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Share how you use capacities.

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Which custom types do you use? Which workflows do you have? How do you work with tags, media, integrations, or collections? If you want to share your user story in a blog post, feel free to reach out to @Michael_v_H or @Steffen.

This is how I use tags to collect inspirations for UI design, typography and resources.

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A database of quotes.

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More like this. I lack vision.

I use some kind of "Zettelkasten" approach at the moment. Its working fairly well.

And i love using https://www.midjourney.com/ to quickly visualize some thoughts that are important to me. Its a really mindblowing tool. (edited)

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phil

I use some kind of "Zettelkasten" approach at the moment. Its working fairly well.

And i love using https://www.midjourney.com/ to quickly visualize some thoughts that are important to me. Its a really mindblowing tool. (edited)

This looks really beautiful! Small note: If you don't use the pinned section you can just click on it to hide it

oh nice good to know, thx

phil

I use some kind of "Zettelkasten" approach at the moment. Its working fairly well.

And i love using https://www.midjourney.com/ to quickly visualize some thoughts that are important to me. Its a really mindblowing tool. (edited)

ayy this midjourney tool is pretty awesome

Here is my Database structure so far. I encourage everyone to share more. It's been great seeing what others are doing. I've already made some changes to how I'm doing some things. Thanks to all.

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Right now I am using pages to create my projects or a place to pull multiple things together. One thing I just realized is that you can embed the same database multiple times on a page but filter it differently and it saves the filtering. I have a Exercise Database by I wanted to see my Trial Runs separately from my Road Walks. So I just have the database embedded twice but filtered by the two different #tag.

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Fred Markle

Here is my Database structure so far. I encourage everyone to share more. It's been great seeing what others are doing. I've already made some changes to how I'm doing some things. Thanks to all.

Can you describe how you created this? It looks amazing!!

Nusquams

Can you describe how you created this? It looks amazing!!

Sure will. I'll get you some more details this evening.

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Nusquams

Can you describe how you created this? It looks amazing!!

Make a book Database. Add the flowing properties, see the screen shot. I get the book cover from Goodreads. I also link to it as well. Add as many properties as you'd like. I also made a collection for books I've read and ones I want to read. I like it in Gallery view because it keeps all the cards the same height. Let me know if you need any more details.

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Thank you for writing that up! I guess what I'm unsure about is how to get the view from your first post. It looks like it's a page of your books, but it's specifically one collection (books you haven't read)? (edited)

Nevermind! I just figured it out!

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Nusquams

Nevermind! I just figured it out!

For everybody who wants to know: You can embed collections and tags just like anything else, just use type @ and search for it.

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Steffen

For everybody who wants to know: You can embed collections and tags just like anything else, just use type @ and search for it.

yes, sorry, maybe should have mentioned what it was that I found. I also just realized if the list is filtered by tag and you add via the + button within the filtered collection on the page, it automatically adds the tags & collection that it's filtering for as well! Very neat!

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Just wanted to share on of my favorite workflow. I have a simple type that I call "Question". Every time I have something that I want to have as a "slow burner" or that takes time to answer I create that at the point where it comes up. It reduces quite some load in the process. Later, I can always browse open questions, see where that they are related to, think about them, research, turn them into knowledge, or even add follow-up questions. Hope this helps

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Just wanted to share on of my favorite workflow. I have a simple type that I call "Question". Every time I have something that I want to have as a "slow burner" or that takes time to answer I create that at the point where it comes up. It reduces quite some load in the process. Later, I can always browse open questions, see where that they are related to, think about them, research, turn them into knowledge, or even add follow-up questions. Hope this helps

Thanks for sharing! Currently still in the process of creating habbits with the Capacities

GijsEp

Thanks for sharing! Currently still in the process of creating habbits with the Capacities

Feel free to share your journey and ask question. I think you process can be a valuable resource for others :)

Yessss i too love having questions as seperate notes. It great

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That's how I use tags to create dossiers of different topics and areas. In this case: maps

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No screenshots today just some comments on process flow. Something I've been using more and more is living out of Daily Notes area and basically generating most content for each day there and of course turn it into what ever type of content it is from there. It's been a bit of an adjustment because I'm not used to working out of a day like that. Second thing I've been using a lot of is the Telegram integration to send any content, images, tweets, and notes into my daily notes while I'm on the go. You can add a hash tag to those Telegram messages, which is great. One idea I had today was to create a hashtag called Inbox. Basically anything I send into Capacities through Telegram I am adding the hashtag of Inbox. I pinned the Inbox tag to the top of my list of pins. I had been filing anything I add to Capacities into its proper location from the Daily Note but I was worried I would miss something from my daily notes and not really put it where it belongs and basically lose that content. So now I just go to my hashtag Inbox and if there is anything in there, I need to clean it up and get it out of my Inbox. I know Inboxes are not anything new, just something I hadn't thought about doing in Capacities until today. Just passing it along incase it would benefit anyone else. (edited)

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No screenshots today just some comments on process flow. Something I've been using more and more is living out of Daily Notes area and basically generating most content for each day there and of course turn it into what ever type of content it is from there. It's been a bit of an adjustment because I'm not used to working out of a day like that. Second thing I've been using a lot of is the Telegram integration to send any content, images, tweets, and notes into my daily notes while I'm on the go. You can add a hash tag to those Telegram messages, which is great. One idea I had today was to create a hashtag called Inbox. Basically anything I send into Capacities through Telegram I am adding the hashtag of Inbox. I pinned the Inbox tag to the top of my list of pins. I had been filing anything I add to Capacities into its proper location from the Daily Note but I was worried I would miss something from my daily notes and not really put it where it belongs and basically lose that content. So now I just go to my hashtag Inbox and if there is anything in there, I need to clean it up and get it out of my Inbox. I know Inboxes are not anything new, just something I hadn't thought about doing in Capacities until today. Just passing it along incase it would benefit anyone else. (edited)

Hmmm good idea. But to make that work I would need to add #inbox to every telegram message right? That's a bit cumbersome

phil

Hmmm good idea. But to make that work I would need to add #inbox to every telegram message right? That's a bit cumbersome

Yeah you do, wonder if there is a way to add it to the bot.

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We are actually working on a concept for a space-wide inbox for all types of input, pretty much like you described, @Fred Markle

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Until then we could add a default tag option to the settings for each integration, what do you think?

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If specified, this would add this tag to each message from this integration.

Michael_v_H

If specified, this would add this tag to each message from this integration.

I think that would be an awesome work around for now.

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We are actually working on a concept for a space-wide inbox for all types of input, pretty much like you described, @Fred Markle

Can't wait to see what this turns into.

phil

Hmmm good idea. But to make that work I would need to add #inbox to every telegram message right? That's a bit cumbersome

Good idea of the #inbox tag, will set up texpand on Android. https://www.texpandapp.com/ no hassle at all.

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Hmmm good idea. But to make that work I would need to add #inbox to every telegram message right? That's a bit cumbersome

Or use braintoss, that can be co figured

GijsEp

Good idea of the #inbox tag, will set up texpand on Android. https://www.texpandapp.com/ no hassle at all.

Thanks for the tip, I did setup an expand for now. I type "ii" and then it fills in #Inbox.

Michael_v_H

That's how I use tags to create dossiers of different topics and areas. In this case: maps

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Beautiful, gonna add that.

Just stumbled upon this and remembered your database :D

phil

Just stumbled upon this and remembered your database :D

I did watch the video you shared, quite interesting.

Fred Markle

Right now I am using pages to create my projects or a place to pull multiple things together. One thing I just realized is that you can embed the same database multiple times on a page but filter it differently and it saves the filtering. I have a Exercise Database by I wanted to see my Trial Runs separately from my Road Walks. So I just have the database embedded twice but filtered by the two different #tag.

@Fred Markle I've read through the comments here a couple of times but I'm missing something... you are showing a Page (so that is under your 'Pages' database) where you have embedded the database 'Exercise', is that correct? And then once the database is embedded you have been able to filter the display? I have created a database called 'Journals' and when I am in a Page and type '@' and then choose 'Journals' it presents me with a window listing all the entries in that database and then I can only choose one or create new. I'm missing something in this process, how do I embed the whole database?

@trexxy It's not possible to embed the whole database at the moment. You can only embed tags and collections

Steffen

@trexxy It's not possible to embed the whole database at the moment. You can only embed tags and collections

Ah thanks @Steffen, so in the example above Fred would have tagged the different types of exercise in his database and then embedded by those tags. Cheers

Yes, he has a Database called "Exercises" and every exercise is tagged. He then embeds these tags onto pages and filters them there

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Ah thanks @Steffen, so in the example above Fred would have tagged the different types of exercise in his database and then embedded by those tags. Cheers

@Steffen that's correct. Sorry if I wasn't clear before. But Steffen is exactly right.

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My personal workflow

I used to use obsidian but after several months and about 700 notes I was overwhelmed! It was cool because you could do everything, but it took a long time to add even one note. There were no logical links and no real interface to group your notes. That's when I found Capacities while doing research. I love the fact that you are free to create whatever you want and organise your workflow by having a software that will gather your notes, ideas and create views. So after thinking about it here is my workflow:

Dictionnary

I'm french so so I need to have the list of English words I'm discovering. but also French words (the categories are amazing for that). https://prnt.sc/dAFql_BJ8EK9 (edited)

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Quotes

https://prnt.sc/av8mmE_mIgzT

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Ideas

https://prnt.sc/K28iF58lJNqw

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Weblinks

https://prnt.sc/kRH93OljQI-U

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Pages

https://prnt.sc/l_h_ATjlyrPE the most important part because it gathers my lectures, my thoughts, and notes I take on a video/article. Here is an example with the last video I watched: I embed a definition with @ as well as a quote and a web link (edited)

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My personal workflow

I used to use obsidian but after several months and about 700 notes I was overwhelmed! It was cool because you could do everything, but it took a long time to add even one note. There were no logical links and no real interface to group your notes. That's when I found Capacities while doing research. I love the fact that you are free to create whatever you want and organise your workflow by having a software that will gather your notes, ideas and create views. So after thinking about it here is my workflow:

Dictionnary

I'm french so so I need to have the list of English words I'm discovering. but also French words (the categories are amazing for that). https://prnt.sc/dAFql_BJ8EK9 (edited)

This is really great @carab0uille! Happy to hear that you found a place that gives you structure

And great custom types, love the dictionary. I currently only have "zettels" but splitting that up into dictionary entries and evergreen "zettel" is a great idea. Thanks for the inspiration

And also, using collections to separate between languages is just genius!

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Can you guys give me some examples of how you use collections? I find myself still creating "collection notes" which is bad practice given the collection function, I guess.

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Can you guys give me some examples of how you use collections? I find myself still creating "collection notes" which is bad practice given the collection function, I guess.

Can't offer a perfect solution for this, but I use collections for long-term storage, kind of as a "best-of" in my databases. There still exists quite a bit of friction in the app when working with collections, the interactions are not ideal yet. But I'm currently working on this, and it will be much better with the next release (sneak peek on the screenshot above).

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My current dashboard

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My current dashboard

So cool, this is such a powerful setup! I can imagine using this in combination with the messenger integration to save on the go is super helpful. Thanks for sharing. In case somebody is wondering: Fred embeds tags on his dashboard page, you can do this by mentioning a tag at the beginning of a block and then turning it into an embed with the three dots on the right. He then uses filters to just show a subset of that tag.

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One other tip for today. If you make a page where you are trying to show a few summary view of a tag but filtered a few different ways. Like the example here. I made a page called Fitness. So I want to show anything related to my fitness tag. But I wanted to separate my tail runs from my road runs. But to make it look good and have the right title name above the embedded tables. Instead of embedding a Fitness tag and filtering it by TrailRun. Embed the TrailRun and filter it by Fitness that way the title is more clear. Otherwise the title would always be Fitness for each view. I hope this makes sense.

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I upgraded the book summary db with proprieties to make my own goodreads ! so i can sort my books by date etc..

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Going crazy with the new collection interaction.

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I think the new collection dropdown at the top removes a ton of friction when working with collections. This is how I process and collect my saved tweets and threads now. I find them almost always fitting in one of these collections and sometimes in two simultaneously. Organized this way, this database of threads is a super valuable asset for me and helps me find inspiration in any of these topics when I need it.

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Going crazy with the new collection interaction.

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I think the new collection dropdown at the top removes a ton of friction when working with collections. This is how I process and collect my saved tweets and threads now. I find them almost always fitting in one of these collections and sometimes in two simultaneously. Organized this way, this database of threads is a super valuable asset for me and helps me find inspiration in any of these topics when I need it.

Jesus so many tweets

Do you have a naming convention for your tags? When do you use camelCase, space, hyphen? (edited)

phil

Jesus so many tweets

Do you have a naming convention for your tags? When do you use camelCase, space, hyphen? (edited)

I have experimented with this over time (that's why it's still inconsistent in some places) but my convention now is to use CamelCase for multi-word tags (no spaces, no hyphens) and lower case for single words (not claiming that this makes the most sense, it's just how I do it). That way, when tagging via the messenger integration I never have to ask myself how to format a tag.

I think we have to add some features to properly manage large amounts of tags, some ideas so far (also based on many ideas from our users, thanks!!!

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ability to merge tags together
auto detect and display potential duplicates (so you don't have to actively look for tags that you probably want to merge)
namespaces (probably via collections of tags, so only one level deep... but maybe we'll figure out something else)
special mode in the graph view to visualize your network of tags (with sizes proportional to amount of tagged content)
better views to display the content of several tags at the same time (e. g., if you have a tag collection (= namespace) you can view the content of all tags together but grouped by each tag). Feel free to add your ideas

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I think we have to add some features to properly manage large amounts of tags, some ideas so far (also based on many ideas from our users, thanks!!!

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ability to merge tags together
auto detect and display potential duplicates (so you don't have to actively look for tags that you probably want to merge)
namespaces (probably via collections of tags, so only one level deep... but maybe we'll figure out something else)
special mode in the graph view to visualize your network of tags (with sizes proportional to amount of tagged content)
better views to display the content of several tags at the same time (e. g., if you have a tag collection (= namespace) you can view the content of all tags together but grouped by each tag). Feel free to add your ideas

Auto-detect duplicates would be amazing!

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Michael_v_H

I think we have to add some features to properly manage large amounts of tags, some ideas so far (also based on many ideas from our users, thanks!!!

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ability to merge tags together
auto detect and display potential duplicates (so you don't have to actively look for tags that you probably want to merge)
namespaces (probably via collections of tags, so only one level deep... but maybe we'll figure out something else)
special mode in the graph view to visualize your network of tags (with sizes proportional to amount of tagged content)
better views to display the content of several tags at the same time (e. g., if you have a tag collection (= namespace) you can view the content of all tags together but grouped by each tag). Feel free to add your ideas

Another idea from @cmjn:

What about tagging tags? Let's say I have a tag called "ecological economics": if I could tag it with my other tags "ecology" and "economics" it would enable a kind of hierarchical tags structure. Ideally all items tagged "ecological economics" would also appear under "ecology" and "economics". Maybe there's already a way to achieve the same behaviour?

https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001365576314261555/1016287121524408371 And @tatqoo

Pleas do not forget about the collections of tags. I use them to group the tags. The only place I have found them being useful yet is the selector, when you can filter the tags by collection.

https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001365576314261555/1016997020411629618 (edited)

Better tag management is always welcome, but my tags tend to describe transient aspects (polite way to say my tags are always a mess regardless). I use types and relations to describe topics when possible. (Kind of a lightweight graph because I'm still just exploring, but hope you get the idea)

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I am building up my database of architects and artists in capacities.

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I really like the possibility of embeding multiple YT videos on the dashboard and playing them with just one click. This is the page I use to play my own chiptune music in progress and officially released.

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I really like the possibility of embeding multiple YT videos on the dashboard and playing them with just one click. This is the page I use to play my own chiptune music in progress and officially released.

that's dang cool!

Michael_v_H

Another idea from @cmjn:

What about tagging tags? Let's say I have a tag called "ecological economics": if I could tag it with my other tags "ecology" and "economics" it would enable a kind of hierarchical tags structure. Ideally all items tagged "ecological economics" would also appear under "ecology" and "economics". Maybe there's already a way to achieve the same behaviour?

https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001365576314261555/1016287121524408371 And @tatqoo

Pleas do not forget about the collections of tags. I use them to group the tags. The only place I have found them being useful yet is the selector, when you can filter the tags by collection.

https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001365576314261555/1016997020411629618 (edited)

I personally would love to be able to group tags by type (edited)

Fred Markle

I personally would love to be able to group tags by type (edited)

Could you explain what you mean by that?

Steffen

Could you explain what you mean by that?

Oops, edited it. I meant group tags by type.

Fred Markle

Oops, edited it. I meant group tags by type.

Not sure if I understand: Every content type (e.g. page, book, etc.) get's its own set of tags?

Steffen

Not sure if I understand: Every content type (e.g. page, book, etc.) get's its own set of tags?

Like have a Tag group called "Technology" then under it have "Android" "Windows" "Linux". So tags Would be like Technology/Windows, Technology/Windows. Basically folders for tags

Fred Markle

Like have a Tag group called "Technology" then under it have "Android" "Windows" "Linux". So tags Would be like Technology/Windows, Technology/Windows. Basically folders for tags

I see! Nested tags or tag hierarchies. There is a ticket here: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/hierarchy-for-tags. We were just talking about that yesterday

Requests, ideas, bugs

Get an overview of requested features and ideas.

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I see! Nested tags or tag hierarchies. There is a ticket here: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/hierarchy-for-tags. We were just talking about that yesterday

...or collections please.

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Very primitive Kanban Board. I just was curious if I could do something like that

Not very practical, of course, but quite suitable for something simple

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Haha, great idea

love it! Here is the ticket for everybody waiting for it: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/kanban-view-for-databases

Requests, ideas, bugs

Get an overview of requested features and ideas.

How does everyone handle Areas in Capacities? Say I have 2 businesses, I can’t decide whether to just create a collection under pages for each business, or what to do. I feel having a collection for each business makes sense until I remember that I would end up having a multitude of collections in pages and that I couldn’t just click on an “Areas” button to see all areas of my life; business and personal. So would an Area tag be best in this case, or how does everyone else do it?

If possible you can create a space for all of them if no interconnection is necessary

Ambitendency

How does everyone handle Areas in Capacities? Say I have 2 businesses, I can’t decide whether to just create a collection under pages for each business, or what to do. I feel having a collection for each business makes sense until I remember that I would end up having a multitude of collections in pages and that I couldn’t just click on an “Areas” button to see all areas of my life; business and personal. So would an Area tag be best in this case, or how does everyone else do it?

You could create a page "Areas" as a starting point for all your Areas and pin it to the sidebar (see image below). In those areas you can embed or link to pages from other databases or tags that are relevant for this area. (edited)

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You could create a page "Areas" as a starting point for all your Areas and pin it to the sidebar (see image below). In those areas you can embed or link to pages from other databases or tags that are relevant for this area. (edited)

Hey thanks for this, much appreciated

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Quite happy atm

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That's what my "Library" looks like after the update, a beautiful place to take notes on books.

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Steffen

That's what my "Library" looks like after the update, a beautiful place to take notes on books.

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Beautiful!!!

Michael_v_H

Another idea from @cmjn:

What about tagging tags? Let's say I have a tag called "ecological economics": if I could tag it with my other tags "ecology" and "economics" it would enable a kind of hierarchical tags structure. Ideally all items tagged "ecological economics" would also appear under "ecology" and "economics". Maybe there's already a way to achieve the same behaviour?

https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001365576314261555/1016287121524408371 And @tatqoo

Pleas do not forget about the collections of tags. I use them to group the tags. The only place I have found them being useful yet is the selector, when you can filter the tags by collection.

https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001365576314261555/1016997020411629618 (edited)

I found dot syntax for joining tags a nice solution in other apps.

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This is how I store my "historic people" with a focus on arts and architecture

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This is how I store my "historic people" with a focus on arts and architecture

I love this and have a similar setup! The only thing that would make it even nicer to me would be to be able to display a page's description under its title (or a property like dates)

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Making use of the wide layout for my notes on architectural styles.

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Hi! I am very excited to use Capacities. I did this thread on twitter just showing a few uses for now

https://twitter.com/linabellsmith/status/1594063997929914368?t=_uPuYqZRnZK3qnSyTuCgVg&s=19

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Here is also a few screenshots of my setup so far

: As my notetaking tool, Bookmarks Manager, digital Recipes, books Library, Journaling, my Brain Dump and so much more

still working on it

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I'm speechless, so much inspiration

bendylina

Here is also a few screenshots of my setup so far

: As my notetaking tool, Bookmarks Manager, digital Recipes, books Library, Journaling, my Brain Dump and so much more

still working on it

This is so cool, thanks so much for sharing!! I also found some really cool inspirations, love the "Brain dump type" that you categorize in collections

In case, your question in the screenshot are not answered, feel free to ask them here

Steffen

This is so cool, thanks so much for sharing!! I also found some really cool inspirations, love the "Brain dump type" that you categorize in collections

In case, your question in the screenshot are not answered, feel free to ask them here

Thank u!!

I will

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Hi! I am very excited to use Capacities. I did this thread on twitter just showing a few uses for now

https://twitter.com/linabellsmith/status/1594063997929914368?t=_uPuYqZRnZK3qnSyTuCgVg&s=19

This looks like a lot of work to keep updated. Don't you need to update each collection by hand when your create something new? (edited)

bendylina

Here is also a few screenshots of my setup so far

: As my notetaking tool, Bookmarks Manager, digital Recipes, books Library, Journaling, my Brain Dump and so much more

still working on it

You have a totally different approach for the use of databases than me. It feels to me u are using them more as folders?

@📝Anna I was trying to use it in the regular way but I didnt like it so I change it a bit. for some dbs. For Content types I Just choose a big topic that made sense to me and think for the collections as folders that will have information with similar values around it. For instance My Brain Dump type has different collections like ideas, questions, archive etc I used ideas & questions as Collections instead of types because for me their fields will be similar. I Just needed a Tittle and space to add the info. If I want to write more about that idea I Just turn it into a page so I know it will be stored as well in the main DB for Pages. But if is an idea or question I already finished I Just change it to my Archive collection so I make sure I have a cleaner space. Not sure if that makes sense (not a native english speaker

) I am still doing changes to this and trying to find the best way that makes sense to the way I work. @phil for updating I dont really complicate myself I Just use the search function a lot and update it from there. At the end they are all connected with the tags I use. This will not for for everybody but my idea for now is to keep making changes until I find the best way for me. I will show the end results and the changes I did once I finish migrating my notes. I hope it helps with inspiration

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In love with the new set of icons, thanks !

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@Anna Looks good

do you have only one Space? Am just thinking hard to separate private and business topics...

Nop just one.

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I find it easier like that.

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Also it's my own business so less a problem

makes sense.

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makes sense.

Have you decided yet ?

@Anna Yes, I will also use only 1 Space for now. Although it creates some noise. This is how the databases look, in alphabetical order

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Nice !

Wowa

@Anna Yes, I will also use only 1 Space for now. Although it creates some noise. This is how the databases look, in alphabetical order

Wines

great setup!

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Hey, guys! I'm playing with Capacities and I'm sending you some inspirations how you can hack Capacities to get what you want before it's officially developed by the team

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By the way, in the future, it could be a nice feature to transfer columns to tables and vice versa.

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Another reason why i love Capacities is ability to edit bookmarks Seems like a small thing but it really saves ton of time, when you save something useful, and come back to the topic later + you never know when some tool can be helpful, and having ability to add your own search terms like tags or text for every thing you find on internet is just amazing! (edited)

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Another reason why i love Capacities is ability to edit bookmarks Seems like a small thing but it really saves ton of time, when you save something useful, and come back to the topic later + you never know when some tool can be helpful, and having ability to add your own search terms like tags or text for every thing you find on internet is just amazing! (edited)

100% agree, thanks for sharing! We'll add a lot more power to the web link in the future

Not perfect but I created a stack of books to read (Pile A Lire -> PAL in french) https://app.capacities.io/home/320d7152-7c35-49e9-b72e-19fe022ad3dd

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Had some problems to share before, hope it's fine

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Had some problems to share before, hope it's fine

I cannot see any entries.

oh still ?

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Some other people can see everything

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Not perfect but I created a stack of books to read (Pile A Lire -> PAL in french) https://app.capacities.io/home/320d7152-7c35-49e9-b72e-19fe022ad3dd

Nice! For me it works

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Capacities is very helpfull because at one point I can make a connection to a note with all the volume in a saga (sometimes there is 30 books on a serie and it's really hard to know where I am) and in the same time I can log when I finish the books etc. (edited)

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Capacities is very helpfull because at one point I can make a connection to a note with all the volume in a saga (sometimes there is 30 books on a serie and it's really hard to know where I am) and in the same time I can log when I finish the books etc. (edited)

So cool!! Thanks for sharing

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Almost done with my setup - inclusive daily starter page template and custom css (pimp my capacities

Yeah!). I am quite satisfied so far, especially with the new property setups which gave me sooo much freedom to individualise the way I want to use it. More databases will come with time, I am sure. And the new sub- tags (like "Rating") give me the opportunity to add more custom property's to web links for example. Just have to make a new database, add weblink, add Rating and it turns into a software collection. Same thing for book lists maybe I collect usually dozens of web links/bookmarks - (I am like a internet-messy)

everything I see and found interesting, landed until now in dozen of bookmark folders in chrome / raindrop- where I never touched them again. Now, I never have to worry again where to put the piece of information. And that is why I really like about this concept.

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Almost done with my setup - inclusive daily starter page template and custom css (pimp my capacities

Yeah!). I am quite satisfied so far, especially with the new property setups which gave me sooo much freedom to individualise the way I want to use it. More databases will come with time, I am sure. And the new sub- tags (like "Rating") give me the opportunity to add more custom property's to web links for example. Just have to make a new database, add weblink, add Rating and it turns into a software collection. Same thing for book lists maybe I collect usually dozens of web links/bookmarks - (I am like a internet-messy)

everything I see and found interesting, landed until now in dozen of bookmark folders in chrome / raindrop- where I never touched them again. Now, I never have to worry again where to put the piece of information. And that is why I really like about this concept.

Very impressive! Thanks for sharing.... can you expand on how you are using daily starter page template and custom css? I like the sounds (and look) of that!

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Almost done with my setup - inclusive daily starter page template and custom css (pimp my capacities

Yeah!). I am quite satisfied so far, especially with the new property setups which gave me sooo much freedom to individualise the way I want to use it. More databases will come with time, I am sure. And the new sub- tags (like "Rating") give me the opportunity to add more custom property's to web links for example. Just have to make a new database, add weblink, add Rating and it turns into a software collection. Same thing for book lists maybe I collect usually dozens of web links/bookmarks - (I am like a internet-messy)

everything I see and found interesting, landed until now in dozen of bookmark folders in chrome / raindrop- where I never touched them again. Now, I never have to worry again where to put the piece of information. And that is why I really like about this concept.

