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For android install Texpand. This way you can insert simple templates to whatsapp or telegram. example: td becomes [] | #todo or tdp [] | #todo #personal where the | is the cursor will be.
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CMD+Select allows you to select non continuous blocks on a page. @Steffen please add this to the Shortcuts List?
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CMD+Select allows you to select non continuous blocks on a page. @Steffen please add this to the Shortcuts List?
Is that a Mac thing?
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Same should work for windows using Ctrl.
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How to create callout boxes in Capacities ๐Ÿš€
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random geek 9/28/2022 12:35 PM
Themes and customization are big things for me, and I always want a bit more than any developer โ€” or team of developers โ€” can reasonably be expected to implement. So I keep browser developer tools and the Stylebot browser extension handy for lightweight customization.
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Themes and customization are big things for me, and I always want a bit more than any developer โ€” or team of developers โ€” can reasonably be expected to implement. So I keep browser developer tools and the Stylebot browser extension handy for lightweight customization.
Bigspud#0101 9/28/2022 6:52 PM
You use a PARA structure? or something different?
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You use a PARA structure? or something different?
random geek 9/28/2022 8:31 PM
I keep trying PARA and keep getting bored when 80-90% of my notes are "resource." It still shapes how I organize my notes, though.
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random geek
Themes and customization are big things for me, and I always want a bit more than any developer โ€” or team of developers โ€” can reasonably be expected to implement. So I keep browser developer tools and the Stylebot browser extension handy for lightweight customization.
Comic neue Font? Ugh.
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Comic neue Font? Ugh.
random geek 9/30/2022 8:27 AM
my normal setup in other tools includes Fantasque Sans Mono and Fairyfloss colors, so be grateful I went for tasteful restraint this time ๐Ÿ˜†
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A small thing I discovered today - you can convert "Weblink" to any custom type you want, and it'll transfer all link metadata like description and image to that type. It's a really useful feature, so you can convert YouTube, IMBD or GoodReads links to video, movie, or book type with automatic metadata and organize a beautiful library. That one thing that annoyed me, I had some videos/articles twice in my Space - once as Article/Video type with Author, Weblink, and Notes, and the second one as duplicated Weblink itself with all cool metadata. It was confusing while searching or watching tags. Now I can merge it together with custom fields from my types and metadata from Weblinks, which makes my inner perfectionist very happy. ๐Ÿ™‚ (edited)
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A small thing I discovered today - you can convert "Weblink" to any custom type you want, and it'll transfer all link metadata like description and image to that type. It's a really useful feature, so you can convert YouTube, IMBD or GoodReads links to video, movie, or book type with automatic metadata and organize a beautiful library. That one thing that annoyed me, I had some videos/articles twice in my Space - once as Article/Video type with Author, Weblink, and Notes, and the second one as duplicated Weblink itself with all cool metadata. It was confusing while searching or watching tags. Now I can merge it together with custom fields from my types and metadata from Weblinks, which makes my inner perfectionist very happy. ๐Ÿ™‚ (edited)
Awesome!! Really great use case for the "turn into" feature. ๐Ÿ‘ Using that you can use the Weblink as an "input channel" and then move it to your own setup.
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๐Ÿ“Anna 11/6/2022 4:02 AM
That's awsome! Thank you for the tip, I didn't know that!
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Adelon
A small thing I discovered today - you can convert "Weblink" to any custom type you want, and it'll transfer all link metadata like description and image to that type. It's a really useful feature, so you can convert YouTube, IMBD or GoodReads links to video, movie, or book type with automatic metadata and organize a beautiful library. That one thing that annoyed me, I had some videos/articles twice in my Space - once as Article/Video type with Author, Weblink, and Notes, and the second one as duplicated Weblink itself with all cool metadata. It was confusing while searching or watching tags. Now I can merge it together with custom fields from my types and metadata from Weblinks, which makes my inner perfectionist very happy. ๐Ÿ™‚ (edited)
How did you exactly do this? I canÄt get it to work. First, I only get the "turn into" option if I paste a weblink into a page and let it shown as inline, but no meta data is imported. Can you explain it more specific, please. would be very grateful to you
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How did you exactly do this? I canÄt get it to work. First, I only get the "turn into" option if I paste a weblink into a page and let it shown as inline, but no meta data is imported. Can you explain it more specific, please. would be very grateful to you
Firstly, you need to save weblink to your space, via the "Add - Weblink" button or paste it into any page. Then open it, click "Convert content type" and choose your custom type (make sure it has Description, Tags, Image, and Text Fields).
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Then you got this window, where you should check if all fields are correct, and press "Change type"
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If everything is correct, you must get new page with weblink metadata
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Adelon
Firstly, you need to save weblink to your space, via the "Add - Weblink" button or paste it into any page. Then open it, click "Convert content type" and choose your custom type (make sure it has Description, Tags, Image, and Text Fields).
awesome, thank you๐Ÿ‘ . I made initially the mistake to give the url property in the video database the type "weblink", but it must be from type "text" to work. - just like you did (edited)
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Small tips for "Quick capture" on iphone, for people not used to Shortcuts (or if you didn't think about it). Screenshot 2 - It's in french but you can guess it. A shortcut to Whatsapp -> send text to and then choose "Capacities" (I'm sure it's also possible with Signal). Screenshot 3 - Also if you "pinned" the discussion with Capacities in Whatsapp it's much easier.
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Hallo, pleased to share with you an all in one solution to using Capacities as your main PKM software. I've went deeper than just settling for manually sending things, and tried to automate every step. Although it is not complete I want to share what I have so far.
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Steffen started a thread. 11/15/2022 1:05 AM
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But, I'm confused... Capacities already handle zappier and automated stuff or it's a plan for the futur ?
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Anna
But, I'm confused... Capacities already handle zappier and automated stuff or it's a plan for the futur ?
Michael_v_H 11/18/2022 8:43 AM
He uses our E-Mail and Telegram-integrations to delegate content to Capacitities through them.
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But it's also a plan for the future to offer an API to make more automations possible. ๐Ÿ‘
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Thanks
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@theblackcat can you explain the โ€œbiscuit dashboardโ€. I looked up https://eatbiscuit.com/ but itโ€™s not clear to me what it doesโ€ฆ
Biscuit is a browser where you can organize your apps. If you set your most frequently used apps into Biscuit, you can immediately access and start using them. There is no need to tidiously search your tabs for the apps you've previously opened. Why not work and live in a stress free browser world with Biscuit?
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theblackcat 11/20/2022 6:42 PM
All it really is, it's just a stripped down web browser where you can configure buttons to certain webpages. In my case I have Google drive, calendar, Capacities and that's it. So instead of having those tabs always open in your browser of choice, you have them neatly ready for use in an app format.
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With the rise of electron apps, we're in a transition period where most websites act as an app. I like to have that ease of use, open the app and start working. Hope I've made it a little clearer for you ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป
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@theblackcat Thanks!
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I found a really simple way to create notes via voice recordings. It's working really fucking great ๐Ÿฅฒ
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I found a really simple way to create notes via voice recordings. It's working really fucking great ๐Ÿฅฒ
That's cool. Can you show us how you set it up?
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I found a really simple way to create notes via voice recordings. It's working really fucking great ๐Ÿฅฒ
Yes, would love to hear as well ๐Ÿ™‚
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I try to bring my procrastination skills to the next level. So I have made this absolutely unnecessary video to share with you . Please feel free to play it at 2x speed, otherwise it gets boring very quickly
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I found a really simple way to create notes via voice recordings. It's working really fucking great ๐Ÿฅฒ
You could also use Google's Voice Keyboard and send it directly via a Messenger.
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Index cards are perfect for saving quotes, terms, etc. with source, while keeping it clean
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heather started a thread. 11/29/2022 10:34 PM
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Hi, is there a more or less fast way to send clips (urls or content) from chrome to Capacities?
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Hi, is there a more or less fast way to send clips (urls or content) from chrome to Capacities?
Currently, copy-paste only... Web clipper is on the road map: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/chrome-extension-web-clipper
Get an overview of requested features and ideas.
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@Aje As a work-around for a web clipper, on IOS I have Telegram and WhatsApp added to my sharesheet. On a any website I want to save to Capacities, I press the Share icon in upper right corner of the Chrome browser. I then select telegram and send to Capacities (see integrations on setting up Telegram to send messages to Capacities). This will create a weblink in my Daily Note. Not quite as fast as a web clipper and doesnโ€™t capture highlights like raindrop.io but is a decent work aroundโ€ฆ (edited)
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Thanks @RangerBen . I do the same thing on mobile, but I don't see how to do it on chrome desktop. I'm thinking of using an extension that allows me to send the web page by mail..
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@Aje As a work-around for a web clipper, on IOS I have Telegram and WhatsApp added to my sharesheet. On a any website I want to save to Capacities, I press the Share icon in upper right corner of the Chrome browser. I then select telegram and send to Capacities (see integrations on setting up Telegram to send messages to Capacities). This will create a weblink in my Daily Note. Not quite as fast as a web clipper and doesnโ€™t capture highlights like raindrop.io but is a decent work aroundโ€ฆ (edited)
In addition to that, for iOS, I'm using the Telegram widget as you can connect it directly to a chat
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Thanks @RangerBen . I do the same thing on mobile, but I don't see how to do it on chrome desktop. I'm thinking of using an extension that allows me to send the web page by mail..
@Aje in chrome I have the option to share a link to WhatsApp. Then you must go to your phone and add the QR Code which is generated if you click it. , so you have acces to the web version of whatsapp (https://web.whatsapp.com/).
Quickly send and receive WhatsApp messages right from your computer.
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Thank you! In that case, I should also copy and paste the url in webWhastapp, right? There is no "send to..."
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Ahhh, OK. I see. Thanks a lot!
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@Botwin thanks. I was experimenting with something like this last night.
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I also had a shortcut โ€œShare to Capacitiesโ€ installed that saved directly to WhatsApp to send to capacities in the menu bar but when I tried to use it last night I was getting an error saying it now required a business account for WhatsApp?? (edited)
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My current way of saving YouTube channels, or can be used with probably any creators, artists, etc.
  • takes min space, contains: creator name, creator icon, video that i associate with them
  • before i just used channel link, but it's easy to forget who is who by just seeing name & icon
  • and since everyone has unique thumbnail style, seeing the video helps even more
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Am I the only person who has discovered that you can use the daily notes templates multiple times within the same Daily Note page??? Team - that was not obvious to be honest. I thought I had to create a complete template for the whole Daily Note Page. Now I can have multiple templates for a question, issue, task, log, whatever and reuse them multiple times ! I really thought that you use a template once. Has this been changed recently or was it working like this from the beginning? (edited)
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Am I the only person who has discovered that you can use the daily notes templates multiple times within the same Daily Note page??? Team - that was not obvious to be honest. I thought I had to create a complete template for the whole Daily Note Page. Now I can have multiple templates for a question, issue, task, log, whatever and reuse them multiple times ! I really thought that you use a template once. Has this been changed recently or was it working like this from the beginning? (edited)
That is new with the update from today! ๐Ÿ˜ŽโœŒ๏ธ
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Ha! I knew it!
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I think you could easily enable these templates for any Pages, not just for Daily (edited)
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I think you could easily enable these templates for any Pages, not just for Daily (edited)
Soon. ๐Ÿ˜‰
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If Daily Note is a page ...than.... why to wait? I can be your alpha-tester ๐Ÿ˜‰ (edited)
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Sometimes a colored multi-column layout is everything you need to make your notes more interesting. I like that you can put specific sections into a box. I hope that's helpful to anyone ๐Ÿ’ก
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Sometimes a colored multi-column layout is everything you need to make your notes more interesting. I like that you can put specific sections into a box. I hope that's helpful to anyone ๐Ÿ’ก
I really love the thought put into Capacities formatting options: prepend emoji/icon, highlighted sections with appropriate background & foreground colors, etc.
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I have a question
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How to you add a table
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Hi! This is not possible yet, but you can vote for it here: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/simple-table
Get an overview of requested features and ideas.
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mangekyou sharingan 1/17/2023 4:11 AM
Hi all ๐Ÿ™‚ Just started using Capacity and have played around with it a little bit. Coming from (and still using) Obsidian and, earlier Roam - i was wondering how you would go about using # and [[]]. For example - lets say i write a note: "Steffen loves to use Capacity and enjoys the many features". If i use [[Steffen]] loves to use [[Capacity]] and enjoys the many features #productivity_apps - it would make two individual pages + a hashtags. But what would i need to do to connect [[Capacity]] to #productivity_apps.....and [[Steffen]] to using [[Capacity]]. Should i add #steffen and #capacity as well What would be your workflow ๐Ÿ™?
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Hi all ๐Ÿ™‚ Just started using Capacity and have played around with it a little bit. Coming from (and still using) Obsidian and, earlier Roam - i was wondering how you would go about using # and [[]]. For example - lets say i write a note: "Steffen loves to use Capacity and enjoys the many features". If i use [[Steffen]] loves to use [[Capacity]] and enjoys the many features #productivity_apps - it would make two individual pages + a hashtags. But what would i need to do to connect [[Capacity]] to #productivity_apps.....and [[Steffen]] to using [[Capacity]]. Should i add #steffen and #capacity as well What would be your workflow ๐Ÿ™?
Hi @mangekyou sharingan, great question! In Capacities everything is an object, and you can use different object types for different purposes. So you can create pages (simple) for [[Steffen]] and [[Capacities]] or custom objects (more advanced) for [[Steffen]] as a person and [[Capacities]] as a tool for example. I'd see tags as something you use for topics, or content connectors if that makes sense. They are also objects, but a special type which gives you a visual overview. It's great to collect content while the others also have properties and notes for example.
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Hi all ๐Ÿ™‚ Just started using Capacity and have played around with it a little bit. Coming from (and still using) Obsidian and, earlier Roam - i was wondering how you would go about using # and [[]]. For example - lets say i write a note: "Steffen loves to use Capacity and enjoys the many features". If i use [[Steffen]] loves to use [[Capacity]] and enjoys the many features #productivity_apps - it would make two individual pages + a hashtags. But what would i need to do to connect [[Capacity]] to #productivity_apps.....and [[Steffen]] to using [[Capacity]]. Should i add #steffen and #capacity as well What would be your workflow ๐Ÿ™?
๐Ÿ“Anna 1/18/2023 1:16 PM
Hey and welcome ๐Ÿ™‚ I am not 100% sure I understood you question right, but I wrote something about the use of tags in capacities (especially coming from other apps) recently here https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/969304624848855050/1060598525219590275 Is this answering your question? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
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mangekyou sharingan
Hi all ๐Ÿ™‚ Just started using Capacity and have played around with it a little bit. Coming from (and still using) Obsidian and, earlier Roam - i was wondering how you would go about using # and [[]]. For example - lets say i write a note: "Steffen loves to use Capacity and enjoys the many features". If i use [[Steffen]] loves to use [[Capacity]] and enjoys the many features #productivity_apps - it would make two individual pages + a hashtags. But what would i need to do to connect [[Capacity]] to #productivity_apps.....and [[Steffen]] to using [[Capacity]]. Should i add #steffen and #capacity as well What would be your workflow ๐Ÿ™?
In Roam, both # and [[ are the same (except # allows css customization). For my use, I choose # if I donโ€™t need a dedicated page for it. On the contrary, if the topic needs its own object with notes, attachments etc, I use @ or [[
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Hey and welcome ๐Ÿ™‚ I am not 100% sure I understood you question right, but I wrote something about the use of tags in capacities (especially coming from other apps) recently here https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/969304624848855050/1060598525219590275 Is this answering your question? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
mangekyou sharingan 1/19/2023 7:15 AM
Love it ๐Ÿ™ I replied to you in your original thread. It means a lot ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Hi @mangekyou sharingan, great question! In Capacities everything is an object, and you can use different object types for different purposes. So you can create pages (simple) for [[Steffen]] and [[Capacities]] or custom objects (more advanced) for [[Steffen]] as a person and [[Capacities]] as a tool for example. I'd see tags as something you use for topics, or content connectors if that makes sense. They are also objects, but a special type which gives you a visual overview. It's great to collect content while the others also have properties and notes for example.
mangekyou sharingan 1/19/2023 8:11 AM
I have already built much more in Capacities than i expected. Something just clicked and I love you for building it ๐Ÿ™ Have a much better sense of what it can do now. Especially the "Person" or "Page" mentality....and then # as a addition to that. Beginning to feel this could take over from Obsidian entirely ๐Ÿ˜ณ
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I started on 17th Jan and love this snapshot of seeing how somethingโ€™s linked to past and future
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I just visited the showcases section and am rather in awe at what people have created. All I need to know is how to change the font/size! Any tips on that please??
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Michael_v_H 1/24/2023 2:35 PM
Use # followed by a space at the start of a block to create headings.

-> H1

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Alternatively, you can use Cmd + or Cmd - to increase/decrease the heading
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(Ctrl + and Ctrl - on Windows)
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Michael_v_H
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Thank you. I am familiar with markdown. I wondered if there was a way I could increase the font size in general.
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Thank you. I am familiar with markdown. I wondered if there was a way I could increase the font size in general.
Michael_v_H 1/24/2023 6:10 PM
I see. ๐Ÿ™‚ No, we don't have a setting for different font sizes.
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Thank you. I am familiar with markdown. I wondered if there was a way I could increase the font size in general.
@Dave maybe something to piggyback on...? ๐Ÿ™‚ https://capacities.io/feedback/p/customselect-fonts
Get an overview of requested features and ideas.
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(Ctrl + and Ctrl - on Windows)
Unfortunately these are shortcuts in Chrome which increases or decreases the Zoom ratio.
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tatqoo
Unfortunately these are shortcuts in Chrome which increases or decreases the Zoom ratio.
Michael_v_H 1/26/2023 6:15 AM
Yes, but we only use them when a cursor or selection is active inside a text block, so I think in this context this is fine. What do you think?
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Yes, but we only use them when a cursor or selection is active inside a text block, so I think in this context this is fine. What do you think?
Obviously I have tried it with the selection and while editing. it's not working on my end.
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Obviously I have tried it with the selection and while editing. it's not working on my end.
Michael_v_H 1/26/2023 6:17 AM
Ok, thanks. I'll look into it!
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I have already built much more in Capacities than i expected. Something just clicked and I love you for building it ๐Ÿ™ Have a much better sense of what it can do now. Especially the "Person" or "Page" mentality....and then # as a addition to that. Beginning to feel this could take over from Obsidian entirely ๐Ÿ˜ณ
๐Ÿ“Anna 1/27/2023 11:10 AM
same here. I also love obsidian, but capacities just feels like somehow made for my needs, without tinkering too much around.
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same here. I also love obsidian, but capacities just feels like somehow made for my needs, without tinkering too much around.
... same here! to use your terms: much more 'coherent'. which is gold for a 'PKM-system', IMO
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... same here! to use your terms: much more 'coherent'. which is gold for a 'PKM-system', IMO
๐Ÿ“Anna 1/27/2023 11:24 AM
when did I use that? ๐Ÿ˜† and yes, absolutely. (edited)
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when did I use that? ๐Ÿ˜† and yes, absolutely. (edited)
... sorry... misquoted... it was 'congruent'... https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1067463178151272558/1068575509010722887 ... but close ๐Ÿ˜‰
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Howell the Night Owl 2/7/2023 11:26 AM
Hi everyone - been really loving Capacities and am just about ready to make the believer leap! Could anyone share with me a good way to make a 1 on 1 template with repeating questions? Basically I want to have time to for "free form" discussion during my one on ones but also want to make sure I capture a few specifics each time and would like to have those as a template.
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Howell the Night Owl
Hi everyone - been really loving Capacities and am just about ready to make the believer leap! Could anyone share with me a good way to make a 1 on 1 template with repeating questions? Basically I want to have time to for "free form" discussion during my one on ones but also want to make sure I capture a few specifics each time and would like to have those as a template.
grace charles 2/7/2023 11:45 AM
Not sure this is a โ€œgood wayโ€ but โ€ฆ you could do this. Create a custom object called Templates with a blocks field for your questions. So letโ€™s say one is titled Meeting Questions and it contains the questions you want to ask. Now add a property to the Meetings object called Questions and make it a Single Select of type Templates. Then, when you create a new meeting, youโ€™ll have a field called Questions and when you click in there, youโ€™ll be able to select your Meeting Questions template, which you can then open in preview and get the questions you want. Certainly not ideal. A much better solution would be the ability to easily copy objects, in which case you could have a dummy meeting with the questions pre-populated. An even better solution would be to allow custom objects to have default block text pre-filled.
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Scratch everything I said above @Howell the Night Owl - there's a much easier solution. Create a markdown file on your computer with the questions you want. Create a new meeting with the person, and in the "body" field of the meeting you'll see the Import button. Click that button and drag in your meeting-questions.md file, and voila, perfectly formatted markdown right in the meeting.
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Howell the Night Owl
Hi everyone - been really loving Capacities and am just about ready to make the believer leap! Could anyone share with me a good way to make a 1 on 1 template with repeating questions? Basically I want to have time to for "free form" discussion during my one on ones but also want to make sure I capture a few specifics each time and would like to have those as a template.
boonikad9300 2/7/2023 1:05 PM
Templates are still in development, coming soon if i'm right! However inside your daily notes you already can create templates
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Howell the Night Owl 2/7/2023 1:49 PM
Thank you both!
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Not sure this is a โ€œgood wayโ€ but โ€ฆ you could do this. Create a custom object called Templates with a blocks field for your questions. So letโ€™s say one is titled Meeting Questions and it contains the questions you want to ask. Now add a property to the Meetings object called Questions and make it a Single Select of type Templates. Then, when you create a new meeting, youโ€™ll have a field called Questions and when you click in there, youโ€™ll be able to select your Meeting Questions template, which you can then open in preview and get the questions you want. Certainly not ideal. A much better solution would be the ability to easily copy objects, in which case you could have a dummy meeting with the questions pre-populated. An even better solution would be to allow custom objects to have default block text pre-filled.
