I’ve recently started using the fantastic Capacities as my main note-taking/PKM tool.
Update: Switched to Reflect.
As always, I look for ways to do things faster using Alfred and Keyboard Maestro.
Here are some custom shortcuts/workflow I set up for working with Capacities’ macOS desktop app a bit quicker and more efficiently.
Table of Contents
- F2 – Bring up/Switch to Capacities
- F3 – Create a new object in Capacities
- F4 – Search in Capacities
- ⌘⇧U or ⌘⇧E – Save the current page as a weblink in Capacities
- Append to Daily Note in Capacities via Alfred
- Search in Capacities via Alfred
- ⌘[ and ⌘] – Go back and forward in Capacities
- ⌘H – Today’s Daily Note in Capacities
- ⌘N – New content in Capacities
F2 – Bring up/Switch to Capacities

F3 – Create a new object in Capacities

F4 – Search in Capacities

⌘⇧U or ⌘⇧E – Save the current page as a weblink in Capacities

You may have to adjust this if you have an object type that starts with W
beside the default Weblinks.
If you use Safari instead of Google Chrome, replace %ChromeURL%
with %SafariURL%
.
Append to Daily Note in Capacities via Alfred
dn
<your message>
Go to Alfred settings → Features → Web Search.
Add a new custom search.

Search URL:
capacities://x-callback-url/appendToDailyNote?x-source=Alfred&x-success=Alfred://x-callback-url/response&x-error=Alfred://x-callback-url/error&content={query}
Search in Capacities via Alfred
This setup passes the search term from Alfred (ns
<search term>) to Keyboard Maestro. KM then brings up the Command Bar in Capacities and pastes the input in.
Download Keyboard Maestro macro

⌘[ and ⌘] – Go back and forward in Capacities


⌘H – Today’s Daily Note in Capacities
H
for Home.

⌘N – New content in Capacities
