Like an artist's studio, Capacities is a place for all your information. It’s your own studio to collect, connect and reflect – a place to make sense of the world and to create amazing things. It's a thinking environment for modern knowledge work.
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!
About Capacities on Product Hunt
“A studio for your mind”
Capacities launched on Product Hunt on July 12th, 2023 and earned 603 upvotes and 198 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Like an artist's studio, Capacities is a place for all your information. It’s your own studio to collect, connect and reflect – a place to make sense of the world and to create amazing things. It's a thinking environment for modern knowledge work.
On the analytics side, Capacities competes within Productivity and Writing — topics that collectively have 708.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Capacities performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Capacities?
Capacities was hunted by Michael von Hohnhorst. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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