PKM Weekly – 2024-07-21
Hi Everyone,
Short and sweet intro as on the road this week. Lots of things happening in both world affairs and PKM affairs so let’s get to it.
This week we have updates from:
CAPACITIES
The mobile app is here, and available to all users – free and paid, and Android and iOS. Great work by the devs to deliver such a great app.
The time has finally come and we have officially launched our mobile app. It is now available for everyone in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store!
We want to thank everyone who helped us test and improve the mobile app, it made a huge difference!
We'll of course… pic.twitter.com/sBZ9LOY88Y— Capacities (@CapacitiesHQ) July 19, 2024
For those looking for Collaboration in Capacities. “We currently don’t have any concrete plans for collaboration (neither workspace wise nor on individual shared notes). We might add this in the future, but that is uncertain. You can already share notes, but they are read only.” Personally I am not interested in Collaboration – I am using Capacities as my PKM tool, with a strong emphasis on the personal.
Lots of amazing things still planned for Capacities, including AI 2.0, Smart Media and others:
TANA
Been a couple of quiet weeks in Tana’s world. Could this mean that the Devs have something exiting they are working towards / readying for release?
Seems that there usage of Tana AI credits is quite high. David Delgado provide some usage statistics. “In just 4 days… I went from 5000 to 3700 AI credits, without using Meeting Agent and/or large data sets through AI Chat. It’s 25% in just 4 days!”. “In 5 days…. (one day more after the last report). 3400 AI Credits left (one day 300 credits). I used the Meeting Agent in one 45min video call, 1 time the AI Chat at a node level for a Summary refactoring, and 3/4 times an AI Title field”. This does not seem to be extreme usage of AI, but at this rate the 5,000 month credits offered as part of Tana Core will not last long at all.
Starting the Week with Tana: My Actual Productivity Workflow by Dario (CombiningMinds). In this video, I discuss my skepticism towards rigid productivity systems and showcase a more flexible approach to starting the week using Tana. Watch as I go through my unscripted process of managing notes, calendars, and weekly tasks whilst highlighting Tana’s integration capabilities.
LOGSEQ
Comments from OP – I really like Logseq, and I feel it’s the only one of the note-taking tools that has the tradeoffs I want (outliner, local-first, focuses on content on a block-by-block basis, has backlinks), and I always keep coming back to it, but recently there’s been not much happening, and the mobile app has been slightly broken for me for a while now (when opening a note I often can’t add new bullet points, so I end up writing notes in an invalid format). I’m really looking forward to their db-oriented version which is supposed to be merged into main (here’s the long-lived branch[0]) this month. Presumably that will bring the project back up to speed, since that branch is currently almost 4k (!!!) commits ahead of main. At the same time, I’m a bit worried about how the company is gonna sustain itself. After all they raised quite a bit of money ($4M 2y ago), while at the same time I’m not sure how large a market there is for commercialisation of an open-source PKM app like this.
Tutorial for best way to capture years of reading notes? I’ve been using Roam for a couple of years now. I mostly use it as a daily task list, to keep some meeting notes, and as a journal. I have a significant amount of reading notes I’ve recorded in notebooks and in book margins over the years. I’d like get them into Roam. But I’m not sure the best way to do it. Is it as simple as creating a new page per book and adding the notes there? Are there best practices for adding tags, etc? I’d love to hear how people do it, or if you can recommend any tutorials. Thanks!
Monthly Pages — is the next step after Weekly topic. With the help of several plugins, this page is inserting and constructing automatically to collect data for the actual month. I like to think about it as the Month Dashboard.
OBSIDIAN
Obsidian 1.6.7 is now available to all for desktop and mobile with a few bug fixes. Fixed app freezing when closing a pop-out window while Obsidian Sync is syncing the active file. Fixed memory leak when disabling plugins that register custom ribbon buttons. Fixed an issue where old file history was missing from the sync history view after renaming a file. Fixed collapse indicators displaying the wrong direction next to right-to-left text. Fixed overlap of indicators and bullets with right-to-left text. Full release notes here.
Walkthrough: Epic Life Audit (Obsidian Template) by Nick Milo. I went on a 4-day personal retreat to audit my life. In this video, I’ll guide you how to use and customize my Epic Life Audit template in Obsidian, so it can give you a better perspective and direction in your life.
Why Obsidian Canvas is THE BEST Mind Mapping Tool. The Canvas feature inside Obsidian brings mind mapping tools directly into your Obsidian Vault. But it is so much more than a simple mind mapping tool! In this video, OP explains how to use Canvas, and share why they think it’s the best tool for mind mapping and beyond.
NOTION
A blank page can be intimidating. Check out the new in-app template gallery with all templates makes getting started a breeze.
A blank page can be intimidating — Our new in-app template gallery with all templates makes getting started a breeze.
Visualize a template in your workspace before duplicating, explore creator profiles, see featured templates and creators, and enjoy a new search experience. pic.twitter.com/tY03hkTRsh— Notion (@NotionHQ) July 18, 2024
How to Easily Build a Full Website With Notion by Thomas Frank. In this course, I’ll show you how to build a personal website in Notion with multiple pages, a blog, a contact form, and more. We’ll also use the new Notion Sites tools to add a custom domain.
Notion Calendar is now on Android. We’re excited to bring this popular request to you! Notion Calendar is now available as an Android app. You can use the app to manage multiple Google calendars on the go, view your schedule across time zones, and open connected Notion docs. What’s New – Notion
ROAM
Updated “Created on day” feature
Right-click on the Daily Note to view blocks & pages created that day, other than the ones in the current daily note
AI in Roam?
Just submitted for review an update to Live AI Assistant for @RoamResearch
– supporting #GPT-4o-mini
(60% cheaper, faster and better than GPT-3.5, and 128k context window)
– improved chat experience (subtle button on the right) pic.twitter.com/uJi7XMY05S— Fabrice Gallet (@fbgallet) July 19, 2024
Productivity Thoughts
Renee started a cool thread on people’s defaults apps. Was a good read and some cool apps that I had never heard of before.
I love love love reading other people's default app lists.
Here's mine: pic.twitter.com/PU1tVGHIih— Renée (@reneedefour) July 15, 2024
Anyone else use Storm by Stanford? STORM is a LLM system that writes Wikipedia-like articles from scratch based on Internet search. While the system cannot produce publication-ready articles that often require a significant number of edits, experienced Wikipedia editors have found it helpful in their pre-writing stage.
That’s all for this week. Thank you very much in advance for reading and I look forward to bringing you more PKM news next week.