Capacities
Launched 2022
142 features found available
In their words
A studio for your mind. Like an artist's studio, Capacities is a place for all your information. It stores your knowledge and can resurface it, right when you need it. It’s your own studio to collect, connect and reflect – a place to make sense of the world and to create amazing things. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for Capacities:
Capacities Free - Free
Capacities Pro - $9.99/month, when paid annually
Capacities Believer - $12.49/month, when paid annually
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
The app allows note content to be created & viewed with minimal formatting and today's date as the default note title
Display option where the editor shows black background with white text
A mechanism is provided to have more than one note concurrently open for editing in a separate viewing window contained within the application
A note can preview content embedded from another note in the same pane as the note itself
A note can preview a specific block/section embedded from within another note or section
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
Can suggest how to revise/rewrite selected text using AI
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
A calendar on which tasks can be viewed is provided in the app
A calendar on which tasks can be viewed is provided in the mobile app
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Interactive preview of a Tweet will be displayed, including any rich content
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
Company offers on-site real time chat support, or a chat server in which the company participates
There is a dedicated venue such as Discord where users can chat about the product in real time
The company has a specified URL at which users can discuss the product and ask questions in a format where answers can be upvoted to pinpoint the best one
There exists a publicly accessible site upon which users can upvote features they want to see implemented
The company offers a version of the product that can be used indefinitely at no cost, without a note limit
Company has averaged at least one blog post or change log per month over the past year that details recent product updates
The company provides a list of the app's upcoming and newly added features for public consumption
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
Can enable two-factor authentication from within the app (not only via third parties) to protect account access
Documented claim that all note data is encrypted at rest, on the server
Documented claim that all note data and their attachments are encrypted on the server
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
A documented claim exists that note content will not be accessed by employees
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
dotted points are used at the beginning of a paragraph to assemble unordered lists
Bullet items can be "folded," "collapsed" or "contracted" such that their nested content is hidden from view
Excluding text that gets colored as a side effect of some other formatting feature listed (e.g., highlight)
There exists a means to recolor the background behind specific text in more than one color
Note content can be laid out in multiple columns without any visible borders (i.e., not in a table)
A formatting text style that slants the letters evenly to the right
What functionality specific to images is possible?
Selected images can be grouped together into carousel-style rows
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
When an export is initiated, the downloadable package includes image files for each image uploaded to the user's notebook
App includes a built in importer for any markdown notes (MD)
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
Emails can be forwarded to an email address that will create a new note w/ the email content, or append the email content to an existing note
It's possible to setup callbacks to external services when a note changes
Pre-configured content (instructions, tasks, etc) can be duplicated from an existing source note
Which login types are supported?
Features specific to the mobile experience
How well can the app function without internet access?
Allows for offline use only if you've opened the app before going offline
Which platforms are officially supported?
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
For any given note, the app provides a way to browse all other notes that contain links pointing to it
It is possible to filter backlinked content, whether by tag, note title, or other means
It is possible to have a selection of sorting options for backlinked content
It's possible to create a link from one note to another note
A list of all notes containing a word or phrase can be produced
Using whatever mechanism the app provides to organize notes (e.g., tags, folders), can that mechanism be used as a full text search filter?
Search results can be sorted by the note's date of creation
It's possible to assign a hierarchy identifier (such as a tag) to a line of text, such that the line (not the note itself) can be discovered when browsing the note hierarchy
A menu to view available keyboard shortcuts is located within the app
Means provided to link to specific content in another note (be it a heading, paragraph, task, or bullet)
The app provides a means by which to arrange notes such that they can be browsed through a tree structure (e.g., tags, folders)
A note can be in multiple navigation hierarchies concurrently (i.e., because it has multiple tags)
Nodes in the note hierarchy can be colored
Notes can have metadata or frontmatter ("properties"), which can be used to locate the note later
A hotkey is available that can be used to access an input box that searches notes, and a note can be selected from that list without using the mouse
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
Table formulas can perform mathematical equations
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
The URL of the web page from whence the capture occurred can be included among the content inserted into note
An official Chrome web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
The clipper can capture an entire web page, even when it is taller than their viewport
An official Firefox web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
An official Safari web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
An option to apply new or established tags to the clipped selection
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