I am simply not willing to do anymore. A PKM is often a place with very private informations. Maybe even sensitive ones like medical reports, or classified stuff like work related documents. And simply trusting someone with this kind of information is kinda naive. I don't want to be rude, but the combination of lack of encryption and your interest in a investor sends me the following signal: The direction of this application and can change fast.

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3:13 AM

Maybe you will grow massively (i hope so!), and suddenly you have multiple people in your team with access to my data. Or your investor pushes you into more analytics of the content etc.

3:14 AM

Sadly I am not willing to put information in a system which doesn't protect my information by design. Do you plan E2E in the future? Maybe only for single user spaces? Or is it out of scope because collaboration will be a main feature in the future?

(BTW: The link to the privacy statement in the FAQ doesn't work: https://capacities.io/faq)

Don't want to butt in, but if you're working with classified documents uploading them to any sort of third party IT infrastructure is very ill-advised, unless your organization actually has a policy authorizing you to do it and has cleared that specific provider. For such sensitive information, the mere statement of there being E2E is also not an end-all solution, as you are at least trusting your third-party host to actually provide it in a way, that does not allow for circumvention by them or third parties.

5:15 AM

I wouldn't say no to encryption, but honestly if it is vital for a piece of information never to get out, you should probably keep it local and encrypted, or if it's not your own information within the bounds set by your IT policymakers. (edited)

Breaches happen even in banks and government IT systems, which are built and maintained for security. I don't think you can expect a cloud-based PKM-application to provide the same level of security, especially at consumer pricing.

@aberratio_ictus yeah, you are right. "Classified" was probably also not the right term. Real classified items should of course not be transferred to any 3rd party service which wasn't approve by the company. Let's boil it down to "sensitive information". No matter if it's my personal work with sensitive content (not even talking about password, maybe just a document describing my personal server structure), or some medical records or maybe just some kind of PDF i uploaded because I wanted to remind myself to read it. And the pdf includes my customer id of my insurance or something. And I don't think that the line is that clear what's sensitive and what is not. When you use a tool like capacities you will start to put a lot of stuff in there, and a breach can be severe, no matter how much you tried to keep the "bad" stuff out. The combination of many different informations can get real powerful. E2E is no magical tool which solves all problems and protects me from everything. But it still provides a lot of protection from different kind of attacks. For example if an attacker get's into capacities infrastructure. If I can handle and maintain my own encryption key, I can at list relay on the encryption (if correctly implanted. But that's fine. With every cloud service I have trust the provider in some way).

aberratio_ictus

Breaches happen even in banks and government IT systems, which are built and maintained for security. I don't think you can expect a cloud-based PKM-application to provide the same level of security, especially at consumer pricing.

Yes, there is no 100% security. And that should be reason alone to use existing tools - like encryption - to still protect the users and their data. E2EE can definitely be expected from services with consumer pricing and it wouldn't be the first consumer service with this feature enabled for a reasonable price.

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MarcelloKeßler

Yes, there is no 100% security. And that should be reason alone to use existing tools - like encryption - to still protect the users and their data. E2EE can definitely be expected from services with consumer pricing and it wouldn't be the first consumer service with this feature enabled for a reasonable price.

@MarcelloKeßler @aberratio_ictus, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I will just open a thread to channel this discussion.

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Is Capacities down? On Chrome, none of my content from December 23 is visible even though I emailed multiple tweets to the save@capacities server. Same for content emailed today, December 24. But when I attempt to use Safari (both OS and iPad), I just get a repeating messaged that loading failed. Have I lost my content on Capacities? Or is all of it still on the server, to include what I have yet to see for December 23 and 24. Please advise.

Fortunately, I am able to recover those emails to save at capacities from my email client "Sent" folder. However, lesson learned. Stay away from these proprietary cloud databases and stick with the markdown files on my own computer.

kdjamesrd

Is Capacities down? On Chrome, none of my content from December 23 is visible even though I emailed multiple tweets to the save@capacities server. Same for content emailed today, December 24. But when I attempt to use Safari (both OS and iPad), I just get a repeating messaged that loading failed. Have I lost my content on Capacities? Or is all of it still on the server, to include what I have yet to see for December 23 and 24. Please advise.

