PKM Weekly - 2025-11-22

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.

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Obsidian

• Updates - 1.10.5

There were a few updates (Catalyst) this week, which included several bug fixes and qol tweaks, such as:

1. Canvas: Fixed YouTube embeds not loading.

2. Bases: Fixed formula suggestions being cut off.

3. Bases: Table view now supports pasting single-column data (e.g. from Excel or Google Sheets) into multiple rows when multiple rows are selected.

4. Right-to-left languages: Fixed cursor positioning incorrectly when clicking at the end of a line. Also fixed several regressions with the interface, including the position of the calendar icon on date inputs.

5. Bases: Fixed filter menu going off screen when filter contained a long text property or long list property value.

6. Bases: Fixed formula autocomplete results getting cut off in the Filters menu.

Changelog.

• Build an Obsidian Database in 5 Minutes (CSV Import Tutorial)

You can build a complete book tracker with linked titles, authors, genres, and book covers in under 5 minutes - see how:

• Interesting Reddit Posts:

1. How do the developers of Obsidian make money? - I am a happy user of Obsidian, but there is a question, for I can’t find any plausible explanation. There is this saying that if a product is free, then you are the product. How does this apply to obsidian, if at all? Is it too good to be true?

2. I moved away [from Logseq] to Obsidian. This is how. - l’ve been a proponent of Logseq for years. Talked about it to friends and coworkers. I’ve developed 2 plugins to help my workflows and released them to the marketplace, too. But l’ve become tired of the lack of releases, the lack of plugin support for the iOS version, and the frigging several times I had to input my vault password on iOS and desktop (maybe every update?).

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Amplenote

• Q3 2025 Updates: Build Winning Habits with Task Streaks, Mood Analytics, and a Smarter Task Pane

Lots of updates in Amplenote over the past week or so, including:

1. The “Good Life Dashboard”: Connecting Mood, Tags, and Victory Value

2. Build Unstoppable Momentum with Task Streaks

3. Time-Travel Through Your Productivity

4. New Task Pane Filters: Find Your “Genius Hour”

5. Mobile Speed Boost: Android Performance & More

6. Peek Viewer Sticky Headers

and so much more - check out all the details in this blog post and check out the changelog for more updates.

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TANA

• Tana Updates

1. New - AI models: Gemini 3 Pro (low/high reasoning) and GPT-5.1. Model selector shows reasoning support. Web search now available across all models.

2. New - Added native capture widgets for iOS and Android. Configure widgets per supertag for one-tap voice capture with auto-tagging and destination. iOS includes Shortcuts, Spotlight, Control Center, Action Button, and Siri integration.

3. New - Sidebar progress bars. Drag nodes with progress indicators to the sidebar to display circular progress bars that update automatically. Hover for completed/total count, expand to work with tasks directly.

4. Improved - Checkboxes (done/not done) are now displayed in global search, cmd/ctrl+s.

5. Improved - Streamlined AI model picker - deprecated legacy models with automatic fallbacks to newer, cheaper alternatives. Most fallbacks save 50-95% on costs while improving performance.

Changelog.

• Tana Learn Live: Live Search Lab

Come along to see us build some of the most useful live searches! We’ll build 10 of the most common and valuable live searches so you can follow along and see exactly how to build them.

Then we’ll take requests! Struggling to build a specific search?

• ​Build 10 of the most common and valuable live searches

• ​Follow along and see exactly how they’re constructed

• ​Submit your own search challenges for us to solve live

• ​Learn practical patterns you can use immediately

1. When: Wednesday, November 26th, 11:00 AM GMT

2. Register here: https://luma.com/qhlalsyy

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Logseq

• Logseq CLI 0.4

0.4.0 has been released for Logseq’s CLI - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@logseq/cli . Added new commands import-edn and validate as well as a slew of fixes and a breaking change. See full changes at https://github.com/logseq/logseq/blob/master/deps/cli/CHANGELOG.md#040

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Octarine

0.30.2 out now LMStudio Provider

• Added LMStudio as a local provider, accessible via Settings → AI Assistant → AI Providers.

