[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":211},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-why-integrations":3,"related-why-ai-chat-why-offline-first-how-it-started":66},{"id":4,"title":5,"authorKey":6,"body":7,"category":44,"date":45,"dateFormatted":46,"description":47,"extension":48,"icon":49,"iconColor":49,"imagePath":50,"keywords":51,"meta":55,"navigation":56,"path":57,"readingTime":58,"relatedArticles":59,"seo":63,"stem":64,"__hash__":65},"blog/blog/why-integrations.md","Why we are focusing on integrations","steffen",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":40},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,23,26],[11,12,13],"p",{},"We recently launched the Capacities API in beta and introduced community integrations. Here's what this means and some quick comments on our decision-making.",[11,15,16],{},"Integrations are connections to other apps and services so you can interact with Capacities from outside of the app. Our Raycast integration, for example, allows you to search and open content from everywhere on your Mac. Our WhatsApp integration allows you to quickly capture some ideas while on the go.",[11,18,19],{},"Integrations are not plugins. Plugins change the app itself. They, for example, add an extra button to the app or change its appearance. There are good arguments for allowing plugins, but we explicitly decided not to support them as we think that this offers too many degrees of freedom, introduces issues and unwanted behavior, and, in the end, stops us from getting work done.",[11,21,22],{},"But, we added integrations. Integrations connect your workflows and allow access to Capacities whenever you need it and wherever you need it. They remove friction, streamline workflows, and automate tedious tasks.",[11,24,25],{},"We're just at the beginning of our journey with integrations, and we'll add many more over time. Think of Capacities being connected to your calendar, your readings and highlights, and much more! The Capacities API is an invitation to the developer community to connect Capacities to all the apps and systems we use every day. We're excited about your ideas!",[11,27,28],{},[29,30,31,32,39],"em",{},"If you want to know more, you can read about our contribution guidelines ",[33,34,38],"a",{"href":35,"rel":36},"https://docs.capacities.io/reference/integrations/community/contribute",[37],"nofollow","here",".",{"title":41,"searchDepth":42,"depth":42,"links":43},"",2,[],"team-product","2024-05-23","May 23, 2024","We recently launched the Capacities API in beta and introduced community integrations.","md",null,"/blog/why-integrations.jpg",[52,53,54],"integrations","API","community",{},true,"/blog/why-integrations","2 min",[60,61,62],"why-ai-chat","why-offline-first","how-it-started",{"title":5,"description":47},"blog/why-integrations","FvVCUzunkMcs1q0yPTqulLO5dEoOj1b6uMwcswBDFvQ",[67,114,151],{"id":68,"title":69,"authorKey":6,"body":70,"category":44,"date":97,"dateFormatted":98,"description":99,"extension":48,"icon":49,"iconColor":49,"imagePath":100,"keywords":101,"meta":105,"navigation":56,"path":106,"readingTime":107,"relatedArticles":108,"seo":111,"stem":112,"__hash__":113},"blog/blog/why-ai-chat.md","Why did we add an AI chat to Capacities, although ChatGPT already exists?",{"type":8,"value":71,"toc":95},[72,75,78,81,84,87,90],[11,73,74],{},"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.",[11,76,77],{},"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.",[11,79,80],{},"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.",[11,82,83],{},"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.",[11,85,86],{},"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.",[11,88,89],{},"Exciting times ahead!",[11,91,92],{},[29,93,94],{},"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":41,"searchDepth":42,"depth":42,"links":96},[],"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",[102,103,104],"Generative AI","ChatGPT","AI Chat",{},"/blog/why-ai-chat","3 