That's incredible! Thanks so much for sharing

We are currently working on a use case section (more on this coming soon). I will try to convince you to put this into an article so we can publish it there once it's ready

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Very impressive! Thanks for sharing.... can you expand on how you are using daily starter page template and custom css? I like the sounds (and look) of that!

Sure, (not sure if the template functionality is a believer function?!?). For the custom CSS I use a browser extension "Stylus" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne. It is a simple CSS injection extension - I believe there are better ones out there - but for my purposes it is enough. (and besides, I am not very familiar with CSS). The difficult part is to get the right classifiers (which part I want to change - and how the guys have named it :)- therefore I just used the developer tools which is in every browser included. If you want to know more about that - I can go more in detail. I didn't changed much- the font (its is Quicksand Semibold - a Google Font) and I added box-shadow which gives a little more depth). The rest is grouping and apply background colors to the blocks (edited)

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Sure, (not sure if the template functionality is a believer function?!?). For the custom CSS I use a browser extension "Stylus" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne. It is a simple CSS injection extension - I believe there are better ones out there - but for my purposes it is enough. (and besides, I am not very familiar with CSS). The difficult part is to get the right classifiers (which part I want to change - and how the guys have named it :)- therefore I just used the developer tools which is in every browser included. If you want to know more about that - I can go more in detail. I didn't changed much- the font (its is Quicksand Semibold - a Google Font) and I added box-shadow which gives a little more depth). The rest is grouping and apply background colors to the blocks (edited)

Good to know! Thank you!

I'm definitely enjoying Capacities for its ability to represent data as it is in reality. I can easily make myself "virtual inventories" of basically anything, especially with custom content types, I don't think I even fully understand how deep this goes yet And since I'm using Capacities for more of a "vault" than just some "scratch paper notes", I'm only really tracking goals and intermediate milestones (objectives) to keep my mind really focused on where I'm going and out of all the other apps I've tried in pursuit of this, I don't think any of them let me display dynamic data so easily... Capacities is a dream

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I'm definitely enjoying Capacities for its ability to represent data as it is in reality. I can easily make myself "virtual inventories" of basically anything, especially with custom content types, I don't think I even fully understand how deep this goes yet And since I'm using Capacities for more of a "vault" than just some "scratch paper notes", I'm only really tracking goals and intermediate milestones (objectives) to keep my mind really focused on where I'm going and out of all the other apps I've tried in pursuit of this, I don't think any of them let me display dynamic data so easily... Capacities is a dream

So much inspiration!! That looks really cool, thanks for sharing

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The advice I as given the other day for organizing video game info is working out well.

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I send the Goodreads link via Whatsapp then I convert the weblink into a "book", this hel me to catch a lot of metadata fast (edited)

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Not for all but for some novel that are complex I create a collection for the words and definitions of that book, also a collection in my image database

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and I link everything in the book. Also my reading journal, I have a database and I will filter that by the book names inside that page (edited)

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(I'm between a heavy reader and a avid book collector ...)

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That’s so cool! Love how you brought the collections onto the page.

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Thanks !

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That's not perfect but it's working

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And it's really helpfull for the long long long saga I'm on. To follow on places, peoples and worldbuilding !

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And maybe it can be a sort of inspiration for other ^^

How do you get backlinks to show on the side like in the image above?

GunnersaurusFlex

How do you get backlinks to show on the side like in the image above?

As a believer you can customize the layout of your objects (https://docs.capacities.io/reference/page-layouts) (edited)

Capacities Docs

Speaking of layouts, I'm enjoying the card layout so much I made a "Card" type specifically for the placeholders that are just a name and brief description. Then when I figure out what to do with it I change types.

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📱 Demetri Panici - Productivity / Notion Coach

Capacities.io - BETTER than Notion

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Love seeing Productivity YouTubers discover Capacities - can't wait for someone to go deep and push it to its limits and see how it can be used, Shu Omi has been doing this for AmpleNote and it's super powerful!

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Cool, thanks for sharing!

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Looking fantastique

Im curious, whats behind your pinned entries "weekly" and how did you pin them ? Thx

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Looking fantastique

Im curious, whats behind your pinned entries "weekly" and how did you pin them ? Thx

Hello, I use this tag for my weekly review. It's pretty simple. I add it to my daily note, the day I do my weekly review. Like that I can see in one clic all my review.

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To pin it, just go on the tag itself and then click on the pin ^^

Starting to get a hang of capacities, spending way too much time on this app

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Starting to get a hang of capacities, spending way too much time on this app

That looks great, thank you! How are you currently handling your tasks in the dashboard? I assume that you just delete them when done?

I just move them to the done tag, as it gives me motivation seeing the number in done increasing (weird reason, but yea)

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I just move them to the done tag, as it gives me motivation seeing the number in done increasing (weird reason, but yea)

Does that mean you can move between two tags via drag and drop on the dashboard page? How did you do that?

I actually click into the tag and change the tag by itself as the drag and drop doesn't work (I think, I am not sure)

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You could create a page "Areas" as a starting point for all your Areas and pin it to the sidebar (see image below). In those areas you can embed or link to pages from other databases or tags that are relevant for this area. (edited)

This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks G

Botwin

Sure, (not sure if the template functionality is a believer function?!?). For the custom CSS I use a browser extension "Stylus" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne. It is a simple CSS injection extension - I believe there are better ones out there - but for my purposes it is enough. (and besides, I am not very familiar with CSS). The difficult part is to get the right classifiers (which part I want to change - and how the guys have named it :)- therefore I just used the developer tools which is in every browser included. If you want to know more about that - I can go more in detail. I didn't changed much- the font (its is Quicksand Semibold - a Google Font) and I added box-shadow which gives a little more depth). The rest is grouping and apply background colors to the blocks (edited)

Can we use this method in the app too? The app is a browser after all.

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This is my daily journal template.

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This is my daily journal template.

This looks so amazing!!

Hi, I was wondering if some of you would like to share how you use capacities for research, how you organize your papers, summaries, etc and your workflow for using the info gathered to write a paper

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Hi, I was wondering if some of you would like to share how you use capacities for research, how you organize your papers, summaries, etc and your workflow for using the info gathered to write a paper

I’ve written a bit about this on medium and should have a YouTube video up in May about it (PKMBeth on both) In a nutshell, I recommend organising your papers elsewhere (zotero), reading elsewhere (logseq/obsidian/anything with the ability to annotate PDFs) and then summarise and bring that into Capacities in a media/reading/article content type. That means ideally anything academic in capacities is referenced (zotero) and summarised (another app). You can then break that info into its component parts (eg events, people, theories which for me each have their own content type and properties) and develop them individually with other inputs from other reading to build up an understanding of that content. You can use the search, back links, graph etc to start planning your papers knowing that everything is referenced info. I write out what I can to answer the essay question first, then review some of my previous summaries/notes on related topics/reading/people etc to start me off, and then update my essay with what I’ve found through reviewing, and I repeat this until I have structure or some knowledge gaps to fill. I can see those gaps and then use that to target future reading, and the loop starts again. Hope that makes some kind of sense

pkmbeth

I’ve written a bit about this on medium and should have a YouTube video up in May about it (PKMBeth on both) In a nutshell, I recommend organising your papers elsewhere (zotero), reading elsewhere (logseq/obsidian/anything with the ability to annotate PDFs) and then summarise and bring that into Capacities in a media/reading/article content type. That means ideally anything academic in capacities is referenced (zotero) and summarised (another app). You can then break that info into its component parts (eg events, people, theories which for me each have their own content type and properties) and develop them individually with other inputs from other reading to build up an understanding of that content. You can use the search, back links, graph etc to start planning your papers knowing that everything is referenced info. I write out what I can to answer the essay question first, then review some of my previous summaries/notes on related topics/reading/people etc to start me off, and then update my essay with what I’ve found through reviewing, and I repeat this until I have structure or some knowledge gaps to fill. I can see those gaps and then use that to target future reading, and the loop starts again. Hope that makes some kind of sense

Nice. But contrastingly, I’m using Capacities for everything these days.

Any nice article or paper I want to read, post the link in capacities. Add inbox tag.
Go through my inbox tag daily. Read and summarise these articles. Add a new tag literature-notes
Go through my literature notes, create permanent notes from the literature notes. Find connections with existing notes in the system. Remove the tag literature notes as I’m done with the article.
Add references in my permanent note to the literature note or weblink so that I can refer back if I find any gaps.

Still tweaking, but so far working fine for me. (edited)

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Nice. But contrastingly, I’m using Capacities for everything these days.

Any nice article or paper I want to read, post the link in capacities. Add inbox tag.
Go through my inbox tag daily. Read and summarise these articles. Add a new tag literature-notes
Go through my literature notes, create permanent notes from the literature notes. Find connections with existing notes in the system. Remove the tag literature notes as I’m done with the article.
Add references in my permanent note to the literature note or weblink so that I can refer back if I find any gaps.

Still tweaking, but so far working fine for me. (edited)

Amazing, thanks for sharing! I love hearing about people’s workflows

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How you make the collections get on the page?

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How you make the collections get on the page?

you can do so by typing @collections/

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Hey All! Thought I would get a little discussion going. What are some of your custom Object types? For me, I created an object type called Mental Models, which allows me to have a virtual rolodex of them, and then reference them in other notes, allowing for a quick trip back to said mental model if I am reviewing the note in the future but can't quite remember the mental model.

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@Steffen - Do you envision users being able to share custom objects at some point down the road?

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you can do so by typing @collections/

holy frick didnt know you could do this

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@Steffen - Do you envision users being able to share custom objects at some point down the road?

Yes absolutely! Already now, if you share them with us via email we’re happy to add them to the object studio

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Hello! I recently watched a video on capacities and it gave me some really good ideas, especially for a little daily log that gets embedded into each daily note:

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I thought I would share in case anyone else finds this useful!! It’s super adaptable and I’m still playing around with it

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This is the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rww31js6vbU&feature=share

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My Life in ONE App (spoiler: it’s not Notion)

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I thought I would share in case anyone else finds this useful!! It’s super adaptable and I’m still playing around with it

That’s amazing !!

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Hello! I recently watched a video on capacities and it gave me some really good ideas, especially for a little daily log that gets embedded into each daily note:

nice! really she has the grasp of the particularities. and it always helps comparing structuring styles. hers is somewhat different from mine – but I think I will really try out her pointer of using properties for a kind of bullet journaling section in daily notes; and then have the options for a list / table overview of some parameters / fields! ... one thing noteworthy: while she gives like a widescope run-through there is no mention of the right stacking-/split view rightbar whatsoever, and while she mentions the graph, there is no real active use of it...

... made me wonder, whether there are any reviews mentioning / describing pro-active use of right stack-bar or graph... and if not what to make of that...

réka

This is the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rww31js6vbU&feature=share

hey that’s me! thanks for sharing the vid!

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hey that’s me! thanks for sharing the vid!

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Aaa yay! I love your videos!! I discovered capacities a couple months ago thanks to you

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Really excited to dive into Capacities after using it the past couple months consistently I feel that it is now a permanent digital home. I love to see your showcases since they inspire me, so I figured I want to share how I'm setting up my daily page. I wanted to separate the daily note as a daily inbox - I use Telegram to capture all links, podcasts, images, quick notes & tags on my iPhone. Then as a separate page to make things cleaner - I facilitated a daily page database. It is a tracking page for everything which links to the month & week. I track the cycles & all that I am learning, creating, whom I'm connecting with. It's so cool to see how everything is connected and to find patterns over time by assessing your thoughts & actions. I like the index card feature to have the database info on the left and an interstitial journal on the right. Really loving this layout so far.

Do you use a daily page? If so, what do you like to keep track of everyday? (edited)

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Hello! I recently watched a video on capacities and it gave me some really good ideas, especially for a little daily log that gets embedded into each daily note:

I like how simple this layout is!

denadoolin

Really excited to dive into Capacities after using it the past couple months consistently I feel that it is now a permanent digital home. I love to see your showcases since they inspire me, so I figured I want to share how I'm setting up my daily page. I wanted to separate the daily note as a daily inbox - I use Telegram to capture all links, podcasts, images, quick notes & tags on my iPhone. Then as a separate page to make things cleaner - I facilitated a daily page database. It is a tracking page for everything which links to the month & week. I track the cycles & all that I am learning, creating, whom I'm connecting with. It's so cool to see how everything is connected and to find patterns over time by assessing your thoughts & actions. I like the index card feature to have the database info on the left and an interstitial journal on the right. Really loving this layout so far.

Do you use a daily page? If so, what do you like to keep track of everyday? (edited)

This is SUCH a good idea!! I’m definitely taking inspo from this as well. I especially like how you make a separate daily page - i find my daily notes get super messy as I collect things through the day so this would pretty much solve that issue. Do you have an object for the year? Or how do you separate each month? I find it so interesting to see how everyone has different setups that work for them!

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denadoolin

Really excited to dive into Capacities after using it the past couple months consistently I feel that it is now a permanent digital home. I love to see your showcases since they inspire me, so I figured I want to share how I'm setting up my daily page. I wanted to separate the daily note as a daily inbox - I use Telegram to capture all links, podcasts, images, quick notes & tags on my iPhone. Then as a separate page to make things cleaner - I facilitated a daily page database. It is a tracking page for everything which links to the month & week. I track the cycles & all that I am learning, creating, whom I'm connecting with. It's so cool to see how everything is connected and to find patterns over time by assessing your thoughts & actions. I like the index card feature to have the database info on the left and an interstitial journal on the right. Really loving this layout so far.

Do you use a daily page? If so, what do you like to keep track of everyday? (edited)

So beautiful

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This is SUCH a good idea!! I’m definitely taking inspo from this as well. I especially like how you make a separate daily page - i find my daily notes get super messy as I collect things through the day so this would pretty much solve that issue. Do you have an object for the year? Or how do you separate each month? I find it so interesting to see how everyone has different setups that work for them!

Oh cool, thanks! I'm so glad it inspired you too! I hope separating the pages will work better for you, as well! I just discovered that today, so it's totally a game changer!! So, to answer your question - each object is separated by month but it's titled 2023 - then each page is titled by Month and each collection is Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4. The weeks & daily pages are separate objects as well which then pulls into the daily page database. I'm not exactly sure how I want to create collections for them yet - but so far I think titling the Weeks/Days (Objects) by Month (Collection) might help. I love the visuals and am customizing it right now and can't wait to share more! Let me know what inspires or you would like to see more of. I'm excited to share more and doing a deep dive over on my medium blog next!

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So beautiful

Thanks Beth! Your blogs & youtube videos inspired me a lot!

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Oh cool, thanks! I'm so glad it inspired you too! I hope separating the pages will work better for you, as well! I just discovered that today, so it's totally a game changer!! So, to answer your question - each object is separated by month but it's titled 2023 - then each page is titled by Month and each collection is Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4. The weeks & daily pages are separate objects as well which then pulls into the daily page database. I'm not exactly sure how I want to create collections for them yet - but so far I think titling the Weeks/Days (Objects) by Month (Collection) might help. I love the visuals and am customizing it right now and can't wait to share more! Let me know what inspires or you would like to see more of. I'm excited to share more and doing a deep dive over on my medium blog next!

This is amazing! I had a very similar setup in Notion but I hadn’t had the time to wrap my head around doing the same in capacities and you’ve just helped me have a major lightbulb moment!! Also your setup is just so pretty

I’m wondering how did you get the little icons by the month? Like a rainbow for March? I think I’m missing something

I will definitely check your article out on medium, please share when it’s up!!

réka

This is amazing! I had a very similar setup in Notion but I hadn’t had the time to wrap my head around doing the same in capacities and you’ve just helped me have a major lightbulb moment!! Also your setup is just so pretty

I’m wondering how did you get the little icons by the month? Like a rainbow for March? I think I’m missing something

I will definitely check your article out on medium, please share when it’s up!!

Oh yeah, I know what you mean and glad this sparked some ideas for you too! It's so much easier to set up a monthly overview in Capacities. Especially after I tried doing the same thing in Notion a while back but it was too cumbersome to maintain!

To answer your question about icons, here's a screenshot of the Month Properties. There's an option to add icons and cover images to a content type property. Go to the settings of the object/content type and adding it there or also directly on the page will work.

Of course, I'll definitely share a lot more tips and showcase my Capacities article here and on Twitter once it's up

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Oh yeah, I know what you mean and glad this sparked some ideas for you too! It's so much easier to set up a monthly overview in Capacities. Especially after I tried doing the same thing in Notion a while back but it was too cumbersome to maintain!

To answer your question about icons, here's a screenshot of the Month Properties. There's an option to add icons and cover images to a content type property. Go to the settings of the object/content type and adding it there or also directly on the page will work.

Of course, I'll definitely share a lot more tips and showcase my Capacities article here and on Twitter once it's up

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Ah this makes sense, thank you so much for explaining!!

lerone

nice! really she has the grasp of the particularities. and it always helps comparing structuring styles. hers is somewhat different from mine – but I think I will really try out her pointer of using properties for a kind of bullet journaling section in daily notes; and then have the options for a list / table overview of some parameters / fields! ... one thing noteworthy: while she gives like a widescope run-through there is no mention of the right stacking-/split view rightbar whatsoever, and while she mentions the graph, there is no real active use of it...

... made me wonder, whether there are any reviews mentioning / describing pro-active use of right stack-bar or graph... and if not what to make of that...

Also I think @pkmbeth has written an article about the capacities graph! But I do agree I haven’t seen much discussion around it/ the right bar

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Oh yeah, I know what you mean and glad this sparked some ideas for you too! It's so much easier to set up a monthly overview in Capacities. Especially after I tried doing the same thing in Notion a while back but it was too cumbersome to maintain!

To answer your question about icons, here's a screenshot of the Month Properties. There's an option to add icons and cover images to a content type property. Go to the settings of the object/content type and adding it there or also directly on the page will work.

Of course, I'll definitely share a lot more tips and showcase my Capacities article here and on Twitter once it's up

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This is a cool idea, it looks so clean and minimalistic. Is it sort of like bullet journaling?

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hey that’s me! thanks for sharing the vid!

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The video was really good! I hope I can edit videos as well as yours one day! (edited)

Ashwath Singh

This is a cool idea, it looks so clean and minimalistic. Is it sort of like bullet journaling?

Yeah the concept is interstitial journaling. A mix between progress journal and bullet journal. Love how Capacities makes it easy to journal with time stamps.

denadoolin

Yeah the concept is interstitial journaling. A mix between progress journal and bullet journal. Love how Capacities makes it easy to journal with time stamps.

Oh that's cool, I'll explore that a bit more always wanted to try Bullet Journalling and the other journalling types. Capacities does have a really good system to deal with times, it helped me a lot with active recall, always cool to see other ways to use time stamps!

denadoolin

Really excited to dive into Capacities after using it the past couple months consistently I feel that it is now a permanent digital home. I love to see your showcases since they inspire me, so I figured I want to share how I'm setting up my daily page. I wanted to separate the daily note as a daily inbox - I use Telegram to capture all links, podcasts, images, quick notes & tags on my iPhone. Then as a separate page to make things cleaner - I facilitated a daily page database. It is a tracking page for everything which links to the month & week. I track the cycles & all that I am learning, creating, whom I'm connecting with. It's so cool to see how everything is connected and to find patterns over time by assessing your thoughts & actions. I like the index card feature to have the database info on the left and an interstitial journal on the right. Really loving this layout so far.

Do you use a daily page? If so, what do you like to keep track of everyday? (edited)

Hello - I have another question about your beautiful layout! I cannot for the life of me figure out how you got the different looking toggle next to your "interstitial journal" heading, and your "daily reflection" section.. is this another way of nesting content? thank you :))

réka

Hello - I have another question about your beautiful layout! I cannot for the life of me figure out how you got the different looking toggle next to your "interstitial journal" heading, and your "daily reflection" section.. is this another way of nesting content? thank you :))

Seems like the icon pack for believers

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Seems like the icon pack for believers

Oh that’s not what I meant! I meant the little drop down icon- I’m not sure if it’s a different type of toggle or just an icon. I’ve screenshotted and attached below

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@boonikad9300 - I’m also curious about what is highlighted in green by @réka

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@boonikad9300 - I’m also curious about what is highlighted in green by @réka

Oh, this is what you get when you add multiple content blocks inside the content type settings of an object!

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my meeting note object

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so you can use this approach to give your content some more 'predefined' structure!

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Oh, this is what you get when you add multiple content blocks inside the content type settings of an object!

Oh amazing thank you so much for explaining!! This makes formatting a lot more versatile

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Oh that’s not what I meant! I meant the little drop down icon- I’m not sure if it’s a different type of toggle or just an icon. I’ve screenshotted and attached below

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Yeah what @boonikad9300 said

A block property turns into a toggle underneath which is really nice to format and separate content. When you go to a gallery view, you can see that block on each page which is fascinating! Here's an example if you want to have a daily reflection block - you can see it from the gallery view or even view the block in a wide embed! (edited)

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Alright y'all, hope you enjoy this article I wrote about Capacities

https://medium.com/@denadoolin/how-to-optimize-your-pkm-workflow-with-capacities-in-5-steps-1826331ddc7c

How to Optimize Your PKM Workflow with Capacities in 5 Steps

Capture, collect, customize, connect & create

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Alright y'all, hope you enjoy this article I wrote about Capacities

https://medium.com/@denadoolin/how-to-optimize-your-pkm-workflow-with-capacities-in-5-steps-1826331ddc7c

Very well done!

Congrats, @denadoolin

And thanks so much for writing about Capacities

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Steffen

Very well done!

Congrats, @denadoolin

And thanks so much for writing about Capacities

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Thanks Steffen!

Looking forward to future updates & sharing more about Capacities and how amazing it is!!

You guys rock!

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This is the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rww31js6vbU&feature=share

This is a great video, even for folks who feel they already know how to use Capacities.

Congrats on launching the course @pkmbeth - awesome stuff! https://toolacademy.xyz/learn-capacities/

Capacities Made Simple

Learn how to take advantage of Capacities and how it works from beginner to advanced.

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Congrats on launching the course @pkmbeth - awesome stuff! https://toolacademy.xyz/learn-capacities/

Thank you!!

boonikad9300

empty meeting note object

@Steffen / @Michael_v_H - I started to emulate this approach today and LOVE the visualization and functionality for easily organizing and collapsing content structure. Can this exact implementation please be either the default toggle format or at least added as a toggle format option (similar to List) , as I’d love to use it more widely?

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denadoolin

Yeah what @boonikad9300 said

A block property turns into a toggle underneath which is really nice to format and separate content. When you go to a gallery view, you can see that block on each page which is fascinating! Here's an example if you want to have a daily reflection block - you can see it from the gallery view or even view the block in a wide embed! (edited)

gorgeous

How are people using Daily Notes? I created a daily log object because I need the table view for metrics... but now I can't think of a use case for daily notes other than quick jots since other 'templates' could be in my Journals object or other respective objects.

𝚖𝚘𝚌𝚑𝚊-𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗

How are people using Daily Notes? I created a daily log object because I need the table view for metrics... but now I can't think of a use case for daily notes other than quick jots since other 'templates' could be in my Journals object or other respective objects.

I use it similar to the way Craft or Agenda uses the day-in-review, like a meeting and conversation tracker. Keeping my fingers crossed for Calendar integration.

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𝚖𝚘𝚌𝚑𝚊-𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗

How are people using Daily Notes? I created a daily log object because I need the table view for metrics... but now I can't think of a use case for daily notes other than quick jots since other 'templates' could be in my Journals object or other respective objects.

I use it sort of bullet journal style. I jot down thoughts and tasks as needed.

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𝚖𝚘𝚌𝚑𝚊-𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗

How are people using Daily Notes? I created a daily log object because I need the table view for metrics... but now I can't think of a use case for daily notes other than quick jots since other 'templates' could be in my Journals object or other respective objects.

I use it as a scratchpad. I drop links from the day and then jot down random thoughts, almost like fleeting notes. I'll tag it with "to process" if I think I'll want to make more of it later. At least that's the system I came up with last night. Lol. It's a work in progress.

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𝚖𝚘𝚌𝚑𝚊-𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗

How are people using Daily Notes? I created a daily log object because I need the table view for metrics... but now I can't think of a use case for daily notes other than quick jots since other 'templates' could be in my Journals object or other respective objects.

It’s so convenient to just note everything down in the daily without worrying about types and folders.

right now every doc starts at the daily notes for me

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It’s so convenient to just note everything down in the daily without worrying about types and folders.

right now every doc starts at the daily notes for me

Yes! I really like that you can just copy relevant blocks and "turn into" whatever Object I want. I didn't think that option would be a gamechanger...but apparently it is.

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nicolost

Congrats on launching the course @pkmbeth - awesome stuff! https://toolacademy.xyz/learn-capacities/

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Just went through the course @pkmbeth and it was great! It was SOOO helpful in getting up and running. Great job!

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Pablx

Just went through the course @pkmbeth and it was great! It was SOOO helpful in getting up and running. Great job!

Wow thank you!! Glad you liked it.

I'm hoping to run the course today too despite already knowing my way around okay

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I did the course as well - my setup was about 95% done but the course helped me iron out the final details! So I do recommend going through the course to people who are already more well-versed in Capacities, and not just beginners

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I did the course as well - my setup was about 95% done but the course helped me iron out the final details! So I do recommend going through the course to people who are already more well-versed in Capacities, and not just beginners

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So glad to hear this!! Thank you

pkmbeth

So glad to hear this!! Thank you

no problem!! thank you for all your hard work and capacities inspo ⭐️ I am not a very techy person and you've made capacities so easy to get my head around

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no problem!! thank you for all your hard work and capacities inspo ⭐️ I am not a very techy person and you've made capacities so easy to get my head around

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It’s ok! I’m not techy either (what is an api…) so I really just want to lower the barrier to entry of PKM/capacities/digital systems in general. Work in progress!

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is that course all done by you, @pkmbeth ?

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or are some lessons with other people?

Kadas

is that course all done by you, @pkmbeth ?

All me

good, I'll gladly take a stab then

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Hi everyone! I'm really curious how people organise their quotes. I started by creating a content type for quotes, but I can also see the benefit of using tags so that I can tag quotes within certain content types. My use case is that I'm a (fiction) writer and I like to collect quotes that are particularly instructional or interesting.

frenchroll5

Hi everyone! I'm really curious how people organise their quotes. I started by creating a content type for quotes, but I can also see the benefit of using tags so that I can tag quotes within certain content types. My use case is that I'm a (fiction) writer and I like to collect quotes that are particularly instructional or interesting.

I'm using a tag for quotes, started with an object but noticed during my daily workflow I need the flexibility of the tag

I use it mostly for my literature notes: 1. reading a book on my iPad 2. highlighting interesting parts 3. import to capacities 4. Tag content blocks: (edited)

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Hi everyone! I'm really curious how people organise their quotes. I started by creating a content type for quotes, but I can also see the benefit of using tags so that I can tag quotes within certain content types. My use case is that I'm a (fiction) writer and I like to collect quotes that are particularly instructional or interesting.

I have a very basic object for quotes. I just add the author and tags, so I can filter the database for either a specific quote from an author or for a certain topic.

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Gonzales Gee

I have a very basic object for quotes. I just add the author and tags, so I can filter the database for either a specific quote from an author or for a certain topic.

