Capacities - A studio for your mind

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!

Congrats on the launch Steffen and Michael 👏🚀 I discovered Capacities a few months back and was blown away by how polished and innovative their approach to note taking is, their focus on the user and their community is unparalleled!

Capacities has a like if notion and roam research had a beautiful, very user friendly child and than that child got given superpowers. A great PKM, highly recommend it.

Congrats on the launch! Been using Capacities for *well* over a year now, and knew there was something special about it when I first stumbled upon it. To be completely honest, I was worried about the longevity of the project when I first discovered it, as the (perceived) community and number of users was small (like I said, perceived) at the time. So glad that I was so wrong and y'all have continued growing and innovating, at an incredible pace, I might add. Such a polished product (and team)! Can't wait to see where y'all go and wish you continued growth and success!

Moved to this from obsidian some months ago and have gone all in for now. It still has some issues but the ideas and direction have me pretty excited for this apps future

moved to capacities a while back, and it's one of the most promising tools in the space, it is already working great and I look forward to its growth!

I gave Obsidian a friendly thank you but goodbye and welcomed Capacities.io with open arms, and the reason? A desire to break free from the traditional shackles of files and folders. You see, Capacities.io is rather like a modern, savvy chameleon. It effortlessly adapts to various media forms: be it a weblink, some text, an image, a PDF, a video, or a sound clip. These different elements can interact, mingle, and create a vibrant knowledge graph. It's a pretty neat trick, if you ask me, and a definite upgrade from Obsidian. And here's the kicker - it's so intuitive that you won't need anything as sophisticated as Tiago Forte's PARA method to stay on top of your organisation game. Not much effort is required at all. And the cherry on top? There's no need for plugins. Capacities.io has matured just right, boasting a variety of in-house features, such as an in-built calendar. So, you won't have to turn detective to find the plugin that will do what you want. The plugin frustration I used to face with Obsidian, you know, when developers would drop support? That's a thing of the past with Capacities. So, here's to a smoother, more streamlined digital journey!

It looks very promising. Good luck!

I absolutely love it! Congratulations, @mvhohnhorst! You deserve a huge round of applause!

Great job, my congrats to your team!