Like an artist's studio, Capacities is a place for all your information. It’s your own studio to collect, connect and reflect – a place to make sense of the world and to create amazing things. It's a thinking environment for modern knowledge work.
We built Capacities to help people organize their digital lives, be it work-related or for personal projects, interests, and ideas.
We built our software for individuals and it is extremely important to us to always be in touch with our users and the community. They have helped shape the product tremendously, and a lot of our users appreciate how they can actually influence the product development through their feedback and ideas. You’re more than welcome to join our community on Discord (https://discord.gg/8CvzmtkD).
What’s the core idea behind Capacities?
The hierarchical file system that was developed half a century ago is not suitable for creative, interconnected knowledge work of today. We realized that there’s a big need for a powerful networked note-taking tool that is still easy to use and beautiful to reach a large group of people.
Instead of folders, we offer flexible tags and bi-directional linking between content. So you don’t have to think about what folder to put things in, just think about what they relate to.
Instead of files, we organize content and media as colorful objects. You can determine, what types of objects you want, and what properties and look they have! If you read a lot, just create “Books” to organize your reading notes. If you want to keep track of all your ideas, use “Idea” objects. And then simply link or embed them anywhere you need them. Think of Notion databases, but less containerized and more flexible. We call this “objective-taking”.
And on top, all you do is automatically mapped to a central calendar with daily notes, which will become your daily working hub and let’s you browse your work over time.
The core product of Capacities is and will remain free. We plan to introduce Capacities Pro later this year. If you already want to support us and our vision now, you can become a Capacities Believer. Being a believer will also get you access to any Pro features as soon as they're available.
As a fully bootstrapped company and a small team of 3, feedback from our users and community is crucial and a huge part of where the product is now! Based on feedback and suggestions from our users we ship major updates and new features 1-2 times each month. And we're just getting started, there are exciting things ahead!
For example, we built Capacities with the enormous potential of AI in mind. Our AI integration is currently being developed and will launch soon!
Looking forward to your feedback and happy to be here on Product Hunt!
Late to the party but just sent some PH love over. lets definitely connect via LinkedIn
A very good new approach to organizing your notes that will help you stay on top of the productivity race I also like having a daily page that makes it easy to get a good start in the new day, and after work is done, you can reflect on what happened that day. love it!!!
BR
Holger
As always with these tools the bigest danger is losing your database: What will happen to my database if Capacities end?
What are the migration paths out of Capacities? Can the content be exported into a reasonable format like markdown? Would there be an opportunity in the future for self host or some open source model that would secure user databases?
Congrats on the launch though!
Capacities truly lives up to its promise of being a versatile and intuitive platform for organizing and harnessing information effectively. Congrats team on the launch!
Seems powerful! Feel like no need to worry about how to organize my stuff anymore (which is a headache for me🥹...）Just wondering when can AI be integrated, that'll definitely be a game changer!
@mvhohnhorst Congratulations on the launch team, keep up the good work
Looking forward to the Ai integration any time soon
Been using for a few months, it has replaced notion for me! Huge ups to the team. I’m a believer!
Congratulations on the launch of your fantastic product! Wishing you continued success and a bright future ahead. 🎉🚀
Been using Capacities for a very short time, but for me it's the best blend of all the tools I wished I were using, but aren't for a reason or another:
Notion: I love the databases, structure format, but usability 'gotchas' or the lack of mobile input or linked items keeps me from using it long-term
Obsidian: Having to manage my own installs, too fiddly to make it what I want, and the mobile app not having mobile-first features keep me from using or recommending it, despite it being amazing desktop software.
Roam & others: Eh... I need a mobile app and it seems some of them have burned their userbases with poor product decisions.
What I like about Capacities:
It has the right amount of 'Obsidian + Roam + Notes + Notion', I can leave notes, link them easily, but not worry about the fiddly management of a client on various platforms.
It has mobile capture, I can send to Capacitie's mobile app, or use whatsapp chat to capture a mobile link (very key for me).
Enough structure if I want it, but I can also just ship it a link, and it remembers it in the 'weblinks' collection, if I don't send it somewhere specific.
And this was built with 3 people? Take my money, and hopefully there's a bright future for Capacities.
