IMO you might pull a few defactors from the Notion camp but to win any significant market share from the Obsidian market privacy is paramount. Highly recommend thinking about licensing a self hosted option or at least zero trust encryption before additional feature enhancements.
Agreed. I am currently paying for the Obsidian Sync. What I wouldn't wanna pay for is some AI assistant stuff and the likes, but a good, trustable sync option like obsidian has would be important.
This is very well designed and I wish them well. It reminds me throughout of the reason I abandoned Roam for Obsidian: Obsidian is local and the data format is openable and editable in any number of other apps now and in the future. I trust the Capacities team intent to keep everything secure but in a world where large corporations and governments get hacked, I prefer to own and store my data however I see fit.
The channel liked almost all the comments and left this top/most liked comment. Lol. I hope they realise that these are important points to think of. I held back because it isn't open-source & doesn't have local options.
@@jinxtrinkx5732 yeah, the cold shoulder is not a good sign 😆 seems like they consider passive data harvest an important part of their growth and/or exit strategy, a la reddit…
We need a way to do live queries, saving those queries for future reference. For instance, save all `Quotes` from a specific timeframe, and later you can visit that same query whenever you want.
Keep the videos coming Michael. Different use cases would be excellent addition too. Watching everything I can to Hone my set up in capacities. Loving the App
I've been thinking too broad, as in to move my entire system over, but I just realized that this would be really great for organizing video game development. Well in my case multiple games in a series. I was trying to do object based in NOTION, but that obviously could not work. Obsidian when I moved there at least could link things together, but wasn't that great either. Couldn't see a great holistic view for just the game.
Why use a pluging when you have everything right out of the box with Capacities? I haved used both Notion, too time consuming to create the system, and Obsidian, too many pluggins and time consuming as well 🙅♀@@Exclusifs
@@Exclusifs it has so many options that you get overwhelmed. Once you decided to stick with a setup you then find out about another plugin that you "will definitely need" and then you get sucked into a pattern of an ever changing customization loop. At least for me haha. I spent hours today wasting time installing a ton of plugins that in the long run, won't help me reach my actual goal of what I created my vault for
This is absolutely incredible. Every "second brain“ note taking app I’ve been using so far always had a free thing missing. Capacities has everything I need 😍
I wish the app had a built-in workspaces feature. For instance, I would like one capacities instance for just work and other instance for personal stuff. For instance, in this video there is a Recipes object type. That type of object might be important in my personal life but it has nothing to do at all with my work. Also, I think this video is a much better overview then their other video about Getting Started.
We do have spaces! If you click on the space name (in the very top left of your screen- in this video it's "my notebook" ) and click "home", you will see a button to create a new space. That would allow you to keep recipes and work things separate.
defiantly an interesting app. will look forward to see how it progresses. but what would be your privacy policy? will you have local files and the cloud storage with end to end encryption?
this is great. I've tried capacities and want to use it, but in a way, I can do the same (yes with more work) in notion through backlinks and databases. i saw the pro plan was released today. and i will most likely switch when the mobile apps and task management has been released.
I am just looking for an advanced digital filing cabinet with bi-directional linking and a graph view, that is less complicated than Obsidian. Sounds like too much to ask for until I see an app like this.
Looking for something similar for our team campaigns. Sadly we are not allowed to use not self hosted and it must be fully collaborative. That object feature would be a real selling point for our workflow though :|
Will there ever be ai suggestions to Connect notes (maybe Not Just INSIDE Same Tags) but also different tagged notes. This would be a Game Changer for me (and so a Tool Changer:)
Looks good, but what is the privacy like with this? If I'm to sync data between devices I'd want to make sure it's fully encrypted. Plus, is the data stored on your systems, or locally on my computer?
Here is our data protection memo docs.capacities.io/more/data-protection-memo and information on why we are not end to end encrypted docs.capacities.io/more/end-to-end-encryption
Hi Capacities, what a great tool! Actually I'm using anytype, but somehow werde ich nicht warm damit. So Capacities could be, what I'm looking for. My questions: Does it work offline as well? And how about OCR? For example if I add a scanned document or ipad scribble - does it make the text searchable? Thank you! ❤
I like the concept. But it just feels like a redesigned Notion. I'm not interested in learning another new app just for a few extra features. Hope you take this as a constructive feedback, coz I really appreciate the work you've put into building this.