Same here

Steffen

Same here

do you have the author as a field? I'd like to embed the quote and see the author, but it doesn't show it in any views as a field

𝚖𝚘𝚌𝚑𝚊-𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗

do you have the author as a field? I'd like to embed the quote and see the author, but it doesn't show it in any views as a field

Yes, exactly. Making them visible is a planned feature

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I have a very basic object for quotes. I just add the author and tags, so I can filter the database for either a specific quote from an author or for a certain topic.

Me too.

boonikad9300

I'm using a tag for quotes, started with an object but noticed during my daily workflow I need the flexibility of the tag

I use it mostly for my literature notes: 1. reading a book on my iPad 2. highlighting interesting parts 3. import to capacities 4. Tag content blocks: (edited)

Melissa Perri is awesome. I met her a couple years ago at a conference.

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Melissa Perri is awesome. I met her a couple years ago at a conference.

Still have to read the book, is it good?

boonikad9300

Still have to read the book, is it good?

It is. I refer to it often when helping guide teams where I work.

Kilravockk

It is. I refer to it often when helping guide teams where I work.

Will add it to my reading list, thanks for the tip!!

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denadoolin

Yeah what @boonikad9300 said

A block property turns into a toggle underneath which is really nice to format and separate content. When you go to a gallery view, you can see that block on each page which is fascinating! Here's an example if you want to have a daily reflection block - you can see it from the gallery view or even view the block in a wide embed! (edited)

How do you get a property to appear on the daily note? Been trying to wrap my head round it for a while. I can only do templates, and cannot define properties, for the daily note. And definitely can’t my notes to look like this

jamie.williams

How do you get a property to appear on the daily note? Been trying to wrap my head round it for a while. I can only do templates, and cannot define properties, for the daily note. And definitely can’t my notes to look like this

The only workaround is to create an object and use it as a daily page. I actually made it separate from the daily note. The daily note works best as an “inbox” and creating a daily page object is more of a granular way to add properties to your notes.

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Tis a simple dashboard but i'm getting used to the idea of having a dashboard as an access point to various places in my space. Sorry for the blurring, had to cover up some things I'd prefer not expose since it's my work space. It really doesn't do anything headlining but it saves a few clicks in quite a few instances

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The only workaround is to create an object and use it as a daily page. I actually made it separate from the daily note. The daily note works best as an “inbox” and creating a daily page object is more of a granular way to add properties to your notes.

Ah ha. Got it now. Thank you! Took a while to wrap my head around

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And now I have a headache

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You’re welcome!! Hope that was helpful!!

Json Blob

Tis a simple dashboard but i'm getting used to the idea of having a dashboard as an access point to various places in my space. Sorry for the blurring, had to cover up some things I'd prefer not expose since it's my work space. It really doesn't do anything headlining but it saves a few clicks in quite a few instances

This looks amazing!

I love capacities so much I made a video on it

If you have anything specific you want me to showcase let me know in the comments :)) Check it out! https://youtu.be/o98PO4QoO6A (edited)

Meg Shinagawa

The Only Productivity App You Need (NOT Notion)

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I love capacities so much I made a video on it

If you have anything specific you want me to showcase let me know in the comments :)) Check it out! https://youtu.be/o98PO4QoO6A (edited)

Thanks so much for sharing, awesome video!

It will be up on https://capacities.io/videos in seconds

Videos

Learn from videos from different content creators and get a better understanding of Capacities

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Thanks so much for sharing, awesome video!

It will be up on https://capacities.io/videos in seconds

Thank you ❤️

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videos like these make me want to make my own video showcase even though I don't really have a YT channel...

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I'm currently working on using capacities to (finally) have an electronic record for all the events in my leukemia treatment and management

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it's gonna be slow cuz I need to scan a lot of things from almost two years, but honestly i'm happy I finally found a system that works for something that happens across time and makes me link stuff

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i tried using notion for this and never had the mental capacity to think of a system there for this complex scenario lol

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i tried using notion for this and never had the mental capacity to think of a system there for this complex scenario lol

That's awesome. It's great when something just clicks with your brain! I hope you are on the pathway to recovery. It's so interesting to hear about different use cases, too.

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I'm convinced capacities has the right features to help in a wide range of use cases (edited)

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Starting to get a hang of capacities, spending way too much time on this app

This is awesome. I'm hoping you make a video showing how you created this 'Life Dashboard'.

meg

I love capacities so much I made a video on it

If you have anything specific you want me to showcase let me know in the comments :)) Check it out! https://youtu.be/o98PO4QoO6A (edited)

it was this and Ashwath Singh's video that made me take a 2nd look @ Capacities. Big fan of Logseq but i just want to pick up my device and work without having to make sure everything is in sync on github beforehand.

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This is awesome. I'm hoping you make a video showing how you created this 'Life Dashboard'.

Yep going to make it at some point in the near future!

demancey

it was this and Ashwath Singh's video that made me take a 2nd look @ Capacities. Big fan of Logseq but i just want to pick up my device and work without having to make sure everything is in sync on github beforehand.

Glad that I was able to help you!

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I’m just getting started… averaging about 7 collections per object type here

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Awesome! Still haven’t quite figured out how that works ! Any tips or recommendations?

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Awesome! Still haven’t quite figured out how that works ! Any tips or recommendations?

Any chance this question was for me? Happy to record a quick video or write more here, but just wanted to be sure it isn't an unsolicited ramble

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I’m just getting started… averaging about 7 collections per object type here

Awesome! One quick thought: I would use tags for to read, etc because they are more flexible and transitions are simpler. Imagine an article that is to read and you now read it and still want to keep it. Better to just remove that tag

neeldhara

I’m just getting started… averaging about 7 collections per object type here

One other way would be to just create an Object Type called "Lists" (?) and just make collections for the 7 object types you listed here.

@neeldhara oh yes! Sorry! I. Forgot to tag you! A video would be much appreciated! Thanks a lot!

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Great points, @Steffen and @randAlThor! I guess the names were a bit misleading - I do have status tags for the actual things, but these are placeholder names for collections within - ideally each of those things are objects on their own right, but these names help me (somewhat arbitrarily, admittedly) lump things together to avoid a lengthy sidebar... I'm coming from Obsidian, where these were in a folder structure (with scripts to push things into a date-wise sub-folder structure, sigh), but I think one of the things that is powerful (for me) in the Capacities workflow is that I can "+" to create an object in the right place, without "navigating to the folder".

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One other way would be to just create an Object Type called "Lists" (?) and just make collections for the 7 object types you listed here.

This would work if collections nested two levels deep, but AFAIU they don't?

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Awesome! One quick thought: I would use tags for to read, etc because they are more flexible and transitions are simpler. Imagine an article that is to read and you now read it and still want to keep it. Better to just remove that tag

I think the more appropriate name for the object would have been "things that can be parsed primarily by reading", but I had to shorten that somehow, and then it became the ambiguous "To read"

For anyone starting out who finds the bazillion collections either overkill or intimidating: I should add that these categories were developed over months, if not years, of my own hoarding/note-taking process (just on another platform). So although I am only starting with Capacities, this in itself is a generally unnatural starting point. I've made the mistake of trying to "map out all the containers I need before filling them out" before - I'd personally not recommend it. Developing the containers in an organic way based on how your use evolves is much better, and most tools give you enough flexibility to move things around if you decide you have a better way to organize things. FWIW: I made this mistake when I started with Notion, where I had so much org/workflows/automation before having any actual content ---

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--- that I had to write a bunch of README pages to remember my own conventions, and I ended up not using most of it, at least not in the ways I originally envisioned. When I moved on, first to Craft and then to Obsidian, I decided to just work with the flow and see where it took me, with a barebones starting point (every note was either a meeting note or a solo note depending on whether I was taking notes with others or by myself; each note was tagged with a relevant project, and since Obsidian did hierarchical tags, I had a catch-all tag called "keywords", and all random relevant words just got dumped under it on the go for establishing context... then some got upgraded, some faded away, and so on). I found this to be much more sustainable overall - just in case this helps anyone, sorry for rambling!

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For anyone starting out who finds the bazillion collections either overkill or intimidating: I should add that these categories were developed over months, if not years, of my own hoarding/note-taking process (just on another platform). So although I am only starting with Capacities, this in itself is a generally unnatural starting point. I've made the mistake of trying to "map out all the containers I need before filling them out" before - I'd personally not recommend it. Developing the containers in an organic way based on how your use evolves is much better, and most tools give you enough flexibility to move things around if you decide you have a better way to organize things. FWIW: I made this mistake when I started with Notion, where I had so much org/workflows/automation before having any actual content ---

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--- that I had to write a bunch of README pages to remember my own conventions, and I ended up not using most of it, at least not in the ways I originally envisioned. When I moved on, first to Craft and then to Obsidian, I decided to just work with the flow and see where it took me, with a barebones starting point (every note was either a meeting note or a solo note depending on whether I was taking notes with others or by myself; each note was tagged with a relevant project, and since Obsidian did hierarchical tags, I had a catch-all tag called "keywords", and all random relevant words just got dumped under it on the go for establishing context... then some got upgraded, some faded away, and so on). I found this to be much more sustainable overall - just in case this helps anyone, sorry for rambling!

Great to see some added context why you chose this system! Overall I find it very difficult to 'judge' other people's setups because everyone thinks and works differently. Ultimately, I think there is no 'right' or 'wrong' setup as long as your system brings you value and delight. In the end, the system has to serve you rather than the other way around

And that's why I think Capacities is pretty great as it balances the right amount of structure and flexibility to adapt it to your needs

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Exactly this! I spent far too much time feeling inadequate about my setup, until I realized that I have to do whatever is aligned with how my nearly non-existent brain is wired... however silly/banal it might look to the outside, because I am the one going to be stuck with it

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because everyone thinks and works differently.

Exactly this! I spent far too much time feeling inadequate about my setup, until I realized that I have to do whatever is aligned with how my nearly non-existent brain is wired... however silly/banal it might look to the outside, because I am the one going to be stuck with it

Exactly! However, there are some best practices around structuring information

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Indeed, I have Luc's book on cognitive productivity on my reading list this summer, and am collecting pointers here: https://www.neeldhara.com/blog/note-taking-resources/

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Indeed, I have Luc's book on cognitive productivity on my reading list this summer, and am collecting pointers here: https://www.neeldhara.com/blog/note-taking-resources/

fine one! (... plus one for the C&H!)

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lerone

fine one! (... plus one for the C&H!)

Thank you!

neeldhara

Indeed, I have Luc's book on cognitive productivity on my reading list this summer, and am collecting pointers here: https://www.neeldhara.com/blog/note-taking-resources/

just started reading it thanks to your tip

Read the first chapter, seems like a good one

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Indeed, I have Luc's book on cognitive productivity on my reading list this summer, and am collecting pointers here: https://www.neeldhara.com/blog/note-taking-resources/

what a beautiful blog

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i wish i could do something like this!!

Crispy

what a beautiful blog

Thank you so much! I used Quarto to put this together, which really helped

neeldhara

Thank you so much! I used Quarto to put this together, which really helped

thanks for sharing

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Crispy

i wish i could do something like this!!

Happy to help if I can!

frau.rauni

It’s so convenient to just note everything down in the daily without worrying about types and folders.

right now every doc starts at the daily notes for me

This app has made me realize how important a daily note is in an app and @pkmbeth 's essays have explained Capacities so well.

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Thank you so much! I used Quarto to put this together, which really helped

This is an awesome list and I'm off to read it. Nicole has set up an awesome Mastodon server at https://pkm.social that's free to join, safe for everyone and is basically another PKMS enthusiast community.

PKM.social

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

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This is an awesome list and I'm off to read it. Nicole has set up an awesome Mastodon server at https://pkm.social that's free to join, safe for everyone and is basically another PKMS enthusiast community.

Capacities is there as well: https://pkm.social/@capacities

Capacities (@capacities@pkm.social)

32 Posts, 1 Following, 134 Followers · A studio for your mind

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Capacities is there as well: https://pkm.social/@capacities

Yay! I'm definitely following you and will be linking to mentioning your product whenever it's applicable for someone's use case. That's a really great community.

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I accidentally stumbled upon this review of Capacities while browsing pkm.social, it has some good compliments for devs and quotes for the landing page

https://woertergarten.medium.com/capacities-io-gets-something-2edcbd61b324

Capacities.io gets something

The current state of Capacities.io hints that its developers understand something other apps are struggling with — building foundation…

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Adelon

I accidentally stumbled upon this review of Capacities while browsing pkm.social, it has some good compliments for devs and quotes for the landing page

https://woertergarten.medium.com/capacities-io-gets-something-2edcbd61b324

thx for sharing! interesting read(s)! ... and I think, he / she has something interesting here: "That said, Capacities too does not let us define implicit links and find files by unlinked mentions, and if you want to create a true universal studio for the mind, that capability is, in my opinion, foundational." ... maybe something for the AI module? @Steffen @Michael_v_H

lerone

thx for sharing! interesting read(s)! ... and I think, he / she has something interesting here: "That said, Capacities too does not let us define implicit links and find files by unlinked mentions, and if you want to create a true universal studio for the mind, that capability is, in my opinion, foundational." ... maybe something for the AI module? @Steffen @Michael_v_H

I think he just was speaking just about unlinked mentions, which are essential parts of Obsidian, Logseq, and Roam for better discoverability. Mem.ai also promoted itself as an AI tool which able to find these hidden links with AI. Guys also have this on the roadmap, but as far as I know, it's low priority for now, because not many people asking this, as opposed to tables or a task manager. https://capacities.io/feedback/p/smart-link-suggestions-unlinked-mentions Personally, I don't want OpenAI scraping my data to train their model even to suggest links for my notes. Unless there will be some local and private alternative, which doesn't send anything anywhere, then I'll be happy to use this kind of feature. As far as I know, Logseq is working in this direction to provide local AI. (edited)

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Adelon

I think he just was speaking just about unlinked mentions, which are essential parts of Obsidian, Logseq, and Roam for better discoverability. Mem.ai also promoted itself as an AI tool which able to find these hidden links with AI. Guys also have this on the roadmap, but as far as I know, it's low priority for now, because not many people asking this, as opposed to tables or a task manager. https://capacities.io/feedback/p/smart-link-suggestions-unlinked-mentions Personally, I don't want OpenAI scraping my data to train their model even to suggest links for my notes. Unless there will be some local and private alternative, which doesn't send anything anywhere, then I'll be happy to use this kind of feature. As far as I know, Logseq is working in this direction to provide local AI. (edited)

– as to 'unlinked mentions' etc: yeah. exactly. I was just underlining. I found it interesting he / she kind of made this extended 'discoverability' a big / fundamental point, alongside from the metadata logic / architecture. ... plus: the formulation of 'let us definine implicit links' also opens up some interesting alleys to think through / follow. and – I feel seems to point beyond any pre-implemented / pre-automated version of 'ordinary' unlinked mentions, too... (edited)

Adelon

I think he just was speaking just about unlinked mentions, which are essential parts of Obsidian, Logseq, and Roam for better discoverability. Mem.ai also promoted itself as an AI tool which able to find these hidden links with AI. Guys also have this on the roadmap, but as far as I know, it's low priority for now, because not many people asking this, as opposed to tables or a task manager. https://capacities.io/feedback/p/smart-link-suggestions-unlinked-mentions Personally, I don't want OpenAI scraping my data to train their model even to suggest links for my notes. Unless there will be some local and private alternative, which doesn't send anything anywhere, then I'll be happy to use this kind of feature. As far as I know, Logseq is working in this direction to provide local AI. (edited)

– as to OpenAI part: understood. we know it's coming, though. – will be interesting to watch where the local AI thing goes. I just tested whats available, and it wasn't yet usable as is OpenAI and all derivatives. – will also be interesting to hear, what S&M think about this. but I would suppose they will also follow the trajectory of what is possible / available (and given their general stance, I certainly expect them to be sensitive to such privacy concerns). for sure, I'd expect that AI is / will be opt-in as in every other decent tool I know. so, thx again for sharing that article! (edited)

Thanks for sharing @Adelon! Will have a look later today.

I’ve just seen a plug-in for Amplenote that does this. Basically searches a page/doc and compares to note titles. If it finds one it creates a link. Looks pretty slick.

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I think he just was speaking just about unlinked mentions, which are essential parts of Obsidian, Logseq, and Roam for better discoverability. Mem.ai also promoted itself as an AI tool which able to find these hidden links with AI. Guys also have this on the roadmap, but as far as I know, it's low priority for now, because not many people asking this, as opposed to tables or a task manager. https://capacities.io/feedback/p/smart-link-suggestions-unlinked-mentions Personally, I don't want OpenAI scraping my data to train their model even to suggest links for my notes. Unless there will be some local and private alternative, which doesn't send anything anywhere, then I'll be happy to use this kind of feature. As far as I know, Logseq is working in this direction to provide local AI. (edited)

I absolutely agree with your disinterest in having OpenAI harvesting my notes to feed its AI. I really don't want an LLM doing my thinking for me.

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Well, the AI is coming and I don't care, not for my worflow (not to mention anything local is useless to me anyway, I cannot install anything on a computer I spend 75 % of my time.) That being said, as long as it makes Capacities more known and profitable, I am at peace with it.

Adelon

I accidentally stumbled upon this review of Capacities while browsing pkm.social, it has some good compliments for devs and quotes for the landing page

https://woertergarten.medium.com/capacities-io-gets-something-2edcbd61b324

I like that part when the author said "functional decomposition." I like this term.

Adelon

I accidentally stumbled upon this review of Capacities while browsing pkm.social, it has some good compliments for devs and quotes for the landing page

https://woertergarten.medium.com/capacities-io-gets-something-2edcbd61b324

I like it and I honestly thinks the writer likes Capacities alot. I think when you have been offline first for so long, it is confusing when you fall for a web based app or an app that stores or syncs data over the web. Like Reflect, Craft and Tana, etc., Capacities is one of those that make you question your offline first devotion.

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Hi everyone

would some of my fellow students in here share what objects you use for your study-life-workspace?

mpmanti

I absolutely agree with your disinterest in having OpenAI harvesting my notes to feed its AI. I really don't want an LLM doing my thinking for me.

For this reason, our AI integration will be completely opt-in, it will be deactivated by default.

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lerone started a thread. 7/4/2023 7:29 PM

Michael_v_H

For this reason, our AI integration will be completely opt-in, it will be deactivated by default.

That's good news, and I appreciate the thought and care that goes into the app.

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Hi_I'm_Jonas

Hi everyone

would some of my fellow students in here share what objects you use for your study-life-workspace?

I created an Object called IB, and then created collections for each of my subjects

Hey guys! Filmed a capacities tour. It’s long but you can skip around the sections from the description box! Capacities Tour July 2023 https://youtu.be/imYQQvEnPJk Would love to see other people’s workspaces!

PKMBeth

Capacities Tour July 2023

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Thanks for this Beth, it's nice to see other people's setup

On my side I started using Capacities for my work notes, it's a charm, I love it! The main thing I like with Capacities is the ability to link notes & actions so that when I talk to someone, I can see on one single page all the topics they're involved in. It's SUPER useful in my 1:1s with people, as I remember everything I need to tell or ask them! Objects: To do this, I mostly rely on a 'people' object, backlinks and inline tags. I can't share much for confidentiality reasons, but here's a screenshot so you can see which objects I created. I've also created a 'Trips' object to prepare my business travels, where I list who I need to meet, what I need to prepare, and even my packing list. Templates & Collections: For 'Meetings' I created several templates depending on the kind of meeting (1:1 or a general meeting with structured agenda & outcomes). I created collections so I have my 1:1s in one place. Views: I often display side by side a meeting and a 'people' page so I have all the context I need during my meetings I'm planning on migrating my personal notes soon, from Notion & Evernote to Capacities (I'm waiting on the bulk importer to be ready for that), really excited to get there!!! In the end I will have just 2 spaces: personal and work as I don't want to split things further. (edited)

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I have two use-cases I'm using Capacities with, my work in picture 1 is my "dashboard" and the other picture is my Pathfinder campaign

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Thanks for this Beth, it's nice to see other people's setup

On my side I started using Capacities for my work notes, it's a charm, I love it! The main thing I like with Capacities is the ability to link notes & actions so that when I talk to someone, I can see on one single page all the topics they're involved in. It's SUPER useful in my 1:1s with people, as I remember everything I need to tell or ask them! Objects: To do this, I mostly rely on a 'people' object, backlinks and inline tags. I can't share much for confidentiality reasons, but here's a screenshot so you can see which objects I created. I've also created a 'Trips' object to prepare my business travels, where I list who I need to meet, what I need to prepare, and even my packing list. Templates & Collections: For 'Meetings' I created several templates depending on the kind of meeting (1:1 or a general meeting with structured agenda & outcomes). I created collections so I have my 1:1s in one place. Views: I often display side by side a meeting and a 'people' page so I have all the context I need during my meetings I'm planning on migrating my personal notes soon, from Notion & Evernote to Capacities (I'm waiting on the bulk importer to be ready for that), really excited to get there!!! In the end I will have just 2 spaces: personal and work as I don't want to split things further. (edited)

Fascinating seeing how Capacities can be used for work! Amazing

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Json Blob

I have two use-cases I'm using Capacities with, my work in picture 1 is my "dashboard" and the other picture is my Pathfinder campaign

The dashboard looks amazing ! I need to use cover images more!

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pkmbeth

The dashboard looks amazing ! I need to use cover images more!

it's not shown but this cover image is actually an animated gif which gives it a lovely spice

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meg

I love capacities so much I made a video on it

If you have anything specific you want me to showcase let me know in the comments :)) Check it out! https://youtu.be/o98PO4QoO6A (edited)

This video is actually how I found Capacities. I had just doubled-down on a different note-taking app when I stumbled across your video. GAME CHANGING. Being introduced to Capacities in a fun, light way was pretty cool. Then I downloaded the app and fell in love right away. So, THANK YOU.

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Habit Tracker Idea This is for people who want to see all of their habits in a table instead of appearing within a daily note template.

I created an Object called "Habits", then added a checkbox property for each day of the week.
Next, I created three more habits.
Finally, I switched the Habits view to Table. There are probably some ways to adapt this to show more cumulative data (like maybe adding a collection for each week, month, etc.) but this is a nice, simple start.

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Habit Tracker Idea This is for people who want to see all of their habits in a table instead of appearing within a daily note template.

I created an Object called "Habits", then added a checkbox property for each day of the week.
Next, I created three more habits.
Finally, I switched the Habits view to Table. There are probably some ways to adapt this to show more cumulative data (like maybe adding a collection for each week, month, etc.) but this is a nice, simple start.

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I did scroll up a bit to make sure this idea hadn't already been shared, but this is a pretty full channel

DuRand B

Habit Tracker Idea This is for people who want to see all of their habits in a table instead of appearing within a daily note template.

I created an Object called "Habits", then added a checkbox property for each day of the week.
Next, I created three more habits.
Finally, I switched the Habits view to Table. There are probably some ways to adapt this to show more cumulative data (like maybe adding a collection for each week, month, etc.) but this is a nice, simple start.

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I was thinking about how to save your habit completion history. Maybe you could have a master(template) habit for each habit and duplicate it naming it for each new week of the year (for example Walk W012023, the newest week would be Walk W022023, and so on), and you can use a status property or a tag to mark the current week habits, so you could filter it to show only the habits for the current week.

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I was thinking about how to save your habit completion history. Maybe you could have a master(template) habit for each habit and duplicate it naming it for each new week of the year (for example Walk W012023, the newest week would be Walk W022023, and so on), and you can use a status property or a tag to mark the current week habits, so you could filter it to show only the habits for the current week.

ooooh...I'm digging this idea.

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hfsandovalm

I was thinking about how to save your habit completion history. Maybe you could have a master(template) habit for each habit and duplicate it naming it for each new week of the year (for example Walk W012023, the newest week would be Walk W022023, and so on), and you can use a status property or a tag to mark the current week habits, so you could filter it to show only the habits for the current week.

So, thinking through your idea, I tried this:

Created a collection within the Pages object called "Habits"
Created a template called "Weekly Habit Tracking" within that collection.
Added a tag - "Habits - 2023-07", and another - "Habits - 2023"

I plan to tag each page with "Habits - Year - Month", and "Habits - Year" Thanks for the inspiration! (edited)

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@Adelon and @Lumanish

I see that you both asked about how to go about building a habit tracker in Capacities. This might help. Or not

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So, thinking through your idea, I tried this:

Created a collection within the Pages object called "Habits"
Created a template called "Weekly Habit Tracking" within that collection.
Added a tag - "Habits - 2023-07", and another - "Habits - 2023"

I plan to tag each page with "Habits - Year - Month", and "Habits - Year" Thanks for the inspiration! (edited)

Great idea! Thanks for sharing!

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@Adelon and @Lumanish

I see that you both asked about how to go about building a habit tracker in Capacities. This might help. Or not

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Thanks for the idea. After my experiments, I decided that my PKM is not a good place to track habits, so I'm using a dedicated app for this.

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nicolas67🥨⛵🛠🎵

Thanks for this Beth, it's nice to see other people's setup

On my side I started using Capacities for my work notes, it's a charm, I love it! The main thing I like with Capacities is the ability to link notes & actions so that when I talk to someone, I can see on one single page all the topics they're involved in. It's SUPER useful in my 1:1s with people, as I remember everything I need to tell or ask them! Objects: To do this, I mostly rely on a 'people' object, backlinks and inline tags. I can't share much for confidentiality reasons, but here's a screenshot so you can see which objects I created. I've also created a 'Trips' object to prepare my business travels, where I list who I need to meet, what I need to prepare, and even my packing list. Templates & Collections: For 'Meetings' I created several templates depending on the kind of meeting (1:1 or a general meeting with structured agenda & outcomes). I created collections so I have my 1:1s in one place. Views: I often display side by side a meeting and a 'people' page so I have all the context I need during my meetings I'm planning on migrating my personal notes soon, from Notion & Evernote to Capacities (I'm waiting on the bulk importer to be ready for that), really excited to get there!!! In the end I will have just 2 spaces: personal and work as I don't want to split things further. (edited)

I do something similar. Curious to know how you differentiate an “Initiative” from a “Project”? Thanks!

vcbrewers

I do something similar. Curious to know how you differentiate an “Initiative” from a “Project”? Thanks!

My ´Initiatives’ are internal projects whilst ‘projects’ are with customers. Actually I recently changed this setup, since both have the same properties : they are all under the same object (‘projects’) and I differentiate them using collections

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Hey all. First, I'd like to share how happy I am to have found not only a different concept of note-taking, but also an app that handles this concept in a fantastic way. Thanks to the CAP team! At first I was a little bit scared if this concept would be the right one for me (coming from Craft and struggling with its structure like with all of the "old-style" note-taking apps I've tried), but now I'm confident I won't feel the desire to go back. Concerning tagging. I thought about how I'd like to use them to have a lean framework, and this is how I've set it up. I've got only two tag collections, one containing the broad topics I have to deal or work with in my daily life or that simply are of interest to me, and the other one having process-related buckets: Collection 1: Topics like Family, House, Financials, Medical / Health, Job. Also Music, Literature, Travel, Knowledge etc. These actually mirror my previous high level folders in Craft. Collection 2: Process states - Anytime, Soon, Next, Current, Ongoing, Frequently, Archive and Reference. For every (new) object, the topic tag is pretty obvious. Then I ask myself: What do I have to or like to do with it, and possibly when? It's pretty much always instantly clear which process tag is suitable. This way I can scan all my content both in a topical mindframe as well as decide which process state I want to see. Right now this is granular enough to suit my needs. As I understand, the upcoming smart queries will allow narrowing down certain results, which is great. Of course this is only one of many approaches and may not be suitable for everyone. I'm curious what others might think of it or how they set up their own system, though.

