Everything can be connected

Notes don’t live in folders — they are connected

We built Capacities to work in the way your brain does. Rather than locking you in to a rigid folder structure, your notes are loosely and freely connected.

Connecting your notes allows you to form associations to other objects in the same way your brain does. Taking notes on a book, and want to remember who recommended it to you? Link that book note to your person object note. If you navigate through to that person, you can see all your other notes connected to them.

This way of thinking takes a minute to adjust to. After all, we have been working with digital files and notes in a rigid way for so long. But once you start seeing the power of connected notes, you won’t want to go back.

Object types are better than folders

The irony of folder structures is that while they offer flexibility in theory, they become rigid in practice. Once you’ve placed a file in a folder, it can only exist in that one location unless you introduce complicated solutions like aliases. This leads to classic dilemmas: Where do archived projects go? Where do book notes belong if they touch on multiple topics? How do you categorize a resource that applies to two different projects? Over time, these decisions accumulate, making it harder to retrieve what you need. You may need to turn to search in these cases, but does that not mean that the time spent organizing was wasted?

We approach things differently at Capacities. Instead of blank documents that require categorization, we introduce objects with types, links, and a calendar at the heart of the system. This approach is designed to streamline decision-making, allowing you to focus on what you actually want to do: capture and use your notes effectively.

Read more about this here or watch the video below.

Capacities: your notes to think like you

If you are constantly getting overwhelmed with the organizational upkeep of notes in your folder structure, and are ready to align your notes with the way you naturally think, Capacities is the app for you.

By breaking free from a siloed folder structure, you are letting go of the stress of having to know where everything is, and remember where things should go. You can get ideas and thoughts down, and form connections over time without having to worry about organization on the spot.

See how powerful this could be with this video.