[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":202},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-next-level-discovery":3,"related-offline-first-for-you-why-ai-chat-why-limited-customization":65},{"id":4,"title":5,"authorKey":6,"body":7,"category":42,"date":43,"dateFormatted":44,"description":45,"extension":46,"icon":47,"iconColor":47,"imagePath":48,"keywords":49,"meta":54,"navigation":55,"path":56,"readingTime":57,"relatedArticles":58,"seo":62,"stem":63,"__hash__":64},"blog/blog/next-level-discovery.md","Next-level discovery","steffen",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":38},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,23,26,29,32,35],[11,12,13],"p",{},"We read a lot and save a lot, but how do we make use of the content we consume? Here's how we plan to revolutionize the discovery of your notes.",[11,15,16],{},"Note-taking often aims to use the ideas, thoughts, and inspirations we once read about or thought about when we need them again. But most of the time, we forget about that; we don't find it anymore in a sea of files and folders, and we don't know where we stored it or how we named it. This leaves us feeling that there's no need to take notes.",[11,18,19],{},"Already today, Capacities helps us with this problem by organizing our content in a network. You link people with ideas and tag research papers with topics. Later, by traversing your network of notes, you can get inspired and use the notes you already have. While this works well, there's much more that we can do!",[11,21,22],{},"There are two high-level concepts we're thinking about to help you draft new ideas and discover insights from your notes.",[11,24,25],{},"First, we want to enrich your notes with related notes. We already have backlinks showing you all the links you made to this note. Below, we have mentions of that note that are not explicitly linked. If you wrote about a person already but didn't create it as a person back then, you'll now see all unlinked mentions on that person's page.",[11,27,28],{},"On top, Capacities will show semantically related notes below your backlinks. This means you can start working on a new idea, and Capacities will automatically suggest all of your notes that are related to your new draft. The same, of course, works for existing notes. As soon as more notes are available on the topic of a note, these notes will automatically be shown at the bottom. Browsing your notes will become even more exciting as new ideas or connections you did not think of can start to emerge. It might spark a new idea or help you look at something from a different perspective. We are really excited about this, and we think it will fundamentally change note-taking.",[11,30,31],{},"Second, we want to create an intuitive interface that lets you discover your content from scratch and lets you play with ideas in natural language. To make this more explicit: we want you to ask a question or describe an idea you don't have the right words for yet, and Capacities will return notes that might be helpful or will try to answer your question based on your notes.",[11,33,34],{},"That will make it easier to start with a new idea. You don't have to start from scratch every time anymore. You can start \"thinking out loud\", but now you get a response from your notes. You can use this to discover and tinker with your thoughts and turn them into explicit projects afterward.",[11,36,37],{},"We are working towards this idea, and we're super excited about making it real.",{"title":39,"searchDepth":40,"depth":40,"links":41},"",2,[],"team-product","2024-09-13","September 13, 2024","Our plans on helping you discover insights from your notes","md",null,"/blog/next-level-discovery.jpg",[50,51,52,53],"PKM","note-taking","discovery","AI",{},true,"/blog/next-level-discovery","3 min",[59,60,61],"offline-first-for-you","why-ai-chat","why-limited-customization",{"title":5,"description":45},"blog/next-level-discovery","Wn4P9eNPOtA3fUBDb0gGRzVHPiNvTUsZs92XNMl8wr4",[66,113,161],{"id":67,"title":68,"authorKey":6,"body":69,"category":42,"date":97,"dateFormatted":98,"description":99,"extension":46,"icon":47,"iconColor":47,"imagePath":100,"keywords":101,"meta":104,"navigation":55,"path":105,"readingTime":106,"relatedArticles":107,"seo":110,"stem":111,"__hash__":112},"blog/blog/offline-first-for-you.md","What offline-first means for you",{"type":8,"value":70,"toc":95},[71,74,77,80,83,86,89,92],[11,72,73],{},"Offline-first is a paradigm for building apps. Before the introduction of the cloud, most of our apps were offline-first. All data was stored on your computer, and an internet connection wasn't strictly needed.",[11,75,76],{},"Today, Cloud-based apps are dominating our lives – with many important advantages. You can work seamlessly across devices. If you lose a device or it breaks down, you don't lose your data, but can just continue working on another device.",[11,78,79],{},"Unfortunately, these advancements came with a cost: Apps now require an active internet connection. For many apps, you need to wait on every click for the results to be returned from a server. This is a painful experience and prevents us from working at our own pace.",[11,81,82],{},"It is time to merge these two worlds. That's what local-first or offline-first is all about. It comes with all the benefits and basically no disadvantages. You're keeping all the advantages of the cloud but the user experience is fundamentally different.",[11,84,85],{},"With an offline-first app, you're more independent. Server outages happen all the time, everywhere. And sometimes, we don't have a stable internet connection. With an offline-first app, this won't affect you. You will be able to continue working. While not every detail of Capacities will be offline-first, most of it will. No core functionality will require an internet connection anymore.",[11,87,88],{},"On top of that, you don't need to wait for content to be loaded; it's already there. The technology you use for your work is no longer the bottleneck. You now define how fast you work. While Capacities is not perfectly fast yet, you can expect to see huge improvements in the transition to offline-first. We promise that you'll feel the difference.",[11,90,91],{},"Last, you're in better control of your data. Regardless of what happens to Capacities, you'll always be able to export your data on your device. Nobody, not even us, can prevent you from accessing and using your data.",[11,93,94],{},"We