Knowledge Vault v0.2.3

Knowledge Vault 0.2.3 — the Powerhouse Knowledge Vault on your own computer.

What's new

• One Add vault button. Create a vault or connect one on a server from the same dialog (Ctrl+N works too). The
  vault you opened last leads the front page, with its graph, what it holds and the notes that arrived since your
  last visit.
• A calmer start. Getting started shows where you are and the one next step instead of a long checklist, and the
  setup guide keeps the focus on one step at a time.
• Faster, gentler file conversion. A document is converted once instead of twice (a 48-page paper in about half
  the time), on half your processor cores at background priority, so the computer stays usable while it works.
  Remove and Cancel stop a conversion for real, and files up to 100 MB are accepted.
• A simpler intake. Each file shows one plain line — Reading, Ready, Added — and a file already in the vault is
  held before it is read again.
• Processing starts sooner. A new source starts within about 15 seconds of being added instead of up to a
  minute, and with a hosted model up to three sources are processed at once. Changing the model while sources
  process no longer fails the run in progress.
• Orphaned notes get a second pass. A new Reweave notes workflow in every vault finds notes that processing
  left on their own — no links, in no map — and connects and places them once the vault has grown around them. It
  also picks up notes that closing the app left half-processed.
• Backups as one file. Settings › Backup & restore saves your vaults as one .kvbackup file that you can take to
  another computer and restore there. Keys are never included.
• Safer storage. Built on Powerhouse 6.2.3-dev.52: every save is written to disk before it counts, so a power cut
  no longer risks a vault, and a full disk stops the engine cleanly instead of hanging it.
• After a crash, processing comes back within about a minute, and the status says Processing starts in a
  moment instead of showing an error.
• Workflow Studio is the latest version: the block picker groups blocks by piece, and +, Back and Forward and
  Delete all work inside the app.
• Remote vaults on an older server say so plainly instead of showing a raw error.

Built from

• Powerhouse stack 6.2.3-dev.52
• @powerhousedao/knowledge-note 1.0.54-dev.33
• Node 24.21.0 (bundled)

Installing

Pick the file named for your system: …_Linux_x86-64, …_macOS_Apple-silicon or …_Windows_x64-setup.

• Linux (glibc 2.34+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora, RHEL 9 and newer): the _Linux_x86-64.AppImage runs as is (chmod +x, then open it); the _Linux_x86-64.deb installs with sudo apt install ./<file>.deb.
• Windows 10/11 (64-bit): run the _Windows_x64-setup.exe. It is not signed yet: if SmartScreen warns you, choose More info › Run anyway.
• macOS 13.5+ (Apple silicon): these builds are ad-hoc signed, not notarised, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open the _macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg and drag the app to Applications, then open it. When macOS says it could not verify the app, choose Done — not Move to Bin, which deletes it. Then open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, choose Open Anyway next to Knowledge Vault and confirm with your password. From then on it opens normally. (Or, in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Knowledge Vault.app".)

Your vaults live in the app's data folder and are kept across updates; a backup is made before a new version opens them.

Installers

File	Size
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.3_Linux_x86-64.AppImage	249 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.3_Linux_x86-64.deb	187 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.3_macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg	181 MB