[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":211},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-why-offline-first":3,"related-why-ai-chat-building-capacities-how-it-started":55},{"id":4,"title":5,"authorKey":6,"body":7,"category":34,"date":35,"dateFormatted":36,"description":37,"extension":38,"icon":39,"iconColor":39,"imagePath":40,"keywords":41,"meta":44,"navigation":45,"path":46,"readingTime":47,"relatedArticles":48,"seo":52,"stem":53,"__hash__":54},"blog/blog/why-offline-first.md","Why Capacities will become offline-first","steffen",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":30},"minimark",[10,14,17,20],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Offline-first for us means that you can work with Capacities on your device without access to the internet. We decided to prioritize this for two reasons:",[11,15,16],{},"First, nobody likes loading spinners. We want the tools we use to work at the speed of our thoughts. Waiting interrupts our flow and our focus, and that's unacceptable for us.",[11,18,19],{},"Second, thousands of people rely on Capacities to get critical work done every day. Technology should never stop you from doing that.",[11,21,22,23,29],{},"You can already use Capacities without an internet connection today, but not all features are available. We're gradually introducing more offline support over time. If you're interested, you can read about our roadmap here: ",[24,25,26],"a",{"href":26,"rel":27},"https://docs.capacities.io/misc/offline-support",[28],"nofollow",".",{"title":31,"searchDepth":32,"depth":32,"links":33},"",2,[],"team-product","2024-05-02","May 2, 2024","We recently committed to transforming Capacities into an offline-first application.","md",null,"/blog/why-offline-first.jpg",[42,43],"offline first","software development",{},true,"/blog/why-offline-first","1 min",[49,50,51],"why-ai-chat","building-capacities","how-it-started",{"title":5,"description":37},"blog/why-offline-first","EwhIZ4kiWfuIdlF5t7QKwTcVdErTSO22oPIWtymYvtQ",[56,103,152],{"id":57,"title":58,"authorKey":6,"body":59,"category":34,"date":87,"dateFormatted":88,"description":89,"extension":38,"icon":39,"iconColor":39,"imagePath":90,"keywords":91,"meta":95,"navigation":45,"path":96,"readingTime":97,"relatedArticles":98,"seo":100,"stem":101,"__hash__":102},"blog/blog/why-ai-chat.md","Why did we add an AI chat to Capacities, although ChatGPT already exists?",{"type":8,"value":60,"toc":85},[61,64,67,70,73,76,79],[11,62,63],{},"Capacities has a built-in AI chat which you can open as a small window next to your notes. You can use your current note as context; you can apply commands like \"Critique my thinking,\" rephrase your questions and add the results back to your notes. Here are some thoughts about why we decided to do it that way.",[11,65,66],{},"First: Context switching is costly. We do a lot of work in and with our notes. We think, create, and have questions. Leaving our thinking context is distracting and increases cognitive load. We want to use an assistant while we're working on our notes. We don't want to copy/paste and switch windows. By having a chat right next to our notes, we can compare different results or replace our version with a single click.",[11,68,69],{},"We decided to use a chat because we think conversations are essential to working with Generative AI. It rarely produces great results on the first shot. We might have follow-up questions, need to ask it to rephrase its results, or want it to justify its arguments. Once we come to a result, we can use it, but we do not simply want to rely on what we got on the first try.",[11,71,72],{},"Some conversations are so insightful or helpful that we want to store them. Capacities allows you to capture a conversation as an object, tag it, and add it to your notes. AI conversations become part of your knowledge base. You can reference them and come back if needed.",[11,74,75],{},"And last, but most important: LLMs can hallucinate; they don't know us; they don't know what we work on and what your context is. They have flaws, and we need to be aware of that. But: We can also substantially improve its results by giving it some context about us, our knowledge, and what we work on. At the moment, you can use your current note as a context. In the future, the AI will be able to use all your notes and resources to assist us. We can encourage it to prove its argument, cite its sources, and draw conclusions based on facts and data.",[11,77,78],{},"Exciting times ahead!",[11,80,81],{},[82,83,84],"em",{},"By the way, I used the AI Assistant to sharpen and develop my thoughts here. I did not use it to write my essay. We can use LLM to generate a lot of content, but we can also use it to improve our own thinking and increase the quality of our own work. It's you who chooses how you use it.",{"title":31,"searchDepth":32,"depth":32,"links":86},[],"2024-04-05","April 5, 2024","Here are some thoughts about why we decided to integrate an AI chat into Capacities.","/blog/why-ai-chat.jpg",[92,93,94],"Generative AI","ChatGPT","AI Chat",{},"/blog/why-ai-chat","3 min",[50,51,99],"how-we-developed-tables",{"title":58,"description":89},"blog/why-ai-chat","qpq76uOBuiJJVn4wZWuTQyxs8UuTXKarBDkJe5CiQ7I",{"id":104,"title":105,"authorKey":6,"body":106,"category":34,"date":137,"dateFormatted":138,"description":139,"extension":38,"icon":39,"iconColor":39,"imagePath":140,"keywords":141,"meta":144,"navigation":45,"path":145,"readingTime":146,"relatedArticles":147,"seo":149,"stem":150,"__hash__":151},"blog/blog/building-capacities.md","How we decide which new features to add",{"type":8,"value":107,"toc":135},[108,111,114,117,120,123,126,129,132],[11,109,110],{},"We often get asked how we decide which features we add to @CapacitiesHQ. 