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Capacities
Company blog · capacities.io/blog · on HN as steffenbleherproductivityprogramming
Capacities is the company blog at capacities.io, writing about productivity and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link its tutorial on outliner mode and its FAQ, which cover a personal note-taking and knowledge management tool. One commenter calls the tool awesome.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Capacities is a note-taking and knowledge management app that organizes your ideas as connected objects instead of files and folders. Available free on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.
What Hacker News says?
https://capacities.io/tutorials/outliner-mode
Comment linking /tutorials/outliner-mode
on “Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life”Submitted Cutting down 90% of database spending at Capacities by migrating to Postgres as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat's great feedback, thanks! Our product and the explanations are currently tailored to heavy note-takers. If you're interested, you can start getting into the topic here: https://capacities.io/blog/how-to-create-the-knowledge-base-... or to get an overview see here: https://capacities.io/blog/guide-to-pkm Feel free to reach out at any point.
Comment linking /blog/guide-to-pkm
on “Launching a new approach to note-taking / knowledge organization: capacities.io”Submitted Capacities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLooks like they cover this as the last part of the FAQ: https://capacities.io/faq
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on “Launching a new approach to note-taking / knowledge organization: capacities.io”A friend of mine built https://capacities.io/ - an awesome personal knowledge management and note taking tool
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