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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Json Canvas Objects would be amazing! PLEASE!! (canvas/whiteboard/mindmap)
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Luiz Cristofari
I love capacities and the idea of objects, but it would be amazing to have a visual way to relate these objects with arrows and (like heptabase, scrintal, obsidian canvas).
It would be incredible to have an object called CANVAS or WHITEBOARD where the canvas would be an object (of course) and within this canvas we could use several objects that we already have in the capacities.
As a format, I believe that JSON CANVAS (An open file format for infinite canvas data) (https://jsoncanvas.org/) would be the best foundation for an easy export/import file
Obsidian did an incredible job with JSON CANVAS Format and I believe that capacities would reach a new level of usability if they had an option like this.
I know you are full of requests, but this one will take capacities to a new level, I have many friends who are in obsidian just because of the canvas and I would appreciate your attention if you could think about this function, because I loved the capacities and I have been using it more and more to manage my life.
Obs: I know there is another whiteboard topic here, but I would like to emphasize the jsoncanvas.org as a solution to have a shareable canvas that is easy to export or import, so I decided to create this topic.
Steffen Bleher
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vision assemblies
why not add it here, and accumulate ideas ... and votes?! ☺️
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Luiz Cristofari
vision assemblies i can re-post there or maybe this post could be merged
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vision assemblies
Luiz Cristofari yeah! sure michael_v_h or Steffen Bleher could do that (they. do it all the time 😄)
... but given it's 2 votes so far, I'd think just copying&pastimg it & deleting is quite lime a merge! 😃
(u could notify the 2nd voter here via message)
anyways, good addition!
the json-imterchange format of Obsidian was already mentioned in one of the forum discussions! 👍
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Akshat Mishra
This would be super helpful to be able to mindmap and start organizing ideas visually each of which can be fleshed out as a note.
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michael_v_h
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Canvas / Whiteboard
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Marcos JP
I think a canvas/board goes well with the idea behind Capacities. Instead of a hierarchical folder-like structure, capacities seems to aim for something less linear, where all objects are at “the same level” and you can hop from one to another using bidirectional links
And instead of categorizing them in “folders” (from top to bottom) they are categorized in objects that you can access anywhere.
This non-linearity fits very well with the concept of canvas in my opinion. Vertical notes like Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Notion, and even Capacities feel somewhat constraining and too linear, maybe I’m too much of a visual thinker but I constantly find myself having to switch to a tool like Canva or Miro to organize my ideas, and they feel kinda clunky because they weren’t designed for notetaking.
Thus, I feel a canvas feature would be useful to many, some people think more linearly and some people think more visually. But in reality, everyone thinks either way depending on the situation, so having both in Capacities would be amazing.
Capacities has a really minimalistic look, so the canvas doesn’t have to be too complex. Something like being able to add boxes and arrows would be sufficient. Although ideally being able to embed objects inside the board would be amazing, as it would let you create links using arrows.
Another feature many online boards have is the ability to draw. While I think it's a tricky feature to implement (as it might not fit Capacities' aesthetic), I feel it would benefit the app a lot. People would use it to take handwritten notes (https://capacities.io/feedback/p/handwritten-notes-draws) and also to create sketches of their ideas to illustrate their notes. It would also be very handy to use the drawing feature on PDFs, now that PDF edition is planned https://capacities.io/feedback/p/pdf-object-improvements
Here is an idea of how it could look like (see the images). The properties could be placed on the left sidebar (that you can hide) and just as how when you scroll down on a note the "Title and Tags" sections isn't visible anymore, when you are editing the canvas it would get reduced, and when you hover the cursor over the Title it would expand.
Finally I think the canvas could work like just any object. So in the graph view you would see it as another object, and all the embeds inside would be represented as links. But if you link two embeds together with an arrow maybe they could also be represented as linked.
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Roger Wong
This would be awesome. Check out Millanote. I think the Capacities team could do some great work here.
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Elizabeth Mackey
I am also supporting this suggestion. My caveat as a writer is that It would be nice to have a ridiculously easy card/note system for the whiteboard like Milanote or Muse for plotting. I don't have to spend a ton of time setting up the cards themselves and can just start brainstorming and moving stuff around as needed.
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Justin McDaniel
Elizabeth Mackey Muse is amazing. Would love to see this functionality in Capacities.
Steffen Bleher
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Clusters of Objects in Visual Space + Freetext (Group Labels)
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Anshal Gupta
Inspiration: I like the Gallery view style with square tiles although I would like more creative expression. Consider implementing a whiteboard-style version. I would really enjoy a free-form tool synchronized with my main workflow. (so I can finally switch completely over from LogSeq!) However Capacities is so uniquely different that I think a simple implementation as I describe will be functionally superior than what I am able to do on competitor apps.
The vision is to cluster similar objects together in custom groups that I could assign labels to, write comments about, etc. Making all objects free-form may require too much memory so perhaps have a whitespace with options to 'call' an object into that space from objects. Basic functionality of text boxes / sticky notes would enable custom labeling and planning.
To me, 'Group Labels' / free text is distinct from tags. Moving the tags around the board gives it a more fluid assignment than tags that reflects innate or central characteristics among objects.
For example, I might have a tag for 'school-friend' but the group label would be 'Daniel's Birthday Party'. In that visual space, I would bring together objects that would literally make Daniel's party come to life: People, images, files, tables, weblinks, etc.
Finally, this proposed method for clustering is distinct from traditional mindmapping because objects are not physically linked together (although, that is an idea to consider and I can see value of). Here, clusters share space around a common 'state' that may change over time. For example, shifts in group positioning over time can reflect real-world transitions that are so impactful in our lives.
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