Capacities' Three Fundamental Pillars

Capacities is built around three pillars designed to replace rigid file-and-folder thinking with a more brain-friendly system for capturing, organizing, and retrieving information. The centerpiece is a “network” approach to note-taking, where notes aren’t locked to a single location in an absolute file path. Instead, information can be connected to multiple contexts—so a note can link to the people, meetings, projects, or books it relates to. That flexibility reduces the friction of deciding where content “belongs,” and it supports staying in flow because creating links between ideas is faster and more natural than hunting through nested folders.

The second pillar adds structure without sacrificing connectivity: object-based note-taking. Rather than treating everything as generic pages scattered across folders, Capacities treats every piece of content as an object with a type. Built-in types exist (including “pages”), but users can also define object types that match real-world categories they work with—such as meetings or people. These object types can include custom properties, layouts, and templates, making the system feel tailored to how someone actually organizes their life and work. Importantly, these object types don’t replace the network; they live inside it. That means the same meeting can still connect to a relevant book and a specific person, while the repeated structure of object types makes common categories easier to browse and manage.

The third pillar is time-based note-taking, anchored by a calendar at the core of the system. Every item created is automatically time-stamped, and the app maintains a daily note that refreshes each day, along with a daily section that holds everything produced during that day. Users can review information through the daily view, but the calendar also supports longer-range perspectives through multi-day and weekly views. This removes the need to manually organize by date, while still enabling a “go back through time” way to revisit what happened and what was captured.

Taken together, the three pillars create three complementary routes to a personal knowledge base. The network makes retrieval connection-driven—finding content through relationships rather than memory of a file path. Object types make discovery category-driven—surfacing all meetings or all books by type. The calendar makes review time-driven—allowing users to track their notes across days and weeks. The result is a “studio for your mind,” aimed at building a knowledge system that fits how people naturally relate information, group it, and revisit it over time.