Using the email integration #

With the Capacities email integration you can save formatted messages, images, or files to Capacities from your inbox. You can of course also forward emails to Capacities.

Setup #

You don't have to setup anything to use this integration, just use the email address you signed up with. If you want to add additional email addresses open the Capacities app and go to "Account > Settings > Integrations > Email" and follow the instructions there.

How it works #

Simply send an email to save@capacities.io from the email address you signed up at Capacities. It will be appended to your daily note as a "Toggle" Block with an email icon. Just click on the toggle to open it.

Formatting #

You can send formatted mails. You can use all Capacities shortcuts:

• # , ## , ### , and #### for headings
• - for bullets
• 1. for numbered lists
• > for quotes
• **text** for bold text
• *text* for italic text
• [] for to-dos

Standard markdown formatting is supported as well.

Tagging #

To add tags to your message simply use the # symbol. Capacities matches your text with your existing tags or will create new tags.

Linking and creating content #

You can create new objects and link existing content from your messenger. Use the following syntax

[[page/Wendelstein reactor]]

to link to a page with title "Wendelstein reactor". If this pages exits in your space it will create a link to it, otherwise a new page will be created. This works for all content types in your space. If you have a content type Person you can link or create it by using [[person/Steve Jobs]].

You can use this at the beginning of a paragraph to create a new block and somewhere in your paragraph to link it in your text.

Alternative ways of "create or link" are +person/Steve Jobs/ and @person/Steve Jobs/, similar to the syntax you can use in the app.

If your content type contains spaces, like "Book Summary" you need to specify it in upper camel case format: [[BookSummary/Sapiens]], +BookSummary/Sapiens/, @BookSummary/Sapiens/.

If you only want to link and not create you can do this by just referencing the title:

[[Steve Jobs]]

Saving web links #

If you want to save a web link, paste the web link into a new line. If you want you can add tags with the # symbol after it:

https://capacities.io #pkm #note-taking

The web link will be tagged and saved to your web links database as well.

Saving images and files #

If you send images or files as attachments. They will be added to your daily note.

Saving code files #

If you send a code file, for example a Typescript or Python file ending with the corresponding extension it will automatically be transformed into a code block that you can continue editing in Capacities.

Saving markdown and text files as pages #

If you attach .md or .txt files to your email they will be saved as pages in your space. The file name will be used as the title of the page.

Using the subject #

The subject will be added as a title of your note.

If you want to save an email to a specific space other than your selected default space you can add the space number, here the third space, based on the order of your spaces in your home dashboard.

/3 My email subject

Furthermore, you can add tags to your note with the # symbol

My email subject #hashtag

Privacy notes #

All emails you forward to Capacities are not send to a classic inbox. Nobody working at Capacities has an inbox for save@capacities.io. It's only a programmatic queue where all emails are held for a short period of time. They will be processed by our servers once they get received by the queue and are redirected to the corresponding space based on the email address they were sent from. After an email was added to your space it will be deleted from that queue. If you want to read more about privacy in general visit this page.