🗺️",[11,112,113],{},"Here’s the answer. 👇",[11,115,116],{},"Very important: Every feature starts with a need or problem. There should never be a feature if it’s not solving a real problem. This cannot be stressed enough. Otherwise, you’re building a product with no real value and a lot of clutter.",[11,118,119],{},"We draw most feature inspiration from our community's feedback and by using the product ourselves. This helps us identify problems and friction points that stop users from getting their work done. We sometimes joke that our community is our first employee: a rigorous tester, opinion consolidator, and key source of inspiration.",[11,121,122],{},"Feature requests and explicit product improvements can be added to our feedback board, voted and commented on by other users. We review and cluster all requests and analyze their importance. This helps us to get a better understanding of the different needs and problems of our users.",[11,124,125],{},"In long and intense discussions, we combine all requests, comments, and ideas with our intuition and vision for what Capacities should become. We always radically aim for usefulness and simplicity – Capacities should just work and help, nothing else.",[11,127,128],{},"When features are big and fundamental, we share proposals or plans in our community for feedback. This ensures that we constantly have our users at the table with us. We fine-tune and iterate until we find a draft that fits into the greater picture.",[11,130,131],{},"Then we start creating. After a first draft, we introduce an early version to a small, selected group of alpha testers. In intense and incredibly helpful discussions, we optimize the last 20% in a combined effort. We refine the feature by addressing issues, polishing details, and enhancing interactions.",[11,133,134],{},"After a feature is released to all users, it’s not done. We constantly improve, iterate, and measure how it fits into users' workflows. Every feature is part of a continuous evolution of the overall product. We constantly strive to build a unified and consistent product – a beautiful environment to think and work in: a Studio for your Mind.",{"title":31,"searchDepth":32,"depth":32,"links":136},[],"2024-03-04","Mar 6, 2024","What's our decision making process? Here's the answer.","/blog/building-capacities.jpg",[142,143],"Feature development","Build in public",{},"/blog/building-capacities","2 min",[148,51],"why-the-name-capacities",{"title":105,"description":139},"blog/building-capacities","yUEsybivkdEpilRjL0YjnGhgRSjIYeDYSFuYsPOVPcQ",{"id":153,"title":154,"authorKey":6,"body":155,"category":34,"date":198,"dateFormatted":199,"description":200,"extension":38,"icon":39,"iconColor":39,"imagePath":201,"keywords":202,"meta":205,"navigation":45,"path":206,"readingTime":146,"relatedArticles":207,"seo":208,"stem":209,"__hash__":210},"blog/blog/how-it-started.md","Why did we decide to build Capacities?",{"type":8,"value":156,"toc":196},[157,168,171,174,177,180],[11,158,159,160,164,165,29],{},"Everything started at university in Germany. Michael and I studied computer science and electrical engineering and realized this big divide between the ",[161,162,163],"strong",{},"technologies we were learning about"," and the ",[161,166,167],{},"technologies we were learning with",[11,169,170],{},"It struck us how unnatural most processes were: exchanging files, monolithic large documents, presentations, etc. We knew that there must be a better way. Today's technologies are so powerful. We knew we could build something simple and intuitive yet powerful and versatile. Something so natural that all friction and issues magically disappear, something that does not force us into adjusting our thinking to it but something that is an extension of ourselves.",[11,172,173],{},"All solutions out there did not meet what we had in mind. Some where based on traditional principles; they inherit a lot of biases from computer architectures: Folders, files, tables, and hierarchies. Others were complicated to get started with, had overwhelming degrees of freedom, or required commands and special syntax. They were not simple enough.",[11,175,176],{},"We decided to start from scratch. We threw away all assumptions about computers and how we work with them. We started with the human being in the center and got inspired by our natural way of interacting with our environment. That’s where everything started.",[11,178,179],{},"Read more:",[181,182,183,190],"ul",{},[184,185,186],"li",{},[24,187,189],{"href":188},"/about/principles","Our principles",[184,191,192],{},[24,193,195],{"href":194},"/about/manifesto","Our manifesto",{"title":31,"searchDepth":32,"depth":32,"links":197},[],"2024-03-13","Mar 13, 2024","Knowledge work can be overwhelming. There must be a better way, so we decided to do it ourselves.","/blog/how-it-started.jpg",[203,204],"Origin story","Knowledge management",{},"/blog/how-it-started",[148,50],{"title":154,"description":200},"blog/how-it-started","FFhq00AomCENeh-0oz0gzxW2I7k72YKgMY0Sd5-HBhk",1776250824758]