Thanks for sharing this. Really interesting! But yes, templates are coming in the next few days, which should exactly allow these workflows without a workaround. @Howell the Night Owl @boonikad9300
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Thanks for sharing this. Really interesting! But yes, templates are coming in the next few days, which should exactly allow these workflows without a workaround. @Howell the Night Owl @boonikad9300
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Damm that's nice! The speed of development is ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Hi guys! It's lovely to be a part of the Capacities community, especially as a believer ๐Ÿ”ฅ Quick question - I wanted to track my weight every week. I wonder if there is any way to track and visualize this data as a graph? Or in any other visual way to be able to track my weight loss progress? Is there any built-in tool to do that, or maybe some way to make it happen with external tools (if at all possible)? I'm curious if any of you had a similar case and how you resolved it with Capacities. Thanks!
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Hi guys! It's lovely to be a part of the Capacities community, especially as a believer ๐Ÿ”ฅ Quick question - I wanted to track my weight every week. I wonder if there is any way to track and visualize this data as a graph? Or in any other visual way to be able to track my weight loss progress? Is there any built-in tool to do that, or maybe some way to make it happen with external tools (if at all possible)? I'm curious if any of you had a similar case and how you resolved it with Capacities. Thanks!
boonikad9300 2/15/2023 4:28 AM
I'm just using Apple Health + my Apple Watch for recording all health-related data. When task management becomes available inside Capacities, I will put a repeating reminder with the title something like "Register Weight Inside [[Apple Health]]" in the context of maybe a goal I'm working on, for example, "Lose 2 KG in 12 weeks" In general, I'm applying the principle of separation of concerns, e.g. don't try to fit everything inside one system if there are custom tools for a preferred use case that does it 10x better: grocery apps, fitness apps, etc.. (edited)
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As Apple Health has all the data (history) and visualisation you need it makes little sense for me to ALSO track it inside capacities.
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Maybe when we have the Table feature with calculation functionality it may become more easy / logical to track it inside capacities, but still, data visualisation is tricky to add as well as a specific app will always implement it better (edited)
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Thanks so much for replying. I guess you're right - it might be better to separate some things and tasks. Actually right now I'm using Apple Health for tracking weight, so I guess I'll stick to that!
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boonikad9300 2/19/2023 7:08 AM
๐Ÿ’ก Tip: If you have difficulty to define your objects and property types, take a look at https://schema.org/docs/full.html for inspiration on which fields you could use, especially now that we can hide properties by default its nice to follow standards. Added benefit is that it also makes importing .CSV's more streamlined / easier and enhances your search queries ๐Ÿ˜„ (edited)
Schema.org is a set of extensible schemas that enables webmasters to embed structured data on their web pages for use by search engines and other applications.
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Example:
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๐Ÿ’ก Tip: If you have difficulty to define your objects and property types, take a look at https://schema.org/docs/full.html for inspiration on which fields you could use, especially now that we can hide properties by default its nice to follow standards. Added benefit is that it also makes importing .CSV's more streamlined / easier and enhances your search queries ๐Ÿ˜„ (edited)
๐Ÿ˜‚ oh god I hate you! I completely agree and Iโ€™ve completely not done that. Well at least now I can slowly edit the names I have used in each area and hopefully as you say will make queries so much easier to transfer between users.
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I haven't checked the forum for a while, so maybe this little trick is not new: tab-collections, as workaround for custom property fields When I create a new databases, I have some custom properties like Priority, Rating, Areas etc, I use this trick - so I do not have to pick up every item individually (especially if it should be a single select item) . First I make tag collections for it, so I can reuse it every time
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I haven't checked the forum for a while, so maybe this little trick is not new: tab-collections, as workaround for custom property fields When I create a new databases, I have some custom properties like Priority, Rating, Areas etc, I use this trick - so I do not have to pick up every item individually (especially if it should be a single select item) . First I make tag collections for it, so I can reuse it every time
Great showcase, thanks so much for sharing! Would you mind if we add this video to our docs?
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Great showcase, thanks so much for sharing! Would you mind if we add this video to our docs?
sure, go ahead.
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Would be super cool if this was made a bit more seamless, is there suggestion for this in the forum? ๐Ÿ˜„
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Hi_I'm_Jonas 2/20/2023 10:05 AM
Hi. I've been trying to use Capacities and I'm finding it pretty cool and useful. One thing, I am seeking advice: How do you guys organize things in terms of using content types vs tags. my use case is using Capacities as a hub for everything school related. I started out with having the different school subjects as a content type and now I've switched to tags. I am still confused as to what would make the most sense. If anyone has any pointers to what is given a tag and what is given a content type, it would be greatly appreciated
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Hi. I've been trying to use Capacities and I'm finding it pretty cool and useful. One thing, I am seeking advice: How do you guys organize things in terms of using content types vs tags. my use case is using Capacities as a hub for everything school related. I started out with having the different school subjects as a content type and now I've switched to tags. I am still confused as to what would make the most sense. If anyone has any pointers to what is given a tag and what is given a content type, it would be greatly appreciated
boonikad9300 2/20/2023 10:24 AM
You could think of objects as " the shipping containers" of your PKM -> Everything inside the object is standardised in the same format, through the same workflow, with predefined properties. So, in general, you create an 'object' when you need to collect things in a standardised format, for example, books, people, meeting notes, lesson notes, recipes, and so on... Creating an object type significantly reduces your cognitive load, as the predefined structure already tells you exactly how your object should look and which properties it has, and it gets organised like every other object of the same type in a database which you can filter and sort. By tagging - like putting a label on your shipping container - you organically organise knowledge according to the tags you put on, building clusters of objects around certain topics as you grow your knowledge base. Tagging also improves the search ability, discoverability and retrievability of information. The amount and which object types and tags you need are an output of your workflow and intended use cases.
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@Hi_I'm_Jonas Does that make sense haha? ๐Ÿ™‚
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You could think of objects as " the shipping containers" of your PKM -> Everything inside the object is standardised in the same format, through the same workflow, with predefined properties. So, in general, you create an 'object' when you need to collect things in a standardised format, for example, books, people, meeting notes, lesson notes, recipes, and so on... Creating an object type significantly reduces your cognitive load, as the predefined structure already tells you exactly how your object should look and which properties it has, and it gets organised like every other object of the same type in a database which you can filter and sort. By tagging - like putting a label on your shipping container - you organically organise knowledge according to the tags you put on, building clusters of objects around certain topics as you grow your knowledge base. Tagging also improves the search ability, discoverability and retrievability of information. The amount and which object types and tags you need are an output of your workflow and intended use cases.
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@Hi_I'm_Jonas Does that make sense haha? ๐Ÿ™‚
Hi_I'm_Jonas 2/20/2023 3:14 PM
It does! I will sit down and try to reorganize with this mental model in mind. So in terms of collections that would be the containers inside of the shipping container. Example in a people object Teachers Guest lecturers Authors Movie directors Something like that?
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It does! I will sit down and try to reorganize with this mental model in mind. So in terms of collections that would be the containers inside of the shipping container. Example in a people object Teachers Guest lecturers Authors Movie directors Something like that?
boonikad9300 2/20/2023 3:19 PM
Exactly! You could make those collections inside your people object, OR you could add a jobTitle property field on the Person Object with a single select where you can select 'teacher', 'movie director', etc..
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then you could use that property to filter out all the teachers, movie directors, etc
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I prefer the property approach because it is more 'semantically' correct ๐Ÿ˜‰
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but just start small and simple and only make it more complex if you really need it
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Exactly! You could make those collections inside your people object, OR you could add a jobTitle property field on the Person Object with a single select where you can select 'teacher', 'movie director', etc..
Hi_I'm_Jonas 2/20/2023 4:04 PM
thats makes perfect sense! but that jobtitle single-select property, wouldn't that just create an object type containing job titles (this seems like something that would just take up space). or do you mean that I should use a tag for the jobtitles? maybe I'm missing something. Thanks a bunch for helping and sorry for asking so much
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and now I realise I wrote this question in the wrong channel :/
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thats makes perfect sense! but that jobtitle single-select property, wouldn't that just create an object type containing job titles (this seems like something that would just take up space). or do you mean that I should use a tag for the jobtitles? maybe I'm missing something. Thanks a bunch for helping and sorry for asking so much
boonikad9300 2/21/2023 12:44 AM
Yes jobTitles would be a tag if you just want to filter on it;) only if you want to collect further information about that jobtitle it would make sense to make it an object
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Yes jobTitles would be a tag if you just want to filter on it;) only if you want to collect further information about that jobtitle it would make sense to make it an object
Hi_I'm_Jonas 2/21/2023 1:42 AM
Top notch!! Thanks a bunch
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@Hi_I'm_Jonas Does that make sense haha? ๐Ÿ™‚
My favorite feature is collections. It gives me a layer of flexibility while I keep my tags/pages/objects
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My favorite feature is collections. It gives me a layer of flexibility while I keep my tags/pages/objects
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It's like ordering your books on colour code ๐Ÿ™Œ
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Ambitendency 2/21/2023 10:23 AM
Does anyone have any suggestions about how one could go about implementing an โ€œOn this dayโ€ sort of feature in Capacities?
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Does anyone have any suggestions about how one could go about implementing an โ€œOn this dayโ€ sort of feature in Capacities?
boonikad9300 2/21/2023 10:56 AM
Best is to wait for smart queries function me think ๐Ÿค” ๐Ÿ˜‰ (edited)
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Then you could possibly very easily create such a view -> e.g. "Give me all objects with date = today back in a view."
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Ambitendency 2/21/2023 11:20 AM
Iโ€™m trying to store Random Facts, Quotes, Small pieces of Wisdom, Words of the Day, etc. and Iโ€™d like to be able to see the information the next year on the same day. So say I save some random notable fact that happened today โ€” February 21st 2023 โ€” Iโ€™d like to be able
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I was trying to think of a way to implement it using tags or properties but my mind draws a blank.
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Iโ€™m trying to store Random Facts, Quotes, Small pieces of Wisdom, Words of the Day, etc. and Iโ€™d like to be able to see the information the next year on the same day. So say I save some random notable fact that happened today โ€” February 21st 2023 โ€” Iโ€™d like to be able
boonikad9300 2/21/2023 11:33 AM
Hmm seems a pretty specialised use case ๐Ÿ˜… Don't think it is currently possible
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However, don't know what will be possible in smart queries but if you can work with variables or something, it might be possible -> Make a view with all objects and date {currentDate - 1 year} or something like that ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Iโ€™m trying to store Random Facts, Quotes, Small pieces of Wisdom, Words of the Day, etc. and Iโ€™d like to be able to see the information the next year on the same day. So say I save some random notable fact that happened today โ€” February 21st 2023 โ€” Iโ€™d like to be able
I think this a great idea! I was just trying to create a daily note for a future date, and it doesn't seem possible?!
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Oh scratch that, I can tag a future date, and the future daily note is created. Seems to be some lag though. I was clicking on it for several minutes with nothing happening.
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Ambitendency 2/21/2023 11:10 PM
@Sam B Yeah thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m trying to do to a certain extent, but instead of it appearing on a day in the future once; Iโ€™d like to have it reappear on every year in the future. Iโ€™m essentially trying to implement some of the genious from https://journalisticapp.com/ From what I know about it, theres only one dev, and they have nicely implemented a variety of valuable features in a format and elegance that Iโ€™ve yet to see from any other app โ€” besides the genius work being done here on Capacities โ€” of course ๐Ÿ˜‰
A micro journaling app with minimalistic design, pristine writing experience and powerful insights.
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@Sam B Yeah thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m trying to do to a certain extent, but instead of it appearing on a day in the future once; Iโ€™d like to have it reappear on every year in the future. Iโ€™m essentially trying to implement some of the genious from https://journalisticapp.com/ From what I know about it, theres only one dev, and they have nicely implemented a variety of valuable features in a format and elegance that Iโ€™ve yet to see from any other app โ€” besides the genius work being done here on Capacities โ€” of course ๐Ÿ˜‰
That app looks very interesting! I've done some bullet journaling in the past. I'm starting to think more about not trying to do everything in one app. That includes some paper journaling because I do enjoy it.
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That app looks very interesting! I've done some bullet journaling in the past. I'm starting to think more about not trying to do everything in one app. That includes some paper journaling because I do enjoy it.
boonikad9300 2/22/2023 10:20 AM
Yeah the quicker you let go of the "one app to rule them all idea" your life will be much better ๐Ÿ™‚
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Yeah the quicker you let go of the "one app to rule them all idea" your life will be much better ๐Ÿ™‚
I agree in principle, but struggle to put it into practice. My reductive brain has no limits ๐Ÿ˜…
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I agree in principle, but struggle to put it into practice. My reductive brain has no limits ๐Ÿ˜…
boonikad9300 2/22/2023 10:44 AM
Haha ;0 In general, as Capacities, you just can't compete with a natively optimised app tailored to one specific use case hehe
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Haha ;0 In general, as Capacities, you just can't compete with a natively optimised app tailored to one specific use case hehe
I love me a good 'ol Excel Workbook with some hacky VBA behind it lol
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I love me a good 'ol Excel Workbook with some hacky VBA behind it lol
boonikad9300 2/22/2023 10:47 AM
Hahah, people always have the tendency to prefer complex solutions and workflows over easy and simple ones ๐Ÿ˜‚ (edited)
random geek started a thread. 2/27/2023 1:14 PM
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Quick question about recurring tasks: I have some weblinks I want to visit regularly, like every two weeks. How would you do that?
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Quick question about recurring tasks: I have some weblinks I want to visit regularly, like every two weeks. How would you do that?
boonikad9300 3/3/2023 10:43 AM
Not really possible with current features, however, you could make it a part of your weekly / bi-weekly review format??
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For example, this is my weekly review checklist template (for daily notes) -> (edited)
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You could make something similar with a to-do -> [] Revisit [[weblinks]] ....
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For example, this is my weekly review checklist template (for daily notes) -> (edited)
Sounds reasonable, thank you.
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DogSaysRollTide 3/6/2023 3:36 PM
When we forward from email into Capacities, that's all we can do right? We can't yet add a tag or something?
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At least we get back into the app.
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At least we get back into the app.
You can add tags in the subject ๐Ÿ™‚
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You can add tags in the subject ๐Ÿ™‚
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@Sam B Yeah thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m trying to do to a certain extent, but instead of it appearing on a day in the future once; Iโ€™d like to have it reappear on every year in the future. Iโ€™m essentially trying to implement some of the genious from https://journalisticapp.com/ From what I know about it, theres only one dev, and they have nicely implemented a variety of valuable features in a format and elegance that Iโ€™ve yet to see from any other app โ€” besides the genius work being done here on Capacities โ€” of course ๐Ÿ˜‰
This looks awesome! I really love micro-journaling and there aren't nearly enough good apps that do that in the appstore yet. This looks awesome.
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DogSaysRollTide 3/8/2023 5:33 AM
So here's a tactic I've figured out that has helped my adoption of Capacities: Create as many new objects as you need, on the fly, and don't worry too much about duplication/efficiency. As long you set some time aside later to review them, Capacities' ability to convert one object into another means you consolidate similar objects easily. Keeping this in mind has removed a lot of the "how do I set this up" friction for me and allowed me the freedom to just get info into the system, and then make it less insane...later. And that review takes less than 10 minutes. Probably not a tactic you need much past the onboarding stage, but that one little thing Capacities does became really powerful for me.
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So here's a tactic I've figured out that has helped my adoption of Capacities: Create as many new objects as you need, on the fly, and don't worry too much about duplication/efficiency. As long you set some time aside later to review them, Capacities' ability to convert one object into another means you consolidate similar objects easily. Keeping this in mind has removed a lot of the "how do I set this up" friction for me and allowed me the freedom to just get info into the system, and then make it less insane...later. And that review takes less than 10 minutes. Probably not a tactic you need much past the onboarding stage, but that one little thing Capacities does became really powerful for me.
DerekReinhard 3/8/2023 5:41 AM
"Capacities' ability to convert one object into another means you consolidate similar objects easily." For sure!
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Is there a way to highlight multiple text blocks using (control shift on pc)? Is that just a limit of block based editors?
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Is there a way to highlight multiple text blocks using (control shift on pc)? Is that just a limit of block based editors?
Michael_v_H 3/16/2023 2:42 PM
Currently not, but it's something we'll add soon! ๐Ÿ™‚
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One more question. Whatโ€™s the best approach for creating a drop down menu for a project status in my project object. Do I need to create tags for todo, doing, done, ongoing, etc and then create a set of tags? Do I have to create those tags separately or can I do it in the project object using a text drop-down with a fixed list like you can do in notion?
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One more question. Whatโ€™s the best approach for creating a drop down menu for a project status in my project object. Do I need to create tags for todo, doing, done, ongoing, etc and then create a set of tags? Do I have to create those tags separately or can I do it in the project object using a text drop-down with a fixed list like you can do in notion?
If you go into the object type properties and select fixed set for the status property, save and close, you can then click the property and add the tags in there, itโ€™ll give you the option to create tags from that drop down. Or you can create all the tags first and then add the tags to the drop down menu!
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Hi all! Random question: does Capacities have (or plan on having) any kind of browser add-on for quick-capture/bookmarking?
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Hi all! Random question: does Capacities have (or plan on having) any kind of browser add-on for quick-capture/bookmarking?
boonikad9300 4/4/2023 10:57 AM
Its on the roadmap!
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Hello all. Iโ€™m struggling to integrate my OneNote stuff into Capacities, and wondering if anyone has any advice. If Iโ€™ve been working in OneNote on something like a journal entry for a hike (which in turn would have links to other content such as GPS) is there a good way to embed a page/section/notebook into Capacities?
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Hi all! Random question: does Capacities have (or plan on having) any kind of browser add-on for quick-capture/bookmarking?
Do you mean an eXtension?
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Hi all! Random question: does Capacities have (or plan on having) any kind of browser add-on for quick-capture/bookmarking?
For websites at the moment I use raindrop, free for my use.
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Hi_I'm_Jonas 4/12/2023 1:46 AM
I can see that someone has asked about "aliases" at some point. Does anyone have any tips on how to implement aliases?
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I can see that someone has asked about "aliases" at some point. Does anyone have any tips on how to implement aliases?
why not create a new object w/ same name (possibly + "alias" at end and embed the original there in full view? should have the same functionality and needs only few steps... so, it's almost like a direct alias operation
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why not create a new object w/ same name (possibly + "alias" at end and embed the original there in full view? should have the same functionality and needs only few steps... so, it's almost like a direct alias operation
Hi_I'm_Jonas 4/12/2023 2:28 AM
I will test this out. Maybe it will be even simpler to just add the alias in the title. Mostly the aliases I think I will need will be abbreviations, might as well just add them to the title in parentheses
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Do you mean an eXtension?
Yup
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Iโ€™m trying to store Random Facts, Quotes, Small pieces of Wisdom, Words of the Day, etc. and Iโ€™d like to be able to see the information the next year on the same day. So say I save some random notable fact that happened today โ€” February 21st 2023 โ€” Iโ€™d like to be able
Its been quite a long time since I've been on the chat for this, but I've created a commonplace book in my capacities, which I think is similar to what you would need. I've attached two screenshots so you can see how I made it. ๐Ÿ˜€
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Its been quite a long time since I've been on the chat for this, but I've created a commonplace book in my capacities, which I think is similar to what you would need. I've attached two screenshots so you can see how I made it. ๐Ÿ˜€
How do you get the collections showed like that?๐Ÿ˜€
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How do you get the collections showed like that?๐Ÿ˜€
If you click "Dashboard" here, where it is normally on "All"
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If you click "Dashboard" here, where it is normally on "All"
Aaarh very cool! I missed that button๐Ÿ™ˆ
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Its been quite a long time since I've been on the chat for this, but I've created a commonplace book in my capacities, which I think is similar to what you would need. I've attached two screenshots so you can see how I made it. ๐Ÿ˜€
Woah this is EXACTLY how Iโ€™m looking to use capacities. Thanks for sharing!
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Its been quite a long time since I've been on the chat for this, but I've created a commonplace book in my capacities, which I think is similar to what you would need. I've attached two screenshots so you can see how I made it. ๐Ÿ˜€
Ashwath Singh 4/20/2023 12:43 PM
Woah that looks amazing! This looks so cool!
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Anyone found a workaround for spellchecking on mac ios desktop or safari browser? Its a known issue but does or anything else work?
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Anyone found a workaround for spellchecking on mac ios desktop or safari browser? Its a known issue but does or anything else work?
Still having issues after the latest update? Do you have any special spell checkers activated? It's working for me with the same setup ๐Ÿ˜ฆ Sorry for these issues.
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Still having issues after the latest update? Do you have any special spell checkers activated? It's working for me with the same setup ๐Ÿ˜ฆ Sorry for these issues.
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Yeah @Steffen. Itโ€™s not working for me. I press over the wrong word and the correction menu is shown but when I press the right word in the menu, the wrong word in my text doesnโ€™t change.
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Hey guys, perhaps Iโ€™m taking the wrong route but im struggling to achieve the following: when noting stuff down during the day, I will have smth like this: โ€œ[[person A]] mentioned that it would be benefiting performance of [[component 1]] if we change bla bla bla #todoโ€ Person A is an entry in the People database, Component 1 is an entry in the Projects database. #todo is an entry in hashtags. Now the part where I fail: at the end of the day/week I want to check on all the #todo created but filtered for entries for person A (or person B) or Component 1. Is that possible? I canโ€™t make it happen โ€ฆ (edited)
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Still having issues after the latest update? Do you have any special spell checkers activated? It's working for me with the same setup ๐Ÿ˜ฆ Sorry for these issues.