Same problem here

@kdjamesrd @diego#84, sorry for the issues. Capacities was not down, everything is working as expected. One issue we have is if you create a daily note while something is being processed by any integrations you will end up with two daily notes where one will be invisible. But I'll fix that very soon. Please report if this happens again.

I am blown away by the current state and capacities as an app. I am trying to make myself comfortable with a system of apps, I currently have bought ticktick yearly premium. for the habits, daily planning, pomodoro, task management in one. Now a few months ago I began to research notion but it was really distracting, I got in the habit of working on my notion space purely for aesthetics... while I have not actually gotten done work on it. Then I came up with obsidian, bidirectional linking, graph view, third party plugins, it sure is perfect. I thought... the thing is just like notion I now got stuck figuring out how to get my ideas working inside of obsidian. just about yesterday I found capacities.io, I want to make the switch but i am afraid of the progress speed. I mainly want search queries, canvas view (like obsidian ), most importantly android mobile app and Annotations in youtube videos. However the last option seems to be a paid feature??? Really? that is the biggest turnoffs right now. or maybe i am missing something, i am looking for Youtube videos annotations with timestamps. I think that is why i am going to just copy what i like of capacities.io to incorporate it into obsidian.

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LOVING the app - well done team. One friction point I have is adding content to the daily note. Once I add something, do I need to hover on it and click the + symbol to add something below it? Is there a keyboard shortcut or some other way?

NewBee

hello, i been using capacities free plan. for long time but now i urgently need, Pro-Intelligent features is there any chance, to get it im student, cant subscribe yet and in need of it urgently is there any refferall link way! or any invites to beta-pro plan i will be, really really greatful please help, just once (edited)

is capacities going to provide StudentPlan? besides, free and pro 12/month plan? any info on this..

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itbeats

LOVING the app - well done team. One friction point I have is adding content to the daily note. Once I add something, do I need to hover on it and click the + symbol to add something below it? Is there a keyboard shortcut or some other way?

Yep. +1 on this request

NewBee

is capacities going to provide StudentPlan? besides, free and pro 12/month plan? any info on this..

Website suggests pro will have a student version when it's released. https://capacities.io/pricing/waitinglist (edited)

Waiting list

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itbeats

LOVING the app - well done team. One friction point I have is adding content to the daily note. Once I add something, do I need to hover on it and click the + symbol to add something below it? Is there a keyboard shortcut or some other way?

@itbeats @Gonzales Gee, thanks! We're looking into it

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Hi Guys! I’m a huge fan of the app. I really think that if you are able to pull off a task management hub with notification reminders and a mobile app, you will be able to take a large part of the PKM market. I’ve messed around with Tana and it is nowhere near as intuitive. Good luck and happy new year!

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Rexx.

I am blown away by the current state and capacities as an app. I am trying to make myself comfortable with a system of apps, I currently have bought ticktick yearly premium. for the habits, daily planning, pomodoro, task management in one. Now a few months ago I began to research notion but it was really distracting, I got in the habit of working on my notion space purely for aesthetics... while I have not actually gotten done work on it. Then I came up with obsidian, bidirectional linking, graph view, third party plugins, it sure is perfect. I thought... the thing is just like notion I now got stuck figuring out how to get my ideas working inside of obsidian. just about yesterday I found capacities.io, I want to make the switch but i am afraid of the progress speed. I mainly want search queries, canvas view (like obsidian ), most importantly android mobile app and Annotations in youtube videos. However the last option seems to be a paid feature??? Really? that is the biggest turnoffs right now. or maybe i am missing something, i am looking for Youtube videos annotations with timestamps. I think that is why i am going to just copy what i like of capacities.io to incorporate it into obsidian.

Hi @Rexx., glad you like Capacities. Regarding the things you are looking for, here's a roadmap of the things that will come next: https://capacities.io/roadmap. Looking at your list, Canvas is probably the only thing that will not be added any time soon. We are currently working on the mobile app, and search queries and annotations will also be added soon. Media annotations will start off as a Pro feature but might get moved to the free plan in the future.

can't wait for the search

Gonzales Gee

Yep. +1 on this request

Agreed with this as well!