Is there a way to migrate a task to the next day or next week that you had on Todo but did not finish? I routinely do this in my Bujo, but using the app to do this would prove very useful
We have a powerful search and command palette, including full text search, property search and saved AI chat search! We have some more information here about how everything works: docs.capacities.io/reference/search
There's some really interesting discussion of this in our discord channel from lots of users- worth checking that out if you haven't joined yet. We might make a blog post about it later though if that would be helpful, but there's no one way to do it!
I am trying my best to add a profile image to the People profile, but no matter what I do I cannot get it to display on the cards. I have tried to edit the settings and preferences of the card, adding image as a property (cover image) etc. but nothing works, it just stays blank. Very annoying and took me straight out of the app...
Nice, but a no go for me. For me, I need to be able to host it myself and keep the date private. Furthermore as a Software Engineer, for me it needs to be completely compatible with Markdown. Furthermore I can't help myself, but the interface just looks like a blunt ripoff from Notion with a combination of parts of Obsidian.
Was curious about this app which I had not heard about before. However in your quick tour you don't start by saying what the app is for and just dive right on in to discussing objects. Sorry, fail.
I tested it, there is no offline mode. It's a data trap, like Notion. You had a great potential, but you are self-doomed with this choice. Nowadays data ownership is mandatory. Sorry for you that you don't match this essential privacy needs.
Aren’t Data ownership and offline mode different things? You can bulk export all your notes to markdown, which just works really nice. So you own your data. Afaik they are working on an offline solution.
@@NjuJFama Nope they are not the same because if you have to do something to get your data, that means that you depend on a recurring task that need internet to be available. So if you did not backup your data every typed word, and that you lost internet, you have no access to ALL your data at any time, anywhere, so they are not yours. They are working to an offline solution, well, "Notion" did too 🤣 it was publicly announced thru their roadmap, then delayed, then the roadmap vanished... I didnot believe they will operate offline, that's a business model to trap customers to sells them cloud data parking. I would choose Anytype over Capacities.
Not bad but not good. The 3-pane interface is essential, like evernote or any file explorer. All other solutions are intellectual masturbation. No migration from evernote.
IMO you might pull a few defactors from the Notion camp but to win any significant market share from the Obsidian market privacy is paramount. Highly recommend thinking about licensing a self hosted option or at least zero trust encryption before additional feature enhancements.
Agreed. I am currently paying for the Obsidian Sync. What I wouldn't wanna pay for is some AI assistant stuff and the likes, but a good, trustable sync option like obsidian has would be important.
This is very well designed and I wish them well. It reminds me throughout of the reason I abandoned Roam for Obsidian: Obsidian is local and the data format is openable and editable in any number of other apps now and in the future. I trust the Capacities team intent to keep everything secure but in a world where large corporations and governments get hacked, I prefer to own and store my data however I see fit.
yep. that’s the only thing holding me back, otherwise it looks great
The channel liked almost all the comments and left this top/most liked comment. Lol. I hope they realise that these are important points to think of. I held back because it isn't open-source & doesn't have local options.
@@jinxtrinkx5732 yeah, the cold shoulder is not a good sign 😆 seems like they consider passive data harvest an important part of their growth and/or exit strategy, a la reddit…
Just got started on Capacities and I am blown away. You've done incredible work.
We need a way to do live queries, saving those queries for future reference. For instance, save all `Quotes` from a specific timeframe, and later you can visit that same query whenever you want.
Such a great application. I want to thank you and applaude you developers for having created this.🏆👏 I think it will help people a lot. 🙏
It is truly out-of-the-box! Thank you so much for all your hard work!
Keep the videos coming Michael. Different use cases would be excellent addition too. Watching everything I can to Hone my set up in capacities. Loving the App
I've been thinking too broad, as in to move my entire system over, but I just realized that this would be really great for organizing video game development. Well in my case multiple games in a series. I was trying to do object based in NOTION, but that obviously could not work. Obsidian when I moved there at least could link things together, but wasn't that great either. Couldn't see a great holistic view for just the game.
Why wasn’t Obsidian that great? It has a plugin for pretty much everything.