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Hey all. First, I'd like to share how happy I am to have found not only a different concept of note-taking, but also an app that handles this concept in a fantastic way. Thanks to the CAP team! At first I was a little bit scared if this concept would be the right one for me (coming from Craft and struggling with its structure like with all of the "old-style" note-taking apps I've tried), but now I'm confident I won't feel the desire to go back. Concerning tagging. I thought about how I'd like to use them to have a lean framework, and this is how I've set it up. I've got only two tag collections, one containing the broad topics I have to deal or work with in my daily life or that simply are of interest to me, and the other one having process-related buckets: Collection 1: Topics like Family, House, Financials, Medical / Health, Job. Also Music, Literature, Travel, Knowledge etc. These actually mirror my previous high level folders in Craft. Collection 2: Process states - Anytime, Soon, Next, Current, Ongoing, Frequently, Archive and Reference. For every (new) object, the topic tag is pretty obvious. Then I ask myself: What do I have to or like to do with it, and possibly when? It's pretty much always instantly clear which process tag is suitable. This way I can scan all my content both in a topical mindframe as well as decide which process state I want to see. Right now this is granular enough to suit my needs. As I understand, the upcoming smart queries will allow narrowing down certain results, which is great. Of course this is only one of many approaches and may not be suitable for everyone. I'm curious what others might think of it or how they set up their own system, though.

Thanks for sharing! This sounds quite interesting to me. Actually I’m dealing with nearly 100 tags, so I will overthink my system with yours in mind

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Here is also a few screenshots of my setup so far

: As my notetaking tool, Bookmarks Manager, digital Recipes, books Library, Journaling, my Brain Dump and so much more

still working on it

Why is this the most beautiful Life OS I've ever seen, like what?!!!

Also, I think exactly the same way you do in terms of organizing stuff digitally. I have been hard-core procrastinating on setting up my new Capacities account and overall space but this just gave me so much motivation and inspiration! Thank you so much for sharing!

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Hi!! Please, I wanted to ask if you can help me with any suggestions or screenshots on how to manage annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly goals? What is the best way to organize them in capacities? Any ideas? Thank you

9:45 AM

How to link? Or create collections vs objects. Etc.

RobbK started a thread. 7/31/2023 6:54 AM

Jesus Alberto

Hi!! Please, I wanted to ask if you can help me with any suggestions or screenshots on how to manage annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly goals? What is the best way to organize them in capacities? Any ideas? Thank you

Make goals an object and tag goals according to annual quarterly, monthly and weekly etc.. you can create a collection for completed goals.

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bendylina

Here is also a few screenshots of my setup so far

: As my notetaking tool, Bookmarks Manager, digital Recipes, books Library, Journaling, my Brain Dump and so much more

still working on it

How are you using the page to save tweets? I thought the integration was broken

Cvlr

How are you using the page to save tweets? I thought the integration was broken

same question (edited)

DuRand B

same question (edited)

Aren't these screenshots from mid-2022 before Elon set Twitter on fire?

8:20 PM

(I'm not a pro on this whatsoever, but I would imagine Musk's new API policies is what has changed.)

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I think what they mean is that the bookmark doesn't generate a preview on the dashboard like it used to in those screenshots.

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Now, you have to click into the object to see the content of the tweet.

Noelle_CD

I think what they mean is that the bookmark doesn't generate a preview on the dashboard like it used to in those screenshots.

Pretty sure this is Elon’s doing with 3rd party scraping. I could be wrong. I’m creating Tweets in Pages. Using screenshots and adding links. The visual is important for me.

Meigs

Pretty sure this is Elon’s doing with 3rd party scraping. I could be wrong. I’m creating Tweets in Pages. Using screenshots and adding links. The visual is important for me.

Sorry seeing previous replies! Should have scanned. Just still knee jerk about the destruction of Twitter

Meigs

Sorry seeing previous replies! Should have scanned. Just still knee jerk about the destruction of Twitter

It literally blows my mind how he's burning it to the ground.

Noelle_CD

It literally blows my mind how he's burning it to the ground.

Right there with you. I literally launched my career in tech because of the people and opportunities Twitter brought into my life. It’s very hard to not mourn it!

Meigs

Right there with you. I literally launched my career in tech because of the people and opportunities Twitter brought into my life. It’s very hard to not mourn it!

Join us on Mastadon

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Join us on Mastadon

I think I’m starting to get old

Hey dear Community, what do u think from your experience, is it possible to use capacities also for some creative work, like novel or fiction writing /organising and if yes would you give that its own space? Thanks for helping out a capacities newbie

I would think so

9:30 AM

I would have a separate space for my book. where I could have data types such as characters, places, etc. where you could organize notes on all the different "things" involved in the story. you could store images of maps or links to reference material.

9:30 AM

huh would probably be a good way to orginize someting like a D&D world too.

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Then you could use pages for each chapter and link in your people or places so you can track where you reference them. like in the back links for a character you could see which chapters they pop up

that sounds really good, thanks for sharing! As i come from obsidian (and still will use it): do u also use this app for long content writing (in the pages) or more as a novel bible and writing happens somewhere else?

no I'm not creative in that way

I mostly use it for business stuff, meeting notes and project tracking.

It's not to the level of a book, but I have a TTRPG campaign I'm organizing and writing in Capacities and it's been great so far

10:20 AM

I'm running Pathfinder 2e in Capacities

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Json Blob

It's not to the level of a book, but I have a TTRPG campaign I'm organizing and writing in Capacities and it's been great so far

For your campaign, do you use any of the sharing features to share info with your players?

If I do a full campaign I probably will but for now I am just running the Beginner's Box which is like 3-5 sessions long so wasn't enough value-return for this particular short campaign

11:00 AM

but if we do a full adventure book I will look into using that feature

Got it, thanks for humoring my question.

11:04 AM

I've been writing a homebrew campaign for D&D 5E in Obsidian but I'm afraid of using publish since it doesn't support a lot of plugins like dataview. Perhaps I'll transfer some of those notes and give it a test drive here.

Maskim

no I'm not creative in that way

I mostly use it for business stuff, meeting notes and project tracking.

Ok, but thanks for your suggestions! Sounds good

I have an awesome thing to report ! I uploaded a tex file and Capacities rendered it correctly in my workspace! That was pretty awesome! Much better than having to install Tex software!

Desiderata

I have an awesome thing to report ! I uploaded a tex file and Capacities rendered it correctly in my workspace! That was pretty awesome! Much better than having to install Tex software!

Was the TeX file a document or just a set of equations? Either way, that's rather cool.

mpmanti

Was the TeX file a document or just a set of equations? Either way, that's rather cool.

It was a preprint paper that contained lots of words and equations

Desiderata

It was a preprint paper that contained lots of words and equations

Cool!

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I have an awesome thing to report ! I uploaded a tex file and Capacities rendered it correctly in my workspace! That was pretty awesome! Much better than having to install Tex software!

"oh, just great....!" – so after all the Product Hunt influx we will now also get all the worlds mathematicians flooding in here now...

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I have an awesome thing to report ! I uploaded a tex file and Capacities rendered it correctly in my workspace! That was pretty awesome! Much better than having to install Tex software!

I have another awesome thing to report. I was today years old when I learned you can compress PDF files (not zip) and still keep the PDF format and file contents intact.

Desiderata

I have another awesome thing to report. I was today years old when I learned you can compress PDF files (not zip) and still keep the PDF format and file contents intact.

compress how? in a PDF reader?

nicolas67🥨⛵🛠🎵

compress how? in a PDF reader?

... maybe what is meant is 'reduce file size', which e.g. PDF Expert and PDFOptimize (bulk!) can achieve?! ... afaik both mainly work via reducing image & media weights / resolutions, and stripping imternal redudancies of structure....

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Hey dear Community, what do u think from your experience, is it possible to use capacities also for some creative work, like novel or fiction writing /organising and if yes would you give that its own space? Thanks for helping out a capacities newbie

This would THE usecase for me: longform writing. Is there experience out there? Dreaming about a dedicated channel for this.

markus

This would THE usecase for me: longform writing. Is there experience out there? Dreaming about a dedicated channel for this.

yes, that was alteady discussed... ... and it relates to this proposal: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001363266414592122/1137994302807625768 ... meanwhile there are still threads, and more focussed Canny-threads at disposal as tools to muster a discussion on this - see previous discussion on this here (and at some other places): https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/969304624848855050/1137806188600377424

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compress how? in a PDF reader?

Adobe Online does it for free. Reduces file size. I can’t tell the difference in resolution. It’s kind of cool

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My name is Howard. I am a mediator and arbitrator based in Las Vegas and have been a licensed, practicing attorney in California since 1976. I have started using Capacities about 2 months ago while experimenting with a number of other notetaking apps that use backlinks. In Capacities I write my notes, primarily in my Daily Notes and backlink to people, projects, etc. I often take notes in my Daily Note that relate to different projects or cases. When I backlink to a particular case and then go to that case note, the entire Daily Note is backlinked including notes that relate to other projects, matters and cases. If I write a note or series of notes that only relate to a particular case, I want only that portion of the Daily Note relating to hat case to backlink to that Case Note. How do I accomplish this without mixing notes from different cases?

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ADRHoward

My name is Howard. I am a mediator and arbitrator based in Las Vegas and have been a licensed, practicing attorney in California since 1976. I have started using Capacities about 2 months ago while experimenting with a number of other notetaking apps that use backlinks. In Capacities I write my notes, primarily in my Daily Notes and backlink to people, projects, etc. I often take notes in my Daily Note that relate to different projects or cases. When I backlink to a particular case and then go to that case note, the entire Daily Note is backlinked including notes that relate to other projects, matters and cases. If I write a note or series of notes that only relate to a particular case, I want only that portion of the Daily Note relating to hat case to backlink to that Case Note. How do I accomplish this without mixing notes from different cases?

How about creating Note/Notes object type which has a Date property? You can make multiple Note for different project on the same day. It will show up historically in Daily Note calendar as Reference backlink

@ADRHoward If I understand your problem correctly, you need to intend (via Tab/Shift+Tab) for the app to know which part of the text belongs to which group. So if you have this structure ## Heading Some text [[Link]] Text under link More text The backlink section will show all content. But if for example like this ## Heading Some text [[Link]] Linked text More text Then the app will show only "[[Link]] -> Linked text" in the backlink section, because app will know that it's one group. (edited)

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@ADRHoward If I understand your problem correctly, you need to intend (via Tab/Shift+Tab) for the app to know which part of the text belongs to which group. So if you have this structure ## Heading Some text [[Link]] Text under link More text The backlink section will show all content. But if for example like this ## Heading Some text [[Link]] Linked text More text Then the app will show only "[[Link]] -> Linked text" in the backlink section, because app will know that it's one group. (edited)

Agreed. In other words, indenting the text that relates to a given project under the [Link to that project] in you daily note. I do that a lot but with todos (using tags) it works really nicely. Opening my ‘todo’ tag page shows me only the relevant stuff (indented text under a todo label in any page). You should be able to do the same in your project views by indenting in your daily note (edited)

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Thank you @adelon. I though that was what I was doing but I will go back and double check and see if it works.

Adelon

@ADRHoward If I understand your problem correctly, you need to intend (via Tab/Shift+Tab) for the app to know which part of the text belongs to which group. So if you have this structure ## Heading Some text [[Link]] Text under link More text The backlink section will show all content. But if for example like this ## Heading Some text [[Link]] Linked text More text Then the app will show only "[[Link]] -> Linked text" in the backlink section, because app will know that it's one group. (edited)

Sorry, I am now just beginning to understand how to use this forum. @Adelon , I though that was what I was doing but may have left out the Heading. I'm going back and double checking. Thank you for your inpute

I have another good thing to report! I can't post my crayon drawing's on @lerone 's corkboard, so this is the next best thing! Of course we know the code block capabilities are phenomenal, but imagine my surprise when I was able to post R snippets [Have to learn R

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My name is Howard. I am a mediator and arbitrator based in Las Vegas and have been a licensed, practicing attorney in California since 1976. I have started using Capacities about 2 months ago while experimenting with a number of other notetaking apps that use backlinks. In Capacities I write my notes, primarily in my Daily Notes and backlink to people, projects, etc. I often take notes in my Daily Note that relate to different projects or cases. When I backlink to a particular case and then go to that case note, the entire Daily Note is backlinked including notes that relate to other projects, matters and cases. If I write a note or series of notes that only relate to a particular case, I want only that portion of the Daily Note relating to hat case to backlink to that Case Note. How do I accomplish this without mixing notes from different cases?

seems like you should be able to backlink to that specific group/section of notes Only. That would be my expectation

ADRHoward

My name is Howard. I am a mediator and arbitrator based in Las Vegas and have been a licensed, practicing attorney in California since 1976. I have started using Capacities about 2 months ago while experimenting with a number of other notetaking apps that use backlinks. In Capacities I write my notes, primarily in my Daily Notes and backlink to people, projects, etc. I often take notes in my Daily Note that relate to different projects or cases. When I backlink to a particular case and then go to that case note, the entire Daily Note is backlinked including notes that relate to other projects, matters and cases. If I write a note or series of notes that only relate to a particular case, I want only that portion of the Daily Note relating to hat case to backlink to that Case Note. How do I accomplish this without mixing notes from different cases?

That's probably because your backlinks are set to the view 'embed' which is the default view for backlinks in capacities

You can customize your backlinks to have another view, which means you will only see the specific 'block' where you referenced the person for example:

1:57 PM

@ADRHoward embed basically means you can view the whole content of the object you made a reference to (if you want). However, in the recent update i think a lot around this issue is nicely solved where things are closed by default:

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I just realized this posted without context. I was able to embed Todoist into my Template, that I use on my Daily Note. That works for me until Capacities builds out their tasks/todo more. (edited)

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Dale

I just realized this posted without context. I was able to embed Todoist into my Template, that I use on my Daily Note. That works for me until Capacities builds out their tasks/todo more. (edited)

Is that todoist embed?

Yes that is embedding Todoist through the weblink / embed feature.

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Again, I know it's a small win, but I hate having to switch between applications. And I am also doing that with my recipe app I like, BigOven. I know I can use Capacities for that, but I like how they manage the shopping list. But since I can embed that into Capacities, it just creates another "win!"

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Yes that is embedding Todoist through the weblink / embed feature.

whoaa I wish I could embed Workflowy too

I finished my daily journal object type and included a pretty extensive symptoms log in it. Instead of being the standard dropdown, select a tag, I kept it as a tagged narrative area. I have a collection of color coded tags (64 as of now) to describe where, how, what, and how bad symptoms are. I have used other symptom journals before and the dropdown is not usually enough information. It needs context.

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Yes that is embedding Todoist through the weblink / embed feature.

Very cool! Did you find you had any issues logging into Todoist within the embed? I cannot actually seem to get it to login.

paige

Very cool! Did you find you had any issues logging into Todoist within the embed? I cannot actually seem to get it to login.

Ah yes, I found it only worked in a broswer. Not the desktop app.

Dale

Ah yes, I found it only worked in a broswer. Not the desktop app.

Boo! Both the desktop and web version (in Chrome) are behaving the same for me.

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Boo! Both the desktop and web version (in Chrome) are behaving the same for me.

What is it doing?

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Can you post a screenshot?

Buttons just do nothing. I am able to get the Log In button to function in Safari, but unfortunately it's tied to my Apple account and that button doesn't seem to work. Alas... probably not worth the trouble right now. But it does make me a little sad.

paige

Buttons just do nothing. I am able to get the Log In button to function in Safari, but unfortunately it's tied to my Apple account and that button doesn't seem to work. Alas... probably not worth the trouble right now. But it does make me a little sad.

Try disabling any ads/trackers blockers and try to login again.

paige

Buttons just do nothing. I am able to get the Log In button to function in Safari, but unfortunately it's tied to my Apple account and that button doesn't seem to work. Alas... probably not worth the trouble right now. But it does make me a little sad.

So I was just able to repro your issue in Safari. I don't use Safari so I am not sure if there is a workaround. I use chrome/chromium based browsers. Chrome / Edge / Arc and it works in all of them. Hopefully someone more familiar with Safari can chime in.

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Well, that's embarrassing. I was able to bypass the problem by just right clicking on the button and opening it in a new window.

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Well, that's embarrassing. I was able to bypass the problem by just right clicking on the button and opening it in a new window.

DOH! Well I hope that works out for you!

I'm running a Pathfinder 2E campaign out of Capacities and I'm tinkering with building encounter objects and then embed those objects in my main "DM Guide" object which is like my main notebook for events that happened and narration notes I need during the game. I'm looking to crowdsource ideas to add or any tricks y'all know of I'm not thinking of. I may or may not use collections on these, I don't foresee many situations I'll need to organize them.

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Ooh, I like that.

Json Blob

I'm running a Pathfinder 2E campaign out of Capacities and I'm tinkering with building encounter objects and then embed those objects in my main "DM Guide" object which is like my main notebook for events that happened and narration notes I need during the game. I'm looking to crowdsource ideas to add or any tricks y'all know of I'm not thinking of. I may or may not use collections on these, I don't foresee many situations I'll need to organize them.

Are you a Game Dev?

FuzzyP

Are you a Game Dev?

I don't dev my own games but i work in the VR sector for a game engine

Json Blob

I don't dev my own games but i work in the VR sector for a game engine

Cool, I teach Game Dev to high school students, I tried to use Unity's Create with VR curriculum last year, but we had too many technical difficulties

Interesting. I work at Unity. I don't work on those tutorials though but if it was from the official Unity Learn site, those are written for specific editor versions so if you were using a future version it may act funny

I have M1 MacBook Pros in my lab and I was promised that you can make it work, but it was too hit or miss, most students never got to see their VR rooms in a headset, only the emulator, so that was lackluster, trying to align the Unity version with the XR Toolkit version was more work than I could manage as well, my IT department is non-existent so it's all on me to make it work

Bummer to hear it didn't work for you. Not sure if M1 was the problem, Apple really threw a wrench in the system a bit with that architecture. How long ago was this?

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Who promised it could work, a Unity employee?

2 summers ago I did a summer teaching training led by Unity and some EDU ambassadors, they said you needed a link cable, and you had to build each time and it would work, it worked for about 25% of the time so it did work, but not reliably. Also, something kept happening behind the scenes that would prompt for an admin password and no one could figure out why so we just kept running into issues that had no easy resolution to. I got a grant from Unity and meta for a class set of Quest 2 headsets which will now probably sit in my closet until it works better

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It was Thomas, Alex, and some of the EDU ambassadors who said it would work, just not as seamlessly as on Windows, and my school only has Mac computers

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It's cool though, we've moved to Godot and will do 2d games year 1 and 3d games year 2 and hold off on VR until it's more reliable on our devices

Huge bummer, sorry to hear you hit a bunch of trouble. I dont know a whole lot about the learn team or the ambassadors program myself

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This is beautiful! Would you ever care to post steps or a video?

I was experimenting with using capacities as fitness tracker - created a new object ("Activity") and been filling it up. Still looking for:

To be able to create a new object via WhatsApp including certain properties (in that case e.g. "duration")
To be able to use the table view for analytics (e.g. sum up properties like "Kcal" per month)

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I was experimenting with using capacities as fitness tracker - created a new object ("Activity") and been filling it up. Still looking for:

To be able to create a new object via WhatsApp including certain properties (in that case e.g. "duration")
To be able to use the table view for analytics (e.g. sum up properties like "Kcal" per month)

Hey @FreakwaveCGN - been doing the same thing. I have recently moved from Notion which had better database features (but the notetaking/page linking was inferior to capacities). I too am looking for the furthered math or expression features for data summary. I'm glad to see someone else is doing this too!

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Hey @FreakwaveCGN - been doing the same thing. I have recently moved from Notion which had better database features (but the notetaking/page linking was inferior to capacities). I too am looking for the furthered math or expression features for data summary. I'm glad to see someone else is doing this too!

Glad to find like-minded people! I'm still happy with tracking my activities in Capacities, I use Strava for fitness tracking and share my results via WhatsApp to Capacities. Fingers crossed for the math feature

FreakwaveCGN

Glad to find like-minded people! I'm still happy with tracking my activities in Capacities, I use Strava for fitness tracking and share my results via WhatsApp to Capacities. Fingers crossed for the math feature

Ha! Me too on Strava! That's a great idea for the what's app share. Thanks for that tip too!

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Do U have an own space for your Commonplace book? Looks amazing, IS IT a Special Feature to Show those 2 (poetry/quotes) Side by Side, or IS IT Part of Special Site View (believer Plan)?

Hello! I have written an article on PKM that mentions various use-cases for Capacities at the end including creative writing, worldbuilding etc. I plan on writing a more in-depth article on worldbuilding for @pkmbeth's PKM in the Wild publication soon! It would be amazing if you guys could check it out and let me know your thoughts

️ https://medium.com/@rekawrites/craving-simple-systems-in-a-complicated-world-05556c571f8c

Craving simple systems in a complicated world

Finding joy and clarity in PKM

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Hello! I have written an article on PKM that mentions various use-cases for Capacities at the end including creative writing, worldbuilding etc. I plan on writing a more in-depth article on worldbuilding for @pkmbeth's PKM in the Wild publication soon! It would be amazing if you guys could check it out and let me know your thoughts

️ https://medium.com/@rekawrites/craving-simple-systems-in-a-complicated-world-05556c571f8c

I love this type of content (long form writing about PKM) Thanks for sharing

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I love this type of content (long form writing about PKM) Thanks for sharing

ahhh thank you so much! I have lots more ideas for PKM & Capacities related content that I plan on writing soon

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Hello! I have written an article on PKM that mentions various use-cases for Capacities at the end including creative writing, worldbuilding etc. I plan on writing a more in-depth article on worldbuilding for @pkmbeth's PKM in the Wild publication soon! It would be amazing if you guys could check it out and let me know your thoughts

️ https://medium.com/@rekawrites/craving-simple-systems-in-a-complicated-world-05556c571f8c

Very inspiring – thanks for writing and sharing.

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Hello! I have written an article on PKM that mentions various use-cases for Capacities at the end including creative writing, worldbuilding etc. I plan on writing a more in-depth article on worldbuilding for @pkmbeth's PKM in the Wild publication soon! It would be amazing if you guys could check it out and let me know your thoughts

️ https://medium.com/@rekawrites/craving-simple-systems-in-a-complicated-world-05556c571f8c

great you made this 'open' @ Medium! I think it's also great in some dualities (not dualisms) that you put up, really: first: interesting combination, with MyMind & Capacities! (I looked into it but never 'hopped on'; maybe because it seemed too minimal as collector, maybe bec I already invested in Napkin...) – it really kind of underlines things from a recent Capacities, plus an 'Inbox-app' discussion had here... https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1041667839368642670/1146499042336047235 – see also update from @nicolas67🥨⛵🛠🎵 heree: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001363266414592122/1126569867508723733 then, I think your whole point about keeping simple output oriented structure alongside one for the pure craving to tinker really is a kind of secret sauce, and a potential remedy for the CRIMP-crowd, as well as _a fundamental 'homeopathic' insight missing from most of the PKM-commentariat! on point & powerful! ... oh, yes, and "The best systems are the ones you actually use." can sound like a truism. but that is only bec it is _so true!!!

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great you made this 'open' @ Medium! I think it's also great in some dualities (not dualisms) that you put up, really: first: interesting combination, with MyMind & Capacities! (I looked into it but never 'hopped on'; maybe because it seemed too minimal as collector, maybe bec I already invested in Napkin...) – it really kind of underlines things from a recent Capacities, plus an 'Inbox-app' discussion had here... https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1041667839368642670/1146499042336047235 – see also update from @nicolas67🥨⛵🛠🎵 heree: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001363266414592122/1126569867508723733 then, I think your whole point about keeping simple output oriented structure alongside one for the pure craving to tinker really is a kind of secret sauce, and a potential remedy for the CRIMP-crowd, as well as _a fundamental 'homeopathic' insight missing from most of the PKM-commentariat! on point & powerful! ... oh, yes, and "The best systems are the ones you actually use." can sound like a truism. but that is only bec it is _so true!!!

️ so,

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oh wow thank you for reading! I'm so glad you enjoyed the article

️ may I ask who/ what the CRIMP-crowd are?

réka

oh wow thank you for reading! I'm so glad you enjoyed the article

️ may I ask who/ what the CRIMP-crowd are?

thank you for providing all this stimulus!

as to CRIMP and what it is – I take the easy road and just quote the definition from Outlinersoftware.com (which btw is a worthwhile forum for informed takes on related knowledge processing software of all kind [despite its name]):

CRIMP stands for a make-believe malady called compulsive-reactive information management purchasing. Symptoms include: - never being satisfied with your current system of information management - continuously being on the look-out for something newer and better - purchasing every new PIM program you learn about - and secretly hoping you won’t find the perfect PIM, because then you’d have to stop looking for a better one So, when someone speaks of succumbing to his or her CRIMP, it means acknowledging that they’ve purchased another PIM program even though they really don’t think they need it. There must be a 12-step program for over-coming CRIMP, but who really wants to? It’s too much fun.

– see: https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/17/0/crimp-defined

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thank you for providing all this stimulus!

as to CRIMP and what it is – I take the easy road and just quote the definition from Outlinersoftware.com (which btw is a worthwhile forum for informed takes on related knowledge processing software of all kind [despite its name]):

CRIMP stands for a make-believe malady called compulsive-reactive information management purchasing. Symptoms include: - never being satisfied with your current system of information management - continuously being on the look-out for something newer and better - purchasing every new PIM program you learn about - and secretly hoping you won’t find the perfect PIM, because then you’d have to stop looking for a better one So, when someone speaks of succumbing to his or her CRIMP, it means acknowledging that they’ve purchased another PIM program even though they really don’t think they need it. There must be a 12-step program for over-coming CRIMP, but who really wants to? It’s too much fun.

– see: https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/17/0/crimp-defined

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This is so interesting, thank you for explaining! I didn't know there was a word (or acronym) for this type of behaviour - I definitely have done this in the past and am always tempted by new productivity tools and apps haha

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thank you for providing all this stimulus!

as to CRIMP and what it is – I take the easy road and just quote the definition from Outlinersoftware.com (which btw is a worthwhile forum for informed takes on related knowledge processing software of all kind [despite its name]):

CRIMP stands for a make-believe malady called compulsive-reactive information management purchasing. Symptoms include: - never being satisfied with your current system of information management - continuously being on the look-out for something newer and better - purchasing every new PIM program you learn about - and secretly hoping you won’t find the perfect PIM, because then you’d have to stop looking for a better one So, when someone speaks of succumbing to his or her CRIMP, it means acknowledging that they’ve purchased another PIM program even though they really don’t think they need it. There must be a 12-step program for over-coming CRIMP, but who really wants to? It’s too much fun.