Spell Check does not work on Windows, I also found many shortcuts do not work, ctrl-H for example. Some do, some don't. Also, on Android app, when I open it, it deletes my daily note. I know your getting lots of bug reports I am sure.... Also, would like to bribe you to incorporate outlook calendars. Need to make meeting notes. Do you accept bribes lol.? (edited)
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Spell Check does not work on Windows, I also found many shortcuts do not work, ctrl-H for example. Some do, some don't. Also, on Android app, when I open it, it deletes my daily note. I know your getting lots of bug reports I am sure.... Also, would like to bribe you to incorporate outlook calendars. Need to make meeting notes. Do you accept bribes lol.? (edited)
Confirm as well that spell check does not work
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Still having issues after the latest update? Do you have any special spell checkers activated? It's working for me with the same setup ๐Ÿ˜ฆ Sorry for these issues.
No special spell checkers - just latest Mac OS. Are you using a shortcut to autocorrect or right clicking? Itโ€™s the right clicking that isnโ€™t working for me. The spelling comes up in the toggle list but when I click on it nothing happens. Iโ€™m new to Mac so donโ€™t know a lot of shortcuts yet (edited)
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@ames@Babis @Scooty, thanks for sharing such detailed bug reports. We'll look into it and try to fix it ๐Ÿ‘
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Hey guys, perhaps Iโ€™m taking the wrong route but im struggling to achieve the following: when noting stuff down during the day, I will have smth like this: โ€œ[[person A]] mentioned that it would be benefiting performance of [[component 1]] if we change bla bla bla #todoโ€ Person A is an entry in the People database, Component 1 is an entry in the Projects database. #todo is an entry in hashtags. Now the part where I fail: at the end of the day/week I want to check on all the #todo created but filtered for entries for person A (or person B) or Component 1. Is that possible? I canโ€™t make it happen โ€ฆ (edited)
Have you considered creating a Task object and putting all your tasks in that database instead?
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Hi everyone. I often see questions about how to structure capacities so Iโ€™ve put my best tips and tricks in a YouTube video. If you prefer blog posts Iโ€™ve put a link to one in the description too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxW5WoAtCn0&lc=UgyGuZ0Mgp6SxQhySmN4AaABAg
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Hi everyone. I often see questions about how to structure capacities so Iโ€™ve put my best tips and tricks in a YouTube video. If you prefer blog posts Iโ€™ve put a link to one in the description too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxW5WoAtCn0&lc=UgyGuZ0Mgp6SxQhySmN4AaABAg
GayNooblet 5/2/2023 1:54 PM
Is there a way to filter for only the items in a collection whose parent is the current page?
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I want to create a bunch of tasks associated only with the current page
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I want to create a bunch of tasks associated only with the current page
Not that Iโ€™m aware of!
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Is there a way to filter for only the items in a collection whose parent is the current page?
Not yet, but this will be one of the advanced features of queries ๐Ÿ‘
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AWESOME. This is one of the killer notion database features. Glad thats making its way here as well
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Not yet, but this will be one of the advanced features of queries ๐Ÿ‘
And are queries a feature that will be added soon-ish, or something we should think of as something to look forward to nearer the end of the year? (edited)
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And are queries a feature that will be added soon-ish, or something we should think of as something to look forward to nearer the end of the year? (edited)
Rather soonish ๐Ÿ™‚
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Rather soonish ๐Ÿ™‚
boonikad9300 5/3/2023 1:53 AM
๐Ÿ”ฅ Everyday I'm thinking, smart queries would make my Capacties life so much easier ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿš€
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๐Ÿ”ฅ Everyday I'm thinking, smart queries would make my Capacties life so much easier ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿš€
Same! The speed of development on this app is already so impressive, but when every feature added is such a game changer, it is difficult not to continuously keep waiting for the next big one!
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Is there a way to quickly close the right and left sidebars as well as the left object list sidebar? The use case would be to create a "focus mode" without distraction when writing.
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Is there a way to quickly close the right and left sidebars as well as the left object list sidebar? The use case would be to create a "focus mode" without distraction when writing.
though I like the idea, the shortcuts are pretty quick to slap real fast in practice
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Unfortunately another thing that doesn't seem to translate to iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard. No big deal, I can tap or click!
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oh interesting. Ya I know I mentioned someplace it would be nice to have customizable hotkeys
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lachopower 5/8/2023 4:25 AM
Is there a way to figure out which objects are in collections and which arenโ€™t?
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Is there a way to figure out which objects are in collections and which arenโ€™t?
Will be possible with queries soon ๐Ÿ™‚
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I'm using the markdownload extension to copy web articles and save into Capacities. Any better ways to get content IN? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdownload-markdown-web/pcmpcfapbekmbjjkdalcgopdkipoggdi
This extension works like a web clipper, but it downloads articles in markdown format.
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I'm using the markdownload extension to copy web articles and save into Capacities. Any better ways to get content IN? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdownload-markdown-web/pcmpcfapbekmbjjkdalcgopdkipoggdi
actually, copy & paste work amazingly well for me so far. โ€“ not only brings in the images, but also lets you finetune the content selection ;-D โ€“ what I really (would) like here, is a 'clean' way to clip, w/o the noise of advertisements etc. working via Insta- or other RIL-apps, or DevonThink allows this. even Bear is very very good in doing this...
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๐š–๐š˜๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŠ-๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŠ๐š— 5/18/2023 8:27 AM
I imagine something like "Save to Notion" with database and field mapping templates would be ideal? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-notion/ldmmifpegigmeammaeckplhnjbbpccmm
Save the Web to Notion
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Would need to work with their API, which I don't believe they have a public dev one yet, though?
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Is there a way to toggle between tabs?
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Is there a way to toggle between tabs?
In the desktop app yes, same shortcut as in your browser :9
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In the desktop app yes, same shortcut as in your browser :9
In my browser, it's CMD+ALT+LEFT/RIGHT or CMD+SHIFT+[ / ]. What am I missing?
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There's some shortcuts that never seem to work for me, like pining and sharing pages ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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๐š–๐š˜๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŠ-๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŠ๐š— 5/18/2023 11:58 AM
yeah, I'm not finding the travel between open tabs shortcuts working, just the back and forward which are CMD+L/R
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on Mac desktop app
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Try CTRL-TAB.
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Works on windows, but not Mac because CMD-Tab is for window switching I forgot Mac also uses CTRL (edited)
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I'm primarily a windows gal so my keyboard when connected to my work mac laptop switches the keys... I didn't think to use that combination lol
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Hey gang! Do you have any ideas on how to use projects in capacities!
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what do you mean by projects? You mean Spaces?
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Good question @Abdullah - I think you could start with Collections, but I think that wouldn't work if your collection included multiple file types - so might be worth just putting everything into one page and linking from it
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Hey gang! Do you have any ideas on how to use projects in capacities!
Iโ€™d have a project object to plan and track project status and then also have a corresponding tag (a property in the project object called โ€œcorresponding tagโ€) used to pull together project related items from other objects. Clicking on the project tag would you show you everything related to that project in a way that can be filtered sorted and viewed differently if you need. (edited)
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Iโ€™d have a project object to plan and track project status and then also have a corresponding tag (a property in the project object called โ€œcorresponding tagโ€) used to pull together project related items from other objects. Clicking on the project tag would you show you everything related to that project in a way that can be filtered sorted and viewed differently if you need. (edited)
Oh thank you! I really like this structure, did you talk about the projects in your course!
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Oh thank you! I really like this structure, did you talk about the projects in your course!
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I bought her course when the discount was announced, there's a PARA (Project, Areas, Resources, Archive) section in advanced.
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Yep as @𝚖𝚘𝚌𝚑𝚊-𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗 said below ๐Ÿ™‚
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How does everyone do their tags? Do you do Capitalized, all caps, camelCase, underline, hyphenated, or a mix?
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I find tags in Capacities way less finnicky than Obsidian in terms of format so I just do plain capitals and spaces for multi-word tags. Nothing fancy
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Oh thank you! I really like this structure, did you talk about the projects in your course!
Karen Tucker 5/21/2023 9:19 AM
I just did @pkmbeth's course and it's great! Totally saved me figuring out a bunch of stuff. Totally worth it!
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How does everyone do their tags? Do you do Capitalized, all caps, camelCase, underline, hyphenated, or a mix?
Karen Tucker 5/21/2023 9:21 AM
I do no caps and spaces. Although I read in a comment somewhere in here that nested tags might be coming (from Steffen) soonish so I started doing slashes for subcategories (recipes/household).
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Iโ€™d have a project object to plan and track project status and then also have a corresponding tag (a property in the project object called โ€œcorresponding tagโ€) used to pull together project related items from other objects. Clicking on the project tag would you show you everything related to that project in a way that can be filtered sorted and viewed differently if you need. (edited)
So a project and a tag named the same?
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So a project and a tag named the same?
Karen Tucker 5/21/2023 6:48 PM
Yes, because the project would be (presumably) under a Projects object, and you would want one tag to be able to pull everything related to it from the entire space. (all other Objects) Does that make sense?
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Yes! Just wanted to be sure I understood
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๐š–๐š˜๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŠ-๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŠ๐š— 5/21/2023 7:26 PM
would be nice if there was a way to organize the backlinks like the tags... :x
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Yes, because the project would be (presumably) under a Projects object, and you would want one tag to be able to pull everything related to it from the entire space. (all other Objects) Does that make sense?
Exactly this!!
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I just did @pkmbeth's course and it's great! Totally saved me figuring out a bunch of stuff. Totally worth it!
Thank you so much!!
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at least for the dates
Karen Tucker 5/23/2023 11:31 AM
I was just wondering about this and hadn't gotten around to trying.
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I was just wondering about this and hadn't gotten around to trying.
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it works. :3 This is what I use: {date:YYYY-MM-DD ddd}
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Shows up as 2023-05-23 Tue for today
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unfortunately not useable for other properties
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Will probably use something similar for other logs, but it makes logs super convenient (will be even more convenient with default object templates)
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it works. :3 This is what I use: {date:YYYY-MM-DD ddd}
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That's perfect! It's basically the exact format I use for my Daily Log so that it sorts chronologically. Whoop whoop.
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Little tip: the object doesn't have to be name and plural of the name. You can use it more creatively. I have a type called Room and the plural is House. I use it to keep track of various projects around the house.
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Little tip: the object doesn't have to be name and plural of the name. You can use it more creatively. I have a type called Room and the plural is House. I use it to keep track of various projects around the house.
hm. interesting. are you saying it works lile an alias? โ€“ how would that behave e.g. in search & other basic operations...? ๐Ÿค”
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๐š–๐š˜๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŠ-๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŠ๐š— 5/23/2023 6:59 PM
Thats pretty useful, so it could be the things that a single object is made up of. A simpler example might be: Journal Entries, but the "plural" is Journal. Or it could be Organ > Body?
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Little tip: the object doesn't have to be name and plural of the name. You can use it more creatively. I have a type called Room and the plural is House. I use it to keep track of various projects around the house.
what happens when multiple types have the same plural? If I'm running a TTRPG and I have types for Players and NPCs and both have plural of "Characters", would that work for an example? (edited)
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what happens when multiple types have the same plural? If I'm running a TTRPG and I have types for Players and NPCs and both have plural of "Characters", would that work for an example? (edited)
Hmm, I really couldnt say. It's not something I've tried
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might tinker with that later. If that works well that'd sure be one dynamite feature
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Iโ€™d have a project object to plan and track project status and then also have a corresponding tag (a property in the project object called โ€œcorresponding tagโ€) used to pull together project related items from other objects. Clicking on the project tag would you show you everything related to that project in a way that can be filtered sorted and viewed differently if you need. (edited)
So you just have the tag in the main Properties section, and then view stuff by clicking through it? Currently I've been adding a Project Property to other Objects, to have them appear as Backlinks, but doing the tags way might be more elegant.
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Still trying to figure out the best way to deal with Projects/tags/backlinks
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So you just have the tag in the main Properties section, and then view stuff by clicking through it? Currently I've been adding a Project Property to other Objects, to have them appear as Backlinks, but doing the tags way might be more elegant.
Yeah exactly that. I just find it easier to work with info from the different views/filter/sort perspective that the tags give you rather than a list of back links at the bottom of the project page
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Yeah exactly that. I just find it easier to work with info from the different views/filter/sort perspective that the tags give you rather than a list of back links at the bottom of the project page
Thanks. Yeah, I'm already finding that Backlinks are getting a bit unwieldily, and I've only got a handful so far!
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Andrew Cetinic 5/30/2023 12:21 AM
This is cool, but can you force templates to be used for certain content types? not sure why I would need to create a meeting without using a template, or a default template
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This is cool, but can you force templates to be used for certain content types? not sure why I would need to create a meeting without using a template, or a default template
boonikad9300 5/30/2023 1:12 AM
You can mark a template as default through the star button
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You can mark a template as default through the star button
Andrew Cetinic 5/30/2023 1:12 AM
Ahh)) hidden gem. Iโ€™ll try
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Ahh)) hidden gem. Iโ€™ll try
boonikad9300 5/30/2023 1:14 AM
๐Ÿ‘ The starred template gets automatically applied when you click inside a empty object btw (edited)
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๐Ÿ‘ The starred template gets automatically applied when you click inside a empty object btw (edited)
Andrew Cetinic 5/30/2023 1:28 AM
I dont see where the star button is
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ahh looks like this only works for daily notes?
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I dont see where the star button is
@Steffen - Are there plans to bring this feature to custom object types ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿผ
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@Steffen - Are there plans to bring this feature to custom object types ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿผ
We'll discuss it ๐Ÿ‘
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CaninePROยฎ 5/30/2023 2:47 PM
I have video reference files stored on a NAS drive. How can I play the file from Capacities?
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Andrew Cetinic 5/31/2023 4:20 AM
Another question I have about best practices, I use this reguarly to create tasks , whch is great, but I dont see a condolidated view of tasks. I assume this is coming soon? or is there a way to do this today? Its a real blocker from using this as my daily note taker
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Another question I have about best practices, I use this reguarly to create tasks , whch is great, but I dont see a condolidated view of tasks. I assume this is coming soon? or is there a way to do this today? Its a real blocker from using this as my daily note taker
Task management is on the roadmap and coming at some point soon ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ if youโ€™re looking for a solution in the meantime, @pkmbeth came up with a way to manage tasks - it should be somewhere in the methods and workflows channel if I remember correctly
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Another question I have about best practices, I use this reguarly to create tasks , whch is great, but I dont see a condolidated view of tasks. I assume this is coming soon? or is there a way to do this today? Its a real blocker from using this as my daily note taker
Easiest option is a task tag, but if you want to assign any extra info to it such as date itโ€™s due or projects itโ€™s part of youโ€™ll have to use a task object.
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If you do cmd + e and hover over all options you see the shortcuts in action. You can also combine them, e.g. >## heading 2 + toggle
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How did y'all fit so many nifty shortcuts I stumble on by accident. /Friday offers the date of next occurring Friday (6/2). I just added a feature request it offers last friday as well
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If you do cmd + e and hover over all options you see the shortcuts in action. You can also combine them, e.g. >## heading 2 + toggle
I was pleased when I tried it and it worked.
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How did y'all fit so many nifty shortcuts I stumble on by accident. /Friday offers the date of next occurring Friday (6/2). I just added a feature request it offers last friday as well
Possible when typing "Last friday" ๐Ÿ™‚
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How did y'all fit so many nifty shortcuts I stumble on by accident. /Friday offers the date of next occurring Friday (6/2). I just added a feature request it offers last friday as well
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Did not know this I am using this now, I have been doing the date picker the entire time ๐Ÿ˜…
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I have video reference files stored on a NAS drive. How can I play the file from Capacities?
You can use Hookmark to do it if youโ€™re on a Mac.
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Mikelaaron 6/6/2023 5:46 PM
I'm a "believer" but I gotta tell you- i have no idea how to use this system. I'm making a mess- notes within notes, i'm lost when it comes to collections and objects and templates. The documentation is a bit fragmented- helpful but doesn't flow enough for me to know what i'm doing. (i've been a Logseq, Notion, Obsidian, Reflectnotes, etc user... so i've got some background in this area). Why is this so hard for me to get? ๐Ÿฅบ
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I'm a "believer" but I gotta tell you- i have no idea how to use this system. I'm making a mess- notes within notes, i'm lost when it comes to collections and objects and templates. The documentation is a bit fragmented- helpful but doesn't flow enough for me to know what i'm doing. (i've been a Logseq, Notion, Obsidian, Reflectnotes, etc user... so i've got some background in this area). Why is this so hard for me to get? ๐Ÿฅบ
I felt the same a few days back. Reading some of the threads here I am getting the hang of it. Objects is more or less what you see here in the left panel of discord. Those are your objects better known as databases I'd say. You can create from scratch or copy from the ones offered. Once there, you can go to your object properties and add you columns for 'due dates', 'last edited', 'status' etc..
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I'm a "believer" but I gotta tell you- i have no idea how to use this system. I'm making a mess- notes within notes, i'm lost when it comes to collections and objects and templates. The documentation is a bit fragmented- helpful but doesn't flow enough for me to know what i'm doing. (i've been a Logseq, Notion, Obsidian, Reflectnotes, etc user... so i've got some background in this area). Why is this so hard for me to get? ๐Ÿฅบ
frenchroll5 6/6/2023 10:18 PM
I think there is a bit of a mindset shift with Capacities and working with objects as the core element. A few days ago, I found it helpful to start a note to write things in my own words to explain the differences between Objects, Collections, Templates and Tags, as well as how I apply them within my own notes. I've shared some screenshots of that note in case helpful. I think the key is to get familiar with the different concepts and elements of Capacities, and then clarify how you would like to use these different elements to make your notebook work for you and the way you like to organise your knowledge and thoughts. This will be slightly different for everyone! I also recommend this video from @pkmbeth as a primer: https://youtu.be/VxW5WoAtCn0
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frenchroll5 6/7/2023 12:32 AM
Reflecting on this a little more, I think the most important thing is to understand the concept of Objects - they are the fundamental unit of knowledge and organisation in Capacities, and it's also what makes it quite different to other apps. If you can get your head around that, then the other pieces should flow better!
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I think there is a bit of a mindset shift with Capacities and working with objects as the core element. A few days ago, I found it helpful to start a note to write things in my own words to explain the differences between Objects, Collections, Templates and Tags, as well as how I apply them within my own notes. I've shared some screenshots of that note in case helpful. I think the key is to get familiar with the different concepts and elements of Capacities, and then clarify how you would like to use these different elements to make your notebook work for you and the way you like to organise your knowledge and thoughts. This will be slightly different for everyone! I also recommend this video from @pkmbeth as a primer: https://youtu.be/VxW5WoAtCn0
Thanks for the shout out! Everything I do has been realised through trial and error and sometimes I actually write out notes to myself about why the system isnโ€™t working and what I can do to improve (see pic๐Ÿ˜‚). Itโ€™s all a work in progress.
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Also if anyone prefers reading to watching a video, I wrote up my thoughts here : https://pkmbeth.typedream.app/all-content/structuring-capacities
I teach you how to make your life easier with digital tools, particularly Capacities.
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Also if anyone prefers reading to watching a video, I wrote up my thoughts here : https://pkmbeth.typedream.app/all-content/structuring-capacities
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This one is ๐Ÿ’ฏ !! Great advice on how to start ๐Ÿ™‚ (edited)
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This one is ๐Ÿ’ฏ !! Great advice on how to start ๐Ÿ™‚ (edited)
Thank you!
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Also if anyone prefers reading to watching a video, I wrote up my thoughts here : https://pkmbeth.typedream.app/all-content/structuring-capacities
I so appreciate that you put text form too! I learn much better that way :)
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I so appreciate that you put text form too! I learn much better that way :)
No problem! Me too i think
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Mikelaaron 6/7/2023 5:26 PM
Thank you all. I'll take a look. One thing that confuses me is using the term database- I don't see anything in Capasities that matches my concept of a database- not even in comparing it to Notion (edited)
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Thank you all. I'll take a look. One thing that confuses me is using the term database- I don't see anything in Capasities that matches my concept of a database- not even in comparing it to Notion (edited)
@pkmbeth wrote: "Also, youโ€™ll hear or see me refer to objects, content types, object types and databases. Theyโ€™re all referring to the same thing.โ€œ
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Reflecting on this a little more, I think the most important thing is to understand the concept of Objects - they are the fundamental unit of knowledge and organisation in Capacities, and it's also what makes it quite different to other apps. If you can get your head around that, then the other pieces should flow better!
Mikelaaron 6/7/2023 5:31 PM
Thank you for the help.
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Thank you all. I'll take a look. One thing that confuses me is using the term database- I don't see anything in Capasities that matches my concept of a database- not even in comparing it to Notion (edited)
I think because a lot of people come from notion, that language has carried over.
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I think because a lot of people come from notion, that language has carried over.
