New Roam-like application appeared: Logseq

Knowledge management
26

@andyfreeland Just tried Logseq for longer the a few minutes a few days ago. I obviously have a lot more data in Obsidian, but I like you love the outliner style for quickness and ease of use to get your thoughts down. Not having the desire to share my thoughts online at the moment or in the near future, I would love for a tool that does both - I guess in this case Logseq? But have been a long time user of Obisidian, not to mention I am Canadian so that I love that I am supporting my Canadian peeps :joy:

Thoughts?

2 Likes
27

@andyfreeland, thanks for the information. I am exactly looking at logseq for the same reason. The freeflow of dailynotes makes it so much easier to just start putting all the information that you need. I also like the Idea of orgfiles too. Having the org schedule/deadlines methods are so great. If I find that I need to write some stuff. I do make a wiki link as well that way I know what needs to go in Obsidian.

Logseq looks really promising. I am using the 0.0.8 desktop app and it already looks pretty stable. I am not sure if they are going to be implementing the left side panel as well like roam.

2 Likes
28

Hey guys,

I’ve been playing a lot with Logseq lately.

So far these are the roles I have for Obsidian vs Logseq

Obsidian

Logseq

  • Task mananagment
  • project managment
  • ideas caputuring
  • mobile capturing with an extra tool called Lupin

I made a video on Logseq (I mentioned Obsidian in it) but I’m yet to make more videos on Logseq + Obsidian

If there are enough people interested I do plan to explore Logseq a lot more in future videos!

Hope that helps!

17 Likes
29

I have been messing with Logseq for just over a week. Similar to your self I find the separation of creation and planning work best for me when separated. Both elements involve a different type of thinking. It is a nice product indeed.

1 Like
30

This thread perfectly crystallized what I’m struggling with between Roam and Obsidian. I would love to see an outliner built into Obsidian.

8 Likes
31

There are some sweet workflows to outline in Obsidian now.
This video shows how:

32

I get you @fakepilot, I thought that too before trying Logseq, but the outlining experience in Logseq is 10x better in my opinion.

Obsidian + Logseq is an awesome combination. I keep my logseq notes inside a sub folder in Obsidian and it works great.

4 Likes
33

I understood I would have an easier time with an outliner from the get-go. So, I totally agree here!

3 Likes
34

Do you need to do any converting to get Obsidian to read your LS notes?

2 Likes
35

No it’s great, every note you create in Logseq is easy to access from Obsidian without any extra steps.

Perhaps the only inconvinience is if you want a note created in Obsidian to appear in Logseq it just needs to have a title at the top of the note

---
title: This is my note
---

once that’s added everything works great on both apps, nothing too complicated.

My workflow like I said is mostly creating Logseq notes that I can edit in Obsidian (I don’t do the other way around often)

6 Likes
36

Can this be avoided by "if you prefer to use the file name as the page title instead of the first heading’s title, add :page-name-order “file " to the file logseq/config.edn”?

4 Likes
37

no way! I wasn’t aware of that, that seems to solve it, thanks for the awesome tip

1 Like
38

Had set logseq and obisidian in the same folder. Like to do daily log by logseq, and obsidian for deep thinking. However, is it possible and how to link obisidian pages by backlink [[]] out of logseq/pages?

39

Yes, backlinks seem to work fine, they’re all just working on the same Markdown files. You need to do that change to the config file listed right above you to let them see each other smoothly. Beyond that, it’s pretty amazing, though there are some stylistic/format differences I need to spend some time figuring out.

I think there needs to be a video by someone who is an expert. Right @santi ? Haha

2 Likes
40

Thanks for the support Obsidian + Logseq is definitely a video I have planned to do. Perhaps @ichmoimeyo’s great tip was the only missing piece I needed to improve the workflow! I’ll keep you guys posted on it

3 Likes
41

Looking forward to it, Santi!

1 Like
42

Using LogSec, doesn’t that mean all your files are open to read for anyone? Unless you pay for your Github account and go private, that is.

43

GitHub private repos are free for everyone.

1 Like
44

YouTube video:

Logseq Update for Local File Storage - The Roam Research Alternative for Notes / PKM / To Do

45

Getting closer to an Obsidian-native outliner :slight_smile:

6 Likes