Putting together a list of some key features that makes Capacities amazing to users. Just wondering if anyone would like to add anything to this list anything that stands out to use and puts Capacities above the rest? Key Features

Markdown Support
Block-based Editing & Linking
Messenger Integration
Full Text Search
Database Driven Note Taking
Daily Notes
Universal Tagging & Tag Editing
Supports Content Types (Tweets, PDFs, Audio, Embeds)
Code Blocks
Web & Desktop Apps
Sharing
Import & Export of Content
Supportive Developer Team
Active Discord Community

Features Coming Soon

Mobile Applications
Task Management

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Fred Markle

Putting together a list of some key features that makes Capacities amazing to users. Just wondering if anyone would like to add anything to this list anything that stands out to use and puts Capacities above the rest? Key Features

Markdown Support
Block-based Editing & Linking
Messenger Integration
Full Text Search
Database Driven Note Taking
Daily Notes
Universal Tagging & Tag Editing
Supports Content Types (Tweets, PDFs, Audio, Embeds)
Code Blocks
Web & Desktop Apps
Sharing
Import & Export of Content
Supportive Developer Team
Active Discord Community

Features Coming Soon

Mobile Applications
Task Management

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Multi-Column Page Layouts

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Fred Markle

Putting together a list of some key features that makes Capacities amazing to users. Just wondering if anyone would like to add anything to this list anything that stands out to use and puts Capacities above the rest? Key Features

Markdown Support
Block-based Editing & Linking
Messenger Integration
Full Text Search
Database Driven Note Taking
Daily Notes
Universal Tagging & Tag Editing
Supports Content Types (Tweets, PDFs, Audio, Embeds)
Code Blocks
Web & Desktop Apps
Sharing
Import & Export of Content
Supportive Developer Team
Active Discord Community

Features Coming Soon

Mobile Applications
Task Management

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Conversion Between Content Types

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Fred Markle

Putting together a list of some key features that makes Capacities amazing to users. Just wondering if anyone would like to add anything to this list anything that stands out to use and puts Capacities above the rest? Key Features

Markdown Support
Block-based Editing & Linking
Messenger Integration
Full Text Search
Database Driven Note Taking
Daily Notes
Universal Tagging & Tag Editing
Supports Content Types (Tweets, PDFs, Audio, Embeds)
Code Blocks
Web & Desktop Apps
Sharing
Import & Export of Content
Supportive Developer Team
Active Discord Community

Features Coming Soon

Mobile Applications
Task Management

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Collections!

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Fred Markle

Putting together a list of some key features that makes Capacities amazing to users. Just wondering if anyone would like to add anything to this list anything that stands out to use and puts Capacities above the rest? Key Features

Markdown Support
Block-based Editing & Linking
Messenger Integration
Full Text Search
Database Driven Note Taking
Daily Notes
Universal Tagging & Tag Editing
Supports Content Types (Tweets, PDFs, Audio, Embeds)
Code Blocks
Web & Desktop Apps
Sharing
Import & Export of Content
Supportive Developer Team
Active Discord Community

Features Coming Soon

Mobile Applications
Task Management

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Automatic Object Detection (Images, Weblinks, PDFs, Tweets)

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Fred Markle

Automatic Object Detection (Images, Weblinks, PDFs, Tweets)

my fav feature

Fred Markle

Putting together a list of some key features that makes Capacities amazing to users. Just wondering if anyone would like to add anything to this list anything that stands out to use and puts Capacities above the rest? Key Features

Markdown Support
Block-based Editing & Linking
Messenger Integration
Full Text Search
Database Driven Note Taking
Daily Notes
Universal Tagging & Tag Editing
Supports Content Types (Tweets, PDFs, Audio, Embeds)
Code Blocks
Web & Desktop Apps
Sharing
Import & Export of Content
Supportive Developer Team
Active Discord Community

Features Coming Soon

Mobile Applications
Task Management

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Great list, don't have anything important to add

Maybe "Design" (but opinionated).

I do find Capacities an interesting app. My biggest problem with it is in how to organize the objects it contains. It does not lack methods of organizing. Quite the contrary. I find so may ways to organize content that I feel unsure how to proceed. There are spaces, objects, collections, tags, links, embeds etc. How best to arrange these in an efficient system. I would be very interested to learn how others organize their content. I know we have been asked to showcase how we USE Capacities, but I would like to see how others ORGANIZE Capacities. Anyone?

