Capacities — Creating a Reading List / Book Library with Templates, Page Properties and Queries

I have been testing out Capacities of late and thought I would do a walkthrough of creating a beautiful looking reading list / library that looks something like the below:

By working through this reading list / library, we touch on templates, page properties, queries and AI functionality which allows us to understand how Capacities works and gain an insight into its possibilities.

You can find the video of this walkthrough here:

Setting up Our Book Type

First off, we need to create a New Book Object — we can do this easily by going to the left sidebar and clicking “New Type”. Here we will be presented with a pop-up window allowing us to either create a new object type from scratch or use a pre-defined one created by the devs.

For this example, we will use the pre-made “Book” type. You do not need to worry about the predefined properties or other things, we can (and will) edit these to our liking late on.