Why use a pluging when you have everything right out of the box with Capacities? I haved used both Notion, too time consuming to create the system, and Obsidian, too many pluggins and time consuming as well 🙅♀@@Exclusifs
@@Exclusifs it has so many options that you get overwhelmed. Once you decided to stick with a setup you then find out about another plugin that you "will definitely need" and then you get sucked into a pattern of an ever changing customization loop. At least for me haha. I spent hours today wasting time installing a ton of plugins that in the long run, won't help me reach my actual goal of what I created my vault for
This is absolutely incredible. Every "second brain“ note taking app I’ve been using so far always had a free thing missing. Capacities has everything I need 😍
There's no such thing as free. If it's "free" your data/content is the fee.
Congrats on being the hottest new app :) I couldn't get into notion, and now I know why. I use Capacities
I wish the app had a built-in workspaces feature. For instance, I would like one capacities instance for just work and other instance for personal stuff. For instance, in this video there is a Recipes object type. That type of object might be important in my personal life but it has nothing to do at all with my work. Also, I think this video is a much better overview then their other video about Getting Started.
We do have spaces! If you click on the space name (in the very top left of your screen- in this video it's "my notebook" ) and click "home", you will see a button to create a new space. That would allow you to keep recipes and work things separate.
Its basically a pre-built Second Brain setup
I Love it man
It is an amazing app
What a great app! It is everything I always wanted.
Much love! ❤🎉
This app's design is exceptional! Love it!!
defiantly an interesting app. will look forward to see how it progresses.
but what would be your privacy policy?
will you have local files and the cloud storage with end to end encryption?
Very clear. Keep on doing great job.
Android app must be improved
this is great. I've tried capacities and want to use it, but in a way, I can do the same (yes with more work) in notion through backlinks and databases. i saw the pro plan was released today. and i will most likely switch when the mobile apps and task management has been released.
I am just looking for an advanced digital filing cabinet with bi-directional linking and a graph view, that is less complicated than Obsidian. Sounds like too much to ask for until I see an app like this.
Have you tried Logseq?
objects look like folders with another name, and the pages, links and pdf's are merely smart folders.
Yes, exactly my thoughts. Also using type: X in Frontmatter of obsidian with Dataview, and we have the the concept of Things in Obsidian
Looking for something similar for our team campaigns. Sadly we are not allowed to use not self hosted and it must be fully collaborative. That object feature would be a real selling point for our workflow though :|
omg, this is EXACTLY what I've been looking for for years!
Do you have any plans for adding a mind-map canvas in your roadmap?
Dude this is sounds like it was built for SPECIFICALLY for my brain. Downloading right now, I can’t wait to get familiar with it!
If you guys can add an excel like features to your app like formulas, I could probably switch from Notion.
Will there ever be ai suggestions to Connect notes (maybe Not Just INSIDE Same Tags) but also different tagged notes. This would be a Game Changer for me (and so a Tool Changer:)
well.... Watch out Joplin you have serious competition! 👍👍
Looks good, but what is the privacy like with this?
If I'm to sync data between devices I'd want to make sure it's fully encrypted.
Plus, is the data stored on your systems, or locally on my computer?
Here is our data protection memo docs.capacities.io/more/data-protection-memo and information on why we are not end to end encrypted docs.capacities.io/more/end-to-end-encryption
Love capacities! Go team!
May I ask what software do you use to edit your videos with those zoom ins and zoom outs?
Screenstudio!
great video ! quick question, are you showing capacities under the believer plan ?
Yes, we are! If you'd like to see the differences between the extensive free plan and the Believer plan, you can see them here: capacities.io/pricing
This is great, thank you! These examples were perfect for I’m looking for, can’t wait to try it 😊
Glad it was helpful!
The problem with capacities is that
1. It does not provide the files to us
2. It has few languages
3. Can't be honest
4. Notion already exist.
Wow, what's the software you used to record this? Looks very fancy
Yes, this software is really cool. It's called Screen Studio (🔗 screen.studio).
Awesome app!
Hi Capacities, what a great tool! Actually I'm using anytype, but somehow werde ich nicht warm damit. So Capacities could be, what I'm looking for. My questions: Does it work offline as well? And how about OCR? For example if I add a scanned document or ipad scribble - does it make the text searchable? Thank you! ❤
Both are a no for now, unfortunately. But better offline support and OCR are planned!
thank you@@CapacitiesHQ
I like the concept. But it just feels like a redesigned Notion. I'm not interested in learning another new app just for a few extra features.