min",[109,62,110],"building-capacities","how-we-developed-tables",{"title":69,"description":99},"blog/why-ai-chat","qpq76uOBuiJJVn4wZWuTQyxs8UuTXKarBDkJe5CiQ7I",{"id":115,"title":116,"authorKey":6,"body":117,"category":44,"date":137,"dateFormatted":138,"description":139,"extension":48,"icon":49,"iconColor":49,"imagePath":140,"keywords":141,"meta":144,"navigation":56,"path":145,"readingTime":146,"relatedArticles":147,"seo":148,"stem":149,"__hash__":150},"blog/blog/why-offline-first.md","Why Capacities will become offline-first",{"type":8,"value":118,"toc":135},[119,122,125,128],[11,120,121],{},"Offline-first for us means that you can work with Capacities on your device without access to the internet. We decided to prioritize this for two reasons:",[11,123,124],{},"First, nobody likes loading spinners. We want the tools we use to work at the speed of our thoughts. Waiting interrupts our flow and our focus, and that's unacceptable for us.",[11,126,127],{},"Second, thousands of people rely on Capacities to get critical work done every day. Technology should never stop you from doing that.",[11,129,130,131,39],{},"You can already use Capacities without an internet connection today, but not all features are available. We're gradually introducing more offline support over time. If you're interested, you can read about our roadmap here: ",[33,132,133],{"href":133,"rel":134},"https://docs.capacities.io/misc/offline-support",[37],{"title":41,"searchDepth":42,"depth":42,"links":136},[],"2024-05-02","May 2, 2024","We recently committed to transforming Capacities into an offline-first application.","/blog/why-offline-first.jpg",[142,143],"offline first","software development",{},"/blog/why-offline-first","1 min",[60,109,62],{"title":116,"description":139},"blog/why-offline-first","EwhIZ4kiWfuIdlF5t7QKwTcVdErTSO22oPIWtymYvtQ",{"id":152,"title":153,"authorKey":6,"body":154,"category":44,"date":197,"dateFormatted":198,"description":199,"extension":48,"icon":49,"iconColor":49,"imagePath":200,"keywords":201,"meta":204,"navigation":56,"path":205,"readingTime":58,"relatedArticles":206,"seo":208,"stem":209,"__hash__":210},"blog/blog/how-it-started.md","Why did we decide to build Capacities?",{"type":8,"value":155,"toc":195},[156,167,170,173,176,179],[11,157,158,159,163,164,39],{},"Everything started at university in Germany. Michael and I studied computer science and electrical engineering and realized this big divide between the ",[160,161,162],"strong",{},"technologies we were learning about"," and the ",[160,165,166],{},"technologies we were learning with",[11,168,169],{},"It struck us how unnatural most processes were: exchanging files, monolithic large documents, presentations, etc. We knew that there must be a better way. Today's technologies are so powerful. We knew we could build something simple and intuitive yet powerful and versatile. Something so natural that all friction and issues magically disappear, something that does not force us into adjusting our thinking to it but something that is an extension of ourselves.",[11,171,172],{},"All solutions out there did not meet what we had in mind. Some where based on traditional principles; they inherit a lot of biases from computer architectures: Folders, files, tables, and hierarchies. Others were complicated to get started with, had overwhelming degrees of freedom, or required commands and special syntax. They were not simple enough.",[11,174,175],{},"We decided to start from scratch. We threw away all assumptions about computers and how we work with them. We started with the human being in the center and got inspired by our natural way of interacting with our environment. That’s where everything started.",[11,177,178],{},"Read more:",[180,181,182,189],"ul",{},[183,184,185],"li",{},[33,186,188],{"href":187},"/about/principles","Our principles",[183,190,191],{},[33,192,194],{"href":193},"/about/manifesto","Our manifesto",{"title":41,"searchDepth":42,"depth":42,"links":196},[],"2024-03-13","Mar 13, 2024","Knowledge work can be overwhelming. There must be a better way, so we decided to do it ourselves.","/blog/how-it-started.jpg",[202,203],"Origin story","Knowledge management",{},"/blog/how-it-started",[207,109],"why-the-name-capacities",{"title":153,"description":199},"blog/how-it-started","FFhq00AomCENeh-0oz0gzxW2I7k72YKgMY0Sd5-HBhk",1775120798191]