Capacities – Notes & PKM 4+

I love the app and am a “Believer” because of how much I love it.

I am a software developer and am already well underway creating projects and linking them to notes and people and such, and I have tons of ideas on more I want to do with this app.

There are, however, a couple things that I’ve found I can’t do the way I’d like to:
1. Being able to modify objects on the mobile app and the web would be extremely helpful as I’m not always near my desktop when I want to do this.
2. I haven’t found a good way to create recipes. I cook for my family nearly every day and having a recipe linked to ingredients with a table that has units of measure which I can then link to shopping lists and so on would be amazingly helpful. Maybe I’m thinking about it wrong, but I think that the built-in “Table” object is close but not quite right.

Capacities is completely dropping the ball on accessibility features. There is no option to change the note text size, so if your eyesight isn’t perfect, this app isn’t for you. They don’t even take advantage of the standard iOS or iPadOS built-in system accessibility options. So it feels like Capacities just doesn’t care about accessibility. If you want to see a great example of a well-implemented accessibility text size adjustment, see Bear Notes and Craft Notes. They do it really well. If you want to see mediocre implementation of font size adjustments, see Reflect, Supernotes, and Agenda. All of them offer text size adjustments, but they go from really really small to really small to still too small at the largest. It’s lazy, and therefore impractical, implementation. Capacities, stop spending your time on more and more “features” for your comparison charts, and get the core functionality right to begin with. Eyesight is getting worse worldwide due to mobile phone usage, so you will have more and more lost customers the longer you wait to implement this core functionality.

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.