Capacities vs Craft

What Capacities is

Capacities organises notes as typed objects — people, books, ideas — rather than as files in folders. Typing objects means a book, a person and a meeting behave differently and can be queried as sets, which is closer to a database than a notebook. The cost is up-front modelling, and it is hosted, so local-first users will look elsewhere.

What Craft is

Craft is a document and note app with an unusually polished editor, strong exports and clean sharing links. It suits documents meant to be read by someone else: pages export and publish cleanly, and the typography holds up. It is weaker as a knowledge base, since linking and querying across a large collection is not where its design effort went.

What Capacities is built to do

Typed objects

Models notes as people, books or ideas with their own properties.

Daily notes

Captures into a dated page that links out to objects.

Object-based search

Filters and lists notes by type and property.

What Craft is built to do

Block-based editor

Builds documents from blocks that can be nested, styled and reordered.

Shareable web pages

Publishes a document as a formatted link without a separate site.

Offline-first sync

Edits locally and syncs across devices when a connection returns.

Choose Capacities if

• People who found folders too rigid and outliners too loose.

Choose Craft if

• People who write documents others will read.

Capacities: pros & cons

• Object model suits linked knowledge
• Attractive, calm interface
• Daily notes as an entry point
• Object thinking takes adjustment
• Younger than the incumbents
• Offline and export options are limited

Craft: pros & cons

• Documents genuinely look good
• Excellent export and sharing
• Fast native apps on Apple platforms
• Best experience is on Apple devices
• Collaboration is lighter than rivals
• Subscription for most useful features