Improvements

• Settings now open in a dialog box instead of occupying a full screen.

• Hotkeys now work as intended: Mac-specific Cmd shortcuts are no longer triggered by Ctrl. For example, Ctrl + N on Mac now moves to the next line instead of creating a new note.

• Enhanced note embedding performance in Ask Octarine: embeddings run in parallel and use no more than 500MB of memory.

Also, search the graph - coming soon.

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Capacities

Savage Reviews looks at Capacities - Thousands of productivity-seekers are leaving Notion and Obsidian behind for a note-taking app that claims to reflect how your brain *actually works*. But is Capacities the breakthrough we’ve all been waiting for, or just another overhyped “next big thing”?

Here’s a teaser verdict: Capacities clicks in a very human way — but only if you’re primarily on desktop. The mobile experience may force you to wait.

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AFFiNE

Lots of updates in version 0.25.4 and 0.25.5

Editor & Content

• Improved Notion import with folder hierarchy and page icons.

• Better linked/synced doc handling: new trash state, more stable cross-document clipboard, and popover behavior fixed when switching layouts.

• Cleaner exports/prints: hide the “Add icon” label when no icon is set.

• New editor callout component for richer documents

• Translation: Korean and Catalan.

• Database blocks: grouped rows now can remember collapsed state.

• New importer: bring in docs directly from Word (.docx) files.

• Editor Setting: font size adjustment in editor settings.

Desktop & Native Apps

• Added a native doc reader for faster indexing.

• Electron and Next.js upgraded for stability and future features.

Server

• Improve transcription stability

• Fix AI model picker in Self Hosted

• Security-oriented dependency bumps

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Lazy

A few updates have been added to Lazy, including:

• Added a monthly billing option

• Added a cheaper Lazy Capture plan (without the AI layer) — USD 6/mo annually or USD 8/mo monthly

• New two-week free trial for new sign-ups

We also recently shipped Capture to Notion, to enable capture highlights, articles, tweets, youtube videos and more directly into Notion from the Lazy launcher!

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Heptabase

Few updates to Heptabse: v1.78.12

• Automatically fetch and import transcript when importing a YouTube video as a video card in the desktop app.

• Add the Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.1 models.

• Add the GPT-5 model back, and remove the GPT-5 Nano and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite models.

• Fix an issue where Google and YouTube searches aren’t available in the global search panel.

• Fix an issue where the Cmd/Ctrl + U shortcut for underlining text on a card conflicts with the upload file shortcut on the whiteboard

Changelog

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Noteey

V1.39.0 20251120 New Features and Improvements:

1. Enhancement of text elements on the whiteboard

2. Canvas right-click menu improvements (Card and image)

3. Sticky notes remember the previously used background color

4. Batch show/hide image titles and notes on the canvas

Other things happening at Noteey:

Working on:

• Improve the compatibility of markdown import/export(80%)

• Convert between markdown and mindmap(100%, alpha testing)

Next up:

• All Highlights card upgrade from plain text to full-featured card

• Publish card to web

• Import SRT subtitles as transcript(for Youtube, Video and Audio)

Some cool things are also planned for 2026:

• Web app and mobile app

• More advanced publishing features (Custom domain, Set viewing password and welcome message, Allow comments, Visitor statistics)

• Realtime collaboration

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Craft

If you are considering purchasing a Craft.do subscription, now may bt the right time to act as they are offering - Black Friday: Get 40% off Craft for Life!

The free plan is still available, but you can get 40% off the Plus and Family plans.

If you are interested in seeing the latest updates, check out this video by Feel Productive

In this video, I’m breaking down Craft’s latest major update. one of their most polished releases yet. If you’re a Craft user or considering trying it out, these features will genuinely enhance your workflow!

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Thymer

https://x.com/wcools/status/1990538270820950321

Collections for all the things, from book notes to wiki docs

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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.