Knowledge Vault v0.2.4

Knowledge Vault 0.2.4 — the Powerhouse Knowledge Vault on your own computer.

What's new

• A new vault layout. Everything now lives in one sidebar, with no bar across the top: Ask, Notes, Topics,
  Sources, Work, Graph and Contradictions, your recent chats, and Vault settings at the foot. Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac)
  searches notes, topics, sources and chats from anywhere, and can ask the vault straight from the search box.
• Topics and Contradictions pages. Topics lists every topic largest first, with the overview on top.
  Contradictions shows each pair of conflicting notes side by side, with why they disagree, and opens them to
  resolve or dissolve.
• An easier-to-read chat. The conversation sits on its own card, answers are larger, and what each answer used
  is listed under it.
• Sources open at once. The list, its folder counts and the timeline come from one request instead of reading
  every source first: a vault with over a thousand sources shows its list in a third of a second.
• A timeline of what you added. Sources › Timeline shows each file, paste or feed you added, when, and the notes
  and topics it became.
• Long books convert much faster. A 1,000-page PDF now converts in under 6 minutes instead of 15: big PDFs are
  read in page windows with a progress bar, and the index and glossary are no longer read as tables. Letters the
  reader used to drop ("field" read as "eld") are put back.
• Adding many sources is faster, about twice as fast for a large file, and an add that a restart or reload cuts
  off carries on by itself. Quitting while sources are being added asks first.
• Recordings become sources. Audio files (MP3, M4A, WAV, …) and the soundtrack of videos are transcribed on this
  computer and added as Transcript sources.
• Starter workflows. The setup guide can add a feed, papers or meeting notes to a vault.
• Clearer processing status. The status chip says what the work is doing now, and Update brings a vault's
  pipeline up to date without losing its history.
• Scrolling on Linux keeps pace with the mouse wheel.
• Built on Powerhouse 6.2.3-dev.60 and docling.rs 2.30.1.

Built from

• Powerhouse stack 6.2.3-dev.60
• @powerhousedao/knowledge-note 1.0.54-dev.40
• 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_0.2.4_Linux_x86-64.AppImage	250 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.4_Linux_x86-64.deb	188 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.4_macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg	182 MB