I was reading a post by one of the founders of Capacities.io and I suggest reading it before this post so you get the idea.
https://capacities.io/blog/capacities-vs-notion
My mind immediately thinks, damnit... I just spent an entire month moving from Notion (which I had been on for about half a decade), to Obsidian.md (a networked note taking tool).
Why am I now looking at something else??
Well that has to do with two things: Shiny object syndrome, and more importantly: it is the best of both worlds.
As a tool guru I find websites, tools, and resources all the time. It is how I relax even sometimes. I even made a website directory for content repurposing tools for pete's sake. However I'm pretty particular on what tools I actually use.
I moved away from Notion because of it always being online only, the desktop app sucks imo, and the structure of the app itself. When I first moved to it I was stuck in the old ways like everyone else. Evernote or Clickup, or gasp... google sheets.
A farcry from what you could even imagine in Notion, let alone do, and that is why I moved. I built out the PolyInnovation Operating System, and the rest was history. I even ported that over to Obsidian, and it worked flawlessly there too. Meaning that I had something special here in my second brain. #secondbrain #PKM
However I miss the database powers I had in Notion, that for some reason I cannot replicate in Obsidian. I now about the "Projects" plugin and Make.md plugin, both are nice, but barely are functional. At least with my Vault, I literally could not get them to actually work (buttons wouldn't work, weird visual errors).
It also could be said that Obsidian is note taking only, and everything else is an add on. Notion is like legos, and so you can add on anything. However in both systems you are limited by the BASE Featureset of the apps.
In Capacities you get to have a more catered experience, they give you a few Post types, and the ability to make more. However the way the post types and pages ACTUALLY WORk is different.
That is the power of the app. The Pages in Notion and the Pages in Capacities are fundamentally different features.
I am really curious about what I could do if I had a system that would work with me like that.
I'm sort of mad that I'd have to move again, but any issues I had in Notion or in Obsidian I think will be fixed in Capacities. Bridging the gap between them.
I am worried about one thing though: local vs cloud. I can't fully tell if the Capacities local app is just like the Notion one, or if I could theoretically work fully locally-no internet.
I feel like it is the former, but it may still be worth the move.