– see: https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/17/0/crimp-defined

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I don't need CRIMP, I have ADHD!

New is always better (per Barney Stinson).

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hello (again)! I have written a sort of follow-up article to my previous one about my PKM philosophy and approach to using Capacities. I would love to hear your thoughts!!

️ (talking about PKM is so fun to me lol). https://medium.com/@rekawrites/pkm-and-note-taking-as-a-life-practice-4e3f270c34a7

PKM and note-taking as a life practice

In a world of endless optimisation, efficiency and hustling, I have made a concerted effort to carve space out in my life for joy…

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hello (again)! I have written a sort of follow-up article to my previous one about my PKM philosophy and approach to using Capacities. I would love to hear your thoughts!!

️ (talking about PKM is so fun to me lol). https://medium.com/@rekawrites/pkm-and-note-taking-as-a-life-practice-4e3f270c34a7

... would love to be able to read it in full!

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... would love to be able to read it in full!

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Me too

réka

hello (again)! I have written a sort of follow-up article to my previous one about my PKM philosophy and approach to using Capacities. I would love to hear your thoughts!!

️ (talking about PKM is so fun to me lol). https://medium.com/@rekawrites/pkm-and-note-taking-as-a-life-practice-4e3f270c34a7

@réka - Unable to read the full article

lerone

... would love to be able to read it in full!

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Ah it’s because it’s behind the medium partner program! But I can send you all a friend link if you’d like and you can read it for free

let me know and I can DM you

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hello (again)! I have written a sort of follow-up article to my previous one about my PKM philosophy and approach to using Capacities. I would love to hear your thoughts!!

️ (talking about PKM is so fun to me lol). https://medium.com/@rekawrites/pkm-and-note-taking-as-a-life-practice-4e3f270c34a7

Enjoyed the read! Love seeing the different object types that everyone is using

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Ah it’s because it’s behind the medium partner program! But I can send you all a friend link if you’d like and you can read it for free

let me know and I can DM you

Love to have you send me a link so I can read this.

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hello (again)! I have written a sort of follow-up article to my previous one about my PKM philosophy and approach to using Capacities. I would love to hear your thoughts!!

️ (talking about PKM is so fun to me lol). https://medium.com/@rekawrites/pkm-and-note-taking-as-a-life-practice-4e3f270c34a7

Hi, can you send me a link to read the full article ? Merci

réka

Ah it’s because it’s behind the medium partner program! But I can send you all a friend link if you’d like and you can read it for free

let me know and I can DM you

Is it possible to have the whole article please?

réka

Ah it’s because it’s behind the medium partner program! But I can send you all a friend link if you’d like and you can read it for free

let me know and I can DM you

I'd love to read that article on how you use PPKMs cloudycat

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Using Capacities for journaling and capturing stuff. I used ChatGPT to generate a motivational quote and title and Dalle to generate the motivational image. The format is from the old BestSelf. I'm going to try it for one month and see how it goes.

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Using Capacities for journaling and capturing stuff. I used ChatGPT to generate a motivational quote and title and Dalle to generate the motivational image. The format is from the old BestSelf. I'm going to try it for one month and see how it goes.

Looks beautiful

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Ah it’s because it’s behind the medium partner program! But I can send you all a friend link if you’d like and you can read it for free

let me know and I can DM you

me too pls

réka

Ah it’s because it’s behind the medium partner program! But I can send you all a friend link if you’d like and you can read it for free

let me know and I can DM you

Hello

since im new to the discord, I would also love to read the article! Thanks in advance

Have a great day!

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Hi, Pls someone help me. I want to create daily note for the past, but today I can't find the calendar anymore and I dont know why and how to find it (edited)

Alma Pham

Hi, Pls someone help me. I want to create daily note for the past, but today I can't find the calendar anymore and I dont know why and how to find it (edited)

can you screenshot your current state?

cp9

can you screenshot your current state?

Sure, there is no calendar in the right side

Alma Pham

Sure, there is no calendar in the right side

hmm weird. mine has a sidebar button on the right of that "Today" button

cp9

hmm weird. mine has a sidebar button on the right of that "Today" button

can you show me your screenshot pls

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can you show me your screenshot pls

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can you show me your screenshot pls

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@Alma Pham have you tried restarting or closing the app/web and reopen?

You need to stretch the screen to the right. The calendar is hiding.

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if clicked

I've already tried it, but I am figuring out I can go to the specific day on which I want to take note by clicking on the button > or < between "Today". Although it seems manual, it still solves my current issues

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You need to stretch the screen to the right. The calendar is hiding.

it doesn't work, but I can use the alternative method. Thank you for helping me ❤️

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it doesn't work, but I can use the alternative method. Thank you for helping me ❤️

do you have pushed here

This button "hides or show the calendar sidebar" (edited)

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do you have pushed here

This button "hides or show the calendar sidebar" (edited)

it totally hides in my calendar sidebar

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it totally hides in my calendar sidebar

This is strange

Alma Pham

it totally hides in my calendar sidebar

This button is hidden on smaller screens because there's not enough place for the calendar sidebar. But we can look into it again to make it better.

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This button is hidden on smaller screens because there's not enough place for the calendar sidebar. But we can look into it again to make it better.

Like responsive website. @Alma Pham : please check your screen resolution. It should be visible on wide screen (edited)

Is there a place where folks have uploaded screenshots of their setups and object types? I have been scrolling back through this thread and I see a few. Would really love a centralized look at some setups as I am always thinking more about my thinking, and visuals help a lot!

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Is there a place where folks have uploaded screenshots of their setups and object types? I have been scrolling back through this thread and I see a few. Would really love a centralized look at some setups as I am always thinking more about my thinking, and visuals help a lot!

Looks like this is something that others are interested in as well! I haven't seen any answer so I think I will wait a bit more and then maybe start DMing folks for permission to gather previously posted screenshots. Unless someone else can think of a more efficient way.

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Looks like this is something that others are interested in as well! I haven't seen any answer so I think I will wait a bit more and then maybe start DMing folks for permission to gather previously posted screenshots. Unless someone else can think of a more efficient way.

I think one of the difficulties yet to solve is how to do you capture the entire complexities of a workflow of a space in like 1-3 screenshots (edited)

Json Blob

I think one of the difficulties yet to solve is how to do you capture the entire complexities of a workflow of a space in like 1-3 screenshots (edited)

For sure. In my case, even just seeing the object types menu and an MOC or similar would be enough to spark inspiration.

Ya in most cases those are the interesting parts, it's the collection of data into 1 point not the data points themselves

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I think we'll see a huge uptick in interesting configurations when queries come out. Before that, effort might be too early on collecting a library of things

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Ya in most cases those are the interesting parts, it's the collection of data into 1 point not the data points themselves

You put it into words much better than I could. And yes, great point about the timing and the queries.

It would be interesting to see quick snapshots of people's systems. I love seeing a tour of the whole thing, but even just snippets can still be inspirational, like you've described. Like a quick "here's my work in progress" of what you've done that day/week or something

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Maybe we should have a dedicated day of the week for it

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Well, maybe in the spirit of this I shall start a Showcase Sunday

please enjoy images of my imperfect WIP...

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I used PKMBeth's initial guidance to create as few Object Types as possible. I use collections as essentially ready-made filters that show me delineated views of the same Object Type, and I use tags as global topics to unite different Object Types

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Soon I hope to build MOCs around these tags, for whatever I'm researching or content I need to create, etc. Currently I can use the tags to pool together interesting content I've collected on a subject without any effort.

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This is my "trauma" tag as that is an area I often refer to and has lots of different Object types involved, from CPD and lecture notes to infographics, book notes and zettelkasten definitions

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This is my "trauma" tag as that is an area I often refer to and has lots of different Object types involved, from CPD and lecture notes to infographics, book notes and zettelkasten definitions

Wait... So it's a board where all the notes, photos, and PDFs (for example) are separated like that?? I'm sold if so. Take my damn money if that's the case. It's been way too difficult (OCD-wise) for me to deal with photos on obsidian, and one note isn't really cut out for it either....but a wall/board concept would be perfect

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Wait... So it's a board where all the notes, photos, and PDFs (for example) are separated like that?? I'm sold if so. Take my damn money if that's the case. It's been way too difficult (OCD-wise) for me to deal with photos on obsidian, and one note isn't really cut out for it either....but a wall/board concept would be perfect

Oh yes, and not only is it the case but it‘s also easy to do. Just embed the tag ,and filter according your needs.

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Thank you for starting and sharing this! I also took PKMBeth's advice on beginning with the minimum viable objects and tags. I took her Capacities Made Simple course and it was really helpful. There have been some updates which I hope to watch soon.

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It looks like we have some similar uses and setups. I also use the Collections the way you do. I am looking forward to seeing more from people about how they use tags. I feel like that could get too complex, too fast if you're not careful.

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It looks like we have some similar uses and setups. I also use the Collections the way you do. I am looking forward to seeing more from people about how they use tags. I feel like that could get too complex, too fast if you're not careful.

Definitely! I have to curb my impulses a lot and try to only create a new Collection or Object based on how I want to discover future information. Only if it's some kind of unique information that doesn't fall under another category, and that hasn't happened for a while now

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Wait... So it's a board where all the notes, photos, and PDFs (for example) are separated like that?? I'm sold if so. Take my damn money if that's the case. It's been way too difficult (OCD-wise) for me to deal with photos on obsidian, and one note isn't really cut out for it either....but a wall/board concept would be perfect

Yes! It's really helpful to me when I just want to browse a subject. I can see books, podcast notes, etc by using the Tag

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Yes! It's really helpful to me when I just want to browse a subject. I can see books, podcast notes, etc by using the Tag

I looked up a guide after I commented that... and I am so excited to start using this! I feel like I've been waiting for this for so long

And speaking of browsing a tag, can it display articles like it does photos? It could be my save for later too is all. That'd be neat.

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Thank you for starting and sharing this! I also took PKMBeth's advice on beginning with the minimum viable objects and tags. I took her Capacities Made Simple course and it was really helpful. There have been some updates which I hope to watch soon.

Yes, a very helpful course.

Showcase Sunday ⭐, love it

Thanks for sharing! Super inspiring

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Hi Capacities Community! I'm new here (and also new to discord, a lot going on here

). I have been reading and watching lots of useful content including the Capacities made simple course (thank you @pkmbeth !). I am now working on designing and building out my system, and I'm looking for some inspiration when it comes to tags. Would anyone be willing to share their setup/methodology for how they use and organize tags? Specifically, I'm wondering how people use the "Top Level Tag" vs. adding a tag as a new property. Thank you!

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I send the Goodreads link via Whatsapp then I convert the weblink into a "book", this hel me to catch a lot of metadata fast (edited)

Thank you for sharing! I'm curious about capturing the metadata using this method. I copy/pasted a Goodreads link for a book into a text property in the weblink object, however I'm not seeing any of the metadata come across. Is it necessary to use WhatsAppp for this to work?

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Hi Capacities Community! I'm new here (and also new to discord, a lot going on here

). I have been reading and watching lots of useful content including the Capacities made simple course (thank you @pkmbeth !). I am now working on designing and building out my system, and I'm looking for some inspiration when it comes to tags. Would anyone be willing to share their setup/methodology for how they use and organize tags? Specifically, I'm wondering how people use the "Top Level Tag" vs. adding a tag as a new property. Thank you!

here are some of my tag collections. I only use tags for contexts that can be relevant in multiple object types. this is in my Personal space. the space for my job has much less tags (edited)

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Thank you for sharing! I'm curious about capturing the metadata using this method. I copy/pasted a Goodreads link for a book into a text property in the weblink object, however I'm not seeing any of the metadata come across. Is it necessary to use WhatsAppp for this to work?

Yes. From what I know you have to go through whatsapp

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here are some of my tag collections. I only use tags for contexts that can be relevant in multiple object types. this is in my Personal space. the space for my job has much less tags (edited)

Thank you for sharing, this is great inspiration! I would love to know what has been tagged with "idiot"

Anna

Yes. From what I know you have to go through whatsapp

Thank you! I will give it a try. WhatsApp isn't as popular here in the US, but I love the way you captured so much rich metadata. Thanks for sharing!

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Thank you for sharing, this is great inspiration! I would love to know what has been tagged with "idiot"

I can share you this one, the rest are non-english

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here are some of my tag collections. I only use tags for contexts that can be relevant in multiple object types. this is in my Personal space. the space for my job has much less tags (edited)

I think this is a great rule of thumb for deciding if something needs a tag!

grateful_dad__c

Hi Capacities Community! I'm new here (and also new to discord, a lot going on here

). I have been reading and watching lots of useful content including the Capacities made simple course (thank you @pkmbeth !). I am now working on designing and building out my system, and I'm looking for some inspiration when it comes to tags. Would anyone be willing to share their setup/methodology for how they use and organize tags? Specifically, I'm wondering how people use the "Top Level Tag" vs. adding a tag as a new property. Thank you!

I use the Johnny Decimal system to organize my content everywhere. Google Drive, Gmail, Apple Photo albums, etc. I have a master list for my Johnny Decimal hierarchy so the same hierarchy gets implemented everywhere. My Capacities tags are based on my master Johnny Decimal hierarchy.

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here are some of my tag collections. I only use tags for contexts that can be relevant in multiple object types. this is in my Personal space. the space for my job has much less tags (edited)

Thanks for sharing this. So, although these tags are called "genre", do you use them as top level "descriptor" tags in some cases, and then as specific properties in other cases? Like another commentor, I am trying to understand the difference between using tags in those two scenarios. I imagine I am overcomplicating it though.

honey_is_bee_crap

Thanks for sharing this. So, although these tags are called "genre", do you use them as top level "descriptor" tags in some cases, and then as specific properties in other cases? Like another commentor, I am trying to understand the difference between using tags in those two scenarios. I imagine I am overcomplicating it though.

sorry I don't understand the idea of "top level descriptor" or such. what is it? any example? I use the genre tags for movies, series, books. and I do use a tag named "Later" for links I plan to visit later (I just name it Later because it can be considered as "Read Later", "Watch Later", "Give Details Later", or "Check Later") (edited)

Here is an example - a book object might have a multi select property (tags) for genre. I could also use the “top level” tag to tag the genre. So I guess im wondering the advantage/use case of using the top level tag vs a tag property on the object (screenshot below)

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Here is an example - a book object might have a multi select property (tags) for genre. I could also use the “top level” tag to tag the genre. So I guess im wondering the advantage/use case of using the top level tag vs a tag property on the object (screenshot below)

Ooohh. I use both. The genre property has more specific choices: romance, comedy, thriller, etc. But I use the top level tag for anything without specific rule. For example: programming, sad, productivity, genius, fashion. They are not genres, they are not category. But they just give useful information about the object.

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Ooohh. I use both. The genre property has more specific choices: romance, comedy, thriller, etc. But I use the top level tag for anything without specific rule. For example: programming, sad, productivity, genius, fashion. They are not genres, they are not category. But they just give useful information about the object.

Ah gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks!

I use tags wherever I feel/ think I will need them later

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I use the Johnny Decimal system to organize my content everywhere. Google Drive, Gmail, Apple Photo albums, etc. I have a master list for my Johnny Decimal hierarchy so the same hierarchy gets implemented everywhere. My Capacities tags are based on my master Johnny Decimal hierarchy.

First, thanks for the intro to Johnny Decimal. I hadn’t heard of it before, but I’ve now read the full website, and it’s intriguing. Do you keep your master list in Capacities or somewhere else? Do you separate your JD tags in any way? I know I’ll start small and build my own thing, but I’m just curious to see how you’ve implemented this in Capacities.

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I use the Johnny Decimal system to organize my content everywhere. Google Drive, Gmail, Apple Photo albums, etc. I have a master list for my Johnny Decimal hierarchy so the same hierarchy gets implemented everywhere. My Capacities tags are based on my master Johnny Decimal hierarchy.

…so for example your 02_Books folder in the finder corresponds to 02_Books objects in CAP? I always wondered how to consistently apply JD through the different file systems one creates. (edited)

matt

First, thanks for the intro to Johnny Decimal. I hadn’t heard of it before, but I’ve now read the full website, and it’s intriguing. Do you keep your master list in Capacities or somewhere else? Do you separate your JD tags in any way? I know I’ll start small and build my own thing, but I’m just curious to see how you’ve implemented this in Capacities.

I actually keep my master list in a mindmap (MindNode). I've been using JD for many years, longer than Capacities has been around, and its home has always been a mindmap. Every now and then I'll discover a need for a new folder, or perhaps I've outgrown a particular existing folder. So the mindmap lets me move things around and try new ideas. Once I've settled on a change in the mindmap, then I go back to all of my content sources (Gmail, Google Drive, Apple Photos, etc.) and implement the change. Since Capacities tags don't allow for a hierarchy, I "nest" subfolders into a single tag. For example, my "official" JD hierarchy has a top level folder called [06] Hobbies, and one of its subfolders is 601 Aviation. Since I can't create subfolders in Capacities tags, I implement that particular tag as 06.601 Aviation. This way at least all of my Capacities tags are sorted correctly.

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…so for example your 02_Books folder in the finder corresponds to 02_Books objects in CAP? I always wondered how to consistently apply JD through the different file systems one creates. (edited)

Well I don't have a 02_Books folder, but yes that's how it would work. I have a master JD hierarchy, and that hierarchy is implemented exactly the same everywhere. (Finder, Gmail, Google Drive, Capacities, etc.)

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I actually keep my master list in a mindmap (MindNode). I've been using JD for many years, longer than Capacities has been around, and its home has always been a mindmap. Every now and then I'll discover a need for a new folder, or perhaps I've outgrown a particular existing folder. So the mindmap lets me move things around and try new ideas. Once I've settled on a change in the mindmap, then I go back to all of my content sources (Gmail, Google Drive, Apple Photos, etc.) and implement the change. Since Capacities tags don't allow for a hierarchy, I "nest" subfolders into a single tag. For example, my "official" JD hierarchy has a top level folder called [06] Hobbies, and one of its subfolders is 601 Aviation. Since I can't create subfolders in Capacities tags, I implement that particular tag as 06.601 Aviation. This way at least all of my Capacities tags are sorted correctly.

That’s really helpful. Thanks for taking the time to explain!

matt

That’s really helpful. Thanks for taking the time to explain!

Absolutely!

CincyTriGuy

Well I don't have a 02_Books folder, but yes that's how it would work. I have a master JD hierarchy, and that hierarchy is implemented exactly the same everywhere. (Finder, Gmail, Google Drive, Capacities, etc.)

Thank you! This is the missing link for me; I have not yet coordinated the different file systems. We need to think well about the master list. Thanks again!

CincyTriGuy

I actually keep my master list in a mindmap (MindNode). I've been using JD for many years, longer than Capacities has been around, and its home has always been a mindmap. Every now and then I'll discover a need for a new folder, or perhaps I've outgrown a particular existing folder. So the mindmap lets me move things around and try new ideas. Once I've settled on a change in the mindmap, then I go back to all of my content sources (Gmail, Google Drive, Apple Photos, etc.) and implement the change. Since Capacities tags don't allow for a hierarchy, I "nest" subfolders into a single tag. For example, my "official" JD hierarchy has a top level folder called [06] Hobbies, and one of its subfolders is 601 Aviation. Since I can't create subfolders in Capacities tags, I implement that particular tag as 06.601 Aviation. This way at least all of my Capacities tags are sorted correctly.

Waaaa! This is thought out VERY well! I have not thought about a MindMap as a master list, but I can imagine this is VERY helpful. I was always scared to create Excel or Airtable sheets as a master list, so I never took the step. I definitely will need to create this folder 601 Aviation! (edited)

markus

Waaaa! This is thought out VERY well! I have not thought about a MindMap as a master list, but I can imagine this is VERY helpful. I was always scared to create Excel or Airtable sheets as a master list, so I never took the step. I definitely will need to create this folder 601 Aviation! (edited)

... while I don't use the JD system, but my own 'homegrown', I nevertheless arrived at same / similar conclusion as @CincyTriGuy as re. a master list – one that is kept at centeal reference space (meta-map) & projected onto the different tool-systems / compartements. in my experience TheBrain works very well here! – as it not only allows you to 'play' with the structure (& keep overview & 'controlled vocabulary' , but even more: the special navigation structure of theBrain, integrating hierarchical and transversal relations allows you to grow different 'local' versions (& subsets) of your master list, and still keep everything plugged into a controllable overarching meta-structure. so, it get´s you beyond one master list, into a kind of ecosystem of interconnected lists... still controllable. IME, this combines systematicity w/ 'local' adaptation & room to maneuvre...

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I actually keep my master list in a mindmap (MindNode). I've been using JD for many years, longer than Capacities has been around, and its home has always been a mindmap. Every now and then I'll discover a need for a new folder, or perhaps I've outgrown a particular existing folder. So the mindmap lets me move things around and try new ideas. Once I've settled on a change in the mindmap, then I go back to all of my content sources (Gmail, Google Drive, Apple Photos, etc.) and implement the change. Since Capacities tags don't allow for a hierarchy, I "nest" subfolders into a single tag. For example, my "official" JD hierarchy has a top level folder called [06] Hobbies, and one of its subfolders is 601 Aviation. Since I can't create subfolders in Capacities tags, I implement that particular tag as 06.601 Aviation. This way at least all of my Capacities tags are sorted correctly.

for me, using MindNode as a master list for JD is one of the coolest tips of the last months, thank you! It revolutionises everything - PLUS I have found out that I can Hookmark the folders into Mindnote, making the whole mindmap become a clickable "Mind Menu". And this is just the beginning. Thanks again, @CincyTriGuy !

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for me, using MindNode as a master list for JD is one of the coolest tips of the last months, thank you! It revolutionises everything - PLUS I have found out that I can Hookmark the folders into Mindnote, making the whole mindmap become a clickable "Mind Menu". And this is just the beginning. Thanks again, @CincyTriGuy !

furiously scribbling JD and Mindnote into my LifeOS TwosApp list

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furiously scribbling JD and Mindnote into my LifeOS TwosApp list

Best move in my memorable past (besides CAP, of course!).

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Yes. From what I know you have to go through whatsapp

Hi again! So I set up the integration to Whatsapp, went to a book I'm reading on Goodreads, shared the link via Whatsapp, converted the weblink to a book in capacities. However, I'm not seeing any of the metadata come over besides Title and a cutoff of the description. Am I doing something wrong?

grateful_dad__c

Hi again! So I set up the integration to Whatsapp, went to a book I'm reading on Goodreads, shared the link via Whatsapp, converted the weblink to a book in capacities. However, I'm not seeing any of the metadata come over besides Title and a cutoff of the description. Am I doing something wrong?

hmm it's a bit complicated, I'll try to explain. converting Goodreads link into a book is not supported in Capacities. the "Book" object type is just a template for properties of a book. it doesn't automatically recognize Author, Genres, etc from a link about a book. so, I guess now you need to put the Goodreads link in that book object (within the blocks/notes content) and fill the properties manually

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hmm it's a bit complicated, I'll try to explain. converting Goodreads link into a book is not supported in Capacities. the "Book" object type is just a template for properties of a book. it doesn't automatically recognize Author, Genres, etc from a link about a book. so, I guess now you need to put the Goodreads link in that book object (within the blocks/notes content) and fill the properties manually

Ah ok. That makes sense. I thought you found some genius way to automatically map the metadata over

grateful_dad__c

Ah ok. That makes sense. I thought you found some genius way to automatically map the metadata over

Kind of workflow works only with the 'base- objects', not those based on base-objects.

grateful_dad__c

Hi Capacities Community! I'm new here (and also new to discord, a lot going on here

). I have been reading and watching lots of useful content including the Capacities made simple course (thank you @pkmbeth !). I am now working on designing and building out my system, and I'm looking for some inspiration when it comes to tags. Would anyone be willing to share their setup/methodology for how they use and organize tags? Specifically, I'm wondering how people use the "Top Level Tag" vs. adding a tag as a new property. Thank you!

This course is awesome. I took it this past summer and I am going to revisit it over the winter break to check out the updates/changes and refresh my knowledge on some of the features that I have not yet mastered. This is a great reference to have in the toolbox. I have only taken two formal app courses and Capacities Made Simple is one.

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This course is awesome. I took it this past summer and I am going to revisit it over the winter break to check out the updates/changes and refresh my knowledge on some of the features that I have not yet mastered. This is a great reference to have in the toolbox. I have only taken two formal app courses and Capacities Made Simple is one.

@pkmbeth - Are you planning to continuously update the course as modifications/updates are made now that you are on the Capacities staff

Thanks for all you do!

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@pkmbeth - Are you planning to continuously update the course as modifications/updates are made now that you are on the Capacities staff

Thanks for all you do!

Absolutely!

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Hehe, I really like the visual aspect of CAP, I have my Word Search tag for things like topics, a person’s name, or anything else that pop up in mind, and I can just right-click to search Google for it Also there are my Lessons collection in Journals object, I love the wall view here. I would attach a post, a source, or an image so I can always refresh myself with it. Also connected to the emotions and related journals for reflecting back later Thanks for your amazing app and hard work, I really enjoyed it so far

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Hey everyone, I thought the Capacities UI was a bit overwhelming, so I went for a minimalist approach. Take a look: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1178712549307469894/1182729143448785007 Feel free to share your thoughts. (edited)

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for me, using MindNode as a master list for JD is one of the coolest tips of the last months, thank you! It revolutionises everything - PLUS I have found out that I can Hookmark the folders into Mindnote, making the whole mindmap become a clickable "Mind Menu". And this is just the beginning. Thanks again, @CincyTriGuy !

Can you share a screenshot of your MindNotes.

markus

Best move in my memorable past (besides CAP, of course!).