are convinced this is a fundamental change in what Capacities is and what it will be capable of. We're excited to make your knowledge work more effective and fun. You can expect these improvements to be released in the coming weeks and months. We're sure you'll like them.",{"title":39,"searchDepth":40,"depth":40,"links":96},[],"2024-07-26","July 26, 2024","In our latest newsletters and posts, we talked a lot about our transition to making Capacities offline-first.","/blog/offline-first-for-you.jpg",[102,103],"offline first","software development",{},"/blog/offline-first-for-you","5 min",[108,109],"why-offline-first","what-if-capacities-was-gone-tomorrow",{"title":68,"description":99},"blog/offline-first-for-you","xAYduFmzc7VahzUxrneR7m_py_UoRGIlXDfypiFrHn0",{"id":114,"title":115,"authorKey":6,"body":116,"category":42,"date":144,"dateFormatted":145,"description":146,"extension":46,"icon":47,"iconColor":47,"imagePath":147,"keywords":148,"meta":152,"navigation":55,"path":153,"readingTime":57,"relatedArticles":154,"seo":158,"stem":159,"__hash__":160},"blog/blog/why-ai-chat.md","Why did we add an AI chat to Capacities, although ChatGPT already exists?",{"type":8,"value":117,"toc":142},[118,121,124,127,130,133,136],[11,119,120],{},"Capacities has a built-in AI chat which you can open as a small window next to your notes. You can use your current note as context; you can apply commands like \"Critique my thinking,\" rephrase your questions and add the results back to your notes. Here are some thoughts about why we decided to do it that way.",[11,122,123],{},"First: Context switching is costly. We do a lot of work in and with our notes. We think, create, and have questions. Leaving our thinking context is distracting and increases cognitive load. We want to use an assistant while we're working on our notes. We don't want to copy/paste and switch windows. By having a chat right next to our notes, we can compare different results or replace our version with a single click.",[11,125,126],{},"We decided to use a chat because we think conversations are essential to working with Generative AI. It rarely produces great results on the first shot. We might have follow-up questions, need to ask it to rephrase its results, or want it to justify its arguments. Once we come to a result, we can use it, but we do not simply want to rely on what we got on the first try.",[11,128,129],{},"Some conversations are so insightful or helpful that we want to store them. Capacities allows you to capture a conversation as an object, tag it, and add it to your notes. AI conversations become part of your knowledge base. You can reference them and come back if needed.",[11,131,132],{},"And last, but most important: LLMs can hallucinate; they don't know us; they don't know what we work on and what your context is. They have flaws, and we need to be aware of that. But: We can also substantially improve its results by giving it some context about us, our knowledge, and what we work on. At the moment, you can use your current note as a context. In the future, the AI will be able to use all your notes and resources to assist us. We can encourage it to prove its argument, cite its sources, and draw conclusions based on facts and data.",[11,134,135],{},"Exciting times ahead!",[11,137,138],{},[139,140,141],"em",{},"By the way, I used the AI Assistant to sharpen and develop my thoughts here. I did not use it to write my essay. We can use LLM to generate a lot of content, but we can also use it to improve our own thinking and increase the quality of our own work. It's you who chooses how you use it.",{"title":39,"searchDepth":40,"depth":40,"links":143},[],"2024-04-05","April 5, 2024","Here are some thoughts about why we decided to integrate an AI chat into Capacities.","/blog/why-ai-chat.jpg",[149,150,151],"Generative AI","ChatGPT","AI Chat",{},"/blog/why-ai-chat",[155,156,157],"building-capacities","how-it-started","how-we-developed-tables",{"title":115,"description":146},"blog/why-ai-chat","qpq76uOBuiJJVn4wZWuTQyxs8UuTXKarBDkJe5CiQ7I",{"id":162,"title":163,"authorKey":6,"body":164,"category":42,"date":186,"dateFormatted":187,"description":188,"extension":46,"icon":47,"iconColor":47,"imagePath":189,"keywords":190,"meta":194,"navigation":55,"path":195,"readingTime":57,"relatedArticles":196,"seo":199,"stem":200,"__hash__":201},"blog/blog/why-limited-customization.md","Why we limit customization",{"type":8,"value":165,"toc":184},[166,169,172,175,178,181],[11,167,168],{},"Capacities is a personal tool. It’s the app you work in, it's where you are creative and productive. It's the Studio for your Mind. And because this is so personal, it needs to feel like an extension of yourself. It needs to feel natural and beautiful. There should be no friction.",[11,170,171],{},"So, there are a lot of arguments for allowing you to customize your tools. And we allow you to make some decisions – many, to be honest. And these customizations are important.",[11,173,174],{},"Nevertheless, you cannot customize everything. We purposely make a few decisions for you because customization also comes with a high cost.",[11,176,177],{},"Having options in life leads to decision fatigue. It's easier for us in a restaurant with a small menu to decide what we want than in a restaurant with many options. And most of the time, we're happier afterward.",[11,179,180],{},"Making decisions drains your energy. It might not be noticeable, but if you have to make a micro decision every few keystrokes while taking notes, it shifts your focus away from the actual work. By making decisions for you through a constrained tool, it will be easier for you to get your work done.",[11,182,183],{},"We try to make sensible decisions; we invest a lot of time and research into designing features and workflows. Capacities is not perfect yet; a lot can be improved. But it's one of our central values for building Capacities. We want you to focus on what’s important to you, endless customization might not be the best path to doing meaningful work.",{"title":39,"searchDepth":40,"depth":40,"links":185},[],"2024-08-05","August 5, 2024","Plugins, integrations, settings, and more. Why we don't offer everything.","/blog/why-limited-customization.jpg",[191,192,193],"pkm","plugins","customization",{},"/blog/why-limited-customization",[197,198,108],"why-integrations","why-individuals",{"title":163,"description":188},"blog/why-limited-customization","eL9SJK7k9zJYwoKEcxOBQNpfYh4KbXV6n1ucS4Ya2As",1778077516374]