Mikelaaron 6/7/2023 5:41 PM
Ahh. Ok. I just need to spend more time reading and watching videos to grasp it- was hoping that with my experience with Notion that I could just jump right in. Not the case for me. Big learning curve so far
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Indeed, that is why I mentioned database since it is familiar to you coming from Noton
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Yeah it depends on how you were using Notion. In my case I dealt heavily in databases in order to relate everything together for project and knowledge management. Also coming from a tech and accounting bkground it's all databases to be xD
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Hello there! I would like to give my 2 cents about capacities and hear what you think. First and foremost I'd like to congrat the devs: the app is simply fantastic, I have tried a lot (craft, tana, notion, etc.) this seems to me the best by far. My background: literature guy, not very tech savvy, I am a heavy Obsidian user. I am thinking to switch, but it takes time since I have a ton of notes. What I love about capacities: it's simple and works (almost) perfectly out of the box. Two ideas at its core really sound with me: the "object" database and the idea of collections, which I see - maybe I'm wrong - as a sort of "supertags". Capacities is also very beautiful, and the "person" database (in the believer mode) is close to perfection. What I am missing: in Obsidian I use the LYT theme, and I really miss being able to change colors instantly just using italics/bold. This helps me emphasise words and sentences with no hassle and visually helps me understand what is most important in a note. (Also: I visually really like it). I am aware I can color words in capacities, but it takes one step to many, at least for me. I also miss the possibility to add footnotes, since I would like write academic papers in Capacities this is a crucial feature for me. I also miss the possibility to operate on docs and especially pdfs within capacities. Finally, I would like to be able to share pdfs throgh the app. To tell the truth, right now I am very undecided: I love Obsidian and I have spent a lot of time in it, but I also love Capacities very very much. It seems that its database capabilities would fit better for course preparation and also for project management (I love the differnt views). But for plain writing I do still prefer Obsidian.... Anyone in the same situation?
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Hello there! I would like to give my 2 cents about capacities and hear what you think. First and foremost I'd like to congrat the devs: the app is simply fantastic, I have tried a lot (craft, tana, notion, etc.) this seems to me the best by far. My background: literature guy, not very tech savvy, I am a heavy Obsidian user. I am thinking to switch, but it takes time since I have a ton of notes. What I love about capacities: it's simple and works (almost) perfectly out of the box. Two ideas at its core really sound with me: the "object" database and the idea of collections, which I see - maybe I'm wrong - as a sort of "supertags". Capacities is also very beautiful, and the "person" database (in the believer mode) is close to perfection. What I am missing: in Obsidian I use the LYT theme, and I really miss being able to change colors instantly just using italics/bold. This helps me emphasise words and sentences with no hassle and visually helps me understand what is most important in a note. (Also: I visually really like it). I am aware I can color words in capacities, but it takes one step to many, at least for me. I also miss the possibility to add footnotes, since I would like write academic papers in Capacities this is a crucial feature for me. I also miss the possibility to operate on docs and especially pdfs within capacities. Finally, I would like to be able to share pdfs throgh the app. To tell the truth, right now I am very undecided: I love Obsidian and I have spent a lot of time in it, but I also love Capacities very very much. It seems that its database capabilities would fit better for course preparation and also for project management (I love the differnt views). But for plain writing I do still prefer Obsidian.... Anyone in the same situation?
Hello! Iโ€™m somewhat in a similar situation, and what I have decided to do is split my use cases. I donโ€™t do any long form writing in Capacities, because I have other apps I use that I enjoy more for that purpose (iA Writer and Scrivener). I use Capacities for my PKM, including detailed literature notes etc. It just makes sense for me to use two (or more) apps that are really good at what theyโ€™re meant to be doing rather than forcing capacities to do something it doesnโ€™t do as well. I LOVE capacities and itโ€™s a major part of my workflow, just not all of it. I think you could try to use Capacities in conjunction with Obsidian and see if that works for you?
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Hi! Thanks for your reply. Yes, I was thinking to split as well. For long forms of writing (books) I used Scrivener for a while and now I am using Mellel, basically because I like to super clean interface and bookends is my reference manager of choice. I am not sure how I would really integrate Capacities and obsidian, but working on it.... ๐Ÿ™‚ Right now I am transferring my more important lit notes also in Capacities - which is also a good way to review them - and see what happens. It's weird: I'm super ambivalent right now and this thought takes up a lot of my time...
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frenchroll5 6/8/2023 3:02 AM
I am also coming from Obsidian. It's an amazing app with a fantastic community. I don't think there's a right answer, but for me I found that all the customisability of Obsidian was actually becoming a friction point for me. I spent way too long tinkering and I like how clear-cut it is to use Capacities. Similarly I moved from Scrivener for long-form writing just to plain old Pages, because I found it all too much! (edited)
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Off topic but I hadn't heard of Mellel - do you think it would work for fiction writing, or is it more targeted to academics?
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I am also coming from Obsidian. It's an amazing app with a fantastic community. I don't think there's a right answer, but for me I found that all the customisability of Obsidian was actually becoming a friction point for me. I spent way too long tinkering and I like how clear-cut it is to use Capacities. Similarly I moved from Scrivener for long-form writing just to plain old Pages, because I found it all too much! (edited)
Hi! I hear you: simplicity is a fundamental quality and - at least for me - it's easy to fall in the black-hole of infinite customisation... I did not mention price, which I take somewhat into account. Obsidian is free (I don't need the sync or publish services) while Capacities costs a bit. Regarding Mellel: academics are definitely their target. It does have a learning curve but then works very well. For me, besides the possibility to use bookends, there is the ability to create an index of names that counts the most (otherwise I have to do it manually with search and find...). Also: I believe Melle is just for the apple environment. (edited)
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Forgot about this method of creating a new entry to an object without leaving the keyboard!
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Shortcut to use your last highlight styling.. XD
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CTRL+SHIFT+H for us windows users (edited)
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Forgot about this method of creating a new entry to an object without leaving the keyboard!
Ashwath Singh 6/10/2023 12:58 PM
That is such a cool command, didn't know about that will really help make creating video ideas through the daily note much easier!
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are there any hotkeys to switch the hierarchy of text? H1, H2, H3 ..
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Michael_v_H 6/14/2023 3:47 AM
While editing: CMD + or CMD - (Mac) or Ctrl + and Ctrl - (Windows)
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found it, using hotkeys --> useful hotkeys page (y)
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Michael_v_H 6/14/2023 3:47 AM
At the start ot a block: # Space, ## Space, ### Space etc.
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While editing: CMD + or CMD - (Mac) or Ctrl + and Ctrl - (Windows)
boonikad9300 6/14/2023 4:03 AM
Cool, didn't know that! ๐Ÿ”ฅ However, seems to be some interference with the global zoom in / out command: while editing the cmd - changes the hierarchy of the block but the cmd + triggers the application zoom in function instead of triggering the hierarchy ๐Ÿค” (testing in desktop app). Edit: Aah it seems the nump pad + increases hiearchy but the other plus the zoom => @lerone seems to already spotted this ๐Ÿ‘€ -> https://capacities.io/feedback/p/increse-decrease-hierarchy-shortcut-for-macbook (edited)
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๐Ÿ’ก maybe an idea to map the hiearchy to # 1 => cmd 1, ## 2 => cmd 2, ### 3 => cmd 3 etc..? (edited)
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What is the best way to bulk import markdown fils from Obsidian? It seems like Capacities only imports one file at a time? Is this correct? And will a bulk import preserve links between files after import to capacities?
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What is the best way to bulk import markdown fils from Obsidian? It seems like Capacities only imports one file at a time? Is this correct? And will a bulk import preserve links between files after import to capacities?
IIRC bulk import was on the roadmapโ€ฆ
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IIRC bulk import was on the roadmapโ€ฆ
Thanks. Letโ€™s hope itโ€™s not delayed too long
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motheroftwo 6/21/2023 11:57 PM
Question: How do folks handle addresses in Capacities? Types of fields? Link to map?
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Question: How do folks handle addresses in Capacities? Types of fields? Link to map?
Michael_v_H 6/23/2023 6:52 AM
I would use a text property and format the address using soft line breaks (Shift-Enter). ๐Ÿ’ก
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I would use a text property and format the address using soft line breaks (Shift-Enter). ๐Ÿ’ก
Would love to have a map view. Maybe maps as a special object type. Allow addresses to be entered as an address field type and plotted onto maps.
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Would love to have a map view. Maybe maps as a special object type. Allow addresses to be entered as an address field type and plotted onto maps.
support this โ€“ in a general perspective ๐Ÿฆ… maybe also a way to vote for it ๐Ÿฑ https://capacities.io/feedback/p/make-place-a-thing-mapview-geodata-gps
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Off topic but I hadn't heard of Mellel - do you think it would work for fiction writing, or is it more targeted to academics?
I was wondering how you use Capacities for writing. Seems to me that it's made for an individualised structure - arcs, scenes, characters, locations etc - but so many possibilities about how you use the available elements. Not that I've got my head around them yet.
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Hi! I hear you: simplicity is a fundamental quality and - at least for me - it's easy to fall in the black-hole of infinite customisation... I did not mention price, which I take somewhat into account. Obsidian is free (I don't need the sync or publish services) while Capacities costs a bit. Regarding Mellel: academics are definitely their target. It does have a learning curve but then works very well. For me, besides the possibility to use bookends, there is the ability to create an index of names that counts the most (otherwise I have to do it manually with search and find...). Also: I believe Melle is just for the apple environment. (edited)
given a) the criteria (academic referencing; custom 'working indexes' โ€“ ... I assume you are talking 'story points, places, characters' here..?!) and your focus on simplicity, this might be worth a look: http://www.liquid.info/author.html โ€“ both aspects (and some more) are implemented differently but very intelligently, and it really is a liquid affair!; ...much more so than Mellel (โ€“which nevertheless wins out in solidity and typography) [also @frenchroll5 & @Dor ]
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I was wondering how you use Capacities for writing. Seems to me that it's made for an individualised structure - arcs, scenes, characters, locations etc - but so many possibilities about how you use the available elements. Not that I've got my head around them yet.
frenchroll5 6/27/2023 3:34 AM
I basically use it for anything writing-related apart from the writing itself, if that makes sense. For example:
  • I have an Object called 'Snippets' (ideas, sentences I like, cool words)
  • an Object for Quotes where I collect lines from other books I like and add them to a collection called Swipe File, tagged with a writing subtopic (e.g. Interiority, Setting, Description, Dialogue) so that if I need inspiration, I can quickly go to the experts!
  • General writing reference material (i.e. tips on writing a scene, plot devices etc.)
  • Source notes from books / courses on writing
  • Writing competitions
  • Agents I want to submit to
  • I've recently started keeping an interstitial journal for the novel I'm working on. It's helpful to log what I'm thinking through, what I'm working on, what I need to do etc. The Capacities Wall / Gallery view was the game changer for me as a lot of these type of Objects are much better suited to a 'birds eye view' (e.g. being able to scan over a wall of quotes or snippets for inspiration).
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I was wondering how you use Capacities for writing. Seems to me that it's made for an individualised structure - arcs, scenes, characters, locations etc - but so many possibilities about how you use the available elements. Not that I've got my head around them yet.
frenchroll5 6/27/2023 3:36 AM
I think there's a lot more to explore in this ... e.g. setting up a separate workspace for each writing project to track all of the story elements, like you suggest.
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I think there's a lot more to explore in this ... e.g. setting up a separate workspace for each writing project to track all of the story elements, like you suggest.
atm I'm trying to understand content types, collections, tags and how they can/ought to be used. I agree walls and galleries are great. I have a wide range of activities and am trying to understand how Capacities might fit into my workflows. Seems to be at the opposite end of the spectrum from whiteboard I noticed tag properties. Does that make them a specialised content type with extra visibility? The display techniques and content structures are the same as seen for instance in Plottr and DabbleWriter.
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given a) the criteria (academic referencing; custom 'working indexes' โ€“ ... I assume you are talking 'story points, places, characters' here..?!) and your focus on simplicity, this might be worth a look: http://www.liquid.info/author.html โ€“ both aspects (and some more) are implemented differently but very intelligently, and it really is a liquid affair!; ...much more so than Mellel (โ€“which nevertheless wins out in solidity and typography) [also @frenchroll5 & @Dor ]
After some confusion, I determined that this link is to an archived site. Author is only available for Mac, not iOS.
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After some confusion, I determined that this link is to an archived site. Author is only available for Mac, not iOS.
hey Locatino, sorry if there is confusion somewhere... for me the link works. What do you mean with 'archived site', here? Whatever the case with the http-site, certainly the project still exists, and if the webpage doesn't work for you, the AppStore will. As the OP was referencing Mellel (which doesn't have an iOS app either), I was / am assuming any further hints to MacOS universe are ok to helpful- and I never mentioned iOS. Sorry though, if doesn't work for you here. What I am getting for LiquidAuthor, though, following the iOS-appstore link, is that it is 'not available for my country'... so good news (at least hope) that it seems to possibly exist in some places on this earth as iOS... ๐Ÿ˜„
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Hi, no worries. Yes the link works but they no longer make the iOS version available. The updated link is here:
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Author is a free minimalist writing app for Mac. Itโ€™s the only word processor on the market with integrated concept mapping. Author helps you to interact with your text in ways that no other apps do, including fast citations and automatic formatting for university papers. Itโ€™s perfect for students,
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Hello! I just discovered something very useful: you can link to a collection instead of a single doc. This was great bc I have a collection of people that usually attend the same meetings so I don't have to type every single attendee every time. Good job capacities!
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Hello! I just discovered something very useful: you can link to a collection instead of a single doc. This was great bc I have a collection of people that usually attend the same meetings so I don't have to type every single attendee every time. Good job capacities!
Wow, thanks so much!
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Darkshrimp 7/5/2023 9:48 AM
anyone migrated from obsidian?
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any tips and tricks on the most painless option?
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anyone migrated from obsidian?
Hi, I come from Obsidian, even though I'm unsure yet. Right now I'm testing Capacities, but I have not migrated all my notes. Since there is no bulk import (yet), I just revise my most important notes here and there and then past and copy them from Obsidian to Capacities. Anything specific you're looking for? And how does the change feel to you? I am impressed with the database capacity and I really like the different views; writing itself still seems easier in Obsidian, and I miss the LYT layout... (edited)
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anyone migrated from obsidian?
I believe that if you want to migrate all your notes the best option is to wait for bulk import. Apparently is in the works (edited)
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I also came from Obsidian but my quantity of notes was low so I just hand-typed or imported like <10 note files that I wanted to save. The rest was junkable. I find Capacities to be much friendlier but writing and formatting is a little rough currently, I have some feedback items open on that. Working with blocks is sometimes a little finnicky compared to just an Obsidian file but it's getting there. The organization in Capacities is definitely working for me better. And in general I disliked the maintenance overhead to keep Obsidian running or the complexity of "I just want a column... why I gotta write so much code! ๐Ÿ˜ฆ "
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Darkshrimp 7/5/2023 7:14 PM
Fair enough, sounds like itโ€™ll be a manual process. I havenโ€™t started using capacities yet, just manually imported a few individual md files to try. Each of them needed manual editing to set the tags and properties. Think Iโ€™ll hold off transitioning fully until the bulk import feature is implemented.
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Has anyone ever sent in markdown files using Whatsapp? I have also copied and pasted Markdown and Capacities has picked up most of the formatting.
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Has anyone ever sent in markdown files using Whatsapp? I have also copied and pasted Markdown and Capacities has picked up most of the formatting.
If you send a markdown page it will be converted into a capacities page automatically ๐Ÿ™‚
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If you send a markdown page it will be converted into a capacities page automatically ๐Ÿ™‚
boonikad9300 7/15/2023 5:18 AM
๐Ÿคฏ easter eggsssss haha, didn't know that! Very handy to know
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anyone migrated from obsidian?
HibiscusHortensia 7/15/2023 7:17 AM
with my > 5000 Notes in Obsidian I see no simple solution, however, enabling CSV import would help a lot!
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Hii! I know It's silly, but I accidentally deleted my books content type and took 3-4 books with it - is there any way I can get them back? Thanks! ๐Ÿ™‚
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Hii! I know It's silly, but I accidentally deleted my books content type and took 3-4 books with it - is there any way I can get them back? Thanks! ๐Ÿ™‚
boonikad9300 7/15/2023 11:10 AM
Not yet, unfortunately.. However, there is a manual back-up under settings which you can use to export your content (once in a while)
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Not yet, unfortunately.. However, there is a manual back-up under settings which you can use to export your content (once in a while)
Thank you! I did the backup, but my Mac didn't recognise the file when I clicked the button to download it in the email โ˜น๏ธ
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Thank you! I did the backup, but my Mac didn't recognise the file when I clicked the button to download it in the email โ˜น๏ธ
boonikad9300 7/15/2023 11:14 AM
right+click on the button in the mail and then "save as" should work though ๐Ÿ’ก
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right+click on the button in the mail and then "save as" should work though ๐Ÿ’ก
Hmm it doesn't seem to work, I get this 'This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.' Maybe I'm missing something very obvious?
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Hello! This is pretty basic, but how do you pin content to the top of the left side bar?
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Hello! This is pretty basic, but how do you pin content to the top of the left side bar?
hfsandovalm 7/19/2023 8:30 PM
As you can see in the image. Use the top right three dots menu and Pin to Space on your object.
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As you can see in the image. Use the top right three dots menu and Pin to Space on your object.
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong page? i'm looking at all of one object type as a table atm
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thank you, btw!
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Hi, maybe I am doing something wrong - please could someone advise? - I am on MacOS 13.4 , and signed up yesterday as a believer. When I try some of the shortcuts, they don't work for me? For example, how do I open a page into a side panel, or open a page into a new tab? Also, the shortcut shft, alt, up-arrow doesn't work either - it's supposed to move a block up on the same level?
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Hi, maybe I am doing something wrong - please could someone advise? - I am on MacOS 13.4 , and signed up yesterday as a believer. When I try some of the shortcuts, they don't work for me? For example, how do I open a page into a side panel, or open a page into a new tab? Also, the shortcut shft, alt, up-arrow doesn't work either - it's supposed to move a block up on the same level?
Hi, this is weird. Thanks for sharing ๐Ÿ™‚ Are you by any chance use a windows keyboard with your mac? That might change the key mapping. Just double checked and the mentioned shortcuts work for me.
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Hi, this is weird. Thanks for sharing ๐Ÿ™‚ Are you by any chance use a windows keyboard with your mac? That might change the key mapping. Just double checked and the mentioned shortcuts work for me.
Hi, thanks for fast response ๐Ÿ™‚ I don't use any different keyboard, I'm on a standard MacBook Pro....but.. I do have many utility apps like Keyboard Maestro, swish, better snap tool, Alfred, etc etc - so I wonder if there's a conflict somewhere, I'll take a look over next couple of days to test that out, now that I know they are supposed to work. I'll get back to you if/when I find it. Thanks.
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Hi, thanks for fast response ๐Ÿ™‚ I don't use any different keyboard, I'm on a standard MacBook Pro....but.. I do have many utility apps like Keyboard Maestro, swish, better snap tool, Alfred, etc etc - so I wonder if there's a conflict somewhere, I'll take a look over next couple of days to test that out, now that I know they are supposed to work. I'll get back to you if/when I find it. Thanks.
Awesome! ๐Ÿ™‚ I assume there's a conflict somewhere
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Is there a way to embed a database view into another page with a filter? Until tasks become a default object I have a tasks datatype that I want to embed into my daily note showing all not done tasks. I assume I'm missing something, I can link to a single task just fun but I just want a list view of all of them.
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Is there a way to embed a database view into another page with a filter? Until tasks become a default object I have a tasks datatype that I want to embed into my daily note showing all not done tasks. I assume I'm missing something, I can link to a single task just fun but I just want a list view of all of them.
Possible with queries (in development atm) ๐Ÿ™‚
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Awesome, Great to know this functionality is coming and I'm not just missing something silly. And thanks for the fast response and great work on the app. I just started using it but looking forward to seeing how it grows with more data.
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Will Queries also be available in the graph view?
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like for example I have a type call organization. People have a single select field that relates to that type but there may be other data types also linked to org. When I open graph view will I beable to filter by type?
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so I could for example just see a relation of all the people associated with an org with out all the other stuff
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so I could for example just see a relation of all the people associated with an org with out all the other stuff
We have this on the list ๐Ÿ™‚
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We have this on the list ๐Ÿ™‚
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Mind sharing a screenshot? This sounds like it'd be a huge improvement to my workflow. My task management is a bit chaotic at the moment ha
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Hello, I'm sorry if it was already discussed somewhere else. I'm thinking about a way to setup the tool alignment with PARA-method. That's the basics I thought about: Object types (beyond the default): Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive. Tags: (CODE) Capture, Organize, Distill, Express. This would setup the state of the page from raw to refined, easy to track down. What do you guys think about it?
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Hello, I'm sorry if it was already discussed somewhere else. I'm thinking about a way to setup the tool alignment with PARA-method. That's the basics I thought about: Object types (beyond the default): Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive. Tags: (CODE) Capture, Organize, Distill, Express. This would setup the state of the page from raw to refined, easy to track down. What do you guys think about it?
I don't think that's how the CODE works. CODE is about the action, not the data. If I wanted to implement it, I would do it like this: Capture - Put anything that resonates without thinking where it should go. therefore, I will put everything in basic "Page" type first. Organize - when I have spare time, I move some pages from the basic "Page" type to 1 of 4 custom Object types (which are the PARA) OR I just use the PARA as tags instead of object types! Distill - I choose several objects/pages which I want to use for doing Express. and copy them to a new object type (or to other app if I do the real work in other app) Express - creating something from those chosen pages/objects. it can be an article, youtube video, novel rough draft, anything (edited)
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is there a keyboard shortcut to create a new block at the bottom of the document, or underneath the last block in the document? (edited)
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I don't think that's how the CODE works. CODE is about the action, not the data. If I wanted to implement it, I would do it like this: Capture - Put anything that resonates without thinking where it should go. therefore, I will put everything in basic "Page" type first. Organize - when I have spare time, I move some pages from the basic "Page" type to 1 of 4 custom Object types (which are the PARA) OR I just use the PARA as tags instead of object types! Distill - I choose several objects/pages which I want to use for doing Express. and copy them to a new object type (or to other app if I do the real work in other app) Express - creating something from those chosen pages/objects. it can be an article, youtube video, novel rough draft, anything (edited)
Thans bro, as this tool is so flexible as Notion we can change that setup later.
