Capacities App Review: Best Note-Taking App? (2024)

[@toolfinderhq]

Get Capacities: toolfinder.co/go/capacities

[@marcoshares]

What do you guys think of Octopus Planner? It looks really good 4.8 stars on the app store and I like it but, some of the reviews on data seems concerning

[@robfuzz]

I am IN LOVE with Capacities. It’s changing my life.

[@toolfinderhq]

Good to hear!

[@javisanchezs]

I have been using Capacities for two months, and I'm so happy with the potential of the tool. What I like more is the possibility to push info for many sources, this reduce the friction a lot.

[@fydofire]

It's really cool. If I hadn't had spend 100s of hours in Obsidian and built everything around it, I would probably use this app. If Notion is too old fashioned and Obisdian too nerdy for you...that might be the best choice for you. And that's actually the majority of users I guess ?

[@levoN2420]

I use both - for different and similar purposes. Some things I use in both and I love them both. Capacies does an amazing job backing up and exporting files, it has all the properties laid out beautifully if you want to use it in Obsidian.

[@TheINKspiredLife]

I use and am loving Capacities for everything for business to school to personal use.

[@boy_peeps]

As a PKM system, not sure how it gets any better than Capacities.

[@erosbutyassified]

i use capacities i loove it. its primarily used for school, and self study. i bounce between it and remnote ^_^

[@BigShactus]

It would be awesome to see a video about knowledge management apps for organizations. This category of Apps isn't handled adequately by other channels and differs from personal note taking and pkm. A Keep productive deep dive would be appreciated 😊

[@no-one-someone-1]

Capacities is much better in dark mode.

[@toolfinderhq]

It does look nicer for sure.

[@mousegrey6747]

Isn’t everything?

[@ThatDwayne]

Import capabilities are very limited currently. Will be a better option when it can import large numbers of markdown files.

[@syedumairali4345]

When are they going to release the offline mode?

[@tristen_grant]

Ask them.

[@syedumairali4345]

@@tristen_grant I did, they are currently working on it.

[@haotran-n2q]

I have used many more famous apps, but I find this one to be more suitable and reliable than the others.

[@cedrataT]

I use it at moment I love the object method. Surely it’s convenient for collection of information. I didn’t try yet with thinking method like zettelkasten system

[@levoN2420]

It's amazing for Zettlekaten. I created a Notes object with collections for Fleeting, Literature, and Permanent and then a MOC by pasting embeded object references for each collection in a Page and then I pinned it to my space, now I can easily access each type of note in the Zettelkaten.

[@therealmeachy71]

​@@levoN2420I really need to do some research. Your comment reads like Japanese to me, but I think it might be useful once I decipher it. 🤣

[@vossenjonk3448]

Notion > Anything else (my personal opinion :-) But this seems like a great app if your sole focus is notes & knowledge management!

[@erosbutyassified]

notion is great but the lack of information and connections youre able to create kinda sucks. this def excels at not just creating notes but creating connections between notes and topics. it functions as a second brain and notion is more like… im not sure lol. i use notion as well and it functions a lot more conveniently with tables, productivity usages, and the aesthetics of notion is kinda unbeat. it is completely devoid of what i mentioned tho which is a major pitfall tbh

[@albertonovati8033]

​@@erosbutyassifiedsame situation as yours, Notion poweruser, but when it comes to PKMS... Notion is just lacking a lot of stuff. Annoying, since with a fully well implemented PKMS Notion would be the definitive tool, it has so much potential still, it is unreal.

[@levoN2420]

You really haven't spent enough time with this app before you did this video, there's so much you left out. Capacities allows you to backup the entire space to well-organized folders with CSV and everything in Markdown. There are links to videos and documentation for everything so it's super easy to learn. You can change any object into to another object. You can link to everything very easily. The properties feature is another plus. It also provides space for math and coding - which I don't use, but it looks pretty amazing. It's more like Obsidian than Notion. Notion already feels like it's for boomers.

[@tristen_grant]

This is more of a quick overview.

[@muneebanjamch]

Kindlt make a video on notes taking apps that support RTL And also those in which RTL is not directly supported but RTL plugin is available in them!

[@JPC326]

Does it have a task list like Todoist ? I like todoist but it lack in note features

[@tristen_grant]

Not like Todoist, no.

[@tonythomson]

Capacities integrates with several task managers, including Todoist, Things, Apple Reminders & more.

[@johndaniel21343]

Interesting app definetly

[@toolfinderhq]

It is for sure .

[@TommyScott-g1p]

why obejcts. i think in folders man.

[@levoN2420]

Collections act as folders for each object and you can have an object in multiple collections - so that's one reason.

[@hmdz150]

At first "Folders" look simpler and easier to us humans. But then, your items in a folder could be also related to other folders somewhere else. Imagine you have a folder for your "Personal Notes" and create a note (called A) on Biology. You also have another separate folder for University Notes, and then a Biology folder is under that folder. The thing is that note A you created under personal folder is also related to the university Notes Biology folder. So one note could related to many folder. An creating links everywhere to that object is cumbersome, because you need to repeat things many time. Why instead not set a tag object for your note A, called biology, and then use this tag for your University Biology page as well?

[@DustinMillerPolyInnovator]

I wouldn't say its new, its been around for a hot min now lol

[@tristen_grant]

A "hot minute" used to mean a very short period of time.

[@TheAntarcticaProject]

Capacities > Anytype

[@Reznov0ps143]

I’m still in Evernote 😊

[@levoN2420]

You're decade behind.

[@tristen_grant]

@@levoN2420 *decades

[@kindmind_]

apple notes

[@hiiaminfi]

Today we are talking about capacities - and tomorrow we are fixing our audio 😭

[@toolfinderhq]

Was it too loud?

[@tristen_grant]

@@toolfinderhq It was fine. This person just like to complain.

[@mattarmstrong187]

It's an intriguing software but the fact that they literally ripped off 80-90% of Notion's interface makes me feel morally gross inside. Same as Microsoft Loop.

[@levoN2420]

Notion is so juvenile looking compared to Capacities.

[@tristen_grant]

@@levoN2420 They look almost the same.

[@gblsmelo]

I do not recommend using this application. I've been experiencing instability for two days, everything simply disappeared. I've restarted the browser and installed the app and nothing. Worst of all, without realizing it I created an account with the same email as last time and the tool simply accepted it. How can an application create two accounts with the same email? It is an application with critical errors and low confidence

[@levoN2420]

Sounds like user error. I've used it for over a year and never had a problem or lost any data.

[@tristen_grant]

@@levoN2420 The app accepting the same email twice is user error?

[@mousegrey6747]

I’m sure I saw this exact comment on another capacities video- or maybe it was an anytype video? But I mean like copy paste, not just venting by the same person

[@tristen_grant]

@@mousegrey6747 Yeah, I've seen a few of the same comment as well.