PKM Weekly - 2026-07-12
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
Ev posts: I Turned Obsidian Into My AI Personal Agent OS. Building a workspace where my agent and my knowledge base can live together
Chatting with Claude in one window, opening files somewhere else, copying things across, saving outputs, pulling documents back in, and generally doing a lot of tiny annoying tool-switching that makes the whole thing feel more clunky than it should.
And I just kept thinking: I want the AI to be where the work is.
Interesting Reddit Posts
How to make Obsidian cute and functional - I have been thinking of moving from Notion to Obsidian. I use it mostly to track homework and to-dos for my degree, so I’m looking for this dashboard-like appearance.
Went from notion to obsidian and i spent more time customizing than actually writing - used notion for everything. Notes, tasks, project tracking. It worked, but it was slow. The mobile app was painful. Offline mode felt like a joke. so i switched to obsidian. Markdown files on my machine. Fast, local, mine. For the first month, it was great. I just wrote. Then I discovered plugins.
Using Obsidian for PhD - I’ve been using Obsidian for my PhD for months. But it doesn’t feel like anything more than a note-taking app. Am I missing something? Are there any specific plugins?
Verso Notes
Verso-Notes, It’s live: https://github.com/ed-nico/verso_notes
Local-first notes app. Your notes are plain Markdown files with wikilinks, backlinks, Bases, journal, PDF annotation, and much more.
We (Claude) did an amazing job!
Post on why I built my own notes/PKM app when there are plenty out there?
1. Test just how good AI is
2. Build something rather than listen to "influencers" saying what they could build
3. Build something that is tailored to my needs and wants
4. Fun
Dotflowy
Dotflowy is an open-source outline editor. Created in the likeness of Workflowy but with the plugin extensibility of Obsidian and the beauty of Linear. MCP compatible.
https://x.com/CameronPak/status/2074262605779124317
To try it out: app.dotflowy.com and invite code is "jesus-saves"
Thymer
Wim showcases just how fast Thymer is:
https://x.com/wcools/status/2074876358342123557
On the list before beta release:
(UI) polish. There are a number of areas, like the list above, where we want to improve the design and simplify the UI but just didn’t get around to them while we were focused on building the foundations. Want to finish these before beta because they’ll improve both day-to-day use and first impressions once we invite a lot more people.
Things already in the pipeline we still need to release: terminal, some more improvements for outliners
Mobile improvements/iOS TestFlight
Join the unofficial Discord for more chat and updates on when the beta might be released.
Tana
Long-form writing. OP asked in Slack:
The long-form writing request (ideas.tana.inc/posts/91) has 359 votes and has been sitting at “Future Consideration” since 2023. Given what you said about Outliner not being the growth focus anymore — is long-form still something the team actually plans to build, or has it quietly fallen off the roadmap in favor of Tana2?
Either answer’s fine, I just don’t want to keep telling people it’s “still on the list” if it’s not.
The response was:
hey Axton! Outliner is still a growth focus. On doc mode- Outliner’s node-based model is fundamental, so making Outliner work like a traditional document isn’t something that will happen. But there are still improvements we can make for long-form writing in Outliner, display options to not display bullet points and making writing/reading feel smoother etc, which remain possibilities for sure.
Vellum
More screenshots posted while we wait for the app to be released:
Concerning pricing, the devs commented: we’re still working out the pricing and, tbh, haven’t fully thought through. BUT ... there’ll always be a scholarship for anyone where cost is currently a barrier, no questions asked. our goal with vellum is to create a platform that inspires others to make their own art ... ideas, knowledge, artifacts, etc. - whatever that means for them. everything about pricing will serve that, not the other way around.
Check out vellumnotes and, if interested, join the Discord for early chats with the devs and help shape Vellum.
Logseq
Updates to the roadmap:
Staging a custom GPT/plugin to ChatGPT official store:
Capacities
We’re excited to introduce the Capacities API 2.0. There’s a TypeScript SDK and a new Developer Portal at developers.capacities.io. Build your own workflows, or publish an integration for the community.
As part of our Media 2.0 roadmap, Believer users with AI on desktop can now analyze weblinks, open a clean reader view, and highlight passages with annotations. Saved links finally do more than sit in your library.
We also shipped presentation mode. Any page or custom object can become a fullscreen slide deck without leaving Capacities.
And a few extras: a shared objects overview in the sidebar, find in page 2.0 on web and desktop, colored icons, and a pinnable table of contents. Release notes and video: https://capacities.io/whats-new/release-67
Octarine
v0.47.2 out now!
Priority, snooze, and Done / Reopen controls now appear directly above the inbox editor.
Inbox items can now be appended to an existing note from the item menu, list row, or detail view.
Tag selection has been removed from the breadcrumb and is now available in the Properties section, consistent with regular notes.
Note popouts and Quick Capture now open faster and feel more responsive.
Larger workspaces should load and switch between notes more smoothly, especially when using filtered views.
Octarine skills are now available on skills.sh and have their own github repo https://github.com/rajatkulkarni95/octarine-skills
Outl.App
Few updates hitting Outl.app,
template engine (structural + callable)
configurable backlinks sort order
add Obsidian vault importer
Also check out the latest blog post Two ‘today’ pages: debugging a bug I couldn’t inspect - https://outl.app/blog/debugging-a-bug-i-couldnt-inspect
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.
Thanks for sharing about Dotflowy! Been fun to build. And, congrats on building your own app, too!