Whiteboard / Canvas / Drawing
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David Jaggi
The ability to connect multiple entities on a whiteboard and add free text. The whiteboard itself is also an entity and has it's own database. A good implementation is Heptabase.
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Steffen Bleher
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We just released an updated "What's next" article. You can read it here: https://capacities.io/roadmap/whats-next
We currently don't have whiteboards on our roadmap. Nevertheless, we do not exclude that this can change. We still encourage you to vote on this ticket to get a better idea of the importance to users and to stay updated on the topic.
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Sam Sacks
For anyone reading, I know it isn’t ideal, but as a temporary solution it’s fairly simple to, on iPad for instance, draw what you mean to draw in another app (I tried it with Freeform) then copy/paste any selection as an image into Capacities. It adds a little slop into your workflow but it isn’t too bad for the time being. This also works in Bear or Apple Notes.
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Luke Barton
I really like using Heptabase because I can create 'ideas' or 'thoughts' aka cards as I go and that the cards exist outside of the whiteboard so they can be developed and reused in other whiteboards. For me this is a much more natural way of capturing and developing my thoughts than giving birth to 'ideas' or 'thoughts' cards on a linear, 1-dimensional document in some kind of "document writing" process. If Capacities gains a whiteboarding feature like Heptabase, I'll become a believer in a heartbeat, but without it, I am a Heptabase customer instead - simply because trying to capture emergent, non-linear interrelated ideas in a linear document is painful and neigh-on impossible.
Beth
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Smartboard
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Stanislava Minkina
Sometimes it is extremely convenient to write down or draw by hand on a tablet while studying. That would be great if Capacities had a feature of smartboard. Just basic instruments of some pens and image attachment would be enough.
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Jafe Jafe
The lack of a tool for visual thinking and free association / arrangement is by far the biggest shortcoming of Capacities from the point of view of creative types. The lack of task management can be circumvented by a customized object type, the lack of canvas is just a big black gaping hole right in the middle of the app.
Objects and logical relations might be good enough for knowledge management.
But they are not good enough for knowledge creation.
You could start with just a simple canvas view where any objects could be added and freely arranged. Just start with that. That alone would be a huge step forward. You would immediately pull a ton of users from Heptabase.
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Jafe Jafe
All that being said, I should add that by the philosophical grounding, by the intellectual principles, Capacities is unbeatable in the current PKM market. No other app promises as much. There is nothing fundamentally wrong about Capacities. Thank you for the excellent app!
Beth
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Canvsa Board like Miro, that can also be embeded into a object.
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Dale Peart
A feature like this will have a good impact on people learning concepts and ideas to be able to visualise their ideas and plans.
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Dubb Jaye
I'm sure the developers have their hands full with other things. The app doesn't have to do everything. An integration with another app that does this might be nice, though.
Beth
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New feature: something to draw and a whiteboard
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Pedro De carvalho
A feature to do anything close to a drawing inside the app on iPad and other devices, like concepts (I think in tablets would be more optimized) and a whiteboard too (like heptabase) would turn the app the BEST for me.
I'm a designer. The infinite canva from Concepts and its simple brushes it's so cool; and the whiteboard on Heptabase make me think about go back to the app.
The integration with Whatsapp, the fast way do capture ideias, files... and the way Capacities show the things like Objects don't let me say goodbye. It's PERFECT. But I used Heptabase for a month and their whiteboard is so cool :(
Luv yall from Capacities. Thanks helping me be me.
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Jan Aerts
Obsidian and logseq have integration with excalidraw. Something similar would be perfect!
Beth
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Built-in canvas space in Capacities with objects as card
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Aurelie Kabore
As an avid visual person, it would be create for Capacities to have a built-in Canvas like space, where each object can be a card and connected together. A built-in would be better than an integration, because of the power of Capacities mirroring our thoughts and minds. I find it amazing to be able to link and organize my workflow. But at times, I had to use external tools to just be able to visualize things as I work. A plus, to speed up the workflow.
Beth
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Zettels need Canvas(whiteboard) feature to connect notes for getting ideas.
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Tyler Lam
The biggest thing of Zettels method is connecting ideas, that means we need Canvas also called whiteboard.
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