We are about to release a big new update and today it's time for a pre-release candidate that you can test right away:

🚀 https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/5.2.0-rc.1

Highlights:

🐘 PHP 8.5 support
📻 CORS support
☑️ New batch mode for the checkboxes field
↕️ Collapse / expand all blocks
📂 New create option for the files section
🏷️ Better auto-labels in the Panel
⚡️ Big performance boost for forms

Imagine having a billion dollars and wasting your time doing anything other than:

1. Reading novels in the bath
2. Making art
3. Traveling
4. Cooking and eating
5. Giving heaps of cash to awesome people and institutions who need it

Notion is such a good example of a tool with a team that did not know when to stop and reflect, but just kept adding.

We had a brilliant drawing teacher and sculptor in university. I was very pleased with one of my drawings and kept going, adding more and more details. He suddenly stood behind me and shouted: "Stop! You are riding a dead horse here!" I had killed what was already good by not stopping. That lesson really stuck with me.

Today is a big (pre-)release day 🚀 Kirby 5.1.0-rc.1 & Kirby 5.0.4 are here:

https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/5.1.0-rc.1
https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/5.0.4

Obsidian 1.8.0 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile!

- New web viewer plugin
- New command to download local images
- Improvements for iCloud on mobile

Web viewer is a new core plugin that lets you open external links within Obsidian. This simplifies reading linked content without leaving the app and makes multitasking on web research projects easier.

Release notes
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2024-12-18-desktop-v1.8.0

The latest version of Obsidian Web Clipper adds Interpreter which lets you extract page content and manipulate it using natural language, e.g.

"5 tags about this page, comma separated, don't include the subject of the page as a tag"

"3 bullet point summary, any titles and references to people, places, or books should be in [[wikilink]] format"

This is super useful to create consistent data structures for research within your vault. You can run it locally using Ollama.

https://help.obsidian.md/web-clipper/interpreter

I love #obsidian. I wish the mobile app was better.

Mobile needs to be a different app. It does not need to have feature parity with the desktop app. It should do one thing very well - quick capture.

https://sajalchoudhary.net/blog/notes-on-obsidian/