Capacities

– A studio for your mind

2024/8/10 試運転

2024/8/12

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Introducing objective note-taking

I hope you're doing great! We have another thought for you today.

With the omnipresence of the computer, we have become so familiar with documents, spreadsheets, websites, or PDF files that we don't question their usefulness. Unfortunately, they often don't follow our intuition and our natural approach to working with information and knowledge.

With Capacities, we are introducing a concept that we call object-based note-taking. Instead of storing great ideas and thoughts in faceless notes or files, we create colorful objects: Meetings, people, concepts, projects – whatever fits our workflows.

All objects have properties. A meeting has a date and attendees, a person has contact details and a short bio. Different objects look and feel different because they are different. In your next meeting, don't create a note, create a meeting. Your next essay? Not another note, it's an essay.

And the best thing: You can create, link, or embed objects inside any other content in your workspace.

Give it a try and explore the colorful world of objects!

2024/8/13

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Introducing networked note-taking

A lot of our work with computers evolved around organizing files in folders. This is how computers are structured, and it works very well for archives or simple file storage. But when it comes to ideas, thoughts, or creative work, it can be limiting: We rarely have ideas or information that belong to a single topic or project (often represented as a folder).

With Capacities, we want to introduce you to a new way of thinking about information. We call it networked note-taking. All objects (remember: meetings, people, essays, ...) are free of folders. You can create them from anywhere. You can let this sink in: Anywhere – no specific location you need to navigate to. You can just create it.

And when you work with your content, you connect it to related content, topics, or projects. Your content is now stored in a network of ideas, and it will always appear when it's relevant to you. You will find it when working on related topics, via search or based on the object type.

A personal note: While this approach might be strange initially, and you might wonder if you'll ever find your content again, we promise: You'll tremendously benefit from it in the long run. Imagine you have thousands of notes. Do you really think you'll remember the folder you stored that note in? Or is it simpler to jump into a topic and click through relationships to get the information you need? Trust the system – you'll never want to go back again.

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