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Thans bro, as this tool is so flexible as Notion we can change that setup later.
sure, anything goes as long as it makes you productive
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Shibuya-Otoko 7/26/2023 8:06 AM
Any way to migrate from Notion?
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Any way to migrate from Notion?
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 7/26/2023 1:43 PM
This will come with the bulk import feature, to be released soon I think
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I don't think that's how the CODE works. CODE is about the action, not the data. If I wanted to implement it, I would do it like this: Capture - Put anything that resonates without thinking where it should go. therefore, I will put everything in basic "Page" type first. Organize - when I have spare time, I move some pages from the basic "Page" type to 1 of 4 custom Object types (which are the PARA) OR I just use the PARA as tags instead of object types! Distill - I choose several objects/pages which I want to use for doing Express. and copy them to a new object type (or to other app if I do the real work in other app) Express - creating something from those chosen pages/objects. it can be an article, youtube video, novel rough draft, anything (edited)
So I have been trying to wrap my head around how to actually implement PARA/CODE Second brain stuff into Cap, I started by building objects for PARA, as you said CODE is pretty much a process. However since Projects kinda fit in some A-areas since projects are deadline based. And resources is essentially your capture. But then in Capacities, I am trying to wrap my head around how to link this? Any suggestions? Mainly trying to figure out what might be useful as a tag vs. an actual link. I thought about even utilizing collections and also multi-selects as possibly Areas. Still trying to figure out a few things, but would love to hear what others are thinking if at all in line with the Second Brain, Tiago method.
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So I have been trying to wrap my head around how to actually implement PARA/CODE Second brain stuff into Cap, I started by building objects for PARA, as you said CODE is pretty much a process. However since Projects kinda fit in some A-areas since projects are deadline based. And resources is essentially your capture. But then in Capacities, I am trying to wrap my head around how to link this? Any suggestions? Mainly trying to figure out what might be useful as a tag vs. an actual link. I thought about even utilizing collections and also multi-selects as possibly Areas. Still trying to figure out a few things, but would love to hear what others are thinking if at all in line with the Second Brain, Tiago method.
@pkmbeth Touches on this in her course, Capacities Made Simple. It is linked from the official Capacities Docs. She might have other content on it as well.
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@pkmbeth Touches on this in her course, Capacities Made Simple. It is linked from the official Capacities Docs. She might have other content on it as well.
Thank You, Have watched @pkmbeth 's video's but haven't done the course yet. Which I have been contemplating, but also trying to evaluate several apps, as things have changed. I still use Logseq at one point used Remnote, so the structures are slightly different. I have even tried Reflect, but it's not quit there yet for what I am looking. I will give her course a go.
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Thank You, Have watched @pkmbeth 's video's but haven't done the course yet. Which I have been contemplating, but also trying to evaluate several apps, as things have changed. I still use Logseq at one point used Remnote, so the structures are slightly different. I have even tried Reflect, but it's not quit there yet for what I am looking. I will give her course a go.
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Happy to chat before you purchase if that would help! Just send me a message ๐Ÿ™‚
Thanks Will do
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Thank You, Have watched @pkmbeth 's video's but haven't done the course yet. Which I have been contemplating, but also trying to evaluate several apps, as things have changed. I still use Logseq at one point used Remnote, so the structures are slightly different. I have even tried Reflect, but it's not quit there yet for what I am looking. I will give her course a go.
I have done that journey of trying apps too lol
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Yup, same.
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The way I'm studying it, Archive flag could be an attribute of the object and so the other PAR from PARA.
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cough...it's a great way to procrastinate.cough
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For anyone wanting to use capacities in mobile can try their mobile web as a free alternative ๐Ÿ™ƒ
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btw, anyone has any tips or templates for creating a vacation plan โ›ฑ๏ธ
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Has anyone got any tips for adding screenshots to Capacities quickly? I take a tonne during the day and wondering about how to reduce the number of key strokes and clicks to get it into a collection / tag
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The way I'm studying it, Archive flag could be an attribute of the object and so the other PAR from PARA.
@ogait I just created a single-select within the project for the Status, like i would match to my project management system and once a project is closed/archived I would select that tag.
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Has anyone got any tips for adding screenshots to Capacities quickly? I take a tonne during the day and wondering about how to reduce the number of key strokes and clicks to get it into a collection / tag
in mobile or computer?
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cough...it's a great way to procrastinate.cough
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in mobile or computer?
Computer, mac. I have cleanshot, take a screenshot, alt tab to capacities, then I can paste into command bar as @pkmbeth told me. But I dont have a quick way of adding tags that way... Im probably saving 20+ per day atm so just wondered if im missing a trick
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Computer, mac. I have cleanshot, take a screenshot, alt tab to capacities, then I can paste into command bar as @pkmbeth told me. But I dont have a quick way of adding tags that way... Im probably saving 20+ per day atm so just wondered if im missing a trick
I paste everything in via command bar then go to object dashboard, open one image, tag that and then use the arrows on the bottom right to go through until Iโ€™ve tagged everything. It works for what I capture which doesnโ€™t need to be processed in a timely manner!
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@pkmbeth What's your backstory to the software? Was it something you just found? Or do you know the developers?
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Command bar? Did I miss something entirely?๐Ÿ’€
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Try Ctrl+P or Command+P
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Try Ctrl+P or Command+P
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@Brandon I saw some tweets that intrigued me in November and it instantly solved two issues I was having with logseq (automatically giving me properties to fill out based on content type and using the whole screen to show info, not just a list of bullet points) so I became a believer within 6 hours of testing it properly. Havenโ€™t stopped thinking about it since ๐Ÿ˜‚ (edited)
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Command bar? Did I miss something entirely?๐Ÿ’€
It makes navigation so quick and easy!!
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@ogait I just created a single-select within the project for the Status, like i would match to my project management system and once a project is closed/archived I would select that tag.
Simple but GOAT
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I didn't find any mention about developing an API for getting constant through 3o party software. Do you guys know something about it?
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Command bar? Did I miss something entirely?๐Ÿ’€
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I paste everything in via command bar then go to object dashboard, open one image, tag that and then use the arrows on the bottom right to go through until Iโ€™ve tagged everything. It works for what I capture which doesnโ€™t need to be processed in a timely manner!
what do you think about automatically opening the object after you created it via the command palette?
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boonikad9300 7/30/2023 7:01 AM
Anyone a good setup for recipes / meals? ๐Ÿ‘€
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Anyone a good setup for recipes / meals? ๐Ÿ‘€
I just made a recipe type. Didnโ€™t really do anything with properties. I have sections for ingredients and instructions.
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I'm not doing anything too fancy but here's my recipe type
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john.e.hall 7/30/2023 11:17 PM
I'm using a combination of Paprika app with capacities. Paprika great for parsing web recipes w ingredients, instructions and emailing recipe or groceries to capacities for notes, logging etc.
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I'm using a combination of Paprika app with capacities. Paprika great for parsing web recipes w ingredients, instructions and emailing recipe or groceries to capacities for notes, logging etc.
Paprika does not get the hype it deserves!
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Paprika does not get the hype it deserves!
Legit read that thinking we were talking about the cooking spice since we were discussing recipes then realized you're talking an app
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Hinako Shirai 7/31/2023 8:30 PM
Hi everyone, newbie here, and a longtime user of Notion and Obsidian I love Capacities so far (and not just because it's a shiny new thing! hahaha), I like the concept of using and categorizing 'Objects' based on its type. I am planning to move my digital database in Notion and my Personal Knowledge Management in Obsidian into Capacities, and once the Task Management is launched, I'm planning to move my Task Management in Things too, so I will just be using 1 tool only, and all in 1 'Space'. (Will my dream finally come true?) Has anybody done this? If yes, several questions: 1. In terms of database, how do I show my objects on a context? Example : I have listed all my books and games into Capacities. But what do I do if I want to see which books I've read, which books I've not read? 2. In terms of PKM, I use Links to link my thoughts/notes, and I use Tags as 'Status' (Fleeting, Literature, Permanent, MOC, etc). Can I do this setup too in Capacities?
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Hi everyone, newbie here, and a longtime user of Notion and Obsidian I love Capacities so far (and not just because it's a shiny new thing! hahaha), I like the concept of using and categorizing 'Objects' based on its type. I am planning to move my digital database in Notion and my Personal Knowledge Management in Obsidian into Capacities, and once the Task Management is launched, I'm planning to move my Task Management in Things too, so I will just be using 1 tool only, and all in 1 'Space'. (Will my dream finally come true?) Has anybody done this? If yes, several questions: 1. In terms of database, how do I show my objects on a context? Example : I have listed all my books and games into Capacities. But what do I do if I want to see which books I've read, which books I've not read? 2. In terms of PKM, I use Links to link my thoughts/notes, and I use Tags as 'Status' (Fleeting, Literature, Permanent, MOC, etc). Can I do this setup too in Capacities?
1. Until we have queries this is a little difficult. You can create collections of objects but they are just manually managed. 2. Tags and links should work as expected.
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1. Until we have queries this is a little difficult. You can create collections of objects but they are just manually managed. 2. Tags and links should work as expected.
Hinako Shirai 7/31/2023 9:15 PM
Big thanks for the reply! 1. Noted, I guess I can only move my database little by little for now, until there's a way to query the database based on the context that I want/need. 2. Noted, the only thing left is for me to try it then.
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Big thanks for the reply! 1. Noted, I guess I can only move my database little by little for now, until there's a way to query the database based on the context that I want/need. 2. Noted, the only thing left is for me to try it then.
You can actually do this, it would just be a little clunky. You would embed the "Read" tag in the dashboard you want it to appear, and then filter it down to only objects that are books.
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You can then do the same with the not read tag.
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This will hopefully get a lot easier/more intuitive when smart queries launch. ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿคž
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Hi everyone, newbie here, and a longtime user of Notion and Obsidian I love Capacities so far (and not just because it's a shiny new thing! hahaha), I like the concept of using and categorizing 'Objects' based on its type. I am planning to move my digital database in Notion and my Personal Knowledge Management in Obsidian into Capacities, and once the Task Management is launched, I'm planning to move my Task Management in Things too, so I will just be using 1 tool only, and all in 1 'Space'. (Will my dream finally come true?) Has anybody done this? If yes, several questions: 1. In terms of database, how do I show my objects on a context? Example : I have listed all my books and games into Capacities. But what do I do if I want to see which books I've read, which books I've not read? 2. In terms of PKM, I use Links to link my thoughts/notes, and I use Tags as 'Status' (Fleeting, Literature, Permanent, MOC, etc). Can I do this setup too in Capacities?
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 8/1/2023 12:31 PM
My pov: 1. Agree with Brandon, queries will be the answer in the near future, however in the meantime you could use collections for that as a temporary way to manage read vs unread, etc 2. For statuses you can use tags yes, and you could also create properties in your objects for that
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Hi everyone, newbie here, and a longtime user of Notion and Obsidian I love Capacities so far (and not just because it's a shiny new thing! hahaha), I like the concept of using and categorizing 'Objects' based on its type. I am planning to move my digital database in Notion and my Personal Knowledge Management in Obsidian into Capacities, and once the Task Management is launched, I'm planning to move my Task Management in Things too, so I will just be using 1 tool only, and all in 1 'Space'. (Will my dream finally come true?) Has anybody done this? If yes, several questions: 1. In terms of database, how do I show my objects on a context? Example : I have listed all my books and games into Capacities. But what do I do if I want to see which books I've read, which books I've not read? 2. In terms of PKM, I use Links to link my thoughts/notes, and I use Tags as 'Status' (Fleeting, Literature, Permanent, MOC, etc). Can I do this setup too in Capacities?
Marking as read/played is really easy to see using the checkbox property. Then all you need to do is filter it in the Book objects (edited)
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Or you can make a collection specifically for that
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Hinako Shirai 8/2/2023 12:05 AM
Thank you very much for the reply and information! I see, so I can use tag to filter objects based on the context that I want, then to make it as a 'Collection' I seeee, so I can use properties as a status too, instead of Tags Based on this, I think I can imagine how it will look like for my PKM and Digital Database, I will try it tonight!
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@Steffen we should pin @pkmbeth 's content too ๐Ÿ™‚
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Anyone a good setup for recipes / meals? ๐Ÿ‘€
I have it for my camping trip, with a lot of one pot recipes. Most of them from two books, so I have 3 properties:
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When I place also an image into the text
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do we have research and replace function ? ๐Ÿ™‚
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do we have research and replace function ? ๐Ÿ™‚
I found this via a simple search here ๐Ÿ˜‰ (...and in my memory box) https://capacities.canny.io/feedback/p/missing-search-and-replace ... Canny search is always worth it; as is a search here ๐Ÿ˜‰
I'm new but it seems odd that I can't seem to find any search/replace function. Is it missing or am I missing it?
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Hinako Shirai 8/15/2023 9:15 PM
Hi, anybody has a tip on how you set up your โ€˜Travelโ€™ in Capacities? In Notion, I have a database of Country, Activities, Photography Spots, and Things to Buy. How would you go or suggest I do this in Capacities?
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Hey there, does anybody know how I can add these object selectors in my today view?
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Or how I could change them?
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Hi, anybody has a tip on how you set up your โ€˜Travelโ€™ in Capacities? In Notion, I have a database of Country, Activities, Photography Spots, and Things to Buy. How would you go or suggest I do this in Capacities?
Each of them sounds like an object type.
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Hey there, does anybody know how I can add these object selectors in my today view?
These auto-populate when any object has a date type property in it
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clicking one just creates an object of that type and populates the date field with whatever the date is of the "day view" you're on (edited)
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Hi, anybody has a tip on how you set up your โ€˜Travelโ€™ in Capacities? In Notion, I have a database of Country, Activities, Photography Spots, and Things to Buy. How would you go or suggest I do this in Capacities?
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 8/16/2023 11:24 AM
For this I have created a "Trips" object type (this is for my business travels), with dates as properties, and a template as shown in the screenshot, with:
  • a packing list (this is the embed of a separate page which has a list of checkboxes, as I usually pack the same stuff when I travel, so I reuse it each time)
  • sections to prepare my trip (who I want to meet, stuff to prepare, etc)
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I made a template for my daily journal. Now I ask myself if there is a way to make the title automatically the actual date?
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I made a template for my daily journal. Now I ask myself if there is a way to make the title automatically the actual date?
I have thought about that too - but I like to give my journal entries a theme name - and picture. Why not use the Daily Note as your journal? You can use the tag #journal at the block level if you only want some of the note to be a journal entry.
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I made a template for my daily journal. Now I ask myself if there is a way to make the title automatically the actual date?
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Hi, anybody has a tip on how you set up your โ€˜Travelโ€™ in Capacities? In Notion, I have a database of Country, Activities, Photography Spots, and Things to Buy. How would you go or suggest I do this in Capacities?
I have a database with places and a collection for my next journey. The entries has a โ€œplan to visitโ€ date, so I have sorted the places by this date. Of course spots to photograph are a section on the page. Hikes at that place are linked from weblinks, most of them are on komoot. Packing lists are simple pages with a lot of [] entries. Each page, as well as the weblinks ate tagged with my journey. At the end I have one big event entry in my events database that works like a map of content. Information about the travel route links to all my places. The packing lists, recipes for camping cooking, and at the end the list of places are linked into that event page.
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Does anyone use Capacities as a knowledge base for work? I'm curious to hear what objects you have and how you organize your setup.
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Does anyone use Capacities as a knowledge base for work? I'm curious to hear what objects you have and how you organize your setup.
davepatrick 8/22/2023 5:29 PM
I use it for work. I am mainly tracking projects, including statuses, meetings, updates, important documents, etc. I also use it for note taking and will eventually use it to store knowledge about systems, processes, and people at work. Right now I just have objects for Updates, Projects, and Notes. I am working on MOC's for projects. I use tags for project status and categories.
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Does anyone use Capacities as a knowledge base for work? I'm curious to hear what objects you have and how you organize your setup.
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I use it for work. I am mainly tracking projects, including statuses, meetings, updates, important documents, etc. I also use it for note taking and will eventually use it to store knowledge about systems, processes, and people at work. Right now I just have objects for Updates, Projects, and Notes. I am working on MOC's for projects. I use tags for project status and categories.
Does this man you are keeping all these areas in one space? Or, if you separate the spaces: what is your approach?
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I use it for work. I am mainly tracking projects, including statuses, meetings, updates, important documents, etc. I also use it for note taking and will eventually use it to store knowledge about systems, processes, and people at work. Right now I just have objects for Updates, Projects, and Notes. I am working on MOC's for projects. I use tags for project status and categories.
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 8/23/2023 3:42 AM
Yes I also use Capacities for work, a LOT! In replacement of OneNote. I use it a lot for meetings (with 2 templates, see screenshots), for my 1:1s, to take notes on projects and customers, to log interesting articles on management & business ("insights" collection) and to plan business trips (to note who I want to meet, what to prepare, my packing list, etc) All of this is in a dedicated space, separated from my Personal one, as there are no links between the 2 (in my case) My feedback: it's going GREAT, the main benefit since I use Capacities for work is that the info I need surfaces naturally because I can create more links about relevant stuff and find info much more easily - ex: when I speak to someone I instantly see what I need to talk to them about regarding other projects because that person is tagged in project notes. I mostly use tags & backlinks, to create dynamic links and avoid the old-fashioned information redundancy. I also have a "todo" tag for my actions, it works ok for now (I go to the tag view in 'embed' mode, and scroll through the actions). The visualusation has it limitations (ex: I can't sort by priority, even though I could to that with slashed tags I guess), but I assume that when task management will come to CAP, then it'll get better (and I also use ClickUp extensively for work todo's) Last comment: I like to keep things simple, so I try not to create too many objects and tags, so that things remain fluid and I don't have to think too much about where to put things, how to tag them, etc. (edited)
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Yes I also use Capacities for work, a LOT! In replacement of OneNote. I use it a lot for meetings (with 2 templates, see screenshots), for my 1:1s, to take notes on projects and customers, to log interesting articles on management & business ("insights" collection) and to plan business trips (to note who I want to meet, what to prepare, my packing list, etc) All of this is in a dedicated space, separated from my Personal one, as there are no links between the 2 (in my case) My feedback: it's going GREAT, the main benefit since I use Capacities for work is that the info I need surfaces naturally because I can create more links about relevant stuff and find info much more easily - ex: when I speak to someone I instantly see what I need to talk to them about regarding other projects because that person is tagged in project notes. I mostly use tags & backlinks, to create dynamic links and avoid the old-fashioned information redundancy. I also have a "todo" tag for my actions, it works ok for now (I go to the tag view in 'embed' mode, and scroll through the actions). The visualusation has it limitations (ex: I can't sort by priority, even though I could to that with slashed tags I guess), but I assume that when task management will come to CAP, then it'll get better (and I also use ClickUp extensively for work todo's) Last comment: I like to keep things simple, so I try not to create too many objects and tags, so that things remain fluid and I don't have to think too much about where to put things, how to tag them, etc. (edited)
Really inspiring! I was thinking I could create a decisions object and have a log of our teams major decisions (we work with systems that we change quite often, and it's good to know when and why we made a change)
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Really inspiring! I was thinking I could create a decisions object and have a log of our teams major decisions (we work with systems that we change quite often, and it's good to know when and why we made a change)
... I think the great thing about CAP is configurability of objects. so, as its philosophy sets off with treating everything that is a meaningful category to you + your way of relating to 'things' around as 'object type', I actually make free use of that. I make whatever I associate with a piece of information as basic category an object (ideas, leads, preferred terms...) this falls on the other end of such a minimal strategy as @nicolas67🥨โ›ต🛠🎵 follows. and he described well the advantages of that kind of approach (potentially staying away from decision trembling & micro-frictions). ... just saying, the other end works as well (for me). if its intuitive (practical) to you, it works. its one of Capacities great benefits that it wraps around everyday categories, whatever they are โ€“ and offers myriads of ways of tying them together on top of that. so, I think everyone just has to find his / her 'categorical comfort zone' somewhere btw minimal & maximal... + this is very much a personal style thing. it's also easy to experiment and feel out in practice, as CAP allows for very easy conversion (i.e. later consolidation / differentiation) of object types. ... so, there is nothing to lose in trying... ๐ŸŒฑ (edited)
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Really inspiring! I was thinking I could create a decisions object and have a log of our teams major decisions (we work with systems that we change quite often, and it's good to know when and why we made a change)
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 8/23/2023 8:12 AM
you could also use inline tags for that, and then pull up the "tag" view to review all recent decisions or changes: it will display only the lines concerned As @lerone mentioned it's good to testi various ways of doing things until you find what's right for you
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nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต
you could also use inline tags for that, and then pull up the "tag" view to review all recent decisions or changes: it will display only the lines concerned As @lerone mentioned it's good to testi various ways of doing things until you find what's right for you
Sounds interesting! Do you happen to have an example or guide to explain how this is done? I'm quite new to Capacities, so I only know the basics. I'm testing it out by putting my small work obsidian vault into capacities instead.
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nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 8/23/2023 8:17 AM
see here in "tags in text" and "explore tags" https://docs.capacities.io/tutorials/tags#tags-in-text If I have the time later I'll see if I can show you more
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Does anyone use Capacities as a knowledge base for work? I'm curious to hear what objects you have and how you organize your setup.
Yes, with an own space for Work. I use meeting, people (my colleagues I work with in meetings), products with collections for the different product types. And a weekly, I write every Friday! Fleeting Notes and Zettelkasten for my research work.
