Logseq 0.4.5 (Pre)Release, New+Hiring Devs, Permanent Notes, Annotations, Obsidian and Logseq Set-up

Ed Nico
9 min readOct 23, 2021

No new releases as such this week from the team (albeit we do have a cool pre-release) but still lots of news to convey on the weeks events and discussions. Today also marks the two-week countdown from when we will be relocating from London to Dubai to start a new adventure. After spending most of my life in the UK, this will be a change but removal is booked, flights are booked and rent notice is coming to an end — no turning back now and only onwards and (hopefully) upwards we go.

With my sob story out of the way, let’s press on to the important stuff.

Releases

(Pre-Release) 0.4.5

The pre-release of 0.4.5 adds more functionality to the All Pages section of Logseq as well as a few other goodies.

  • All pages support batch delete, search, journals filter and remove orphaned pages
  • Persist right sidebar state
  • custom.js support. I am not too sure what this does by but the ever friendly @Tylerwince mentions “opportunity to port some basic roam/js functionality to Logseq now”
  • Improve properties inserting workflow
  • Both Copy as and Export page should be fast now
  • Marking task from “Now” to “Done” lost tracking time duration data
  • Time tracking for now->later on repeated task
  • Time tracking support seconds now
  • Logbook related issues
  • Smooth transition for left sidebar
  • Make DWIM optional

I love the new enhancement on the All pages, which looks like the below and allows for a lot more functionality and usage. Thank you so much Logseq team for segregating the daily journal pages and enabling us to see them or not.

In terms of the “Remove Orphaned Pages” this will remove the pages that satisfy both:

  1. There’s no other page that mentions this page
  2. The page is empty.

@Tylerwince, came up with a great suggestion that once pressed the Remove Orphaned Pages button, have Logseq give us…

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Ed Nico

Posting about personal knowledge management (PKM) and Tools for Thought (TFT) along with some other stuff along the way.