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I've bounced around a lot in my note-taking practices. I've flirted with Obsidian, and maintained bullet journals for many years. Since last August, I've mostly been using Capacities, and it's probably been the most use I've gotten out of any of my note-taking and journalling systems.In this newsletter I'm going to share how I use Capacities to take — and more importantly, to review — my notes, and share a little bit about a larger project that I'm using it to write.CapacitiesCapacities organizes notes around two core concepts: The "daily note," and "objects."Objects are types of notes, with metadata. Capacities defines some basic ones for you — the daily note is itself an object, that has a date, tags, a text area, and templates — and then you can also add custom types. For instance, I have a few custom types that I use to manage my in-season notes on football games— teams, weeks, games, and seasons. Games are always linked to two teams, a week, and a season, and then there's a…

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