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This is how I've organized my work workspace so far. It's a good exercise to think about what I want to get out of this system, and I don't know yet, except that I have procedures and how to's that are done rarely, so its good to have them documented ๐Ÿ™‚
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Have you noticed that you can embed Google Docs and work on those files directly from Capacities now? I love it. I can combine notes and documents, whatever I need. This is something that makes Capacities wonderful for my work. Thank you!!
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nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 8/29/2023 8:55 AM
Did you know that double-clicking a tab closes it? just found out this handy little hidden feature by accident ๐Ÿ™‚
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Have you noticed that you can embed Google Docs and work on those files directly from Capacities now? I love it. I can combine notes and documents, whatever I need. This is something that makes Capacities wonderful for my work. Thank you!!
This makes me imagine a future where the + menu to create an object offers "Google Doc/Sheet/Etc." as part of the selection menu and the account settings could have stored Google Cloud credentials to create and manage that file for you.
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This makes me imagine a future where the + menu to create an object offers "Google Doc/Sheet/Etc." as part of the selection menu and the account settings could have stored Google Cloud credentials to create and manage that file for you.
Deleted User 8/29/2023 5:21 PM
That would be very nice. Until then, I'm happy cutting and pasting. It's still so much better than only having links to my documents, as I did with Trello and Evernote. I have to work in Google Docs and now I can really organize my work.
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how do I add calendar?
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It's not a Calendar itself. You need to create a Daily Note first to be able to see it in that view - https://docs.capacities.io/reference/dates-and-daily-notes (edited)
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okay thanks
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AMB1305
Have you noticed that you can embed Google Docs and work on those files directly from Capacities now? I love it. I can combine notes and documents, whatever I need. This is something that makes Capacities wonderful for my work. Thank you!!
QuesadaGrande 8/31/2023 4:51 AM
Could you please explain me how to do this? It doesn't work for me. Always get an error "403 no access"
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Could you please explain me how to do this? It doesn't work for me. Always get an error "403 no access"
Do you open Cap in chrome or..?
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Could you please explain me how to do this? It doesn't work for me. Always get an error "403 no access"
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 8/31/2023 5:36 AM
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Is there a way to hide the empty white box on cards with no cover image?
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Is there a way to hide the empty white box on cards with no cover image?
boonikad9300 8/31/2023 10:31 AM
hide the content preview under customise card view i think that's what you mean / want? ๐Ÿ™‚
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QuesadaGrande 8/31/2023 11:52 AM
Thanks a lot this is awesome!!
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hide the content preview under customise card view i think that's what you mean / want? ๐Ÿ™‚
Yep, thank you!!
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Deleted User 8/31/2023 1:00 PM
Is there a way to reduce the size of the last column of a multi-column block (3 columns)? I can resize the first 2, but the 3rd I cannot unless I create a 4th column - and then I can't resize the 4th one. Also, I wish there was an easier way than trying to find the right spot on the block until I get the right cursor to make the change - but I do like that the number indicating the size of the column is displayed. It's a nice feature, but I wonder if there's a trick I'm missing. Thanks.
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Do you open Cap in chrome or..?
Deleted User 8/31/2023 2:47 PM
You have to be in chrome for the google docs embed to work so you can edit your docs from Capacities.
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Is there a way to reduce the size of the last column of a multi-column block (3 columns)? I can resize the first 2, but the 3rd I cannot unless I create a 4th column - and then I can't resize the 4th one. Also, I wish there was an easier way than trying to find the right spot on the block until I get the right cursor to make the change - but I do like that the number indicating the size of the column is displayed. It's a nice feature, but I wonder if there's a trick I'm missing. Thanks.
I think you can make the 3rd column smaller by making the 2nd column wider
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I think you can make the 3rd column smaller by making the 2nd column wider
Deleted User 8/31/2023 6:00 PM
Thanks for your reply. When I tried making the second column smaller, it made the 3rd column wider - I guess the work around is just to add an extra column, so you can edit the last column you want. Hopefully there will be an easier way in the future.
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You have to be in chrome for the google docs embed to work so you can edit your docs from Capacities.
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 9/1/2023 3:45 AM
You don't need Chrome to edit a google doc/sheet from Cap - I use Edge and it works I described the how-to here: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001364765051994132/1143215092419285003 (in short: you just need to set the shared link to "can edit") + @cp9 fyi
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nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต
You don't need Chrome to edit a google doc/sheet from Cap - I use Edge and it works I described the how-to here: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001364765051994132/1143215092419285003 (in short: you just need to set the shared link to "can edit") + @cp9 fyi
I just wanted to make sure first by asking that. if he uses anything other than chrome, I was gonna tell him to set the visibility to public and "can edit". if he uses chrome, he just needs to login the google account, no need to set the visibility to public.
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Anyone manage to make a pseudo kanban
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jenniferc1023 9/3/2023 3:33 AM
Does anyone knows why some objects can be added in the daily notes and some can't? ๐Ÿ™
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Does anyone knows why some objects can be added in the daily notes and some can't? ๐Ÿ™
boonikad9300 9/3/2023 3:44 AM
Every object with a 'date' property will be visible there ๐Ÿ™‚
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Every object with a 'date' property will be visible there ๐Ÿ™‚
jenniferc1023 9/3/2023 9:53 AM
Thanks!!
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@Steffen and @Michael_v_H this ๐Ÿ‘† has been answered probably 5-6 times in the last week. I think it might nominate itself for UX improvement to help users understand why these shortcuts are here. I've answered several questions around it and Boonikad got this one but it's a pattern of not being understood.
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alessandro.naviglio 9/3/2023 12:33 PM
Does anyone know how to make "#" always create a functioning hashtag? I imported a file.md from Obsidian full of Hastags, but they are not working. Any clue? Thank you. (edited)
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Does anyone know how to make "#" always create a functioning hashtag? I imported a file.md from Obsidian full of Hastags, but they are not working. Any clue? Thank you. (edited)
boonikad9300 9/3/2023 12:38 PM
it's a bug, already in progress for a fix if i'm correct, you can check canny feedback board to be sure though! ๐Ÿ‘
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Does anyone know how to make "#" always create a functioning hashtag? I imported a file.md from Obsidian full of Hastags, but they are not working. Any clue? Thank you. (edited)
Dawnhunter 9/3/2023 4:49 PM
Feel free to upvote here: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/tags-do-not-import (edited)
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@Steffen and @Michael_v_H this ๐Ÿ‘† has been answered probably 5-6 times in the last week. I think it might nominate itself for UX improvement to help users understand why these shortcuts are here. I've answered several questions around it and Boonikad got this one but it's a pattern of not being understood.
Iโ€™m not a fan of that section. Not every object that has a date property needs to live there, definitely need a way to exclude things.
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Iโ€™m not a fan of that section. Not every object that has a date property needs to live there, definitely need a way to exclude things.
I could agree as i've intentionally stripped objects of their date property to not show it but would be ideal to have it optional alongside the setting for "Show always" and "Hide when empty" etc. to have an additional option "Show Quick Create Shortcut"
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I could agree as i've intentionally stripped objects of their date property to not show it but would be ideal to have it optional alongside the setting for "Show always" and "Hide when empty" etc. to have an additional option "Show Quick Create Shortcut"
Yeah, I'd like an option to Exclude from Quick Create or something like that. Shouldn't have to hack my properties to make it behave
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freethinkeratlarge 9/6/2023 10:22 AM
Any tips for stress free journaling? Ideally, I'd like to click somewhere, have it open the day's journal as the default so I can just start typing?
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Maybe this is a 'believer' feature?
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I also would love to be able to use this as a shopping list, with the ability to check off items when I'm at the grocery store. Any good tricks for that?
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I also would love to be able to use this as a shopping list, with the ability to check off items when I'm at the grocery store. Any good tricks for that?
Use a tag #shopping or any other spelling you like, and pin it
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I do that for "ideas" I can use the tag anywhere in Cap' and they will be gathered under the pin
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so no need to think " i need to open that specific tab" when I think about it hop hashtag
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Any tips for stress free journaling? Ideally, I'd like to click somewhere, have it open the day's journal as the default so I can just start typing?
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 9/6/2023 12:26 PM
For journaling (and any other thought or knowledge I want to capture): I use the daily note where o write spontaneously whatever comes to mind, I can paste content etc, then later I can organize the block and turn it into a ´Journalโ€™ object (I created a ´Journalโ€™ object type) using a โ€˜#โ€™ at the end of the line. I sometimes transform the block into something else depending on where it needs to go: page, projectโ€ฆ. The main idea is that the daily note is my inbox for anything knowledge or journal related More thoughts on this in an article I found a few weeks ago: https://pkmjournal.com/how-i-use-daily-notes-3270fc04ef41
A while ago, I shared my daily note template with you. In this article, I want to explain how I use my daily notes in practice. Iโ€™ve already published two articles about journaling, so I wonโ€™t diveโ€ฆ
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Hi, I am new here. Is there a way to create a Dashboard for quickly viewing information of my interest. For example, I may want to see tasks that are important or some ongoing projects. Not sure whether it has been discussed in the past. If yes, please point me to the right resource. Thanks.
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dashboards are possible but it depends how much you need from it as there's no "official" way of doing a dashboard. Here's my one example of a dashboard i was tinkering with https://discordapp.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001154104296493086/1114219309980467240
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Hi, I am new here. Is there a way to create a Dashboard for quickly viewing information of my interest. For example, I may want to see tasks that are important or some ongoing projects. Not sure whether it has been discussed in the past. If yes, please point me to the right resource. Thanks.
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 9/10/2023 3:59 PM
Hi Manick - if you use tags, then opening a tag view in itself allows to get an overview of all the content linked to the tag, you can switch that view to wall, embed or table, etc (I personally use the embed view of my « #todo » tag for a quick glance.) Then, to go further and build a full map of content, there are really nice videos from PKMBeth referenced in this forum, just search for โ€˜MOCโ€™ or posts from PKMBeth for the links to her articles & videos (edited)
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motheroftwo 9/10/2023 10:46 PM
I want to open particular capacities Objects (like a page for my soccer team) from StreamDeck. Does anyone know how I can do that?
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Is there a way to bulk edit objects? In my particular case I'm modifying a large batch of people (coworkers) and created a How we met field and want to assign them the organization (company) we met.
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Is there a way to bulk edit objects? In my particular case I'm modifying a large batch of people (coworkers) and created a How we met field and want to assign them the organization (company) we met.
hfsandovalm 9/13/2023 1:48 PM
Not right now. The team was working on it but it was delayed by other features. Theyโ€™ll be retaking it soon.
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Apologies if this has been asked before, couldn't find anything in my initial search. Is there a way to search on or filter on open to-do's? I know more fleshed out task management is being worked on for the future.
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Apologies if this has been asked before, couldn't find anything in my initial search. Is there a way to search on or filter on open to-do's? I know more fleshed out task management is being worked on for the future.
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 9/14/2023 2:22 AM
For now I believe the only way to see them all in one view is to use a todo tag, see here for an example: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001364765051994132/1150344987901448214 This allows you to gather your todos regardless of where they are in your space. It wonโ€™t necessarily filter on your « open » todos though, but that depends on how you set up and use your tags. I have created tags for « in progress » and « done » so that I can dissociate them, but I donโ€™t think thereโ€™s a way to filter the « unchecked » todo boxes if thatโ€™s what youโ€™re looking for. As you said, task management is on the roadmap so I expect all of this will be easier to manage in the near future ๐Ÿš€ (edited)
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Apologies if this has been asked before, couldn't find anything in my initial search. Is there a way to search on or filter on open to-do's? I know more fleshed out task management is being worked on for the future.
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Maharishi Pacheco 9/15/2023 12:19 PM
Is there a way to quickly select all rows and change the view format for all? Or, how can I make it so that the object's properties always shows pages, the same way (inline, line block, small card, etc)?
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Just found out that you can use Hookmark to save PDFs to Capacities from your browser without having to open Capacities first ๐Ÿคฏ (using the Hook to new capacities command)
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Just found out that you can use Hookmark to save PDFs to Capacities from your browser without having to open Capacities first ๐Ÿคฏ (using the Hook to new capacities command)
Nice! But (how) did you get the markdown link format working? As-is, it is firing up a new page, inserting a non-rendering link.
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Nice! But (how) did you get the markdown link format working? As-is, it is firing up a new page, inserting a non-rendering link.
Markdown links for the PDFs?
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Markdown links for the PDFs?
Tried again - and now it works. It had not caught the PDF directly before. Thank you!
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Deleted User 9/25/2023 3:22 PM
Anyone know what the trick is to getting an emailed URL to be created as a weblink? It is supposed to do that according to the documentation. But I only get the note and the weblink object is not created.
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Anyone know what the trick is to getting an emailed URL to be created as a weblink? It is supposed to do that according to the documentation. But I only get the note and the weblink object is not created.
I believe you can Option+click on the URL and then select "Generate Weblink"
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I believe you can Option+click on the URL and then select "Generate Weblink"
scottlawrencelawson 9/25/2023 5:43 PM
Thanks, but the documentation says it should happen automatically. Or do I read that wrong?
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I believe you can Option+click on the URL and then select "Generate Weblink"
scottlawrencelawson 9/25/2023 5:49 PM
Since I am on a Chromebook, I do not have an "Option" key, but I tried what the tooptip states, which is the ALT key and clicking a link, but that does not make a web link object either. Does this function only work in the downloadable client? I am using Capacities in the browser.
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Since I am on a Chromebook, I do not have an "Option" key, but I tried what the tooptip states, which is the ALT key and clicking a link, but that does not make a web link object either. Does this function only work in the downloadable client? I am using Capacities in the browser.
Where do you send it from? WhatsApp/Telegram? Sounds like a bug. Could you create a ticket on the feedback board (with some more details)? Thanks ๐Ÿ™
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I have an issue that renders my Capacities quite unusable. I have a page with an embedded tag, the tag is used in 5-10 other objects, so itโ€™s not too โ€œheavyโ€. However, at some point it stops loading and everything freezes. I am using capacities from the Safari browser in a M1 MacBook Air. Do you know a way to fix this? My internet is not the fastest but this should only mean that it takes longer to loadโ€ฆ (edited)
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I have an issue that renders my Capacities quite unusable. I have a page with an embedded tag, the tag is used in 5-10 other objects, so itโ€™s not too โ€œheavyโ€. However, at some point it stops loading and everything freezes. I am using capacities from the Safari browser in a M1 MacBook Air. Do you know a way to fix this? My internet is not the fastest but this should only mean that it takes longer to loadโ€ฆ (edited)
Are you sure the page in itself is not tagged with the same tag as the embedded objects?
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Are you sure the page in itself is not tagged with the same tag as the embedded objects?
This actually made me think. It was not directly tagged, but by embedding the tag, it also tags the page itself so it doesnโ€™t work! Thanks for this otherwise it would have never occurred to me ๐Ÿ˜…
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I have an issue that renders my Capacities quite unusable. I have a page with an embedded tag, the tag is used in 5-10 other objects, so itโ€™s not too โ€œheavyโ€. However, at some point it stops loading and everything freezes. I am using capacities from the Safari browser in a M1 MacBook Air. Do you know a way to fix this? My internet is not the fastest but this should only mean that it takes longer to loadโ€ฆ (edited)
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 9/28/2023 3:35 PM
This is probably a case of recursion (your page is re-referencing itself endlessly) . Itโ€™s something we discussed here a few weeks back and agreed with the devs that it is sometimes wanted (eg: with back links) and sometimes not (eg: with tags). There will probably be a change to this behavior in future releases. You can see the thread here and upvote it if your issue is the same: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/recursion-in-embeds-backlinks-and-other-references
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nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต
This is probably a case of recursion (your page is re-referencing itself endlessly) . Itโ€™s something we discussed here a few weeks back and agreed with the devs that it is sometimes wanted (eg: with back links) and sometimes not (eg: with tags). There will probably be a change to this behavior in future releases. You can see the thread here and upvote it if your issue is the same: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/recursion-in-embeds-backlinks-and-other-references
Yes, embedding a tag should not rereference the page. I like this functionality to make maps of content by embedding tags
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Yes, embedding a tag should not rereference the page. I like this functionality to make maps of content by embedding tags
nicolas67๐Ÿฅจโ›ต๐Ÿ› ๐ŸŽต 9/29/2023 4:45 AM
in the meantime you'll find a workaround here (using filters to exlude the page), it works for me: https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001364765051994132/1145674274393301102
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Just found out that you can use Hookmark to save PDFs to Capacities from your browser without having to open Capacities first ๐Ÿคฏ (using the Hook to new capacities command)
@pkmbeth - Where can we find the video you created about Hoomkark & Capacities? Thanks for your stewardship of this amazing app โค๏ธ
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@pkmbeth - Where can we find the video you created about Hoomkark & Capacities? Thanks for your stewardship of this amazing app โค๏ธ
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Capacities is the example for most of this! Will do some separate content on the Capacities channel too at some point in the near future
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Is there a windows equivalent? I've seen a few people ask but don't recall any responses. I would love to use it. (edited)
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Is there a windows equivalent? I've seen a few people ask but don't recall any responses. I would love to use it. (edited)
No there isnโ€™t!
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No there isnโ€™t!
Aw bummer. Thanks for answering.
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How can I download templates for my capacities, and import it
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How can I download templates for my capacities, and import it
Download from where?
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Internet like we do in Notion
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Internet like we do in Notion
I am not aware of places, servers, sites offering templates. I think it is too early for this.
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BostonBlack 10/4/2023 3:00 PM
Is there a way to transform objects into another object? I can accept loosing some meta, but it would be way easier than creating it new in another object
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Is there a way to transform objects into another object? I can accept loosing some meta, but it would be way easier than creating it new in another object
yes - I can't recall if you need to create the object if it doesn't already exist - but it's so simple, that it's easy to miss where it says object in the left corner of the note click on that, it will give you the option to select a different object type. You can transform any block into an object too. It's really very handy. Unlike what any other program offers, so far as I know.
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yes - I can't recall if you need to create the object if it doesn't already exist - but it's so simple, that it's easy to miss where it says object in the left corner of the note click on that, it will give you the option to select a different object type. You can transform any block into an object too. It's really very handy. Unlike what any other program offers, so far as I know.
BostonBlack 10/4/2023 3:12 PM
WOW thank you
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I never looked there. ๐Ÿ˜„ That solved so much for me. Thank you! What a great functionality, dear devs
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WOW thank you
Thanks ๐Ÿ™‚
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Quick question, and super minor, but in the screenshots of the release, I saw that their books had ratings displayed as stars. Mine juste puts a number, it's way less aesthetic. What's the trick?
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Quick question, and super minor, but in the screenshots of the release, I saw that their books had ratings displayed as stars. Mine juste puts a number, it's way less aesthetic. What's the trick?
copy this when writing the tag โญ๏ธ
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I thought so too but it only allows numbers
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Quick question, and super minor, but in the screenshots of the release, I saw that their books had ratings displayed as stars. Mine juste puts a number, it's way less aesthetic. What's the trick?
TheSunshineHome 10/5/2023 6:36 AM
You just use the emoji's
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It's the default rating property from when I created my account
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It's the default rating property from when I created my account
The property needs to be a single select to the tag object so the settings need to look like this: (edited)
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Oh alright! that makes sense! can I change the type of the current Rating of do I have to create a new one?
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Is there a way to bulk edit objects? In my particular case I'm modifying a large batch of people (coworkers) and created a How we met field and want to assign them the organization (company) we met.
Deleted User 10/5/2023 9:38 AM
Do you want to add a field to the object where you can enter that information for each person? - you can edit the object settings using the top right-hand corner menu of the content page - if there are just a few companies, you could play around with the multi-select drop-down content field, See the videos by PKM Beth. (edited)
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Oh alright! that makes sense! can I change the type of the current Rating of do I have to create a new one?
Youโ€™ll need to create a new one unless itโ€™s already a select property!
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๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™€๐Ÿง”๐Ÿปโ™€๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™€ 10/6/2023 9:12 AM
Anyone know how to default to an embedded object when creating or linking with /โ€˜s or [[]]โ€™s on a daily note, page, etc
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Anyone know how to default to an embedded object when creating or linking with /โ€˜s or [[]]โ€™s on a daily note, page, etc
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This seems like this may be a feature request but if anyone has anything Iโ€™m missing would appreciate the tip! Seems like it would be nice to have a way to choose on the fly the view type of your link or even default to a view type
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Anyone know how to default to an embedded object when creating or linking with /โ€˜s or [[]]โ€™s on a daily note, page, etc
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking - what are you trying to do? I'm curious. Thanks
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๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™€๐Ÿง”๐Ÿปโ™€๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™€ 10/6/2023 6:37 PM
I like to create tasks from my daily note so what u enter do is while typing into a daily note, I invoke the creation of a task by typing [/Task/] > [name of task]. When I follow this pattern it creates a link block by default and in order to change it to my desired state (an embedded Task object) I need to click on the three dots on the right of the link block and click on โ€œEmbedโ€. I would like to have the ability to invoke the type of link desired (embed) or have it default to creating an embedded link when I follow this pattern
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I like to create tasks from my daily note so what u enter do is while typing into a daily note, I invoke the creation of a task by typing [/Task/] > [name of task]. When I follow this pattern it creates a link block by default and in order to change it to my desired state (an embedded Task object) I need to click on the three dots on the right of the link block and click on โ€œEmbedโ€. I would like to have the ability to invoke the type of link desired (embed) or have it default to creating an embedded link when I follow this pattern
If you type the task and then write #task you should have the option to โ€œturn intoโ€ a task object and that will embed it in your page.
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I like to create tasks from my daily note so what u enter do is while typing into a daily note, I invoke the creation of a task by typing [/Task/] > [name of task]. When I follow this pattern it creates a link block by default and in order to change it to my desired state (an embedded Task object) I need to click on the three dots on the right of the link block and click on โ€œEmbedโ€. I would like to have the ability to invoke the type of link desired (embed) or have it default to creating an embedded link when I follow this pattern
as @pkmbeth explained - and I wanted to add if you hit shift as you click on the tag #task you have the option to open the tag in the side window. You can keep typing your daily note in the main window, and anything else marked with #task will be in that side window.
