Capacities – Notes & PKM 4+

Love this app so much. I run a startup; was scatter brained and getting desperate. When I began using Cap, every time I thought "I wish Cap had this feature," it was right there, waiting for me. Thank you! Pros: The backlinks of Cap are unmatched. Tag system and search are powerful. Really thoughtful and involved team on board. Calendar/Time based notes ftw. Object based organization won me over (but took a hot second to learn). Cons: lesser known, newer app in the second-brain, knowledge order space, still in development and working out bugs (but customer support team is impressive and the few minor bugs don’t slow me down). Tried Obsidian, Logseq, Evernote, Roam, Notion, Apple Notes, OneNote, Notability, AmpleNote, hah wish I found Cap sooner.

So far my experience with Capacities on the web has been amazing. I love the concept, specifically the flow of being able to let the word vomit fall out on to the page works really well with my ADHD. And then using tags, links, and types as you go actually allows those thoughts to organize themselves rather effortlessly.

However, while the web app is really strong the mobile app needs some work. Specifically, the text editing experience on iOS is filled with some pretty glaring and bad bugs. For an app that’s designed to get out of your way and let you get your ideas down on to the page, a good text editing experience should be paramount.

I really love this app still. I am already a pro user because I want to support its growth. I am very hopeful that the glaring issues get resolved soon so I can increase my rating.

I've tried Obsidian, Logseq, Tana, Apple Notes, Things, Notion, Heptabase and Reflect. I overlooked Capacities due to the relative lack of complexity, but I'm glad I finally gave it a try. I'm not exactly sure why, but I've been the most motivated to stick with Capacities.

It has the perfect amount of options and configurability for me without going overboard and dooming me to plugin rabbit holes. It also comes with a solid philosophy which fits with my mental chaos perfectly.

I especially love the ability to create custom object types and use it to track anything I want, which for me is: people, meetings, organizations, projects, books, websites, tweets, apps, quotes, obstacles, ideas, prompts, chats, memories, dreams, values, goals, daily notes, images, audios, PDFs, etc. This alone gives me so much peace of mind it's not funny.

It currently does have less customizable features compared to the other tools, but for once in my life I'm happy to have less customizability because what they chose to implement is clean, responsive and well-made.

On top of that, the stability and performance has been great for me.