Jason

Website suggests pro will have a student version when it's released. https://capacities.io/pricing/waitinglist (edited)

Really, Thank You

kitennis

I do find Capacities an interesting app. My biggest problem with it is in how to organize the objects it contains. It does not lack methods of organizing. Quite the contrary. I find so may ways to organize content that I feel unsure how to proceed. There are spaces, objects, collections, tags, links, embeds etc. How best to arrange these in an efficient system. I would be very interested to learn how others organize their content. I know we have been asked to showcase how we USE Capacities, but I would like to see how others ORGANIZE Capacities. Anyone?

I think the latest post in the 'announcements' channel is interesting for you.

I am curious to know if the mobile app that is currently being developed is a container wrapping the electron app or a native one?

kitennis

I do find Capacities an interesting app. My biggest problem with it is in how to organize the objects it contains. It does not lack methods of organizing. Quite the contrary. I find so may ways to organize content that I feel unsure how to proceed. There are spaces, objects, collections, tags, links, embeds etc. How best to arrange these in an efficient system. I would be very interested to learn how others organize their content. I know we have been asked to showcase how we USE Capacities, but I would like to see how others ORGANIZE Capacities. Anyone?

Hi @kitennis , great to here! Organization is a very personal thing, but here are some thoughts. I also have an article planned on this topic but also feel free to write down your way of organizing so we can share it with others. I think it's easiest to start bottom up. So you create pages, link them and tag them. See tags as connectors between pages, ideas, or content. They will then accumulate content and allow you to explore your space. Introduce objects as soon as you feel that you want more structure. See objects as "things" so something that is something: People, meetings, books, workouts, whatever. You can then build more structured content, you can also quickly turn pages into any other object. Collections are the last way of organizing. You can use them to build "systems" like databases in notion. Filter them, sort them, etc. They also work great as containers for images, etc. Hope that helps for now!

Steffen started a thread. 1/5/2023 12:32 AM

kitennis

I do find Capacities an interesting app. My biggest problem with it is in how to organize the objects it contains. It does not lack methods of organizing. Quite the contrary. I find so may ways to organize content that I feel unsure how to proceed. There are spaces, objects, collections, tags, links, embeds etc. How best to arrange these in an efficient system. I would be very interested to learn how others organize their content. I know we have been asked to showcase how we USE Capacities, but I would like to see how others ORGANIZE Capacities. Anyone?

Before Capacities I used other apps (and still use for some reasons and use cases). Notion for example has databases but lacks (universal) tags, obsidian for example has tags but lacks databases (although there are community plugins to fix that). Here are my thoughts concerning organisation and structure in capacities: Tags can be semantic (topics, themes) or just define an object (what is it? --> person, book, article). As capacities offers databases (--> objects; what is it?) there's no need for object tags. I create databases for objects and collections for subtypes (f.e. object: person --> collections: author, private, work; literature --> books, articles, paper; media --> games, youtube, movies, series; zettel --> concept, zettel, fleeting note) So I can use tags only as semantic tags. I never used so many tags like I do right now in capacities and I love it. They are exclusively semantic tags for topics, themes, concepts (f.e. neuroscience, travelling, trauma, note taking, excel, determinism ...). This offers the possibility to give semantic tags to every object (zettels, persons, pdfs, tweets, ...) and gather all of them under one tag. As soon as I want to write something about a topic (f.e. determinism) I create a zettel (to be concrete: a concept in my zettel database) with the title "determinism", write something about it and embed the tag "determinism" on the page so everything is in it's place. As long as there's nothing to write about a concept/topic/theme, it remains a tag. I hope this helps

Edit: I forgot about status tags --> tags for statuses like todo, urgent, toread, important etc. I use those too. (edited)

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I think there are quite a lot of UI issue when using capacities.io which kind of hinder my use of it.

HananoshikaYomaru

I think there are quite a lot of UI issue when using capacities.io which kind of hinder my use of it.

Would be nice to have them in the feedback board. I also think there is currently some clutter in the UI which does not need to be visible all the time or leads to confusion.

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This kind of inconsistency is always a trade-off: you spend your time on new features, and then users complain there are bugs and small problems, or you spend time on fixing and polishing and optimizing, but then users complain there are no new features they need a lot

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After patiently waiting for markdown batch importing for six months, I gave Capacities another try today without that possibility. Given that I have >1.200 docs to move into the app, I thought I could ask for some tips to speed up the process.