Hope you take this as a constructive feedback, coz I really appreciate the work you've put into building this.
Can you please make a linux desktop app? Would be really helpful for students and developers!
Is there a way to migrate a task to the next day or next week that you had on Todo but did not finish? I routinely do this in my Bujo, but using the app to do this would prove very useful
I'm afraid there is not!
I like everything you explained.
I'm using Obsidian currently, and I like its search option.
How does that work with Capacities?
We have a powerful search and command palette, including full text search, property search and saved AI chat search!
We have some more information here about how everything works: docs.capacities.io/reference/search
The WhatsApp feature is quite impressive.
is it opensource project?
Hey there, one question. How would you use Capacities with The PARA Method?
There's some really interesting discussion of this in our discord channel from lots of users- worth checking that out if you haven't joined yet.
We might make a blog post about it later though if that would be helpful, but there's no one way to do it!
I am trying my best to add a profile image to the People profile, but no matter what I do I cannot get it to display on the cards. I have tried to edit the settings and preferences of the card, adding image as a property (cover image) etc. but nothing works, it just stays blank. Very annoying and took me straight out of the app...
Hi Colin, sorry to hear about these issues! Feel free to send me an email and we'll work out what's going on- beth@capacities.io.
How is the data stored and how does this compare with Obsidian?
After having fully watched the video this seems like a straight up ripoff of Obsidian.
Looks similar to Anytype
the discord invite link expired
anyway, what i like about capacities is when you add a /time now it is automatically added in today, like a journal
Thanks! :) Just updated.
Can i share and work together with my team in Capacities yet?
You can share individual pages but no collaboration yet, though it's been requested: capacities.io/feedback/p/collaboration-and-team-spaces
I really wish capacities was at least planning collaboration. I love the app but without collaboration, I will have to look elsewhere
How do I add the “person” object to the book? For author on the standard book template, it’s just a text box, so it can’t link anywhere
You can use [[person/]] in the same text area
You can also checkout shortcut keys provided for the same in capacities
CAN U DISABLE CHANGE CONTENT TYPE TO TAG FEATURE ... PLSSSS
Can you talk about how Capacities data are stored?
Here is our data protection memo: docs.capacities.io/more/data-protection-memo
can you dictate on to the note taking page?
Can I make a simple table inside a daily note?? or inside a page?
No, simple tables are not supported yet, but it's planned for later this year.
Thank You
Great app! 🎉
Nice, but a no go for me. For me, I need to be able to host it myself and keep the date private. Furthermore as a Software Engineer, for me it needs to be completely compatible with Markdown. Furthermore I can't help myself, but the interface just looks like a blunt ripoff from Notion with a combination of parts of Obsidian.
This looks better than notion.
Michael is a cutie patootie
Was curious about this app which I had not heard about before. However in your quick tour you don't start by saying what the app is for and just dive right on in to discussing objects. Sorry, fail.
Thank you for your feedback. That is copied. We´ll think about contentrating on these things in one of our next videos.
@@CapacitiesHQ Chill. You've done an outstanding work. The features are amazing. Take it as an constructive criticism and don't take it too seriously
i hope it‘s not developed by electron
Want android app
Revolutionary
this is the missing part notion
I tested it, there is no offline mode. It's a data trap, like Notion. You had a great potential, but you are self-doomed with this choice. Nowadays data ownership is mandatory. Sorry for you that you don't match this essential privacy needs.
Aren’t Data ownership and offline mode different things? You can bulk export all your notes to markdown, which just works really nice. So you own your data. Afaik they are working on an offline solution.
@@NjuJFama Nope they are not the same because if you have to do something to get your data, that means that you depend on a recurring task that need internet to be available.
So if you did not backup your data every typed word, and that you lost internet, you have no access to ALL your data at any time, anywhere, so they are not yours.
They are working to an offline solution, well, "Notion" did too 🤣 it was publicly announced thru their roadmap, then delayed, then the roadmap vanished...
I didnot believe they will operate offline, that's a business model to trap customers to sells them cloud data parking.
I would choose Anytype over Capacities.
Not bad but not good. The 3-pane interface is essential, like evernote or any file explorer. All other solutions are intellectual masturbation. No migration from evernote.
needs vim
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