As you said before, I see JD and MindNote are so powerful. But I don't know how to implement exactly and how great they are

Harry P

As you said before, I see JD and MindNote are so powerful. But I don't know how to implement exactly and how great they are

Thank you! Sorry that, at this moment, I cannot take much time and calm to answer extensively. The basic principle is to implement JD for the file system. This, depending on your volume of files and folders, can be quite a challenge. Going into detail here would be too much now, but I can warmly recommend JD's workbook: https://app.gumroad.com/checkout So, as @CincyTriGuy and others pointed out (and Johnny recommends in his workbook), it is essential to keep a master list of the JD file system, so that the folder system is reflected somewhere on a list outside the folder structure, as an orientation and reference. The for me missing link @CincyTriGuy made me discover was: if you make this master list a mind map, you can really construct/play/make grow your system on the list (first), and implement the structure into the file system then. The genious step, for me, is using Mind Note for this, as 1) the structure can grow like a map, a tree, a kind of organic image, plus 2) the pro Version has an outline view where you can do all the fast input and outlining. And, 3) here comes my big happiness: Hookmark, which I discovered roaming around in this forum, can be the LINK between the mindmap and the folders/files. Practically, this means: you see a folder as a node in your Mindmap, which is directly linked to the actual folder in the Finder. In this way, I can use the mindmap as a real navigation map, the single notes directly taking me to their respective files/folders. As you can see in the small screenshot, the two nodes are direct links to their folders in the Finder. This is the principle. Sorry I cannot go more into detail now - but if you have concrete questions, I could try to respond. Hope this helps! (edited)

Gumroad

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Very cool. This could be the solution for my lifelong filesystem structure struggles

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Thanks for sharing!!

phil

Very cool. This could be the solution for my lifelong filesystem structure struggles

Oh yes! It definetely is for me!

https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001364765051994132/1143215092419285003

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does anyone here use capacities to programming study notes? i want to structure my space, but i didn`t find any showcase to give me ideas

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I stumbled upon Capacities by the end of december 2023, and quickly I have become a fan of this software. My starting use case is creative writing as a comedian. So I created objects like "Joke", "Bit", "Topic", "Pun" and so on. Capacities has fueled my joy in writing material because it's much easier (and more natural) to organize/orientate than my previous gDocs. It's a bit annoying that the CSV import is deactivated (for importing my existing puns), but it seems to be only a temporary thing. Keep up the good work - and thank you! Cheers from Austria, Europe

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Starting to get a hang of capacities, spending way too much time on this app

hey! could you show me how your computer science setup please?

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I stumbled upon Capacities by the end of december 2023, and quickly I have become a fan of this software. My starting use case is creative writing as a comedian. So I created objects like "Joke", "Bit", "Topic", "Pun" and so on. Capacities has fueled my joy in writing material because it's much easier (and more natural) to organize/orientate than my previous gDocs. It's a bit annoying that the CSV import is deactivated (for importing my existing puns), but it seems to be only a temporary thing. Keep up the good work - and thank you! Cheers from Austria, Europe

do these objects have different properties from each other?

I’ve started a big history project with Capacities and I’ll be sharing what I learn about the project from a note-taking/PKM point of view on my personal YouTube channel. I just did the first post which talks a bit about how I set up project pages, so it may be of use for other contexts besides history too. Link here if it’s of interest to anyone: https://youtu.be/4HkFAyLDAdk?si=n2SZe1xZpX0DjqVD

PKMBeth

My 2024 PKM Project: 12 Centuries in 12 Months

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Hi everyone! I wrote an article for Beth’s publication on how Capacities makes me a better writer

you can find the friend link to read the article for free here: https://medium.com/pkm-in-the-wild/how-capacities-and-pkm-makes-me-a-better-writer-06435aab7316?sk=03165a7e3315566ec963244d3f19386c

How Capacities and PKM makes me a better writer

I have been telling stories my entire life. So have you. Language and storytelling are two of the fundamental pillars that make up our…

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does anyone here use capacities to programming study notes? i want to structure my space, but i didn`t find any showcase to give me ideas

I'm going to move notes to capacities. Once I'm done I'll share here.

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There mostly about programming topics like databases, python, AI, and web dev

biriba

does anyone here use capacities to programming study notes? i want to structure my space, but i didn`t find any showcase to give me ideas

currently I just use tags to organize my notes and have them in collections that fit them, collections being broader and tags being narrow. FX programming is a collections, java, python etc is a tag

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then you can see all the files related to programming in the collection

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and see the specifics by using filtering

My daily note lives in my right side panel, always visible

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My daily note lives in my right side panel, always visible

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Nice! How do you do this?

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Nice! How do you do this?

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Nice! How do you do this?

You can open any note in the side panel by shift clicking on it

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Hi everyone! I wrote an article for Beth’s pub on setting up a novel wiki/ writing studio in capacities

️ If you’re interested you can read it here: https://medium.com/pkm-in-the-wild/starting-a-new-novel-setting-up-a-writing-studio-in-capacities-8b1f6e8adbb8?sk=83732bb36f08b1a38331723f58b7b2fd

Starting a new novel: setting up a writing studio in Capacities

How I use up Capacities as my novel wiki

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Hi everyone! I wrote an article for Beth’s pub on setting up a novel wiki/ writing studio in capacities

️ If you’re interested you can read it here: https://medium.com/pkm-in-the-wild/starting-a-new-novel-setting-up-a-writing-studio-in-capacities-8b1f6e8adbb8?sk=83732bb36f08b1a38331723f58b7b2fd

U kinda are part of the team then tbh

Rexx.

U kinda are part of the team then tbh

No, not at all! I just enjoy PKM and Capacities especially, and also writing articles. And Beth has been kind enough to encourage my writing so I thought I’d share

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wut

My daily note lives in my right side panel, always visible

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have u pinned this view somehow?

wut

My daily note lives in my right side panel, always visible

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what i have done to pin such view is to open a new tab and then make sure the first tab where the daily notes is is pinned.

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and then opening the side panel.

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now u can just open the daily note by pressing ctrl shift right arrow.

I wish we could just embed "Today" daily note properly without putting it in the right side

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cp9

I wish we could just embed "Today" daily note properly without putting it in the right side

if u could create a feature request i will upvote.

Rexx.

if u could create a feature request i will upvote.

here it is https://capacities.io/feedback/p/request-embed-today-daily-note

Requests, ideas, bugs

Get an overview of requested features and ideas.

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So this is pretty cool. I'm prepping for a sales call on Monday. I've done a report on the prospect, company and industry. I'm tailoring the report to how I want the conversation to flow, identifying key talking points, questions and contextual information that is important by tagging the respective block with something like, "Key Question", "Key Talking Point" and so forth. Then, I'm setting up queries at the top of the note that pulls out the blocks with those tags, giving me a summary of how I want the conversation to go, what my talking poitns are and the most important questions I need to ask.

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So this is pretty cool. I'm prepping for a sales call on Monday. I've done a report on the prospect, company and industry. I'm tailoring the report to how I want the conversation to flow, identifying key talking points, questions and contextual information that is important by tagging the respective block with something like, "Key Question", "Key Talking Point" and so forth. Then, I'm setting up queries at the top of the note that pulls out the blocks with those tags, giving me a summary of how I want the conversation to go, what my talking poitns are and the most important questions I need to ask.

introduction of such non-obvious but practically critical (structuring) concepts like 'key talking point' brings any personal knowledge system to the next level... ... another magic key that is often overlooked, just because it is so 'everyday' & (seemingly) 'mousegray' (from the perspective of shiny – but often effectively clumsy (global; catch-all) – 'methodology systems'... IME, that is

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introduction of such non-obvious but practically critical (structuring) concepts like 'key talking point' brings any personal knowledge system to the next level... ... another magic key that is often overlooked, just because it is so 'everyday' & (seemingly) 'mousegray' (from the perspective of shiny – but often effectively clumsy (global; catch-all) – 'methodology systems'... IME, that is

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And the ability to put this information anywhere I need it with queries why I think that functionality is such a huge step forward. Really makes it easy to put the critical, small stuff at your fingertips.

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Capacities has always been an enjoyable place to put information into and work, but until queries, Tana always had it beat on information management. That's why I used Tana for awhile, but I came back here once I learned that queries was planned.

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And the ability to put this information anywhere I need it with queries why I think that functionality is such a huge step forward. Really makes it easy to put the critical, small stuff at your fingertips.

yeah!! definitely!

for me these are the two big fronts that the intelligent beast really deserves to make progress on: 1) re-surfacing (structural) info intelligently (also in unforseen / implicit ways) 2) a more liquid use of data and objects (not to say visual...); more like a table – as in 'desk'

– (and a studio)… and less like a database and a 'knowledge machine' (a 'churning' computer to be scrutinized, programmed etc)… queries are a pivotal element already, as to multiple ways to auto-float inherently relevant & 'serendipitous' info ! couldn't agree more. (… but there still are ways to make things even better on the UI-/surface level, is my feeling… ) (edited)

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yeah!! definitely!

for me these are the two big fronts that the intelligent beast really deserves to make progress on: 1) re-surfacing (structural) info intelligently (also in unforseen / implicit ways) 2) a more liquid use of data and objects (not to say visual...); more like a table – as in 'desk'

– (and a studio)… and less like a database and a 'knowledge machine' (a 'churning' computer to be scrutinized, programmed etc)… queries are a pivotal element already, as to multiple ways to auto-float inherently relevant & 'serendipitous' info ! couldn't agree more. (… but there still are ways to make things even better on the UI-/surface level, is my feeling… ) (edited)

Oh don't disagree with you at all. In fact, agree. There's more to do; the thing I understand with the queries release is that it's a fundemental, foundational change that points the app in the direction of that more liquid use that you point out. I think you're spot on that it can get better and that is another reason I left Tana--I lost faith that they were interested in making their product better for those use cases. Plus, Capacities has a great mobile app and Tana still inexplicably crapping the bed on that. But I'll put my soapbox away now.

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I havent tried Tana, but I heard about inheritance.. Which sounds really fun. I don't see it coming to capacities tho, sadly.

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I havent tried Tana, but I heard about inheritance.. Which sounds really fun. I don't see it coming to capacities tho, sadly.

Yeah, that's a powerful feature. It's part of Tana's supertag system, which is hierarchical. In the supertag system, tags can have various meta attributes. For example, the "Person" supertag could have the meta attributes "Context" and "Relationship." Using inheritence, I can specify that anyone who has "Work Conference" in "Context" auto-magically gets "Industry Colleague" added to their "Relationship" attribute. And so on and so forth. I don't know of any technological reason the supertag concept couldn't be implemented, though I have zero idea if it's on the radar. I have seen in a few places that hierarchical tags are on the radar, and honestly, that will 80% of what I personally needed out of supertags anyway. I'll also add that Tana is great in the customization areana, but damn, with the ability to infintely customize almost any node, it got confusing real fast.

DogSaysRollTide

Yeah, that's a powerful feature. It's part of Tana's supertag system, which is hierarchical. In the supertag system, tags can have various meta attributes. For example, the "Person" supertag could have the meta attributes "Context" and "Relationship." Using inheritence, I can specify that anyone who has "Work Conference" in "Context" auto-magically gets "Industry Colleague" added to their "Relationship" attribute. And so on and so forth. I don't know of any technological reason the supertag concept couldn't be implemented, though I have zero idea if it's on the radar. I have seen in a few places that hierarchical tags are on the radar, and honestly, that will 80% of what I personally needed out of supertags anyway. I'll also add that Tana is great in the customization areana, but damn, with the ability to infintely customize almost any node, it got confusing real fast.

Wait.. This is the inheritance I heard about: Object type/supertag "show" Has property "genre" Then I have object types "movie" And "series" Which inherit "show" Both of them automatically have property "genre" I can add property "num of episodes" To series, which won't appear on movie. Is that possible in Tana? Or I misunderstood it?

cp9

Wait.. This is the inheritance I heard about: Object type/supertag "show" Has property "genre" Then I have object types "movie" And "series" Which inherit "show" Both of them automatically have property "genre" I can add property "num of episodes" To series, which won't appear on movie. Is that possible in Tana? Or I misunderstood it?

I believe so! Although, I don't really remember the nuances of it. Your example is more complex than mine, but yeah, I think you can do all those things. Problem is, it's not just the technical complexity of inheritence and pointing at the right fields, one ends up with this mass of overly detailed information to manage. And in theory, the system works to manage it, but in practice, it's finnicky and you end up in highly specific rabbit holes trying to figure out why, for example, one specific movie doesn't have the right genre. So it works great for some people, but that part started to grate on me.

DogSaysRollTide

I believe so! Although, I don't really remember the nuances of it. Your example is more complex than mine, but yeah, I think you can do all those things. Problem is, it's not just the technical complexity of inheritence and pointing at the right fields, one ends up with this mass of overly detailed information to manage. And in theory, the system works to manage it, but in practice, it's finnicky and you end up in highly specific rabbit holes trying to figure out why, for example, one specific movie doesn't have the right genre. So it works great for some people, but that part started to grate on me.

Exactly. That's why I use the word "fun". I'm always excited about that rabit hole for managing my personal life. Hobbies and entertainment. While for profesional work, I only rely on backlinks and tagging. It's enough

cp9

Exactly. That's why I use the word "fun". I'm always excited about that rabit hole for managing my personal life. Hobbies and entertainment. While for profesional work, I only rely on backlinks and tagging. It's enough

Totally fair! My current personal rabbit hole is my 3D printer, which I'll be putting through its paces in about two hours.

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Yeah, that's a powerful feature. It's part of Tana's supertag system, which is hierarchical. In the supertag system, tags can have various meta attributes. For example, the "Person" supertag could have the meta attributes "Context" and "Relationship." Using inheritence, I can specify that anyone who has "Work Conference" in "Context" auto-magically gets "Industry Colleague" added to their "Relationship" attribute. And so on and so forth. I don't know of any technological reason the supertag concept couldn't be implemented, though I have zero idea if it's on the radar. I have seen in a few places that hierarchical tags are on the radar, and honestly, that will 80% of what I personally needed out of supertags anyway. I'll also add that Tana is great in the customization areana, but damn, with the ability to infintely customize almost any node, it got confusing real fast.

given that @Steffen mentioned that “Nested tags is planned, although not on high priority. You can already now use topic1/topic2. that's the syntax we'll be using

” …. recommend adding this to the Feedback Board for upvoting by others to help inform the next iteration of tags. I’ve never used Tana, but this feature sounds really intriguing.

Hi, all!

I notice that many of you are interested in seeing spaces and workflows from others in the community. So I'd like to share mine with you.

I use Capacities for almost every aspect of my life. In this thread, I will share my "️ Living Room" space, where I keep everything related to my life. These are the latest versions, and I continuously make adjustments here and there.

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Hi, all!

I notice that many of you are interested in seeing spaces and workflows from others in the community. So I'd like to share mine with you.

I use Capacities for almost every aspect of my life. In this thread, I will share my "️ Living Room" space, where I keep everything related to my life. These are the latest versions, and I continuously make adjustments here and there.

Thank you so much! This is really inspirational and appreciated

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given that @Steffen mentioned that “Nested tags is planned, although not on high priority. You can already now use topic1/topic2. that's the syntax we'll be using

” …. recommend adding this to the Feedback Board for upvoting by others to help inform the next iteration of tags. I’ve never used Tana, but this feature sounds really intriguing.

It's Tana's big advantage over Capacities. And while it's very cool if you know how to use it, I didn't enjoy the complexity. If the folks at Tana were really on top of their game, they'd build a middle layer, protecting non-power-users from getting too deep but giving power users access to the feature. Anyway, I have a lot of opinions on Tana, but as I've said before, I like Capacities more and I trust the Capacities team more. And functionally, the mobile app is the big difference.

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Thank you so much! This is really inspirational and appreciated

Thanks! That means a lot

Glad you like it.

Minny

Hi, all!

I notice that many of you are interested in seeing spaces and workflows from others in the community. So I'd like to share mine with you.

I use Capacities for almost every aspect of my life. In this thread, I will share my "️ Living Room" space, where I keep everything related to my life. These are the latest versions, and I continuously make adjustments here and there.

Wow! This is really inspiring to see. Thank you so much for sharing

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DogSaysRollTide

Yeah, that's a powerful feature. It's part of Tana's supertag system, which is hierarchical. In the supertag system, tags can have various meta attributes. For example, the "Person" supertag could have the meta attributes "Context" and "Relationship." Using inheritence, I can specify that anyone who has "Work Conference" in "Context" auto-magically gets "Industry Colleague" added to their "Relationship" attribute. And so on and so forth. I don't know of any technological reason the supertag concept couldn't be implemented, though I have zero idea if it's on the radar. I have seen in a few places that hierarchical tags are on the radar, and honestly, that will 80% of what I personally needed out of supertags anyway. I'll also add that Tana is great in the customization areana, but damn, with the ability to infintely customize almost any node, it got confusing real fast.

In Capacities we have the option to ad a tag at the end of a block to turn it into an object (with it's properties). Isn't that some kind of a super tag functionality as well?

📝Anna

In Capacities we have the option to ad a tag at the end of a block to turn it into an object (with it's properties). Isn't that some kind of a super tag functionality as well?

basically supertag in tana = object type in capacities having "Elon Musk" as Person in Capacities is like having "Elon Musk #person" in Tana and that "Elon Musk" will have expandable toggle to show its properties as #person that's what I don't like about Tana. when we mention Elon Musk somewhere, it appears with the tag. I don't know if they have some kind of setting for that

cp9

basically supertag in tana = object type in capacities having "Elon Musk" as Person in Capacities is like having "Elon Musk #person" in Tana and that "Elon Musk" will have expandable toggle to show its properties as #person that's what I don't like about Tana. when we mention Elon Musk somewhere, it appears with the tag. I don't know if they have some kind of setting for that

Yep, that tracks from my experience.

anyone here uses Cap for language learning?

αgυѕ

anyone here uses Cap for language learning?

already setup these 3 but haven't spent much time on this yet

cp9

already setup these 3 but haven't spent much time on this yet

do you mind sharing the structure of one of the objects for reference?

αgυѕ

do you mind sharing the structure of one of the objects for reference?

very simple. vocab is just words collection, and I write my understanding of the word in the content block. phrase is just usage of those words, I link them to used vocabs (multi select).

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forgot to screenshot, I have text property "Source" in Phrase to link from where I learn the phrase. either book, article, or anything

αgυѕ

anyone here uses Cap for language learning?

I've been using Capacities for a couple of months to learn Spanish and really like it as a basic knowledge repository. I am at an advanced beginner level and generally use more self-directed programs (Assimil with Ease, FSI Basic Spanish, stories, etc.) instead of "platform" based programs like Duolingo, etc. I set up a separate space for Spanish and tend to capture the dialog for a lesson on a page with the English translation hidden with toggles. In addition to pages, I have 3 main objects: verbs, words (i.e., all words that aren' t verbs) and short notes on grammar. My object structure for each of them is very basic - I just add info to a given object when I come across it then add tags for tense, etc. Whatever text or dialog I'm working with, I'll create backlinks & embed the various objects. I don't do much with flashcards, but I did play around with setting up an manual spaced repetition system (SRS) using the new query functionality - it can be done, but other programs like Anki and Remnote are much functional in this area. I'm happy with just having words and grammar resurface as I work through new content.

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Anyone willing to share a good structure for setting up a Restaurant list

3:26 PM

I have this so far, however, I don't understand how to view Bakery in only NY,NY or only in Brooklyn

3:26 PM

Any tips?

Sounds like you need a Filter Where City = NY, NY

3:32 PM

it should hide everything else

So you need two 'wrappers' for your filter an 'or' with city = brooklyn, city = NY, and then an 'and' wrapper around your 'or' and tag = bakery

oh yeah i read the or as in two unique filters but actually Leto is right if you're doing or as an operator

it'll look something like this

3:36 PM

but where I have tags you'll have 'city' and where I have status, you'll have the tag = bakery

3:37 PM

oh, sorry, almost - that top 'and' should be an 'or'

Oh perfect, thank you for the help! Is there a way to set preset filters? or do I have to manually filter every time? (edited)

I think you’d use a “Query” for that?

2:17 PM

Just watched a video last night though and haven’t tried myself so I’m not sure

Can anyone share how they are journaling in Capacities?

WVMA

Can anyone share how they are journaling in Capacities?

I have a section in my daily page with a tag '#journal', and underneath nested paragraphs with tags for highlights and Accomplishments (if there are any). Until now I used an extra object type "Tracker" to track daily data (energy level, sleep, time outside etc.) but I am thinking about using the new tables object for that (one table each month).

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Do you find yourself worrying at all about making your search less useful by bloating the content it can find with journal entries and things that may more often than not just be “noise” in searches?

SpookySpren

Do you find yourself worrying at all about making your search less useful by bloating the content it can find with journal entries and things that may more often than not just be “noise” in searches?

In fact I thought about that a lot and can totally relate to those hesitations. But in pratice I never had problems with too much noise. And if I have a lot to journal about I switch to my journaling App (Diarium) and keep the entry in Capacities short and condensed.

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📝Anna

In fact I thought about that a lot and can totally relate to those hesitations. But in pratice I never had problems with too much noise. And if I have a lot to journal about I switch to my journaling App (Diarium) and keep the entry in Capacities short and condensed.

Makes sense. It’s one of those things I figure I’m overthinking and that it’s not a real problem in practice. But it has had me hesitant (edited)

SpookySpren

Makes sense. It’s one of those things I figure I’m overthinking and that it’s not a real problem in practice. But it has had me hesitant (edited)

I can totally feel you. been there, done that and will definitely and unfortunately overthink it again at some point

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SpookySpren

Do you find yourself worrying at all about making your search less useful by bloating the content it can find with journal entries and things that may more often than not just be “noise” in searches?

yes, I also use separate app for journaling. not only to manage the noise, but also because I like the Map/Location feature. you can also choose to just use a different space if you are only worried about noise

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Makes sense! My issue is that I tend to overthink this with every bit of content I add to my second brain/notes

for me, journaling should just capture moments, no need to link to objects or anything

Ahh yeah I’m not really referring to journaling in the message above unfortunately. Just generally speaking I overthink everything and worry about adding noise lol

WVMA

Can anyone share how they are journaling in Capacities?

I vomit into my daily notes. If I come up with new productivity ideas in my journal, I tag the block so i can find it again among the noise. Sometimes I randomly timestamp lol How do you do it?

Daily notes right now but I'll add a tag so that I can see it in one place?

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Daily notes right now but I'll add a tag so that I can see it in one place?

depends whether u use daily notes for other purposes. if you use daily notes for only journaling, then I guess you won't need the tag. else, you need the tag to differentiate the journal block from others

SpookySpren

Ahh yeah I’m not really referring to journaling in the message above unfortunately. Just generally speaking I overthink everything and worry about adding noise lol

as to this as a more general question, here another take / aspect, widening the view a little: this 'Ockhams razor' question of how to prevent congestion to me really ties in with another concurrent one: the (always personal) logics of how to architecture spaces; and when to set them up?! meaning: to me the answer to the weighing question "do I expect to find this information in a general search under this rubric / knowledge domain (= space!) – or: does it run danger of 'congesting' search results?", is kind of the criterion for me whether to set up dedicated spaces in the first place (or: last instance). – so, these two questions – as in any good 'architectural' situation – are connected inherently. … now, a problem is – up to now, at least – just how consequential Capacities makes this decision, bec of an inbuilt mutual intransparency of spaces to each other (– see as comparison TheBrain or DevonThink for systems that combine DB/space/notebook-logic (and its advantages) w/ some way of global transparency of information(-structures)). so, currently your question can also be rephrased to a challenge and a basic trade-off – one that there is currently no way of getting around & which frames possible strategies upfront: "do I want to keep my spaces 'slick' and 'slim' (info-management wise); or, do I rather prefer a global transparency (accessibility) of all my info/knowledge (w/in Capacities as KM-system)?!" – … in other words: if you really want to keep your ('search-'/retrieval-)spaces slick within Capacities-system then the trade-off is that you lose transparency / easy access to your global knowledge base. so, I think that is the question behind your question. – and thus a prime apsect of reasoning to consider every time you think about 'keeping things slim' … within Capacities…

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lerone

as to this as a more general question, here another take / aspect, widening the view a little: this 'Ockhams razor' question of how to prevent congestion to me really ties in with another concurrent one: the (always personal) logics of how to architecture spaces; and when to set them up?! meaning: to me the answer to the weighing question "do I expect to find this information in a general search under this rubric / knowledge domain (= space!) – or: does it run danger of 'congesting' search results?", is kind of the criterion for me whether to set up dedicated spaces in the first place (or: last instance). – so, these two questions – as in any good 'architectural' situation – are connected inherently. … now, a problem is – up to now, at least – just how consequential Capacities makes this decision, bec of an inbuilt mutual intransparency of spaces to each other (– see as comparison TheBrain or DevonThink for systems that combine DB/space/notebook-logic (and its advantages) w/ some way of global transparency of information(-structures)). so, currently your question can also be rephrased to a challenge and a basic trade-off – one that there is currently no way of getting around & which frames possible strategies upfront: "do I want to keep my spaces 'slick' and 'slim' (info-management wise); or, do I rather prefer a global transparency (accessibility) of all my info/knowledge (w/in Capacities as KM-system)?!" – … in other words: if you really want to keep your ('search-'/retrieval-)spaces slick within Capacities-system then the trade-off is that you lose transparency / easy access to your global knowledge base. so, I think that is the question behind your question. – and thus a prime apsect of reasoning to consider every time you think about 'keeping things slim' … within Capacities…

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This is a great set of points, thanks! Will have to ponder on this a bit more!

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Great, and yes, nothing special because I am still using the standard object type, but feels good to have them now all in capacities...

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I am no YouTube creator, but here is a video I've had on the back burner for a long time and finally got it together. Something I've been driving forward as my primary use-case for Capacities.io is to use it for Dungeon Mastering a Pathfinder 2nd Edition campaign with my party of 4 friends. This is an area I have not see others using it for and I wanted to create a quick overview of what I'm doing in my space to run a Pathfinder campaign as a DM. Hope it's helpful and shows some useful tricks you can use in your own spaces

https://youtu.be/ds7aclQ6n7A?si=d-V6iv_a1mEtBF3Q

JMCostanza

Json Blob's TTRPG Capacities.io Introduction

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I am no YouTube creator, but here is a video I've had on the back burner for a long time and finally got it together. Something I've been driving forward as my primary use-case for Capacities.io is to use it for Dungeon Mastering a Pathfinder 2nd Edition campaign with my party of 4 friends. This is an area I have not see others using it for and I wanted to create a quick overview of what I'm doing in my space to run a Pathfinder campaign as a DM. Hope it's helpful and shows some useful tricks you can use in your own spaces

https://youtu.be/ds7aclQ6n7A?si=d-V6iv_a1mEtBF3Q

Bro I thought u were a teenager

2:37 PM

Because of your pfp

my pfp was made when I was like 29 (edited)

2:40 PM

i'm 35 now

Time really flies ...

3:28 PM

I feel like I'm at the end of life being almost 20

3:28 PM

Since it is just a weird number to hit.

Json Blob

I am no YouTube creator, but here is a video I've had on the back burner for a long time and finally got it together. Something I've been driving forward as my primary use-case for Capacities.io is to use it for Dungeon Mastering a Pathfinder 2nd Edition campaign with my party of 4 friends. This is an area I have not see others using it for and I wanted to create a quick overview of what I'm doing in my space to run a Pathfinder campaign as a DM. Hope it's helpful and shows some useful tricks you can use in your own spaces

https://youtu.be/ds7aclQ6n7A?si=d-V6iv_a1mEtBF3Q

What a great video! Thanks for sharing

Such a unique and inspiring use-case of Capacities.

Steffen

What a great video! Thanks for sharing

Such a unique and inspiring use-case of Capacities.

Hey Steven, it is time for this:

Enhancing the discord server: Adding a starboard channel, which basically lets the users bump up useful templates, workflows or images showcasing a dashboard or other setups of capacities.

That was one of three things that could be easily implemented that would have a big impact on capacities. See my post for more: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/empowering-community-engagement-enabling-users-to-share-workspaces-and-templates Link to the bot: https://top.gg/bot/655390915325591629 (edited)

Requests, ideas, bugs

Get an overview of requested features and ideas.

