Reviewers mostly praise Capacities for its object-based approach, saying it makes notes easier to connect, structure, and retrieve than in Notion, Obsidian, Roam, or Logseq. They repeatedly highlight the clean, fast interface, strong mobile use, daily notes, flexible views, and easy capture of links, bookmarks, and project material. Many say it balances structure with freedom and reduces maintenance. The main caveats are a learning curve, limited offline support, missing power-user features like deeper customization or imports, and concerns about pricing, privacy, and reliability.

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Capacities is a beautiful note-taking application that combines an awesome user interface, well thought functionality, and an excellent development team. You can define various content types (like person, application, book, movie, ...) with certain attributes (text fields, connections to other content types (e.g., person <-> company). These content types can be used to structure your notes. You can also use a calendar-based journal, email, Telegram, and WhatsApp integration. It is available for Mac and Windows as well as the web. I'm currently testing the beta iOS app, which feels like being ready for prime time.

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For me, this is an interesting blend between Notion & Logseq, which are the two apps I've somewhat decently tested. This review has been written after testing capacities for about an hour. ** 3 Things that make it stand out from Notion 1. Toggle to-do. Man I wish Notion had this. Right now my only workaround is toggle with an icon of a square or a checkbox. 2. Default Diary (like LogSeq, a new page is created every day with the date as title. Makes it convenient for scratchpad. It'll also reference dates you've used. Imagine you say "Ask Laury on @Dec 17, 2023". That task will show up on the daily note of Dec 17, 2023. 3. The looks. Don't know what it is exactly but I think it's a little less browny and a little more white. I like it a lot. It's much fresher. ** Missing from Notion 1. Table support 2. ctrl+shift commands. I use them all the time, especially the one to turn something in a bullet point, a toggle, a todo or a page AFTER you've started writing. The "-" "[]" and ">" work great when you start a block, but once you've started writing it's not easy to change

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They claimed that once you'd used its non-hierarchical approach to organising your notes that you wouldn't want to go back, and the strange thing is that they're right. Strange, because it's hardly the only option out there using tags and links, so there's something subtle going on which has very quickly made Capacities my preferred notes app. It still needs work: by their own admission the offline access is still limited, and a web clipper would be handy. Tables are still far more useful than side by side blocks. I'm a little concerned about future pricing: will the forthcoming mobile app be available in the free version? I'm happy to pay something but it has to realistically reflect the place of notes in my working tools. Having watched Evernote price itself beyond feasible value even for its "personal" version I really hope Capacities won't follow suit. But the potential for greatness is all there, and the team seem smart and focused, so I live in hope.

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I recently discovered Capacities and almost immediately became a Believer (ie, I gladly pay a subscription!) Taking elements from several other apps that many find useful (the tables of Notion, the backlinking of Roam, the graph view of Obsidian, the beauty of Craft), Capacities iterates on these while bringing Objects to the table. Objects allow the user to create specific “objects” in their studio - I am using it for journaling, novel creation, projects, learning notes, etc. The devs are super responsive and the community is wonderful and growing. Definitely check it out!

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I feel like Capacities has finally given me a framework to understand how to properly use databases to link and store my notes. I have tried Notion several times and while I really like it, I always seem to get hung up on how to sustainably grow my collection of notes without spending too much time on maintenance. Capacities solves this problem for me in the way it's designed as an object-based system. It's easy to use, has a nice user interface, and has been making thoughtful and useful developments regularly since I joined just a couple of months ago! If you have struggled with feeling "at home" in a note-taking app as I have, I highly recommend giving Capacities a try.

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I tried many note-taking apps, including OneNote, Logseq, Joplin, Obsidian, Craft, and Evernote, to name a few. After discovering Capacities in April and trying it out for the first time, I couldn't get the app out of my mind as it answered my needs. After using it for one day, I became a Believer and signed up for a year. Since then, I have used it daily, building a database for my writing projects, including character sheets, research and knowledge base, locations, weblinks and more.

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Capacities offers a potent and user-friendly experience. I was unaware of the advantages of its unique "object-based" approach to note-taking until I tried it myself. Now, I no longer struggle to remember where I stored those seldom-accessed notes. This app has significantly enhanced my ability to intuitively arrange and format my notes. Moreover, thanks to its adaptable nature, Capacities serves as both my personal knowledge management (PKM) tool and personal CRM solution.

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So nice to use an app with such depth that isn't bogged down by massive hierarchies and nested folders. I've loved many other Apps, but as my content grew, I consistently started to have trouble finding my content. That's now over. Couldn't be more pleased. I even built out the whole Bible into capacities and have been adding cross references into books I'm reading. The abilities are endless - and unlike Notion, I can add tags to each block - not just a page

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I have been using Capacities daily for 2 months now. I like the fact that it is object based so it is easy to link all kinds of information encountered during the day by tags or collections for future reference. It is perfect as a daily dashboard. The system is flexible so I can customise it to suit my needs. Highly recommended for those interested in PKM or bullet journaling!

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Thanks for sharing your experience, Fern!

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3yr ago

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Capacities has become my go-to note-taking app. It has modern editing and formatting options combined with a powerful and flexible object model allowing you to create relationships that make sense to you. While there is a small learning curve, it clicked for me much more easily than others in its space.

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