This is the only feature that’s been holding me back from fully using Capacities. You do an excellent job with object-based organization, but during the brainstorming phase my thoughts are usually messy, and a whiteboard works much better than a blank page or graph view linking. I really hope this feature will be added soon—and that it’ll be as intuitive as possible. Thanks!

After using excalidraw integration in obsidian, I would give my left big toe for the same in Capacities, an excalidraw object integrated into the appwith the same workflow and features as the obsidian one.

Excalidraw in obsidian has become my 'front end' to my obsidian vault. Its so much more than just a whiteboard or sketching tool. Its how I interact with my knowledge and notes.

I make meaning of and learn from creating visual stories and maps of concepts, embedding my existing notes, agumenting with disgrams. Its a dream workflow. I use it to prepare trainings, to learn, to explore. Its as core functiinality to me as as the underlying note system.

This in Capacities would me a permanent user rather than focusing on obsidian and playing with capacities now and then.

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Just to share something that others may find interesting, here's a presentation from the maker of Excalidraw that talks about the increasing need of visual note taking and how he uses Excalidraw plugin (I assume links are ok to share here?). The other videos from that conference are also great.

I think the power of Capacities Object approach with an Excalidraw Object (or equivalent) would blow every other app out of the water and would be a huge differentiator that would bring Capacities to the front of the overpopulated world of note taking apps.

Mindmap, Mindmap, Mindmap!

Intentional and linkable mindmap

It would make sense to launch with the media 2.0, maybe :3

Please I'm begging you make this feature. Capacities would be the absolute best app. I've tried multiple apps and programs but none of them as good as this, but it's missing this feature so bad. Please please please do it!

The number of comments and votes are screaming for this feature to be built. Hope the team @ Capacities is listening. This one feature will be powerful.

This is really out of the scope of Capacities right now, in my opinion. Instead, I think what it really needs is improvements in the graph feature, such as better ability to rearrange objects and the ability to create a graph for an object type or a query.

After spending time with Heptabase, I’m now absolutely convinced that a modern PKM system needs a native whiteboard. It’s not just a visual extra — it fundamentally changes how you think and organize.

A whiteboard acts like a “concept-based folder”:

you’re no longer constrained by a single hierarchy, because the same note can appear on multiple boards, each representing a different perspective or line of thought. This lets you explore your knowledge both bottom-up (emerging patterns, connections, clusters) and top-down (intentional structure, frameworks, project views).

The result is a level of clarity and cognitive flow that’s hard to replicate with lists, links, or pages alone.

If a PKM system doesn’t invest in a proper whiteboard experience, it’s inevitably missing a crucial layer of thinking. Notes, links, and tags cover structure and storage — but whiteboards cover sense-making. They enable spatial reasoning, multi-context views, and the ability to see relationships at a glance.

Without this layer, a PKM becomes great at organizing information but limited in helping you understand it. And in the long run, that’s a significant competitive gap.

I want to say that it would be very important for me to have a canvas/whiteboard/mind map. I write a lot in this programme and want to give an example: I am writing a book, and it would be very convenient for me to have a board on which I could visually convey the entire essence of my work, where there would be characters, plot arcs, and their intersections.

Really need this - I need a visual canvas to add to my set of notes in Capacities, a whiteboard style thing would be great!

This is the one feature

Keeping me from

Capacities