Add Starboard Discord Bot | The #1 Discord Bot List

The first advanced Discord starboard bot, the best way to archive funny messages, with much more features to offer than other starboard bots

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Json Blob

I am no YouTube creator, but here is a video I've had on the back burner for a long time and finally got it together. Something I've been driving forward as my primary use-case for Capacities.io is to use it for Dungeon Mastering a Pathfinder 2nd Edition campaign with my party of 4 friends. This is an area I have not see others using it for and I wanted to create a quick overview of what I'm doing in my space to run a Pathfinder campaign as a DM. Hope it's helpful and shows some useful tricks you can use in your own spaces

https://youtu.be/ds7aclQ6n7A?si=d-V6iv_a1mEtBF3Q

do you create new space each time you start a new campaign? or reuse that same space?

Steffen

What a great video! Thanks for sharing

Such a unique and inspiring use-case of Capacities.

Thank you! It's changing and evolving all the time so this video will be obsolete in short time but maybe i'll make an updated and more thorough one at that time

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do you create new space each time you start a new campaign? or reuse that same space?

Haven't decided yet. If bulk operations are in a place where it makes sense then I will purge this space and leave behind artifacts that are campaign agnostic, like rules pages, magical items, world building content, etc. But campaign specific stuff like bosses, characters, some places, those will all get purged. But if export features are in a good place then I'll likely export instead of deleting and then just archive the files in github or something or in my google cloud in case I ever want them again in the event I get a new group that wants to run the same campaign

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a lot of things are campaign agnostic and rebuilding them would be sort of annoying, like all the attribute tags, object types, etc. so I would probably prefer to reuse the existing space

Json Blob

I am no YouTube creator, but here is a video I've had on the back burner for a long time and finally got it together. Something I've been driving forward as my primary use-case for Capacities.io is to use it for Dungeon Mastering a Pathfinder 2nd Edition campaign with my party of 4 friends. This is an area I have not see others using it for and I wanted to create a quick overview of what I'm doing in my space to run a Pathfinder campaign as a DM. Hope it's helpful and shows some useful tricks you can use in your own spaces

https://youtu.be/ds7aclQ6n7A?si=d-V6iv_a1mEtBF3Q

This is really cool! And I am sure this is a great inspiration for fiction writers as well (characters etc as object types)!

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My courses object - the two grouped blocks for slides and notes are in a template. Any feedback? (edited)

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WVMA

My courses object - the two grouped blocks for slides and notes are in a template. Any feedback? (edited)

Do u use tag Certification for other object types?

No, so I guess it should be a collection

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thanks

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There's a use case for it though maybe in my 'projects' object, if my project/goal is to learn how to code, certain tagged certifications could be embedded into that page

WVMA

My courses object - the two grouped blocks for slides and notes are in a template. Any feedback? (edited)

Heyyy wvma, could u show me more object types and their properties and or collections. This looks very interesting

Hi everyone, Can anyone share screenshots of their home page in Capacities. Currently I am trying to build one and looking for some inspirations.

gladiator

Hi everyone, Can anyone share screenshots of their home page in Capacities. Currently I am trying to build one and looking for some inspirations.

just indirect 'himts', but maybe also of interest for starting to think: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001363266414592122/1223212507577978890

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gladiator

Hi everyone, Can anyone share screenshots of their home page in Capacities. Currently I am trying to build one and looking for some inspirations.

I built a fancy homepage and then after a few weeks stopped using it entirely

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I built a fancy homepage and then after a few weeks stopped using it entirely

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Me too

ended up using the daily note for almost everything just linking to my object types as I write

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Me too

ended up using the daily note for almost everything just linking to my object types as I write

Waittt a minute, I could do that as a start in capacities.io. but could u please send me pictures of how does this look like.

Rexx.

Hey Steven, it is time for this:

Enhancing the discord server: Adding a starboard channel, which basically lets the users bump up useful templates, workflows or images showcasing a dashboard or other setups of capacities.

That was one of three things that could be easily implemented that would have a big impact on capacities. See my post for more: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/empowering-community-engagement-enabling-users-to-share-workspaces-and-templates Link to the bot: https://top.gg/bot/655390915325591629 (edited)

I'm starring this for historical purpose

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cp9

I'm starring this for historical purpose

Good idea

kinda cool thata u can imagine this showcase, the emoji used for it is a flying star up, almost as if it is going to starboard :3

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I made a diagram of my pkms that I find a little silly cause it's kinda like that one meme (but also kinda cool cause it helped me wrap my head around how I process information a little bit), featuring Capacities as sort of the final stop in my workflow

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I made a diagram of my pkms that I find a little silly cause it's kinda like that one meme (but also kinda cool cause it helped me wrap my head around how I process information a little bit), featuring Capacities as sort of the final stop in my workflow

This is such a good idea! I need to create something like this and I love the way you set it up.

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milo out in space

I made a diagram of my pkms that I find a little silly cause it's kinda like that one meme (but also kinda cool cause it helped me wrap my head around how I process information a little bit), featuring Capacities as sort of the final stop in my workflow

Its interesting that u use both heptabase and capacities. what is the missing link of both that will make u use just one central app for the whole system. I know u made the destinction of shareable and private but there has to be more than that.

Rexx.

Its interesting that u use both heptabase and capacities. what is the missing link of both that will make u use just one central app for the whole system. I know u made the destinction of shareable and private but there has to be more than that.

there is! The key differences are the spatial organization on the whiteboard of Heptabase, and the object-oriented design of Capacities. They're both great systems but for different things. Spatial organization is good for piecing together understanding, but for storing and querying information objects work better in my opinion

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I made a diagram of my pkms that I find a little silly cause it's kinda like that one meme (but also kinda cool cause it helped me wrap my head around how I process information a little bit), featuring Capacities as sort of the final stop in my workflow

I made a diagram explaining my workflow :3 inspired by yours

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I made a diagram explaining my workflow :3 inspired by yours

It looks great!

thank you!!!

12:35 PM

this made me realise how much i use google XD

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while the capacities mobile app is in development i use apple notes for my phone tho

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I use apple notes on occasion for the same reason! I'm usually on my computer though so it doesn't come up as often

milo out in space

I use apple notes on occasion for the same reason! I'm usually on my computer though so it doesn't come up as often

ahh i understand!!!

💕 Limbo 💕

I made a diagram explaining my workflow :3 inspired by yours

I wish my brain worked even 5% this efficiently annd organized

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Json Blob

I wish my brain worked even 5% this efficiently annd organized

Adhd by any chance

Rexx.

Adhd by any chance

low batteries maybe

3:25 PM

I do rely pretty heavily on search and remembering, "Oh yeah I think I put the word hotdog in that object I want... I'll just search that."

everyone's workflow looks cool, while my concept feels inferior/weird without having arrows lol (I'm considering to find a replacement for Remnote tho) (edited)

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I wish my brain worked even 5% this efficiently annd organized

Trust me I end don’t work efficiently at all

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It may look efficient but I’m a mess

cp9

everyone's workflow looks cool, while my concept feels inferior/weird without having arrows lol (I'm considering to find a replacement for Remnote tho) (edited)

Omggg this is so cool!!!!!

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everyone's workflow looks cool, while my concept feels inferior/weird without having arrows lol (I'm considering to find a replacement for Remnote tho) (edited)

Someone whose uses both raindrop and tickticks :))).

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However why do u use also twos and what is capture and day one

3:52 PM

And @ me if u find a better replacement for remnote

cp9 started a thread. 4/5/2024 4:16 PM

Several people have been asking about the mobile app and what it looks like, how it works, and if there's screenshots or video posted. Not much content in the mobile app space so here's a quick recording from my Pixel 6 Pro, no audio, just scrolling around to show the basics of the app's navigation and views. https://youtu.be/Q6d9euU2lFU

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Several people have been asking about the mobile app and what it looks like, how it works, and if there's screenshots or video posted. Not much content in the mobile app space so here's a quick recording from my Pixel 6 Pro, no audio, just scrolling around to show the basics of the app's navigation and views. https://youtu.be/Q6d9euU2lFU

It looks great on mobile!

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I’m btw I’m amazed by all of your notes

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I’m btw I’m amazed by all of your notes

well thank you! I made a short'ish video actually walking through some of it at a high level https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001154104296493086/1217184100021047386

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I am no YouTube creator, but here is a video I've had on the back burner for a long time and finally got it together. Something I've been driving forward as my primary use-case for Capacities.io is to use it for Dungeon Mastering a Pathfinder 2nd Edition campaign with my party of 4 friends. This is an area I have not see others using it for and I wanted to create a quick overview of what I'm doing in my space to run a Pathfinder campaign as a DM. Hope it's helpful and shows some useful tricks you can use in your own spaces

https://youtu.be/ds7aclQ6n7A?si=d-V6iv_a1mEtBF3Q

I recently started using cap for world building too!!!! Not for D&D tho :3 but it’s so useful

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Oh my bad it’s Pathfinder

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Forgive my ignorance XD

I used to play 5e but just last year started Pathfinder 2e instead with my group

Json Blob

I used to play 5e but just last year started Pathfinder 2e instead with my group

I have no idea what that means sowwie OwO Do you have any tips for worldbuilding in Cap? ;3

oh sorry, "5e" is the shorthand reference to "D&D 5th Edition" and 2e is shorthand for "Pathfinder 2nd Edition"

Json Blob

oh sorry, "5e" is the shorthand reference to "D&D 5th Edition" and 2e is shorthand for "Pathfinder 2nd Edition"

Ahh i see thank you so much!

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as for tips to world building, hmm, I have to add a disclaimer here that I'm not building my world, just following the adventure path book pulished by Paizo so I'm just, replicating the world so to speak. But in the video I linked you can see some of the object types I have which may be useful to you.

Cities
Buildings
Characters
Factions
Items
Religions
Encounters You can certainly expand this more granularly if you want but this should cover the high-level "world building" scale topics you will need for your world

Json Blob

as for tips to world building, hmm, I have to add a disclaimer here that I'm not building my world, just following the adventure path book pulished by Paizo so I'm just, replicating the world so to speak. But in the video I linked you can see some of the object types I have which may be useful to you.

Cities
Buildings
Characters
Factions
Items
Religions
Encounters You can certainly expand this more granularly if you want but this should cover the high-level "world building" scale topics you will need for your world

Oohh I see! That’s still awesome!

Thanks a lot!! I’ll add some of those objects as they are really good ideas

The properties are where you're going to draw a lot of the links between objects. e.g. a [[City]] will contain a multi-select of [[Buildings]] and [[Characters]] that reside there. A [[City]] might also have a single or multi-select for [[Factions]] and a [[Faction]] probably needs a multi-select for [[Characters]], etc.

Json Blob

The properties are where you're going to draw a lot of the links between objects. e.g. a [[City]] will contain a multi-select of [[Buildings]] and [[Characters]] that reside there. A [[City]] might also have a single or multi-select for [[Factions]] and a [[Faction]] probably needs a multi-select for [[Characters]], etc.

Can you do a multi select of objects?

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yeah set the multi-select to be objects and not tags

I didn’t know!!! >w<

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That’s awesomee

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Awesome!!!!

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Thank youuu

this might make more sense actually on configuring the properties, the first image is what comes out of it when it's all linked up (edited)

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I am no YouTube creator, but here is a video I've had on the back burner for a long time and finally got it together. Something I've been driving forward as my primary use-case for Capacities.io is to use it for Dungeon Mastering a Pathfinder 2nd Edition campaign with my party of 4 friends. This is an area I have not see others using it for and I wanted to create a quick overview of what I'm doing in my space to run a Pathfinder campaign as a DM. Hope it's helpful and shows some useful tricks you can use in your own spaces

https://youtu.be/ds7aclQ6n7A?si=d-V6iv_a1mEtBF3Q

Thanks for taking the time to record that video! I found it a few days ago and used it as inspiration to move my own 5e campaign notes from Notion to Capacities

Mykiel

Thanks for taking the time to record that video! I found it a few days ago and used it as inspiration to move my own 5e campaign notes from Notion to Capacities

Glad it helped! Maybe someday I'll make a follow up if anyone is interested in anything I'm doing in particular

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Thanks for taking the time to record that video! I found it a few days ago and used it as inspiration to move my own 5e campaign notes from Notion to Capacities

You could star the video here in discord so it gets to the starboard! Did it already

You can create a habit tracker by making a custom "Daily Notes" object with a date property and adding all the habits as properties. If some habits are every other day instead of daily you can add a "rest day" tag for those days You can also use this Daily Note as a journal or mood tracker :3 for the mood tracker I made a toggle list, as the toggle title you write "/now @tag" (you can have a collection of tags for different feelings. The good thing about doing it like this is that you can @ as many tags as you want, in case you are feeling multiple emotions at once) and inside of the toggle you can write what you were doing at that time or what made you feel that way Then you can customize the card view to only show the habit properties so when you go to your "Daily Notes" object page you can see all of them at a glance, and see all the progress you have done so far Finally, because it has a date property, when you go to the calendar it will automatically create a button to quickly make another daily note

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You can create a habit tracker by making a custom "Daily Notes" object with a date property and adding all the habits as properties. If some habits are every other day instead of daily you can add a "rest day" tag for those days You can also use this Daily Note as a journal or mood tracker :3 for the mood tracker I made a toggle list, as the toggle title you write "/now @tag" (you can have a collection of tags for different feelings. The good thing about doing it like this is that you can @ as many tags as you want, in case you are feeling multiple emotions at once) and inside of the toggle you can write what you were doing at that time or what made you feel that way Then you can customize the card view to only show the habit properties so when you go to your "Daily Notes" object page you can see all of them at a glance, and see all the progress you have done so far Finally, because it has a date property, when you go to the calendar it will automatically create a button to quickly make another daily note

Love it! I do almost the same., except I call the object type "Tracker" and have my mood tracker as a property linked to a "Journal Items" object type and some more properties added

You can create colections for the years

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Love it! I do almost the same., except I call the object type "Tracker" and have my mood tracker as a property linked to a "Journal Items" object type and some more properties added

You can create colections for the years

That’s such a good idea!

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💕 Limbo 💕

You can create a habit tracker by making a custom "Daily Notes" object with a date property and adding all the habits as properties. If some habits are every other day instead of daily you can add a "rest day" tag for those days You can also use this Daily Note as a journal or mood tracker :3 for the mood tracker I made a toggle list, as the toggle title you write "/now @tag" (you can have a collection of tags for different feelings. The good thing about doing it like this is that you can @ as many tags as you want, in case you are feeling multiple emotions at once) and inside of the toggle you can write what you were doing at that time or what made you feel that way Then you can customize the card view to only show the habit properties so when you go to your "Daily Notes" object page you can see all of them at a glance, and see all the progress you have done so far Finally, because it has a date property, when you go to the calendar it will automatically create a button to quickly make another daily note

@irisWill Iris, this maybe of interest.

Rexx.

@irisWill Iris, this maybe of interest.

Thank you

💕 Limbo 💕

You can create a habit tracker by making a custom "Daily Notes" object with a date property and adding all the habits as properties. If some habits are every other day instead of daily you can add a "rest day" tag for those days You can also use this Daily Note as a journal or mood tracker :3 for the mood tracker I made a toggle list, as the toggle title you write "/now @tag" (you can have a collection of tags for different feelings. The good thing about doing it like this is that you can @ as many tags as you want, in case you are feeling multiple emotions at once) and inside of the toggle you can write what you were doing at that time or what made you feel that way Then you can customize the card view to only show the habit properties so when you go to your "Daily Notes" object page you can see all of them at a glance, and see all the progress you have done so far Finally, because it has a date property, when you go to the calendar it will automatically create a button to quickly make another daily note

But is there a way as example to have a morning reflection, midnight and 2 other reflections times have them as check boxes and if only all are checked u would have gotten 100 percent?

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And Is there a way to view all those in a weekly view or month or whatever to see progress?

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And Is there a way to view all those in a weekly view or month or whatever to see progress?

That’s what I was trying to see how to do o~o there’s a filter option for “in one week” but that filters the upcoming 7 days, not the current week from Monday to Sunday

irisWill

And Is there a way to view all those in a weekly view or month or whatever to see progress?

hmmm.. .maybe if you have a collection for your 2024 entries, you could make an embed and filter to this month?

📝Anna

hmmm.. .maybe if you have a collection for your 2024 entries, you could make an embed and filter to this month?

Is there a filter for that? I could only find a filter for “in one month”

irisWill

But is there a way as example to have a morning reflection, midnight and 2 other reflections times have them as check boxes and if only all are checked u would have gotten 100 percent?

Not sure OwO maybe with tables and formulas

💕 Limbo 💕

Is there a filter for that? I could only find a filter for “in one month”

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Doesn’t “in one month” mean “in the next 31 days”?

yes, but you could chose an specific date and put it in manually for each month (edited)

Ohh yes that’s a good idea :3

📝Anna

yes, but you could chose an specific date and put it in manually for each month (edited)

But it might be a little tedious to do that for weekly habits

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Ohh yes that’s a good idea :3

and add on or before as a filter too

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But it might be a little tedious to do that for weekly habits

that's right...

I think we could request that feature

4:58 AM

“Is current week” “is current month” “is current year”

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I think we could request that feature

hmmm, well, but then it is dynamically, isn't it, and if you open the, lets say, weekly note one month later it's still the "current week", so not the original one instead the new current week...

you know what I mean? (edited)

📝Anna

hmmm, well, but then it is dynamically, isn't it, and if you open the, lets say, weekly note one month later it's still the "current week", so not the original one instead the new current week...

you know what I mean? (edited)

Yess! That’s how it works with current filters right?

yes and it totally makes sense. But for a weekly note with a fixed date range maybe not. Except...I think this may be no problem , if you have one query and only want to see the actual current week and not keep it in a weekly note. .. I need to think about that

📝Anna

yes and it totally makes sense. But for a weekly note with a fixed date range maybe not. Except...I think this may be no problem , if you have one query and only want to see the actual current week and not keep it in a weekly note. .. I need to think about that

If you wanted a fixed date wouldn’t it be better to use the specific date filter? :o

💕 Limbo 💕

If you wanted a fixed date wouldn’t it be better to use the specific date filter? :o

yes, but again, then it is manual

Trueee

5:05 AM

They could add an option to lock the filter

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Like a little lock icon

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So it isn’t dynamic

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So it isn’t dynamic

you could do a feature request for more date filtering options (I would upvote

) but I think they have a lot of other (important and great) stuff to do

Yesss

5:08 AM

I’ll do it, but I understand that it’s not a priority

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you could do a feature request for more date filtering options (I would upvote

) but I think they have a lot of other (important and great) stuff to do

same!

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I’ll do it, but I understand that it’s not a priority

they might actually be adding this to cap via the tasks release

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they might actually be adding this to cap via the tasks release

That would be the perfect time!

📝Anna

You could star the video here in discord so it gets to the starboard! Did it already

Oh, I hadn't realized that's how the starboard works. Just did!

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hmmm.. .maybe if you have a collection for your 2024 entries, you could make an embed and filter to this month?

That was a good idea

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you could do a feature request for more date filtering options (I would upvote

) but I think they have a lot of other (important and great) stuff to do

@💕 Limbo 💕 Do u have a link to the request ?

irisWill

@💕 Limbo 💕 Do u have a link to the request ?

Yess

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@💕 Limbo 💕 Do u have a link to the request ?

https://capacities.io/feedback/p/more-filter-options-current-week-month-year-dynamic-fixed-filters @📝Anna

Requests, ideas, bugs

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https://capacities.io/feedback/p/more-filter-options-current-week-month-year-dynamic-fixed-filters @📝Anna

mcdjustin started a thread. 4/18/2024 12:14 PM

milo out in space

I made a diagram of my pkms that I find a little silly cause it's kinda like that one meme (but also kinda cool cause it helped me wrap my head around how I process information a little bit), featuring Capacities as sort of the final stop in my workflow

This is interesting and cool. How does YouTube work with omnivore Btw?

machoman

This is interesting and cool. How does YouTube work with omnivore Btw?

the Omnivore team is adding YouTube transcripts (sorta, it does some extra processing so the transcripts are cleaner/more understandable than raw transcripts tend to be) ! It's in beta right now though for a limited number of users

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Hi everyone, I published an object type tour on my personal channel this weekend. Sharing here in case it's of interest

https://youtu.be/45u1DnvVnbE?si=r-HfHcAsBB7ofxTl

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Capacities Object Type Tour April 2024

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there's a link to the written version with screenshots of all the properties too

Hello everyone! I wrote an article on how I use Capacities as my commonplace book. Here is a friend link to read the article for free if anyone is interested/ would find it helpful

https://medium.com/@rekawrites/my-digital-commonplace-book-a301f2242b38?sk=4d3f6eb403e2276b79f1801b5606a272

My digital commonplace book

Using Capacities to engage with the world more fully

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Hello everyone! I wrote an article on how I use Capacities as my commonplace book. Here is a friend link to read the article for free if anyone is interested/ would find it helpful

https://medium.com/@rekawrites/my-digital-commonplace-book-a301f2242b38?sk=4d3f6eb403e2276b79f1801b5606a272

I love capacities!! Just started with it a month ago.

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I'm trying to understand what zettels are. On the other hand, recently I've just started learning Norwegian. (edited)

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I'm trying to understand what zettels are. On the other hand, recently I've just started learning Norwegian. (edited)

It’s based on the Zettelkasten concept. Zettel in German supposedly mean a note. Basically, one idea one note (also called atomic note). So you can later use them as modules and create articles/papers etc bottom up. Personally if you are making dictionary entry it may be worth giving a try creating definition object, which I think you essentially did by adding language property. (edited)

Game & Tech Focus

It’s based on the Zettelkasten concept. Zettel in German supposedly mean a note. Basically, one idea one note (also called atomic note). So you can later use them as modules and create articles/papers etc bottom up. Personally if you are making dictionary entry it may be worth giving a try creating definition object, which I think you essentially did by adding language property. (edited)

I think what makes it a bit complex to understand is that a title is required. At least that’s in my case.

vcbrewers

I think what makes it a bit complex to understand is that a title is required. At least that’s in my case.

Yeah that makes sense. While I'm used to putting title in every notes and its probably highly dictated by content I put into permanet notes, I've seen other PKM app defaults to "no title" in their note. So I can certainly see that side of workflow exists.

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You can create a habit tracker by making a custom "Daily Notes" object with a date property and adding all the habits as properties. If some habits are every other day instead of daily you can add a "rest day" tag for those days You can also use this Daily Note as a journal or mood tracker :3 for the mood tracker I made a toggle list, as the toggle title you write "/now @tag" (you can have a collection of tags for different feelings. The good thing about doing it like this is that you can @ as many tags as you want, in case you are feeling multiple emotions at once) and inside of the toggle you can write what you were doing at that time or what made you feel that way Then you can customize the card view to only show the habit properties so when you go to your "Daily Notes" object page you can see all of them at a glance, and see all the progress you have done so far Finally, because it has a date property, when you go to the calendar it will automatically create a button to quickly make another daily note

I really like that setup and i am currently trying it out for myself but for some reason, my icons on my card view doesn't show up.

8:14 PM

Game & Tech Focus

It’s based on the Zettelkasten concept. Zettel in German supposedly mean a note. Basically, one idea one note (also called atomic note). So you can later use them as modules and create articles/papers etc bottom up. Personally if you are making dictionary entry it may be worth giving a try creating definition object, which I think you essentially did by adding language property. (edited)

I put some sentns there, I'm still new at Norwegian tbh. Hence the footnote (note, source and vocabulary) is bigger.

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It's me just trying to know the basics of that language

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your average SVO sentns for a newbie like me (edited)

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The grammar rule note is in well notes

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The grammar rule note is in well notes

Got it. With Capacities most objects can be converted to another or you can edit them to make one identical to another. So I think it's totally ok to use Zettel(note) = Page. I personally try to separate two. I just chose my criteria to use Zettelkasten concept itself. Capacities is "object" based note, so the way I personally look is if its an object or object-like, and used multiple times, perhaps creating its own object maybe a way to go. But I'm fairly new to Capacities, so this may not even be the best way. (edited)

Game & Tech Focus

Got it. With Capacities most objects can be converted to another or you can edit them to make one identical to another. So I think it's totally ok to use Zettel(note) = Page. I personally try to separate two. I just chose my criteria to use Zettelkasten concept itself. Capacities is "object" based note, so the way I personally look is if its an object or object-like, and used multiple times, perhaps creating its own object maybe a way to go. But I'm fairly new to Capacities, so this may not even be the best way. (edited)

I thought it as a flashcard kinda

Yeah I think that's one way to look. In an event if you haven't heard of Zettelkasten, it's pretty interesting concept (at least so I feel). It may not be super popular/prevelant idea in Japan though.

Hey guys, just released a teaser for our first ever iOS app. Would love to hear any feedback. Feel free to like and share it with others. https://twitter.com/real_nafis/status/1790039356058820996

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Hey guys, just released a teaser for our first ever iOS app. Would love to hear any feedback. Feel free to like and share it with others. https://twitter.com/real_nafis/status/1790039356058820996

That's very nice (edited)

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That's very nice (edited)

thanks!!!

Hello! I have written an article on why I use multiple spaces in Capacities. I'm sharing the friend link so you can read it for free, in case someone finds it helpful

https://medium.com/@rekawrites/you-dont-have-to-link-all-your-notes-dd4016fc6b18?sk=4ae26d1e7c5755737efbe34f98c83c65

You don’t have to link all your notes

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Hello! I have written an article on why I use multiple spaces in Capacities. I'm sharing the friend link so you can read it for free, in case someone finds it helpful

https://medium.com/@rekawrites/you-dont-have-to-link-all-your-notes-dd4016fc6b18?sk=4ae26d1e7c5755737efbe34f98c83c65

I am also using multi spaces for different purposes. I think it is an advantage of Capacities to compare with others

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But sometimes, I need the way Notion works. I mean inline database, relation, roll-up, calculate, formation and other powerful features in Notion. So I still use both these PKM apps everyday for different purposes. Notion for general, all the things and Capacities for daily note/ journal or specific projects

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But sometimes, I need the way Notion works. I mean inline database, relation, roll-up, calculate, formation and other powerful features in Notion. So I still use both these PKM apps everyday for different purposes. Notion for general, all the things and Capacities for daily note/ journal or specific projects

Very cool! It sounds like you’ve found a system that works well for you

I have to say no :( I have still found which one is suited for me since I knew Obsidian, then Logseq, Notion then Capacities, SiYuan, Affine, AnyType, ClickUp, AirTable... so many

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So I decided to use both of them for same projects to compare eveyday. Now, Capacities, Notion and SiYuan are 3 that I use most

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Capacities is good at Daily note but the performance is not the good in my opinion so I have to use a bridge app - CherryTree to type what I want before copying to my Capacities note. Notion is the same. So I only open these PKM apps at the end of my day while CherryTree is my close friend from morning to the midnight

HP

Capacities is good at Daily note but the performance is not the good in my opinion so I have to use a bridge app - CherryTree to type what I want before copying to my Capacities note. Notion is the same. So I only open these PKM apps at the end of my day while CherryTree is my close friend from morning to the midnight

I do that too, because Capacities does not have built-in inbox system. but I use Google Keep for that

cp9

I do that too, because Capacities does not have built-in inbox system. but I use Google Keep for that

yeah – that is a real bottleneck. – cc @HP good if people put their voice to that / raise their fingers

https://capacities.io/feedback/p/global-inbox

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lerone

yeah – that is a real bottleneck. – cc @HP good if people put their voice to that / raise their fingers

https://capacities.io/feedback/p/global-inbox

To each their own. I use daily notes as inbox and convert blocks of notes into pages and other object types as needed. I see not need for a global inbox in my workflow.