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BostonBlack 10/7/2023 7:02 AM
So something really heavy is haunting me since the age of my first page. Where do I find this Icon?
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So something really heavy is haunting me since the age of my first page. Where do I find this Icon?
Deleted User 10/7/2023 8:29 AM
If you ask for it on the features/feedback board they'll probably add it for you as th ey've done in the passed - I think some icons are a "believer" feature right now, though
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BostonBlack 10/7/2023 9:09 AM
I was just curious and doubting my capabilities of finding it. I dont like it and I dont want to use it.
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TonyWinyard 10/8/2023 9:48 AM
Can any of you give examples of ways you use ai in Capacities?
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Lord of Candy 10/8/2023 11:33 AM
I'm trying to do the Embed of a Google Sheet into Cap and because I have multiple logins to Google it's of course chosen the wrong one. Is there a way to switch users that someone has found?
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I'm trying to do the Embed of a Google Sheet into Cap and because I have multiple logins to Google it's of course chosen the wrong one. Is there a way to switch users that someone has found?
Deleted User 10/8/2023 11:49 AM
Maybe log out of the other Google Drives and only be logged into the one you want to embed? IDK, I've never had any problems w/ it. On Chrome, I'm logged in on a different email than I use for the files on G Drive, and it works.
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Lord of Candy 10/8/2023 11:50 AM
Yea it's probably the default first account has the access. That's usually where the denial stems from.
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Logging out of 5 accounts though and getting the stacked structure right is a pita though. ๐Ÿ˜„
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Logging out of 5 accounts though and getting the stacked structure right is a pita though. ๐Ÿ˜„
Deleted User 10/8/2023 11:53 AM
Yeah, I don't know, I'm logged into multiple accounts, email and GDrive at the same time, no issue - but I use 3, lol
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Can any of you give examples of ways you use ai in Capacities?
Chris Harman 10/9/2023 8:33 AM
I recently used it to summarize bullets. "Summarize in a 300 word article in the style of..." > This way I can spend more time quickly dumping nuance and updates into a page of bullets on a topic and less time trying to figure out which bits are important to use in a pitch/explainer. Plus i can keep all of the original thoughts and the summaries in the same page - whereas when I go to GPT I always feel like I lose track of what was mine.
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Can any of you give examples of ways you use ai in Capacities?
I use it to summarise my notes into bullet points, quick summary takeaways of articles / weblinks, and to write short descriptions for my zettel entries. Generally, it's a shortcut that lets me work faster.
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Can any of you give examples of ways you use ai in Capacities?
I use it a lot. Example: I have daily dashboard on Capacities and I use AI to generate daily affirmation for me ๐Ÿ™‚
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I use it a lot. Example: I have daily dashboard on Capacities and I use AI to generate daily affirmation for me ๐Ÿ™‚
Deleted User 10/12/2023 3:28 PM
Would love to see a screenshot of that. I'm always looking for new ideas. If there's nothing private, obv. Thanks!
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Would love to see a screenshot of that. I'm always looking for new ideas. If there's nothing private, obv. Thanks!
Sure, no problem! This is how my daily dashboard template look like. I'm experimenting with it. All texts are generated with AI (I love lots of text lol)
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Generate daily affirmation
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Generate daily affirmation
Deleted User 10/12/2023 9:18 PM
How wonderful! You've inspired me! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
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How wonderful! You've inspired me! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
You're very welcome! ๐Ÿ™‚ I too got so many ideas from this channel ๐Ÿ˜Š
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I am accumulating my screenshots ideas and other notes To my daily notes through WhatsApp. At the end of the day I organize and move to respective. Page or object or collection. It is tedious to copy and paste all those blocks to respective places manually
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Any idea how can I accomplish this effortlessly?
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They have move function in Notion as well. You can have a look there if you want to have an idea of what I am talking about.
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I am accumulating my screenshots ideas and other notes To my daily notes through WhatsApp. At the end of the day I organize and move to respective. Page or object or collection. It is tedious to copy and paste all those blocks to respective places manually
I see the problem. But are you sure you need the information โ€šphysicallyโ€˜ in โ€žanother placeโ€œ? I think the concept of having information in one โ€žplaceโ€œ is old. Isnโ€˜t the power of CAP and of many other new tools that information is linked to and fro? In other words: wouldnโ€˜t it be a solution to leave the information in the daily note, and link it to the relevant page, or through tagging, or through @ linking? Youโ€™ll find it there, then. And if something is more relevant or bigger or specific (โ€žpersonโ€œ), just transform the block into the desired object? I personally try to approach information in a โ€šnon-place_specific wayโ€™, which means not to say: this has to live โ€œhereโ€œ, but to make it APPEAR where I need to see/find it through the power of the system itself. One more positive side-effect of leaving the information where it landed is that it remains linked to the day and time I created it.
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I see the problem. But are you sure you need the information โ€šphysicallyโ€˜ in โ€žanother placeโ€œ? I think the concept of having information in one โ€žplaceโ€œ is old. Isnโ€˜t the power of CAP and of many other new tools that information is linked to and fro? In other words: wouldnโ€˜t it be a solution to leave the information in the daily note, and link it to the relevant page, or through tagging, or through @ linking? Youโ€™ll find it there, then. And if something is more relevant or bigger or specific (โ€žpersonโ€œ), just transform the block into the desired object? I personally try to approach information in a โ€šnon-place_specific wayโ€™, which means not to say: this has to live โ€œhereโ€œ, but to make it APPEAR where I need to see/find it through the power of the system itself. One more positive side-effect of leaving the information where it landed is that it remains linked to the day and time I created it.
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@Digs I had the same thought as @markus . Are u sure you need to move information? I (almost) never move stuff from my daily notes page to another page. I use tags or links to other pages and indentation to habe a nice view in the backlink section of those linked pages. OR, if a thought is well written and complete I turn it into an Zettel-Object and also leave it on the daily page as an embed. To me too the strength of apps like Capacities, logseq an so forth is not to have to make decisions about where to put stuff and still find everything where it belongs (edited)
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iraedotson@gmail.com 10/14/2023 12:59 PM
Is anyone having problems with the two-step verification? I have followed the steps, but when I exit the app, the application does not require a login when I enter it again. What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't the second layer of security work? Thanks!
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Is anyone having problems with the two-step verification? I have followed the steps, but when I exit the app, the application does not require a login when I enter it again. What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't the second layer of security work? Thanks!
Here's the link to formally document your issue and make sure the devs see it: https://capacities.io/feedback They're probably not able to read every post on the Discord server
Get an overview of requested features and ideas.
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iraedotson@gmail.com 10/15/2023 1:28 PM
Thanks!
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Is anyone having problems with the two-step verification? I have followed the steps, but when I exit the app, the application does not require a login when I enter it again. What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't the second layer of security work? Thanks!
Michael_v_H 10/17/2023 5:21 PM
The authentification is necessary when you log out or when the current authentication expires.
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iraedotson@gmail.com 10/18/2023 12:54 AM
How can I log out of the app? There is no way to log out of the app other than closing it. Is this something that needs to be examined?
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How can I log out of the app? There is no way to log out of the app other than closing it. Is this something that needs to be examined?
You can logout by clicking on the user icon in the bottom left and then "Logout". Hope that helps.
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iraedotson@gmail.com 10/18/2023 1:00 AM
I just followed your instructions and I was able to log out. However, I do not know how to activate the 2-step feature. How do I do it? Thanks!
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I just followed your instructions and I was able to log out. However, I do not know how to activate the 2-step feature. How do I do it? Thanks!
TheSunshineHome 10/18/2023 5:01 AM
it's in settings under passwords and authentication
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Hi folks! Is it possible to insert a date when adding items via Telegram or WhatsApp integration? I've tried with "test task /Sunday" but it doesn't fetch the date. Thanks
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Hi, I'm very happy with Capacities but... coming from Obsidian, I sort of miss hovering on a link and getting just a glimpse of its content. Something similar is nicely implemented in Andy Matsuschok's notes. I see that Capacities can open internal links in a half window in Capacities, but this is cumbersome and interrupts my writing&reading. Is there a chance of getting the "hover on a link to read"-function in Capacity? (edited)
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Hi, I'm very happy with Capacities but... coming from Obsidian, I sort of miss hovering on a link and getting just a glimpse of its content. Something similar is nicely implemented in Andy Matsuschok's notes. I see that Capacities can open internal links in a half window in Capacities, but this is cumbersome and interrupts my writing&reading. Is there a chance of getting the "hover on a link to read"-function in Capacity? (edited)
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funny... we just had a conversation about the right stackbar (what you call the 'half window' here https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/969304624848855050/1164821093727604787 and here https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/969304624848855050/1165243145081069608 Anyway, in the same sense as those comments, your thought is interesting in that it allows for viewing and kinkage of knowledge in various ways ๐Ÿ‘‰ why not create a ticket on the feeedback board? https://capacities.io/feedback/
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Hello together, i am an capacities newbie ๐Ÿ˜ƒ and i am coming from notion ๐Ÿ™ˆ My first impression, capacities is amazing ๐Ÿคฉ Thanks to the Team for the great job ๐Ÿค— How can i tag content-type specific? Must i do for this an extra tag-content-type-Object? I do not want to use, the normal tags. For me are the normal tags more like topics. Or have i not understand the tagging concept in capacities I notion i use this conecpt: Tags are primarily used for categorizing and filtering content, while topics are used for organizing related content and creating a knowledge base. For topics in notion i am using an extra database, so i can linking related content. Can somebody help me to understand the tagging concept in capacities ๐Ÿ™ Thanks (edited)
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Hello together, i am an capacities newbie ๐Ÿ˜ƒ and i am coming from notion ๐Ÿ™ˆ My first impression, capacities is amazing ๐Ÿคฉ Thanks to the Team for the great job ๐Ÿค— How can i tag content-type specific? Must i do for this an extra tag-content-type-Object? I do not want to use, the normal tags. For me are the normal tags more like topics. Or have i not understand the tagging concept in capacities I notion i use this conecpt: Tags are primarily used for categorizing and filtering content, while topics are used for organizing related content and creating a knowledge base. For topics in notion i am using an extra database, so i can linking related content. Can somebody help me to understand the tagging concept in capacities ๐Ÿ™ Thanks (edited)
Currently you may use Collection for that purpose. (One object can be put in multiple collections) Altho collections can't be assiged to specific columns like Tag in Notion. There was a discussion about "Label" weeks ago. It will work like Notion tag. Hopefully it will be implemented in Capacities.
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Currently you may use Collection for that purpose. (One object can be put in multiple collections) Altho collections can't be assiged to specific columns like Tag in Notion. There was a discussion about "Label" weeks ago. It will work like Notion tag. Hopefully it will be implemented in Capacities.
Thanks ๐Ÿค—, for the tip with the collection, i will try them ๐Ÿ˜‰ Yes, "Label" is for me a must have, how can i vote for this, found this not on the feedback board.
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Thanks ๐Ÿค—, for the tip with the collection, i will try them ๐Ÿ˜‰ Yes, "Label" is for me a must have, how can i vote for this, found this not on the feedback board.
not sure whether it exists in the feedback board, I only remember this conversation https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001365576314261555/1159374482725687306
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Hi, I'm very happy with Capacities but... coming from Obsidian, I sort of miss hovering on a link and getting just a glimpse of its content. Something similar is nicely implemented in Andy Matsuschok's notes. I see that Capacities can open internal links in a half window in Capacities, but this is cumbersome and interrupts my writing&reading. Is there a chance of getting the "hover on a link to read"-function in Capacity? (edited)
I would love to see a feature like this implemented!
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I feel stupid for just realizing this now. Currently in Capacities, we can't play uploaded video files. But I can just upload my videos to YouTube as Unlisted (no storage limit), and then embed them in Capacities. So I can organize them with tags and linking ๐Ÿค”
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I feel stupid for just realizing this now. Currently in Capacities, we can't play uploaded video files. But I can just upload my videos to YouTube as Unlisted (no storage limit), and then embed them in Capacities. So I can organize them with tags and linking ๐Ÿค”
... unfortunately there is no real good video hoster around for such a strategy... YT is part of the problem; and vimeo is slowly going downhill. ... at least... it kinda works... ๐Ÿฆฆ
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... unfortunately there is no real good video hoster around for such a strategy... YT is part of the problem; and vimeo is slowly going downhill. ... at least... it kinda works... ๐Ÿฆฆ
YT is part of the problem
what problem are you referring to?
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it's basically a data kraken, feeding a willfully polluted infosphere in the name of commercialising the internet... that direction. having kids I am always sad to see what has come of this early burst in 'grassroots video culture'. now, it's actually dangerous opening that door even a slit wide, for any decent soul.... i do not feel comfortable relying on it; given that. and given a history of wild, unpredictable changes in TOS, interface, and 'culture' of dissemination, financialization etc. โ€“ just my opinion. nobody has to subscribe to that, of course... ๐Ÿ˜‰ but looking at all the net-political/-ethical discussions to be had here in the CAP-forums/-community, I feel YT is pretty much 'on the other end of the spectrum' (right beside Facebook, recent Twitter & co) ... sadly it's the house of so much valuable content, in an ocean close to the tipping points of platform pollution... sigh ๐Ÿชบ (edited)
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I see, makes me sad to know there are such views about YT, as I have always loved youtube till now (Facebook too)
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I see, makes me sad to know there are such views about YT, as I have always loved youtube till now (Facebook too)
... maybe it comes from attending too much media studies... ... but as I said, being a father my experience is, it's actively psychologically dangerous; clearly to a degree that it hasn't been initially. being a fan of online video culture, and having done more than one workshop or conference, paper about the topic / with the cultural community, my views shifted over time... along with the trajectory of YT itself, I would say. I don't know how you would compare it to the 'YT' variant of 10 - 15 - 20 yes ago? ... but alongside some expectable growth of good content I see a structural & 'moral' deterioration as one main, and very obvious vector (alongside some technical improvements, like transcripts, chapters etc ... which I'd like to be supported in CAP, btw ๐Ÿ˜‰ ) and as to sadness: having been an early fan of YT, and vimeo, DailyMotion etc (for that matter), it makes me sad, how these actors get away w/ 'shifting baselines' to this kind of info & culture 'pollution' w/o being called out / held to account, and still suceeding in capitalizing / cannibalizing the original (good) impulses and perceptions of people to the max. (edited)
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... and just to give a hint on where such views stem from in the realities of platform capitalism: https://hmmdaily.com/2019/04/03/youtube-is-built-to-keep-getting-worse/
The Worst Thing We Read Yesterdayโ„ข
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not sure whether it exists in the feedback board, I only remember this conversation https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001365576314261555/1159374482725687306
Get an overview of requested features and ideas.
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... maybe it comes from attending too much media studies... ... but as I said, being a father my experience is, it's actively psychologically dangerous; clearly to a degree that it hasn't been initially. being a fan of online video culture, and having done more than one workshop or conference, paper about the topic / with the cultural community, my views shifted over time... along with the trajectory of YT itself, I would say. I don't know how you would compare it to the 'YT' variant of 10 - 15 - 20 yes ago? ... but alongside some expectable growth of good content I see a structural & 'moral' deterioration as one main, and very obvious vector (alongside some technical improvements, like transcripts, chapters etc ... which I'd like to be supported in CAP, btw ๐Ÿ˜‰ ) and as to sadness: having been an early fan of YT, and vimeo, DailyMotion etc (for that matter), it makes me sad, how these actors get away w/ 'shifting baselines' to this kind of info & culture 'pollution' w/o being called out / held to account, and still suceeding in capitalizing / cannibalizing the original (good) impulses and perceptions of people to the max. (edited)
James Bridle has written a longer article about this. I met him this spring and recorded a podcast session with him. It's not yet published, if interested, please DM me and I send you a private link. https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
Iโ€™m James Bridle. Iโ€™m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I donโ€™t wantโ€ฆ
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James Bridle has written a longer article about this. I met him this spring and recorded a podcast session with him. It's not yet published, if interested, please DM me and I send you a private link. https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
... always interested in the newest Bridle... ๐Ÿฆ‰๐Ÿฆฆ๐Ÿฟ๏ธ
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... always interested in the newest Bridle... ๐Ÿฆ‰๐Ÿฆฆ๐Ÿฟ๏ธ
Sent the links.
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Iโ€™d be interested in your podcast too
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Link sent.
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This worked so well that I just wanted to share. I've been saving weblinks into a collection called Gift Ideas. I needed a gift for a milestone birthday and I had this small trove of ideas already saved. The gift went over really well. This felt like the perfect example of information when you need it.
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Crashcourse603 10/30/2023 10:52 AM
Hello! Iโ€™ve recently started using capacities for academic research mostly, but in hopes of minimizing the number of apps in my life, I would love to use it to also track some things in my life. Specifically, I want to make a habit tracker with one axis being each month (tick boxes) and the other axis being monthly bills. Any advice if itโ€™s possible?
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Kenrick - Synchronicist 10/31/2023 7:34 AM
Just found something that works very well and thought I would share. For those of you that use Devonthink, you already know that everything has its own item link. You can take that and paste it directly into Capacities and use it to find whatever you have in Devonthink works flawlessly. For that matter so too does Hookmark. I'm in seventh heaven with us.
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Just found something that works very well and thought I would share. For those of you that use Devonthink, you already know that everything has its own item link. You can take that and paste it directly into Capacities and use it to find whatever you have in Devonthink works flawlessly. For that matter so too does Hookmark. I'm in seventh heaven with us.
... same goes for TheBrain (โ€“ and Craft for that Matter) Basically, the nice thing is that all useful apps that share in the Apple URL scheme system can weave a super-organism 'app' of its own league'. It's great capacities is part of that scheme...! ๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธ๐ŸŒป๐Ÿฆฆ (edited)
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Just found something that works very well and thought I would share. For those of you that use Devonthink, you already know that everything has its own item link. You can take that and paste it directly into Capacities and use it to find whatever you have in Devonthink works flawlessly. For that matter so too does Hookmark. I'm in seventh heaven with us.
Yes, thatโ€™s great but sadly these links does not work on the mobile Version of capacities ๐Ÿ˜ฃ.
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Kenrick - Synchronicist 10/31/2023 2:52 PM
Hookmark doesn't have mobile anything yet - they say they're going to. I hope so. And checking just now, I see that Devonthink doesn't support that either. So it's not Capacities but still, it doesn't work. You're right.
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Hookmark doesn't have mobile anything yet - they say they're going to. I hope so. And checking just now, I see that Devonthink doesn't support that either. So it's not Capacities but still, it doesn't work. You're right.
Devonthink does support this. I could create the link with the desktop Version, paste it to e.g. apple notes and than sync that note to the iPhone, open the link on the phone and it opens the file on my mobile devonthink app. Thatโ€™s great. It just doesnโ€™t work from capacities mobile app. But Iโ€™m confident they will fix this โ€ฆ๐Ÿ˜… (edited)
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... same goes for TheBrain (โ€“ and Craft for that Matter) Basically, the nice thing is that all useful apps that share in the Apple URL scheme system can weave a super-organism 'app' of its own league'. It's great capacities is part of that scheme...! ๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธ๐ŸŒป๐Ÿฆฆ (edited)
This also works with Anybox.io which is similar tool to DevonTHINK, and what I personally use.
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Devonthink does support this. I could create the link with the desktop Version, paste it to e.g. apple notes and than sync that note to the iPhone, open the link on the phone and it opens the file on my mobile devonthink app. Thatโ€™s great. It just doesnโ€™t work from capacities mobile app. But Iโ€™m confident they will fix this โ€ฆ๐Ÿ˜… (edited)
Kenrick - Synchronicist 10/31/2023 7:42 PM
This is great to know. Thank you for the correction. I have learned something. I use mobile Devonthink too and really like it. So I'm thrilled to learn this. And yes, if that's the case, then I am sure Capacities will get this fixed up. (edited)
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How do you convert object types (e.g I accidentally set something up as a page object have entered some content and now want to convert that to a project object)????
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How do you convert object types (e.g I accidentally set something up as a page object have entered some content and now want to convert that to a project object)????
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Hi folks. I have a folder 'Master photographer examples' in Finder on my Mac. I use the images as references in teaching photography. The folder contains 35 sub folders for individual photographers each with around 6 sample lo res jpegs of their work. I'd like to transfer this set up into Capacities but can't find a way of doing this easily. Any suggestions you have will be appreciated! Thank you.
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Hi folks. I have a folder 'Master photographer examples' in Finder on my Mac. I use the images as references in teaching photography. The folder contains 35 sub folders for individual photographers each with around 6 sample lo res jpegs of their work. I'd like to transfer this set up into Capacities but can't find a way of doing this easily. Any suggestions you have will be appreciated! Thank you.
I think currently the best bet is to 'cooy' them to system clipboard in swathes of five, insert them in the base image object, and work them into a structure of your choice going from there. this 'bulk' copy process is the only existing 'lookalike' to batch importing at the moment, afaik. (5 is the often reported threshold, up to which 'bulk copy' seems to work; any workaround lune creating documents w/ several images included & import that, seems not to work โ€“ at least, up to now, I haven't been able to import such image-containing docs w/ images 'intact') 'bulk editing' is on the roadmap; though for some time now ๐Ÿ™ƒ. I'd expect bulk importing of media would / should be pRt of that. ... always good if you add your voice at the Canny-feedback portal. I guess searching 'bulk', 'batch', 'importing', 'images' should beimg up relevant tickets to add-on to, or vote for. if your question is also around structuring all of this in terms of an info-structure in CAP, there is lots of people here who surely can help & give options. but in that case, I'd recommend you illustrate a little more around the way you work / want to work with this knowledge repo. ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿซฐ๐Ÿฆฆ
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Thanks Lerone ๐Ÿ™‚ You are right. My underlying question is really about 'bulk importing' images. This was just an example of a number of similar situations I have. I'll check out previous tickets as you suggest. Thanks...
