What's new?

We are currently working on a suite of improvements around content views and queries in Capacities! From reviewing all the feedback we’ve received, we’ve identified that this area is the cause of some friction and frustration right at the core of the app. We will be continuously shipping these improvements over the next few weeks to not introduce any new bugs and catch any issues early.

v1.49.17 (2025-07-07)

Minor bug fixes and improvements based on feedback.

v1.49.14 (2025-07-07)

Better query UI & live updates while building queries

We have reworked the query UI to make it more intuitive and make the flow of creating queries much smoother. This includes a new UI without a modal and live updates while building the query. It should make working with queries more interactive and direct!

In addition:

• All changes of a query are now also part of the change stack and can be reverted via Cmd-Z or Ctrl-Z.

• Changing the query type is now a simple dropdown.

  

• We’ve improved the query builder design to make it more compact and consistent.

• Search queries are more consistent with other query types now: If you limit your results with a set of tags, the query will now consider in-text tags as well.

More flexible sort and filter options

• More filter options for object properties: You can now select from all your object properties in filters and sorts in queries including multiple objects. This allows you to create more nuanced queries across multiple object types. If you apply a filter based on an object type’s property, all other object types will be excluded from the results. If you want to combine filters across object types, you can use the “or” operator in combination with the “object type” filter (Example: “Object type is not ‘Book’ or ‘Book > Author’ includes ‘John Doe’”).

• Turn filters into filter groups: We’ve improved the editing of filters: you can now conveniently turn a filter into a filter group and vice versa. Ticket

  

• Sort objects and queries by number of objects linking to them: You can now select “Number of backlink objects” in the sort menu to sort objects and queries by the number of objects linking to them. This also works on tag pages for the number of objects tagged with a tag. Ticket

• More filter options for dates: You can now also filter dates by “this week”, “this month”, “this year”. Ticket

• Sort objects and queries by icon: You can now sort objects and queries by icon. Ticket

Export of content views

It is now possible to export queries, tags, or all objects of a certain object type as CSV, including sub-pages and media as markdown and media files. To do this, open the desired object, go to the object menu (the three dots at the top right) and click on “Export”. Ticket

This allows you to export your content in a very targeted way, and we hope this will enable new workflows for you.

Renaming of “Multi-select” and “Single select” properties to “Object select” properties

We’ve renamed the “Multi-select” and “Single select” properties to “Object select” property to make it clearer what these properties are for. We’ve also added a nested menu to choose the object type when adding an “Object select property”. This makes it immediately clear to the user what options there are for the object select property.

Adding a new object select property defaults to using multi-select. In the settings, a constraint to only allow one object to be selected is available. You can read more about this in our docs.

“Create” button in object type settings

It is now finally possible to create a new object type from the object type settings via a simple button.

✨ Improvements

• Visually declutter object type dashboard and improve styling

• Add ability to open object type view in the sidepanel from the space overview sidebar (Shift-click on the object type name). Ticket

• Make links and URLs in text block preview of small card view clickable. Ticket

• Option to hide unlinked mentions: In the Editor Settings you can now choose to hide unlinked mentions if you do not want to see them on your object pages.

• Better list view: We adjusted many details around how objects are displayed in a list.

• Rewritten API documentation: We updated our API docs. It’s now much easier to interact with the different routes. You can search the documentation, select your platform and copy code snippets from the reference.

• Better backlink interactions: Added convenient copy buttons when hovering over contextual backlink text blocks or search highlight snippets (e.g. on tag page, in backlink section, results of a search query). We’ve also moved the options to “Jump to position” and “Show full path” to this hover menu.

  

• Copy shown blocks: In addition, we’ve added the option to “Copy shown blocks” to the object menu of a result object in the above scenario. All contextual blocks of that search result or backlink item will be copied.

• Better performance when opening queries and object views: We substantially improved the loading performance when opening content views or when switching between different views.

• Added proper progress bar alignment in table view: all progress bars now have the same width (2/3 of column width) to perfectly align them. Ticket

  • Note: I’t difficult to come up with a perfectly clean solution for this, because any number values from e.g. 1-10,000 can be put by the user and their widths varies a lot. You would need to calculate the full range of all other number values to find the perfect width for the progress bar.

Breaking changes

• Soft line breaks using Shift-Enter are now disabled on mobile because they were causing issues in conjunction with auto-capitalization which made it very difficult for users to add new blocks.

🐛 Fixes

• A patch for Android to bring back the native “back” gesture and disable immersive mode to show status bar again.

• Fix code block on tablet: The cursor would blur instantly when trying to focus and edit a code block on tablets.

• Fix: In the dashboard view, the carousel preview of dashboard sections can now display more than 5 items. New items are automatically loaded when scrolling to the right.

• The shortcut (Cmd-A) to select all entities within a content view was sometimes erroneously triggered when the user was writing or editing other content.

• X-Callback-URL Custom Scheme Callbacks Not Working with createNewObject. This also fixes problems with the Hookmark integration. Ticket

• Automatic loading for content views disabled when query is grouped by object type

• Fixed a bug where focusing the text on Android was not working (buggy behavior of the virtual keyboard showing and hiding)

• Fixed the editor options on tablet (they were not clickable/tappable) after the last update.

• Fixed an issue where search and space overview wouldn’t open after keyboard is closed Ticket

• Fixed inline tag selector positioning via #-shortcut Ticket

• Fixed copy and duplicate buttons on mobile working again Ticket

• Fixed link menu behavior on mobile (edit link title working again) Ticket

• Fixed tag selection in daily notes on mobile

• Added loading indicator for AI tag suggestions on desktop

• Fixed icon selector positioning in query editor

• Fixed tag selection behavior (selected tags were sometimes not shown in the tag picker)

• Added AI-tagging option on mobile again and added loading indicator