My files often refer to local files, typically images via wiki links, i.e. ![[PicToInlcude.jpg]]. These are ignored by the import routine: I have to add every single one via New object - Picture - link into markdown file - is that correct?

I was not able to find a shortcut for the import of individual files: Do I really have to use Create New - Import - Drag onto Drag&Drop for every single file?

I trust I am not the first one with that challenge - every help is welcome! (edited)

Additionally the app feels very slow, I read some comments about some connectivity issues, are they still existing? Although I have less then 50 files, it feels like working on a 1990s mainframe at university. That holds for the www and the mac app, even switching from Gallery to Wall and back takes >1 sec, you can see the files coming in after changing the size of the app windows as if they had to be re-generated one by one every time. I would be glad if someone would confirm that this is not the expected behavior.

Torsten

Additionally the app feels very slow, I read some comments about some connectivity issues, are they still existing? Although I have less then 50 files, it feels like working on a 1990s mainframe at university. That holds for the www and the mac app, even switching from Gallery to Wall and back takes >1 sec, you can see the files coming in after changing the size of the app windows as if they had to be re-generated one by one every time. I would be glad if someone would confirm that this is not the expected behavior.

I love capacities. But the slowness you speak of seems to be the same for me as well. Especially the first time you open it for the day and the first time you click on an object type that day. I will say the speed to change as well throughout the day. Sometimes things are snappy and sometimes they are slow. My hope is in the future they can lean into caching and basically allow the user to keep all content cached locally for quicker access and offline access as well.

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Torsten

Additionally the app feels very slow, I read some comments about some connectivity issues, are they still existing? Although I have less then 50 files, it feels like working on a 1990s mainframe at university. That holds for the www and the mac app, even switching from Gallery to Wall and back takes >1 sec, you can see the files coming in after changing the size of the app windows as if they had to be re-generated one by one every time. I would be glad if someone would confirm that this is not the expected behavior.

The load time doesn't seem to be dependent upon how many objects are in the database. If I click on a database that has 5 items in table view it takes the same amount of time to load as clicking on a database with 150 items and in gallery view.

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David

Would be nice to have them in the feedback board. I also think there is currently some clutter in the UI which does not need to be visible all the time or leads to confusion.

@Steffen I think the opposite way. I think buttons should always be visible. Let us step out from the notion way of thinking, which has bad UI/UX in my opinion because they are hide so many utilities from their UI and force the user to read doc. This abstraction in UI lead to high learning curve of the app and eventually drive some user away from the app. I think Obsidian got the best UI/UX design in desktop and Craft.do has the best UI/UX on mobile. If we do a case study on them, we will see that they almost never hide any functions or make buttons only visible on hover. Take craft.do as an example, they put the page level styling options on the temp side menu. And when you open up the right side menu, the actions is EXACTLY the same. There is no confusion. Hidding buttons and assume the user know the NOTION way is the cause of the confusion.

12:05 AM

@David @Steffen when we talk about floating buttons, look at how Craft PERFECTLY indicate the end of page using a subtle line. Just a single line remove all the confusion of why there is a floating backlink buttons there. (edited)

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David

Would be nice to have them in the feedback board. I also think there is currently some clutter in the UI which does not need to be visible all the time or leads to confusion.

no matter how many features you got, what eventually drive people to use it is the usability (UI/UX). Often I found myself being less and less touching a product even if it got good features, that is the time I realise the product has some fatal UI/UX design issue. I think definitely Capacities.io got a lot of features to develop in their roadmap, such as the mobile app, inline table, which are great, but constantly deliver a neat UI/UX as features being added is also important. checkout https://www.linears.art/?ref=producthunt

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12:40 AM

Finally, the notion style is bad. Don't copy Notion.

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Fred Markle

The load time doesn't seem to be dependent upon how many objects are in the database. If I click on a database that has 5 items in table view it takes the same amount of time to load as clicking on a database with 150 items and in gallery view.

Would that be related to the number of notes in the vault?

Is capacities down for anyone else right now?

Yes @Okhotur Haragin same for me - has been down for the last hour or so

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How irritating – I just read an article about capacities via TfT and it reminded me to open it up and give it another go!

I’m sure it’ll be back soon!

