today's video we're diving into what is capacities and we are collaborating with PKM bath who is an
expert on capacities she's going to be taking us through how capacities works and a little
bit more about what it is about and why it makes it so special now linked below and mentioned will
be the capacities Made Simple course Beth has been working hard on it and she is co-launching
it with us keep productive I'm very excited to launch this course with her because she's
put in a lot of time and effort to develop such a fantastic course that digs into this note-taking
application and how to really take advantage of it so a big thank you to Beth for coming on check
out her YouTube channel check out the course below that she's fully developed and feel free to enjoy
this video thank you very much folks capacities is a network note-taking app that is based on
the idea of objective note-taking what is this and why is it different to other jobs in many
apps you start afresh with every blank page you assign it a title and you can write whatever you
want within it including metadata if you'd like this gives you total freedom but developing your
knowledge from there could be easier with this method links created in a page might get left
behind or get lost in the Giant number of pages your PKM system could grow to have it might be
difficult to remember precisely which metadata to assign a page based off the type of information it
holds or you might have to download plugins for extra functionality or learn new syntax in order
to query your notes capacities has taken these issues and created an app that solves them all
capacity sees that one page can hold information about lots of different things Each of which might
want to be tracked and engaged with in different ways these different types of information are what
capacities calls objects or content types these terms are interchangeable some examples of these
include books People Media themes or projects this is then gives you the structure and space to
strengthen your knowledge on these component parts through storing these content types or objects in
databases you define what properties each database has you can add as many or as few as you'd like
and you can change them as your system goes on you basically design what works for you once set
up each new piece of content within this content type automatically has these properties applied
working like this is what capacities cause objective note-taking all content belongs to
one object and that is the starting point for your notes therefore you are breaking down knowledge
into its component parts and engaging with it in the way that suits that type of information
which means the knowledge itself is championed on a really granular level you can create beautiful
notes and capacities wonderful text editor and the linking functionality allows you to create
a visual network of knowledge which is supported by first class search that allows you to dive in
and out of your notes with ease this allows you to confidently remix and connect your notes with
other ideas or pieces of content in your network or to create new work or New pieces of knowledge
whilst you're creating customize most of the content types capacities will create some for
you too for example media is given special treatment and capacities and uploading a
piece to your space will see it automatically uploaded to its own object PDFs go to the PDF
object tweets to the Tweet object and image to the image object too and as you can see from
the picture on the screen it supports more types of media as well you can't lose content in this
way you can see everything through its content type through search or through its backlinks
capacities just really seems to put things where you need them as many times as you need them and
whatever format you need them in there are no folders so you don't need to spend any time
organizing your notes really and there's certainly no difficulty remembering where the notes are
it lets you view things how you want to as well do you prefer a table structure
a list or my personal favorite the wall view there is no need for plugins you can see all
of your knowledge in front of you it just works this app is developing fast and it
has a wonderful team behind it and a growing Community which is most active on the Discord
Channel you may run into books on occasion as it is in beta you can rest assured that they
will be ironed out ASAP so you can continue to use the app in the way that you want to
in this course we'll be deep diving the features and reviewing some use cases I'm sure you'll be
enticed by just how easy it is to use it's a truly joyous app to use and I hope that is clear from
the videos in this course once you take notes in this way I truly believe that you cannot go back