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@Michael_v_H I was watching your quick tour video and loved the way your capacities is setup. I really wanted to see more from your "current focus" "doing" "to do" and "design inspiration" tabs. Would you be willing to share more under the hood?
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@Michael_v_H I was watching your quick tour video and loved the way your capacities is setup. I really wanted to see more from your "current focus" "doing" "to do" and "design inspiration" tabs. Would you be willing to share more under the hood?
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I would love to see more examples of how the Capacities team is using Capacities ๐Ÿคฏ
Same haha.
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I would love to see more examples of how the Capacities team is using Capacities ๐Ÿคฏ
Hopefully this will happen soon
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Is there a way to quickly select all rows and change the view format for all? Or, how can I make it so that the object's properties always shows pages, the same way (inline, line block, small card, etc)?
Did you ever find a solution for this? Thanks!
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Did you ever find a solution for this? Thanks!
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Nope.
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Nope.
@Michael_v_H is there a way to change the view (inline, embed, link block, etc) for multiple pages at once? Thanks!
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@Michael_v_H is there a way to change the view (inline, embed, link block, etc) for multiple pages at once? Thanks!
Michael_v_H 11/9/2023 4:21 PM
Working on bulk actions at the moment, will probably not be part of the first iteration of bulk actions, but I'll put it on the list! ๐Ÿ‘ (edited)
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Working on bulk actions at the moment, will probably not be part of the first iteration of bulk actions, but I'll put it on the list! ๐Ÿ‘ (edited)
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@Michael_v_H I was watching your quick tour video and loved the way your capacities is setup. I really wanted to see more from your "current focus" "doing" "to do" and "design inspiration" tabs. Would you be willing to share more under the hood?
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I'm a new Capacities user, and enjoying it a lot. One of the things I've already run into after only a few days is how to keep the "Objects" list clean. I'm trying not to go overboard on creating dedicated objects for everything, which I'm sure will be an ongoing project as long as I use this. But since the Objects list is currently flat and we can't group/collapse (think there's a feature request about this though...?), I'm happy with this as a workaround: 1. Group your objects by some basic criteria (up to you). I chose to do Journal-ish stuff, People/orgs/locations, Events/presentations/projects, Books/articles/links/media, Tags (alone), and Pages (alone). 2. Give all items in each group a unique color. (Believer plan required for this, of course.) Colors are totally up to you, though I went with grey for pages because they're the most generic type and, therefore, conceptually boring. ๐Ÿ˜› This provides a decent visual differentiation for whatever object types you have. Until/unless we get more control over the grouping or hierarchy of object types, it works well for me. (edited)
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I'm a new Capacities user, and enjoying it a lot. One of the things I've already run into after only a few days is how to keep the "Objects" list clean. I'm trying not to go overboard on creating dedicated objects for everything, which I'm sure will be an ongoing project as long as I use this. But since the Objects list is currently flat and we can't group/collapse (think there's a feature request about this though...?), I'm happy with this as a workaround: 1. Group your objects by some basic criteria (up to you). I chose to do Journal-ish stuff, People/orgs/locations, Events/presentations/projects, Books/articles/links/media, Tags (alone), and Pages (alone). 2. Give all items in each group a unique color. (Believer plan required for this, of course.) Colors are totally up to you, though I went with grey for pages because they're the most generic type and, therefore, conceptually boring. ๐Ÿ˜› This provides a decent visual differentiation for whatever object types you have. Until/unless we get more control over the grouping or hierarchy of object types, it works well for me. (edited)
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I'm a new Capacities user, and enjoying it a lot. One of the things I've already run into after only a few days is how to keep the "Objects" list clean. I'm trying not to go overboard on creating dedicated objects for everything, which I'm sure will be an ongoing project as long as I use this. But since the Objects list is currently flat and we can't group/collapse (think there's a feature request about this though...?), I'm happy with this as a workaround: 1. Group your objects by some basic criteria (up to you). I chose to do Journal-ish stuff, People/orgs/locations, Events/presentations/projects, Books/articles/links/media, Tags (alone), and Pages (alone). 2. Give all items in each group a unique color. (Believer plan required for this, of course.) Colors are totally up to you, though I went with grey for pages because they're the most generic type and, therefore, conceptually boring. ๐Ÿ˜› This provides a decent visual differentiation for whatever object types you have. Until/unless we get more control over the grouping or hierarchy of object types, it works well for me. (edited)
I was going to use separate spaces to group some things, but I decided to group my objects by use and I employ several divider objects - objects with just lines in the title that I use for nothing else and that works well for me - I like your ideas about using colors for groups.
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I was going to use separate spaces to group some things, but I decided to group my objects by use and I employ several divider objects - objects with just lines in the title that I use for nothing else and that works well for me - I like your ideas about using colors for groups.
That's another good idea, and it definitely works better if you're using emojis instead of icons for each object since the colors don't come through nearly as well. I might try combining your trick with mine to see how it looks.
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I'm a new Capacities user, and enjoying it a lot. One of the things I've already run into after only a few days is how to keep the "Objects" list clean. I'm trying not to go overboard on creating dedicated objects for everything, which I'm sure will be an ongoing project as long as I use this. But since the Objects list is currently flat and we can't group/collapse (think there's a feature request about this though...?), I'm happy with this as a workaround: 1. Group your objects by some basic criteria (up to you). I chose to do Journal-ish stuff, People/orgs/locations, Events/presentations/projects, Books/articles/links/media, Tags (alone), and Pages (alone). 2. Give all items in each group a unique color. (Believer plan required for this, of course.) Colors are totally up to you, though I went with grey for pages because they're the most generic type and, therefore, conceptually boring. ๐Ÿ˜› This provides a decent visual differentiation for whatever object types you have. Until/unless we get more control over the grouping or hierarchy of object types, it works well for me. (edited)
After experimenting with different orders and groupings I've finally given in and decided to just sort all objects alphabetically ๐Ÿ˜„ it's not original, but it made finding the type I was looking for faster and more reliable - plus I don't have to think about where a new type should go!
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I'm a new Capacities user, and enjoying it a lot. One of the things I've already run into after only a few days is how to keep the "Objects" list clean. I'm trying not to go overboard on creating dedicated objects for everything, which I'm sure will be an ongoing project as long as I use this. But since the Objects list is currently flat and we can't group/collapse (think there's a feature request about this though...?), I'm happy with this as a workaround: 1. Group your objects by some basic criteria (up to you). I chose to do Journal-ish stuff, People/orgs/locations, Events/presentations/projects, Books/articles/links/media, Tags (alone), and Pages (alone). 2. Give all items in each group a unique color. (Believer plan required for this, of course.) Colors are totally up to you, though I went with grey for pages because they're the most generic type and, therefore, conceptually boring. ๐Ÿ˜› This provides a decent visual differentiation for whatever object types you have. Until/unless we get more control over the grouping or hierarchy of object types, it works well for me. (edited)
MartynBdoink 11/12/2023 11:02 AM
I've split my objects into in two categories; Active - objects I manually go into to add items, and passive objects. that are generated on another page. Out of interest I've ordered the two sections by number of items in each -reckoning a the ones with the most items are probably the ones I use the most. (Edit -just noticed that "People" is the wrong colour - it is in my passive section) (edited)
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Itโ€™s so interesting to see all the various ways each of us finds to address perceived limitations.
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After experimenting with different orders and groupings I've finally given in and decided to just sort all objects alphabetically ๐Ÿ˜„ it's not original, but it made finding the type I was looking for faster and more reliable - plus I don't have to think about where a new type should go!
...so, sooner or later, you'll end up sorting by Johny Decimal...๐Ÿ˜Ž
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Hi guys, quick question: I have an "author" attribute for my sources (books, articles, ...) which is pulling from my "people" object. Now, sometimes articles are written by a company without any individual author. Any ideas on how I could bridge this without just copying the companies to people? Thanks & cheers
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Hi guys, quick question: I have an "author" attribute for my sources (books, articles, ...) which is pulling from my "people" object. Now, sometimes articles are written by a company without any individual author. Any ideas on how I could bridge this without just copying the companies to people? Thanks & cheers
Michael_v_H 11/14/2023 6:47 AM
You could use a text property and just use @ to link to people and companies. Plus you can also enter arbitrary text for other edge cases or contextual info on the author.
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Hi everyone, I've tried setting something like this up but I'd like to know. is it possible to remove related tags out ?
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Hi everyone, I've tried setting something like this up but I'd like to know. is it possible to remove related tags out ?
I have this question also. Iโ€™d love a cleaner look for these types of views.
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can anyone help me compare the pros and cons of Capacities vs Notion, LarkSuite and ClickUp. I have been using 3 note-taking tools for a year
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can anyone help me compare the pros and cons of Capacities vs Notion, LarkSuite and ClickUp. I have been using 3 note-taking tools for a year
what I know is.. Notion and ClickUp are more suitable for team collaboration with their complicated and powerful features. Capacities is more personal. better at matching our thinking with convenient backlinks
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Iโ€™m having difficulty zooming in on saved images and screenshots with small text on my phone and laptop. This makes it hard to read the information. Does anyone have tips or software suggestions to improve zoom functionality for better readability?
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I have this question also. Iโ€™d love a cleaner look for these types of views.
Michael_v_H 11/15/2023 3:20 AM
Noted! โœ๏ธ
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Iโ€™m having difficulty zooming in on saved images and screenshots with small text on my phone and laptop. This makes it hard to read the information. Does anyone have tips or software suggestions to improve zoom functionality for better readability?
Michael_v_H 11/15/2023 3:23 AM
Unfortunately, zooming is on possible yet on mobile devices and the desktop app. When we go over all media object types in (probably) Q1 next year, we'll add this functionality!
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what I know is.. Notion and ClickUp are more suitable for team collaboration with their complicated and powerful features. Capacities is more personal. better at matching our thinking with convenient backlinks
How about AnyType? When I did a research, AnyType also helps us create a personal database like movie database, book reading database
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Unfortunately, zooming is on possible yet on mobile devices and the desktop app. When we go over all media object types in (probably) Q1 next year, we'll add this functionality!
When I paste an image link, image will be uploaded to Capacities or just be embedded?
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How about AnyType? When I did a research, AnyType also helps us create a personal database like movie database, book reading database
anytype is also suitable for personal. anytype vs capacities is mostly just offline vs online preference. but anytype has 1GB limit currently for another disadvantage
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Yes, so I choose Capacities for testing instead of AnyType but I see some functions in Anytype are same as Notion (I have been using Notion for years) but do not see them in Capacities
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Inline table/ database, date time remind, @now to add today with time, Add new line in table If you need, I will list all functions in Notion
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NicolaDeFilippo 11/15/2023 2:20 PM
Is possible move content from s space to another?
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Is possible move content from s space to another?
Njet.
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Inline table/ database, date time remind, @now to add today with time, Add new line in table If you need, I will list all functions in Notion
instead of @now you'd prompt /time in CAP
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Is possible move content from s space to another?
... adding to @markus who gave the substantial answer already: โ€ข you can vote & argue for this here: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/ability-to-copy-transfer-entities-to-other-spaces โ€ข some background & conceptual contextual discussion here (among other places): https://capacities.io/feedback/p/networked-notetaking-and-the-transparency-of-my-brains-capacities-sections โ€ข but this, and Markus solemn answer, actually also all pointing you to kind of digest this, on procedure (โ€“ to keep the forum effective in communication): ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1155446872132042782 ... and especially this: ๐Ÿ“ฎhttps://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/940599731439153192 โ€“ ... and after that, there will be a great helpful community at your disposal, alongside a very attentive and responsive dev-team (that is also wading in here, and nobody knows how they manage...) ๐Ÿ˜œ ๐Ÿฆฆ๐ŸŒป (edited)
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gottaluvali 11/16/2023 5:55 AM
does anybody know if the new task management feature will ever be available for non-believers users?
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does anybody know if the new task management feature will ever be available for non-believers users?
The release notes/documentation says it'll be a Pro feature
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@Michael_v_H I was watching your quick tour video and loved the way your capacities is setup. I really wanted to see more from your "current focus" "doing" "to do" and "design inspiration" tabs. Would you be willing to share more under the hood?
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Best ways to add links ? writing https:// messes up and / doesn't show inline link
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Also when i add a toggle and inside toggle content, a codeblock, then i unable to add a line after it
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Is there any way to move selected content only from one page to another page? Just the content.
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Is there any way to move selected content only from one page to another page? Just the content.
Can you elaborate ?
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Can you elaborate ?
Let's say I have 5 images in page 'A'. I want to now have 3 of them in a separate page 'B', while having the original 5 images in the page 'A' intact. (Replace images with any type of content)
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I want a shortcut. To just click on the 3 images i have in the Page 'A' and then just choosing them to be in a page 'B'. I'm aware of the manually copying the 3 images and going to another page and pasting them there.
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Is there an easy way to move a bunch of notes from one space to another? I have an entire object category I want to put into a different workspace.
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Let's say I have 5 images in page 'A'. I want to now have 3 of them in a separate page 'B', while having the original 5 images in the page 'A' intact. (Replace images with any type of content)
In the case of images, the answer is simple: on page B type /image and select the image from the image objects. Tecnical you wonโ€˜t ever โ€žmove it from page Aโ€œ, as on page A you only have the โ€šrelation to the image objectโ€˜. The image in itself lives in its โ€šImagesโ€˜ Object realm. This means you can have them appear anywhere and as many times as you want. Theyโ€˜ll always be intact. (edited)
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I want a shortcut. To just click on the 3 images i have in the Page 'A' and then just choosing them to be in a page 'B'. I'm aware of the manually copying the 3 images and going to another page and pasting them there.
You wonโ€˜t โ€žcopy the imagesโ€œ. You make them reappear referencing to them.
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Let's say I have 5 images in page 'A'. I want to now have 3 of them in a separate page 'B', while having the original 5 images in the page 'A' intact. (Replace images with any type of content)
You need to be specific. If you talk about embedded pages in Page A for exanple, you might just re-embed them on Page B.
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๐Ÿ“ฃ Just found a new trick I haven't noticed before. You can create new objects and assign a template at the same time, this works great for the media object type I talk about in a lot of my videos! If you have a book template in your media object type, type cmd U then "book" and you'll get a new media object with your book template pre-loaded! ๐Ÿคฉ I did a loom demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/695d4a2ce73946b4b08247390a33aa6b?sid=165c27fc-a1a5-4d8a-a4a5-6509c6b2b526
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Let's say I have 5 images in page 'A'. I want to now have 3 of them in a separate page 'B', while having the original 5 images in the page 'A' intact. (Replace images with any type of content)
Just use @ three times to embed/ linking 3 existed images you ve added in page A before
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@Michael_v_H I was watching your quick tour video and loved the way your capacities is setup. I really wanted to see more from your "current focus" "doing" "to do" and "design inspiration" tabs. Would you be willing to share more under the hood?
Yeah, I would love to get more information about this and how he structured it. I have been trying to figure it out but to no avail.
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Yeah, I would love to get more information about this and how he structured it. I have been trying to figure it out but to no avail.
Same. I havenโ€™t quite figured it out yet.
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NicolaDeFilippo 12/1/2023 12:51 PM
Is it possible to add a table (i need more tan two cols)?
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In this tips and tricks page, https://docs.capacities.io/tutorials/tips-and-tricks, under the heading "Creating weblinks in Capacities", there is a video, and at #3, the demonstrator posts a link and it creates like a block card or something like that. How do I replicate that?
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In this tips and tricks page, https://docs.capacities.io/tutorials/tips-and-tricks, under the heading "Creating weblinks in Capacities", there is a video, and at #3, the demonstrator posts a link and it creates like a block card or something like that. How do I replicate that?
it should either give you a panel with options for different formattings when you add a new 'weblink' object; or in some cases (like copy and paste of larger content sections) it produces a simple inline-kind of link. this you have to did turn into a weblink, and you do that by 'alt-click' + hold (as far as I remember from top of my head)
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it should either give you a panel with options for different formattings when you add a new 'weblink' object; or in some cases (like copy and paste of larger content sections) it produces a simple inline-kind of link. this you have to did turn into a weblink, and you do that by 'alt-click' + hold (as far as I remember from top of my head)
Thank you! After I post a link, I then had to 'Alt+Click" as you said, make sure to click 'Generate Weblink', and then 'Convert to Link block'. Weird that part of the video wasn't in there. Thanks again for your help!
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I'm slowly building/migrating/importing all of my content in Capacities, and one of the things I just implemented that's making me happy is this set of pinned items. Two of them are pages: one with text or links to things that I frequently need, one with a list of topics or questions that I don't want to forget about (often block-linked from journal entries, I'll research them and then either delete or turn them into more complete notes, pages, or projects). But the one I'm finding most helpful right now is that "incomplete" tag, which I add to notes, journal entries, dream logs, etc., to indicate that I've only quickly jotted down an outline or partial entry. These happen occasionally in all different areas, and in the past, it was easy for me to forget about them and never finish. This tag makes it simple for me to jump back in and complete whatever it is. (edited)
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I'm slowly building/migrating/importing all of my content in Capacities, and one of the things I just implemented that's making me happy is this set of pinned items. Two of them are pages: one with text or links to things that I frequently need, one with a list of topics or questions that I don't want to forget about (often block-linked from journal entries, I'll research them and then either delete or turn them into more complete notes, pages, or projects). But the one I'm finding most helpful right now is that "incomplete" tag, which I add to notes, journal entries, dream logs, etc., to indicate that I've only quickly jotted down an outline or partial entry. These happen occasionally in all different areas, and in the past, it was easy for me to forget about them and never finish. This tag makes it simple for me to jump back in and complete whatever it is. (edited)
VERY good hint, thank you!
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I'm slowly building/migrating/importing all of my content in Capacities, and one of the things I just implemented that's making me happy is this set of pinned items. Two of them are pages: one with text or links to things that I frequently need, one with a list of topics or questions that I don't want to forget about (often block-linked from journal entries, I'll research them and then either delete or turn them into more complete notes, pages, or projects). But the one I'm finding most helpful right now is that "incomplete" tag, which I add to notes, journal entries, dream logs, etc., to indicate that I've only quickly jotted down an outline or partial entry. These happen occasionally in all different areas, and in the past, it was easy for me to forget about them and never finish. This tag makes it simple for me to jump back in and complete whatever it is. (edited)
... absolutely! it's a great option, especially given CAP lets you pin almost everything (objects, tags, collections(!) ...) ๐Ÿชฉ ... all of this, btw, comes staggering close to also having a hierarchical quasi-folder system โ€“ alongside a versatile bookmark/quick-access one, on top of the typology+tags-system CAP offers...! ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://discord.com/channels/940596022344843336/1001363266414592122/1162588291250536519
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I'm slowly building/migrating/importing all of my content in Capacities, and one of the things I just implemented that's making me happy is this set of pinned items. Two of them are pages: one with text or links to things that I frequently need, one with a list of topics or questions that I don't want to forget about (often block-linked from journal entries, I'll research them and then either delete or turn them into more complete notes, pages, or projects). But the one I'm finding most helpful right now is that "incomplete" tag, which I add to notes, journal entries, dream logs, etc., to indicate that I've only quickly jotted down an outline or partial entry. These happen occasionally in all different areas, and in the past, it was easy for me to forget about them and never finish. This tag makes it simple for me to jump back in and complete whatever it is. (edited)
Thanks for sharing ๐Ÿš€ really great! Will copy that ๐Ÿ™‚
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I'm slowly building/migrating/importing all of my content in Capacities, and one of the things I just implemented that's making me happy is this set of pinned items. Two of them are pages: one with text or links to things that I frequently need, one with a list of topics or questions that I don't want to forget about (often block-linked from journal entries, I'll research them and then either delete or turn them into more complete notes, pages, or projects). But the one I'm finding most helpful right now is that "incomplete" tag, which I add to notes, journal entries, dream logs, etc., to indicate that I've only quickly jotted down an outline or partial entry. These happen occasionally in all different areas, and in the past, it was easy for me to forget about them and never finish. This tag makes it simple for me to jump back in and complete whatever it is. (edited)
Sinyu (=๏พŸฯ‰๏พŸ)๏พ‰ 12/14/2023 3:51 PM
I've been doing similar things except I have a pinned tag "to do".
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Now I'm trying to figure out how to save content from my phone while tagging it with the "to do" tag. I just started using Cap so I use the free version and WhatsApp to capture podcasts I listened to on Spotify. I can't figure out how to tag that properly, Docs say if I have a tag with two separate words like "to do" I just message #todo and it'll match with the existing tag but it creates a new tag "todo". Plus that doesn't tag the link it just adds a block with tags to daily notes. Is there anything I can do besides changing my "to do" tag to one word?
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what is the shortcut for the global search?
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Staxman
what is the shortcut for the global search?
Control+K or Control+P
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tiagojspacheco 12/22/2023 9:46 AM
its possible to find data on capacities with apple spotlight?
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tiagojspacheco
its possible to find data on capacities with apple spotlight?
Unfortunately not at this time. Suggest adding to the Canny Feedback Board as an official request so that it can be upvoted by other users. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ
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Unfortunately not at this time. Suggest adding to the Canny Feedback Board as an official request so that it can be upvoted by other users. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ
tiagojspacheco 12/22/2023 10:54 AM
thanks
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are we able to make images we add as an image type different sizes? Looking to adjust so it is not a huge image in a page?