It is back! I lost some data in the process but nothing major

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Hi everyone, just checking out Capacities, and I'm really impressed. This is the architecture that I've tried to build in Notion, Roam, and Obsidian. Two questions for me right now: Spaces This is a common problem in other apps where it never seems worth it to have multiple spaces, vaults, etc. I'm curious what the plans are for Spaces in Capacities. Since the calendar is a first-order object, I wonder if it could be global to all spaces. I also wonder if search could be toggled for one or multiple spaces. Tags I've struggled with tags in other modern PKM apps. If I'm using "tags as topics", I always prefer tags to be full notes with content. I've used tags to label object types and status, but Capacities handles that natively (which is awesome). The only use I can think of right now is maybe flagging blocks for follow-up. I'm also curious about future plans for tags since they seem deeply integrated into the architecture.

HananoshikaYomaru

no matter how many features you got, what eventually drive people to use it is the usability (UI/UX). Often I found myself being less and less touching a product even if it got good features, that is the time I realise the product has some fatal UI/UX design issue. I think definitely Capacities.io got a lot of features to develop in their roadmap, such as the mobile app, inline table, which are great, but constantly deliver a neat UI/UX as features being added is also important. checkout https://www.linears.art/?ref=producthunt

Hi @HananoshikaYomaru, thanks so much for sharing your ideas and thoughts on the design of Capacities. This is really helpful and we'll have a look at all ideas. It also always important to balance ease of use with a clean UI, they sometimes contradict. But I really like your view on it. It would be great if you could next time open a thread in #🚀・features-and-ideas so it's simpler for others to join the discussion.

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Okhotur Haragin

@Okhotur Haragin @paulwilson sorry for these issues. Capacities did indeed have some connectivity issues. They're resolved.

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Steffen started a thread. 1/8/2023 3:40 AM

Sam B

Hi everyone, just checking out Capacities, and I'm really impressed. This is the architecture that I've tried to build in Notion, Roam, and Obsidian. Two questions for me right now: Spaces This is a common problem in other apps where it never seems worth it to have multiple spaces, vaults, etc. I'm curious what the plans are for Spaces in Capacities. Since the calendar is a first-order object, I wonder if it could be global to all spaces. I also wonder if search could be toggled for one or multiple spaces. Tags I've struggled with tags in other modern PKM apps. If I'm using "tags as topics", I always prefer tags to be full notes with content. I've used tags to label object types and status, but Capacities handles that natively (which is awesome). The only use I can think of right now is maybe flagging blocks for follow-up. I'm also curious about future plans for tags since they seem deeply integrated into the architecture.

Hi @Sam B, great to have onboard and happy to hear that. 1. Spaces are indeed isolated, an we recommend to only use one except you really need to isolate (e.g. work and personal, although most don't necessarily need that). We don't have plans to move the Calendar at the moment, but I'll keep that thought in mind. Same for search. We have some ideas on how cross space interactions can work, technically it's not a problem but it's more a transparency and simplicity issue. To which space belongs what? What does it mean to be part of two spaces? etc... Hope that helps. 2. Tags are a core functionality of Capacities. In the future we'll add more functions that make working with them simpler, we also have ideas on better structuring of tags like "tag hierarchies/nested tags". You can vote here: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/nested-tags-hierarchy-for-tags Hope that helps

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Thanks @Steffen - no worries. Only a few things went missing from my notes so easily recoverable

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Steffen

Hi @Sam B, great to have onboard and happy to hear that. 1. Spaces are indeed isolated, an we recommend to only use one except you really need to isolate (e.g. work and personal, although most don't necessarily need that). We don't have plans to move the Calendar at the moment, but I'll keep that thought in mind. Same for search. We have some ideas on how cross space interactions can work, technically it's not a problem but it's more a transparency and simplicity issue. To which space belongs what? What does it mean to be part of two spaces? etc... Hope that helps. 2. Tags are a core functionality of Capacities. In the future we'll add more functions that make working with them simpler, we also have ideas on better structuring of tags like "tag hierarchies/nested tags". You can vote here: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/nested-tags-hierarchy-for-tags Hope that helps

Thank you @Steffen !! One follow up question about tags. What do you think about this request? https://capacities.io/feedback/p/allow-rich-content-for-tags Do you intend for tags to remain simple labels or can they be more like complex objects?

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