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To each their own. I use daily notes as inbox and convert blocks of notes into pages and other object types as needed. I see not need for a global inbox in my workflow.

~~happy you found yours!~~ ~~– are you using a multi-space set-up?~~ ~~if so, it might be helpful to share that, as in that case others can learn from your approach.~~ edit: obsolete! … just read your other comment after this

(https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001363266414592122/1243517897729638413) (edited)

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I do that too, because Capacities does not have built-in inbox system. but I use Google Keep for that

Google Keep has some updates that make users happy but I am not impressed by its performance. Daily note also need more than what Google Keep can do so I still think Capacities is the best choice. I just use Google Keep for some MISC, temporary or quick note/ task. However, almost people would like to track their tasks or there is something like reminder (like Notion does). In this case, I suggest habit tracking mobile app. You just input a simple task, maybe one-time task like "Go to grocery, buy banana, buy bra..." but can remind you until you finish them. == So, for Daily note, still Capacities - I also use WhatsApp/ Telegram integration to send daily note or anything I want to note to Capacities Daily note. It is very powerful that I guess Capacities has no competitors here.

For small (one-time or recurring) tasks and habits, I use HabitNow mobile app - best in my mind after walking through ten of habit tracker apps.

For misc things or rubbish, ok Google Keep or any names that appears firstly in your head. Sometimes I open Appflowy, sometimes Joplin, or Noto...I am joking but I only need Google Keep for something is not necessary

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Google Keep has some updates that make users happy but I am not impressed by its performance. Daily note also need more than what Google Keep can do so I still think Capacities is the best choice. I just use Google Keep for some MISC, temporary or quick note/ task. However, almost people would like to track their tasks or there is something like reminder (like Notion does). In this case, I suggest habit tracking mobile app. You just input a simple task, maybe one-time task like "Go to grocery, buy banana, buy bra..." but can remind you until you finish them. == So, for Daily note, still Capacities - I also use WhatsApp/ Telegram integration to send daily note or anything I want to note to Capacities Daily note. It is very powerful that I guess Capacities has no competitors here.

For small (one-time or recurring) tasks and habits, I use HabitNow mobile app - best in my mind after walking through ten of habit tracker apps.

For misc things or rubbish, ok Google Keep or any names that appears firstly in your head. Sometimes I open Appflowy, sometimes Joplin, or Noto...I am joking but I only need Google Keep for something is not necessary

I mean, I use google keep as inbox too (referring to your CherryTree use case)

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Google Keep has some updates that make users happy but I am not impressed by its performance. Daily note also need more than what Google Keep can do so I still think Capacities is the best choice. I just use Google Keep for some MISC, temporary or quick note/ task. However, almost people would like to track their tasks or there is something like reminder (like Notion does). In this case, I suggest habit tracking mobile app. You just input a simple task, maybe one-time task like "Go to grocery, buy banana, buy bra..." but can remind you until you finish them. == So, for Daily note, still Capacities - I also use WhatsApp/ Telegram integration to send daily note or anything I want to note to Capacities Daily note. It is very powerful that I guess Capacities has no competitors here.

For small (one-time or recurring) tasks and habits, I use HabitNow mobile app - best in my mind after walking through ten of habit tracker apps.

For misc things or rubbish, ok Google Keep or any names that appears firstly in your head. Sometimes I open Appflowy, sometimes Joplin, or Noto...I am joking but I only need Google Keep for something is not necessary

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I do that too, because Capacities does not have built-in inbox system. but I use Google Keep for that

I just use an inbox tag! And then I sort through anything tagged with ‘inbox’ every week or so. It works quite well for me, especially as tags pull together multiple object types

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I just use an inbox tag! And then I sort through anything tagged with ‘inbox’ every week or so. It works quite well for me, especially as tags pull together multiple object types

Yes that works really fine

Especially if you only use 1 space for capturing

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Yes that works really fine

Especially if you only use 1 space for capturing

I think it works pretty well overall because you can link across spaces using a linked reference! So technically you could link to an inbox item in one space to another space. But personally capacities is more of an intentional workspace for me where I pull things in after I’ve captured them elsewhere, and I do the majority of my quick capture on paper or in mymind. So a light touch approach to an inbox works best for my use case!

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I think it works pretty well overall because you can link across spaces using a linked reference! So technically you could link to an inbox item in one space to another space. But personally capacities is more of an intentional workspace for me where I pull things in after I’ve captured them elsewhere, and I do the majority of my quick capture on paper or in mymind. So a light touch approach to an inbox works best for my use case!

… this is a very interesting aspect (& certainly works in your scenario; I use Things & DevonThink for such things... mainly...). … and I think your point about 'intentional (knowledge-) workspace' is spot on! but I think it really reiterates / resurfaces the question what Capacities wants to be & covere as 'PKM'. … as all of this really is about the 'capture' & 'gathering' part of knowledge. and things will only get more pertinent once the planned webclipper opens the gates further in terms of integrating these 'capture' apsects into the core & heart of Capacities... … so, I'd split / differentiate the discussion into 2 parts really: 1. work arounds (now) 2. needs / wants / vision (strategical development) (edited)

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I have to say no :( I have still found which one is suited for me since I knew Obsidian, then Logseq, Notion then Capacities, SiYuan, Affine, AnyType, ClickUp, AirTable... so many

This, last year I was between Obsidian (I paid up to the sync thing but everything was saved on my phone, maeby my ignorance) Notion felt so complicated and so slow. Anytype felt very rigid, I despaired that it wasn't 100% customizable, for example they handle the “relationship library” and there are some you can't delete. With Capacities I also feel it lacks reminders for tasks or project management but I handle that in ClickUp. My writing, research, journaling has a home in Capacities and my projects, deadlines and such in ClickUp, my best dynamic duo.

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I mean, I use google keep as inbox too (referring to your CherryTree use case)

Sorry for misunderstanding. Btw, I am going to stay away from Google as far as possible ^^

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This, last year I was between Obsidian (I paid up to the sync thing but everything was saved on my phone, maeby my ignorance) Notion felt so complicated and so slow. Anytype felt very rigid, I despaired that it wasn't 100% customizable, for example they handle the “relationship library” and there are some you can't delete. With Capacities I also feel it lacks reminders for tasks or project management but I handle that in ClickUp. My writing, research, journaling has a home in Capacities and my projects, deadlines and such in ClickUp, my best dynamic duo.

Lets continue this in #🧰・methods–workflows–tools ? I do the same with Capacities and TickTick. Capacities for everything knowledge, reaserach, journal etc related and in TickTick projects and tasks (edited)

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I just use an inbox tag! And then I sort through anything tagged with ‘inbox’ every week or so. It works quite well for me, especially as tags pull together multiple object types

Instead of tag, I always use current datetime inlcude my note. If something I do not have much time to work in depth, I use tag #UNCHECK or something like that. It works to me because I can filter later

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This, last year I was between Obsidian (I paid up to the sync thing but everything was saved on my phone, maeby my ignorance) Notion felt so complicated and so slow. Anytype felt very rigid, I despaired that it wasn't 100% customizable, for example they handle the “relationship library” and there are some you can't delete. With Capacities I also feel it lacks reminders for tasks or project management but I handle that in ClickUp. My writing, research, journaling has a home in Capacities and my projects, deadlines and such in ClickUp, my best dynamic duo.

Totally agree. Obsidian with tons of plugins is not good portable solution. While AnyType is really rigid and no special. Notion is powerful in database, ClickUp is the same but 2 both are slow in performance. But I have pro account with unlimited storage so Notion is the best choice for data backup (of course if privacy is not the most important). Capacities is good but I am still not impressed the performance so I do not use it all day. For my writing, research, journal ... I use CherryTree because of very fast cold start, quick response to what I type, of course, no tag, link or you need to use bracket [[ ]] to link node. However it is not important because it is just inbox or draft in my understanding. Then I organize and move my content to Capacities at the end of day. That's also the way I revise what I did whole day.

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For small or personal tasks, not for work/ project, I suggest hatbit tracking app like HabitNow. It works for me. I have never tried TickTick or To-do list apps. I will try if there 's some interesting from these kind of app. But here is why I haven't used them: I have to use a lot of apps, so I use checkbox in PKM apps with tag #UNCHECK or #TODO to control my tasks and do not think using To-do apps is useful.

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I do that too, because Capacities does not have built-in inbox system. but I use Google Keep for that

My current workflow:

Raycast (macOS) and a shortcut (iOS/iPadOS) to quick capture text to Daily Note, and then process from there. It’s pretty seamless.
Readwise Reader for Articles & PDFs (eventually export highlights to Capacities)
Anybox for Files (this will hopefully change once offline mode for file storage comes to Capacities)

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I am 'not impressed' by Googles privacy policy, starting with automated reading of GMails…

Personally, I don't use Google for anything else than syncing contacts to my work phone and Google Play for smart TV. I got used to Microsoft (I know, the devil's twin but I don't care), even Bing.

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My current workflow:

Raycast (macOS) and a shortcut (iOS/iPadOS) to quick capture text to Daily Note, and then process from there. It’s pretty seamless.
Readwise Reader for Articles & PDFs (eventually export highlights to Capacities)
Anybox for Files (this will hopefully change once offline mode for file storage comes to Capacities)

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Just today I have expanded my workflow (as a Windows and iPhone guy).

emailing to Capacities from different e-mail addresses to different spaces
Web Highlights extension with lifetime Ultimate plan for capturing the web and later copying markdown to Capacities
scribbling ideas in daily notes in web app and mobile app
for RSS: Newsblur, opening original articles and using Web Highlights as described before
important files uploaded to Capacities or to Onedrive (and linked from Capacities in notes)
daily notes serve as inbox nad notes are processed from there and converted to other object types as needed

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thx for all the work, man! – what a great effort in working a little agst the doomscroll stream of Discord, and help others in here!

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I wish discord let us take a peek of linked message instead of only showing the channel name

https://youtu.be/VPX5kBnpzSI kinda a fix i guess

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SiYuan seems to be combination of Notion and Obsidian. It has inline table / database like Notion and you can install plugins like Obsidian. I just use it for drafts. When I research something complicated that requires database, complicated relationship need graph view. Another advantage is focus. It let you concentrate on the heading block you are working. It treat the heading block as a child of page. The cons:

No mobile app, you have to use web app now.
Using plugins means you will miss something when you reinstall OS, start fresh version of SiYuan and you forget installing plugins.

So stoked be using Capacities for a research project I've been doing for about 5 years now... I've played with about every PKMS out there and Capacities is the perfect blend of functionality for this particular use case! STOKED. Still migrating over all my raw research content from Evernote & Roam Research - My only thought is I might be "overly" meta-data-ing things hah, too many data types & structures... but still learning best uses for the different data types, will probably pare down things a bit.

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thanks for this!

I think it's very solid & even wise as an integral take, w/ the right 'cruising altitude' of vision. it should be very valuable esp. for helping ppl in first solid evaluation of what they get, and are getting themselves into!

– I hope @Steffen & @ @Michael_v_H watch it to the end, as the summarizing evaluation, characterization and 'taking stocks' seems most spot-on & valuable to me...!

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So stoked be using Capacities for a research project I've been doing for about 5 years now... I've played with about every PKMS out there and Capacities is the perfect blend of functionality for this particular use case! STOKED. Still migrating over all my raw research content from Evernote & Roam Research - My only thought is I might be "overly" meta-data-ing things hah, too many data types & structures... but still learning best uses for the different data types, will probably pare down things a bit.

Totally agree. As a knowledge management, Capacities does this case very well. I always say that Capacities is for knowdlege, it simulates how our brain think by using object-based network

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Hi everyone, I wrote an article about how I use all my various Cap spaces in a day! Thought I'd share in case anyone else finds this useful

here is the link to read it for free https://medium.com/@rekawrites/a-day-in-the-life-of-my-capacities-spaces-2f2298570cbc?sk=e79491b67c92eb7eea58f1cd2022aa5a

A day in the life of my Capacities spaces

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Hi everyone, I wrote an article about how I use all my various Cap spaces in a day! Thought I'd share in case anyone else finds this useful

here is the link to read it for free https://medium.com/@rekawrites/a-day-in-the-life-of-my-capacities-spaces-2f2298570cbc?sk=e79491b67c92eb7eea58f1cd2022aa5a

this was so interesting to read! can i ask, you said that you switched from using Day One to integrating this into Capacities - i’m also thinking of doing the same thing, how have you found that? have you come across any downsides to having it in Capacities at all? (also feel free to not answer this if it’s personal but i’d love to know what the ‘essence’ property in your daily note object is! it sounds interesting)

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this was so interesting to read! can i ask, you said that you switched from using Day One to integrating this into Capacities - i’m also thinking of doing the same thing, how have you found that? have you come across any downsides to having it in Capacities at all? (also feel free to not answer this if it’s personal but i’d love to know what the ‘essence’ property in your daily note object is! it sounds interesting)

ah thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed the article!! So originally I thought I would find the swap difficult as I had been using Day One for six or so years, but I've really enjoyed using Capacities as my diary because of the object-based features. I can interact more deeply with the things I am doing (for example rather than mentioning a book I read in passing, I can create a book object that then links to the person who recommended it, how I felt about it, when I was reading it at what point in my life etc). It's also way more customisable, so I can make my diary my own! The only downside I have come across is the way multi-media elements are handled in Capacities that imo Day One does better - I used to do lots of voice recordings directly in Day One, and I added lots of videos and photos. Adding these things in Cap is still possible, but just not as easy. But I've realised that I don't mind slowing down to add things into my diary with intention, so this isn't the biggest problem. As for essence, 1000% of the credit for that goes to @pkmbeth who came up with the concept! She can explain it much better than I can, but essence is basically the culmination of the various real-world things I have been interacting with over a given span of time that has resonated/ struck a chord. I have an essence object type in Cap that I fill out every so often that captures the books I'm reading, films I'm obsessed with, music that's stuck in my head etc. It captures a really detailed and interesting snapshot of who I am at any given time. I've asked Beth to explain properly in case my explanation falls short as essence is incredibly cool, and a very useful way of documenting & reflecting! I hope this somewhat answers your question? Thanks again for reading

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Hi everyone, I wrote an article about how I use all my various Cap spaces in a day! Thought I'd share in case anyone else finds this useful

here is the link to read it for free https://medium.com/@rekawrites/a-day-in-the-life-of-my-capacities-spaces-2f2298570cbc?sk=e79491b67c92eb7eea58f1cd2022aa5a

This was too good. I saw you had a reader window and capacities window side-by-side. Can you explain a bit about your workflow ? Here's the relevant question I asked in general: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/969304624848855050/1251110591905529938

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This was too good. I saw you had a reader window and capacities window side-by-side. Can you explain a bit about your workflow ? Here's the relevant question I asked in general: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/969304624848855050/1251110591905529938

Hi! Yes so I use Reader super heavily, and everything I read pretty much gets filtered through there and into Capacities. I actually don't have a complex workflow - I keep Reader open on one side of the screen and my Cap note on the other, and copy out the bits that resonate and then add any of my own notes in italics beneath the quote. I like the process of re-reading articles and choosing what I liked enough to copy over into Cap, as I find this cuts down on any noise and bloat. I know a Reader integration is coming eventually, and for my personal workflow I will most probably create a dedicated space just for my Reader highlights, and then cross-copy linked blocks from my Reader space into whatever note I am taking elsewhere in Capacities. I would prefer to do this rather than add a Reader object into a single space, as I don't want stuff to filter into my spaces that I haven't intentionally put there! So a dedicated space just for the Reader integration will work well for my use case. I hope this answers your question?

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Hi! Yes so I use Reader super heavily, and everything I read pretty much gets filtered through there and into Capacities. I actually don't have a complex workflow - I keep Reader open on one side of the screen and my Cap note on the other, and copy out the bits that resonate and then add any of my own notes in italics beneath the quote. I like the process of re-reading articles and choosing what I liked enough to copy over into Cap, as I find this cuts down on any noise and bloat. I know a Reader integration is coming eventually, and for my personal workflow I will most probably create a dedicated space just for my Reader highlights, and then cross-copy linked blocks from my Reader space into whatever note I am taking elsewhere in Capacities. I would prefer to do this rather than add a Reader object into a single space, as I don't want stuff to filter into my spaces that I haven't intentionally put there! So a dedicated space just for the Reader integration will work well for my use case. I hope this answers your question?

I like the process of re-reading articles and choosing what I liked enough to copy over into Cap, as I find this cuts down on any noise and bloat

I can resonate this. although in my case it's Day One. I tend to capture too many entries during my journaling, so I keep doing that in Day One. and then I have a monthly routine to review all entries of the previous month, and copy only the most important ones to Capacities

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ah thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed the article!! So originally I thought I would find the swap difficult as I had been using Day One for six or so years, but I've really enjoyed using Capacities as my diary because of the object-based features. I can interact more deeply with the things I am doing (for example rather than mentioning a book I read in passing, I can create a book object that then links to the person who recommended it, how I felt about it, when I was reading it at what point in my life etc). It's also way more customisable, so I can make my diary my own! The only downside I have come across is the way multi-media elements are handled in Capacities that imo Day One does better - I used to do lots of voice recordings directly in Day One, and I added lots of videos and photos. Adding these things in Cap is still possible, but just not as easy. But I've realised that I don't mind slowing down to add things into my diary with intention, so this isn't the biggest problem. As for essence, 1000% of the credit for that goes to @pkmbeth who came up with the concept! She can explain it much better than I can, but essence is basically the culmination of the various real-world things I have been interacting with over a given span of time that has resonated/ struck a chord. I have an essence object type in Cap that I fill out every so often that captures the books I'm reading, films I'm obsessed with, music that's stuck in my head etc. It captures a really detailed and interesting snapshot of who I am at any given time. I've asked Beth to explain properly in case my explanation falls short as essence is incredibly cool, and a very useful way of documenting & reflecting! I hope this somewhat answers your question? Thanks again for reading

thank you for the response!! i definitely think it's worth switching for me as i don't really use multi-media elements that much - i've just been trialing a potential layout and it seems like it's going to work well, thanks for the idea :) and i actually did a bit of digging after seeing this and found an explanation of it on her YouTube channel, I love the idea! definitely something I'll think about applying to my own system. thanks again!

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I created a small n8n workflow which fetches my current location (geo info) by calling the home assistant api (data is provided by my mobile phone). Then I fetch the current weather info from Open Weathermap and save it then to my daily note together with my location. This runs every 4 hours. I have also other idea of information which can be logged to my daily note.

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Hi everyone, I wrote an article about how I use all my various Cap spaces in a day! Thought I'd share in case anyone else finds this useful

here is the link to read it for free https://medium.com/@rekawrites/a-day-in-the-life-of-my-capacities-spaces-2f2298570cbc?sk=e79491b67c92eb7eea58f1cd2022aa5a

So many properties. How about your tags? How many items are there in Tag object? Does they impact to performance?

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So many properties. How about your tags? How many items are there in Tag object? Does they impact to performance?

I only have 40 tags total (I try to limit tags), and they don’t impact performance at all! Neither does the amount of properties

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Hi everyone, I wrote an article about how I use all my various Cap spaces in a day! Thought I'd share in case anyone else finds this useful

here is the link to read it for free https://medium.com/@rekawrites/a-day-in-the-life-of-my-capacities-spaces-2f2298570cbc?sk=e79491b67c92eb7eea58f1cd2022aa5a

Hey, I just finished reading your article and I really enjoyed it! I had a quick question about today's object though. Are all the properties linked to other objects or just plain text?

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Hey, I just finished reading your article and I really enjoyed it! I had a quick question about today's object though. Are all the properties linked to other objects or just plain text?

Hi ! I'm glad you enjoyed the article

. So some of them are plain text properties, and some are linked to other object types. There is a screenshot in the article where you can see the types of properties I have added (and which ones are linked to other objects), I've added it again below. I hope that's helpful! (edited)

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Hi ! I'm glad you enjoyed the article

. So some of them are plain text properties, and some are linked to other object types. There is a screenshot in the article where you can see the types of properties I have added (and which ones are linked to other objects), I've added it again below. I hope that's helpful! (edited)

It's really helpful, thank you!

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Yeah, as I see, almost plain text so there is nothing affects to Capacities performance

Not showing somethin goff but a request for you to

I'm new to capacities and looking for inspiration for my daily note template. Can I see yours?

Experimenting with making a Kanban-style board. Not very succesful because each options has limitations 1) Option 1: Make each status a tag and build queries by tag. But then I can't drag and drop from query to query (https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1254514660716183638/1254652095337074741) 2) Option 2 (above). I make a new object type "box" which has no properties nor tags, so I can have a clean embeded view. No status tags on objects, just manually put all tasks in whatever column I need them in (the status tags are left over from the first approach attempt). This works very nice - I can drag and drop any object into any column and it feels very fluid. It also works with any object, including inline todos. But:

Cannot assign status to the objects themselves - being in column "next" is just for my benefit when I look at this view. This is not reflected anywhere in the object and cannot be used in queries or search
too much white space between columns. Unfortunately this is the minimum space when blocks are side by side.

I still like it more than the first option of using status tags which I tried before. So my current plan is to make a template with the kanban board (which is a box object with 4 embeded column box objects), and then to make one for each project and just put all my project tasks in there (which includes any type of object). And I can view all my tasks across projects in the Boards collection of the box object

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Experimenting with making a Kanban-style board. Not very succesful because each options has limitations 1) Option 1: Make each status a tag and build queries by tag. But then I can't drag and drop from query to query (https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1254514660716183638/1254652095337074741) 2) Option 2 (above). I make a new object type "box" which has no properties nor tags, so I can have a clean embeded view. No status tags on objects, just manually put all tasks in whatever column I need them in (the status tags are left over from the first approach attempt). This works very nice - I can drag and drop any object into any column and it feels very fluid. It also works with any object, including inline todos. But:

Cannot assign status to the objects themselves - being in column "next" is just for my benefit when I look at this view. This is not reflected anywhere in the object and cannot be used in queries or search
too much white space between columns. Unfortunately this is the minimum space when blocks are side by side.

I still like it more than the first option of using status tags which I tried before. So my current plan is to make a template with the kanban board (which is a box object with 4 embeded column box objects), and then to make one for each project and just put all my project tasks in there (which includes any type of object). And I can view all my tasks across projects in the Boards collection of the box object

Alternatively a cleaner column view also works

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Alternatively a cleaner column view also works

I like the visual aesthetic of that a lot, but it doesn't render on mobile at all. This alternative which is just toggles with grouped blocks renders fine and might be the simplest

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I like the visual aesthetic of that a lot, but it doesn't render on mobile at all. This alternative which is just toggles with grouped blocks renders fine and might be the simplest

Is that a project or maybe daily note?

I just log my Strava activities automatically to the Daily note by using n8n / Strava Webhook and my new Capacities Node. I also save the Strava activity to a database, but that's not related to Capacities. That's why the workflow is a bit longer as needed for the Capacities integration.

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I just log my Strava activities automatically to the Daily note by using n8n / Strava Webhook and my new Capacities Node. I also save the Strava activity to a database, but that's not related to Capacities. That's why the workflow is a bit longer as needed for the Capacities integration.

That's how the the Capacities node is configured.

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I just log my Strava activities automatically to the Daily note by using n8n / Strava Webhook and my new Capacities Node. I also save the Strava activity to a database, but that's not related to Capacities. That's why the workflow is a bit longer as needed for the Capacities integration.

So cool!!! Once I made the switch to strava I'll ping you

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So cool!!! Once I made the switch to strava I'll ping you

You are welcome.

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Is that a project or maybe daily note?

in this case it's a project. I just made these sections appear in my template for projects. The downside is that I can get an overview across projects, but I've accepted the current limitations. I just use this view now to organize the big-ticket tasks for projects. Everything smaller and actionable that I want to track more precisely I send to Things

Hey guys! I made a tutorial on how I use Capacities as a bullet journal! Check it out if you're interested :)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic0-ykTFbUs&t=12s

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Alternatively a cleaner column view also works

How can I do this ?

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Hey guys! I made a tutorial on how I use Capacities as a bullet journal! Check it out if you're interested :)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic0-ykTFbUs&t=12s

Nice video! How did you manage to select a date range in the object properties? I'm creating a meeting notes object and this is all that shows when I add a date property?

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I‘m a believer and I dont have that feature

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I‘m a believer and I dont have that feature

I am on pro and do have this feature..

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I am on pro and do have this feature..

I thought believers have the same features as pro + beta access? I‘m 100% certain that I dont have this feature. @meg I saw it in your video, do you have pro or believer subscription?

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I thought believers have the same features as pro + beta access? I‘m 100% certain that I dont have this feature. @meg I saw it in your video, do you have pro or believer subscription?

I have the pro. Maybe try updating to the latest version?

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I have the pro. Maybe try updating to the latest version?

I'm on pro too. Is there a way to update within the app?

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I'm on pro too. Is there a way to update within the app?

would love to know how to as well, can't find any update options

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I thought believers have the same features as pro + beta access? I‘m 100% certain that I dont have this feature. @meg I saw it in your video, do you have pro or believer subscription?

Have you tried to create a new field with the date range? When I select the field of type date-range I cannot see it either.

Hi, this is a bug which will be resolved with the next update- sorry for the confusion! @Will Joy @lealepanther

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Hi, this is a bug which will be resolved with the next update- sorry for the confusion! @Will Joy @lealepanther

Appreciate the update!

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Hi, this is a bug which will be resolved with the next update- sorry for the confusion! @Will Joy @lealepanther

Do you know how I can update the app?

I have been using Capacities of late and thought to create a walkthrough for creating a Reading list / Library. I like creating these as it allows me to understand the app and its functionality, such as templates, properties, views, AI with a tangible outcome. You can then apply the techinques to a lot of other things. Hopefully someone finds this useful. https://youtu.be/BGRvyxkmnyM

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I am quite new Capacities user and I was looking for some inspirations, however it's soooo hard in this chat. Wouldn't it be better to change it for forum section, where in one thread one person could show his workflow and others could discuss about it? Automatically we would build amazing threads history with workflows and inspirations.

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Adrian

I am quite new Capacities user and I was looking for some inspirations, however it's soooo hard in this chat. Wouldn't it be better to change it for forum section, where in one thread one person could show his workflow and others could discuss about it? Automatically we would build amazing threads history with workflows and inspirations.

Totally agree, the current channel makes it really hard to find anything

‼️ Showcases moved To create a valuable dosier of showcases over time we transformed this channel into a forum. Please add your showcases here #🌟・showcases. Please make sure to read the guidelines. Thanks for inspiring others! ⭐️

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