Why “capsule” is being discussed
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I miss from the home page a link to github and/or a description of it's license and/or some code of an actual capsule app (what backend language is used? -- I have no…
by flossly · Sep 16, 2026
I feel like this is close to a good idea. What I would want to see is a version of this that lets me write an app that can write to the DB through an API, and then have a google…
by rtpg · Sep 16, 2026
Was Capsule written in Capsule?
by jayde2767 · Sep 16, 2026
When I read about this project, it doesn’t seem like concurrency is much of a concern. I think it’s _supposed_ to be treated like sharing a document with someone else. If a caps…
by dizzard · Sep 15, 2026
There are a few things in Capsule to avoid corruptions of the file during syncing. The DELETE journal mode is used and writes are batched into transactions so that updates are a…
by bashtian · Sep 15, 2026
Merging works already but is a little bit hidden under the data editor function in the Capsule edit menu. Currently the last record update wins, but a merge UI is planed to do m…
by bashtian · Sep 15, 2026
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