Capacities
Object-based notes for people who think in entities.
why this verdict
Downgrade — pay for the workflow, not the AI
Obsidian and Notion cover the headline feature free, so the $12/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Assistants with persistent memory. Anthropic, August 20, 2024 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 2 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: Obsidian and Notion.
- What the call is worth $144/yr
- $12/mo at the entry paid tier — $144 a year per seat.
- Threatened by
- Anthropic
- Since
- August 20, 2024
- List price
- $12/mo
- Per year
- $144
The backstory
Capacities is a note tool built on objects: instead of loose pages you create typed entities like people, books, and projects that link to each other, so your notes form a structured graph. Assistants with persistent memory now surface relevant context automatically, which pressures the manual work of tagging and linking. It's WOUNDED because the object model is genuinely distinct, but the everyday promise of "bring up the right note at the right moment" is becoming default assistant behaviour rather than a paid feature.
Escape hatches
switching could free up $144/yrLocal-first linked notes, free for personal use
obsidian.md open_in_newDatabases and linked pages with a free tier
notion.so open_in_newAI-native outliner with a supertag knowledge graph
tana.inc open_in_new2 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.