PKM Weekly - 2025-11-16
A look at the latest Personal Knowledge Management PKM news from the past week.
Hi Everyone,
We are back with another episode of PKM Weekly. Let’s see what is in store for us today.
Obsidian
Obsidian 1.10.3
Obsidian 1.10.3 is now available for desktop and mobile!
The “Use light mode” and “Use dark mode” commands have been combined into a new “Toggle light/dark mode” command. Be sure to update your hotkeys accordingly.
The mobile app now launches significantly faster by opening an editor of the last opened file while the rest of the app loads in the background.
Update to the Obsidian Roadmap
A bit of an update to the Obsidian Roadmap:
Mobile seems to be the focus of the moment.
Nick Milo Went All-In on Obsidian Bases. Here’s What Happened
From Nick Milo: In this video, I combine Obsidian Bases and Workspaces to transform Obsidian into 4 powerful modes that fit different ways of thinking: the Inner Guide Mode for mapping the world inside and around you, Producer Mode for focused action and getting things done, Synthesizer Mode for combining ideas in ways no one else can, and Creative Mode for bringing your best work to life. The best part? You can switch between these modes in just one click, giving you a superpower for changing your cognitive context instantly.
A warning for Obsidian users: make backups and never keep your vault in the app’s installation folder
OP posted a message of warning to others about how not to (hopefully) lose date.
I want to share a painful experience, hoping it saves someone else from losing their data.
When I first discovered Obsidian, I immediately started moving all my notes into it. I had seen posts from people saying their vaults got deleted, but I told myself: “That kind of thing never happens to me, I’ve never lost data.” Yeah… that was my first mistake.
My second mistake: I like to keep things tidy, so I don’t install apps in their default locations. I thought it would be fine to keep both the Obsidian installation and my vault in the same folder.
Capacities
Readwise Integration Now Available!
You can now bring your Readwise highlights into Capacities to turn them into connected knowledge. https://capacities.io/whats-new/release-55
How it works: Instead of automatically importing all your highlights, you choose which content to bring into Capacities with their highlights. This helps reduce information overload and help you find the useful highlights quicker!
What to Do After Reading: A Sustainable Note-Processing Workflow
This video shows you how to turn Readwise highlights into something meaningful in Capacities. It’s a practical, intentional workflow for processing, linking, and reviewing your highlights
Another Developer Joins the Capacities Team
Jonas joined as a working student to support us in the frontend. He’ll help us to remove friction, resolve bugs and make the app more intuitive to use. He’s a talented and ambitious student from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and we’re super happy to work with him
TANA
Tana Live Build Session: Clarifying Complex Connections
Most people organise information the only way they’ve been taught: lists, folders, outlines, buckets.
This session will explore how to model that kind of relational complexity in Tana, using structure that adapts as connections shift, rather than collapsing when things become interconnected.
What the session will cover:
Demonstrate common relational patterns (one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many)
Use intermediary tags to represent evolving relationships (roles, assignments, requirements, etc.)
Build structured views that surface patterns and connections across projects, ideas, and processes
Apply relational modeling across diverse scenarios (research, collaboration, design)
By the end, you’ll leave with a structural framework for mapping relationships in your data: a way to reveal connections that weren’t visible before, and to design systems that stay clear as complexity grows.
When: Wednesday, November 19th, 11:00 AM GMT
Register here: https://luma.com/sxvm64pe
Logseq
Changelog - 2025-10-26 to 2025-11-15
This release delivers significant improvements across three key areas that enhance Logseq’s stability, performance, and user experience:
Database Migration & Validation - Comprehensive fixes for old database graphs, ensuring data integrity during migrations and preventing invalid data states. Multiple safeguards added to protect built-in properties and handle edge cases in legacy graphs.
Performance Optimizations - Major speed improvements for large graphs, with Pages view performance increasing from 1000+ms to 200-300ms for graphs with 40,000 pages. Initial page load times reduced through optimized datom loading and smarter rendering strategies.
Mobile Experience Enhancements - Native bottom tabs introduced for iOS, improved touch interactions, and better authentication UI with multilingual support. Mobile-specific fixes for quick capture, search results, and iPad display issues.
See more here.
Logseq makes me Nervous
OP Posted: Just came across another note in my synced Logseq notes where I opened a collapsed list, and it was empty. I go back into the version history and can see it there but it makes me really nervous that logseq appears to be randomly wiping information i have spent years collecting. There is no way I deleted this myself.
Has anyone else found this issue? Is there any advice on how to resolve it?
Craft
Updates on Craft’s future:
Major update in a few weeks - Assistant, MCP, API, Whiteboards, Android app
2026: voice + Apple Watch, Assistant v2, Kanban in Collections, OCR
Doing all this without increasing prices
Read all the details: https://viktor.craft.me/bdbGJVKw4f2AQ2
Octarine
v0.30.0 out now!
Writing Assistant (Research)
The Writing Assistant features a built-in research mode that, based on your queries, responds with clarifying questions or requests for more information to provide the most accurate answers.
After research is completed, it offers a range of options to help you draft, refine your writing, continue the discussion, or shift the conversation in a new direction.
Web Search (Beta)
Allows the Writing Assistant to include web sources in its responses. Currently available for OpenAI (and
openai-compatible) models.Turn web search on or off by clicking the globe icon next to the model selector
and more.
Noteey
Big update! Noteey v1.38.0 is now available, The Web Browser has arrived.
New Features and Improvements:
Built-in web browser
Global search now supports floating window mode
Card improvements
Background colors remain after copying a card
Text background colors can now be cleared
Added an auto-sync option for third-party sync
Added the ability to filter cards not in any project
Optimized shortcut options in the right sidebar
YouTube now supports the “No Cookie” option
Want to see a comparison of the Noteey v Heptabase Web Viewer, then check out this video by Antone.
Heptabase
Few updates:
Right Sidebar: Display all to-dos of the current whiteboard and card
Improve the overall PDF card resolution and performance.
Fix an issue where sometimes text on a PDF can’t be selected properly in the Windows desktop app
and much more - changelog
Thymer
No updates this week, but an update on how many tasks and when the app might be released will possibly by known on Monday.
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.
The PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) and note-taking apps likely to remain in existence and relevant in 5-7 years include a mix of established favorites and innovative newcomers that focus on networked thinking, local data ownership, and AI-enhanced features.
If you have to choose one app for PKM and all your note-taking? please let me know