Capacities' system of daily journaling with tagged news links eliminates the need for fruitless Google searches when writing about a topic I've previously covered.

By adding tagged news links to daily journal entries in Capacities, the author can instantly retrieve all stories on a given topic, which proved invaluable for planning a podcast series on AI and productivity. ✦ AI generated

Casey Newton · Platformer · 2026-08-19 · original ↗

Each morning, I write a bit about whatever's on my mind. Then, I add notable news links from Techmeme to the bottom of my journal and tag them. The result is that when I'm writing a story or preparing for a podcast, I can click a tag like 'Labor' and instantly see all the stories I've saved on that subject since I started building this system a couple years ago. I used to spend a lot of time digging through databases or running fruitless Google searches in an effort to jog my memory about something I had read; Capacities ensures that it's all just a click away.

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