Using Logseq and Obsidian with same vault - tips and tricks

What I’m trying to do

  • Trialing Obsidian and Logseq together off the same files and database. Switched from Logseq to Obsidian as my primary PKM.

  • Looking for help and advice from others that have tried this. Are there any caveats or suggestions and must-dos beyond what I’ve outlined below?

  • My plan is to use Obsidian on Mac and iOS primarily and Logseq on Mac only occassionally.

Things I have tried

  • Used Logseq for a while and really liked the MacOS desktop app. As with many others it was the outliner features, backlinks and the markdown/text files that made me leave other proprietary note apps. I also much preferred the Obsidian iOS app overall.

  • Switched to Obsidian after realizing Logseq slows down considerably as pages and data increase and has a seemingly less robust developer community and slower development progress.

  • Discovered that I can use both apps with the same database so have been testing but realised that I’d need to tweak a few settings. Made the changes on Obsidian’s end since Logseq is less easily customisable out of the box. The changes I have made in Obsidian are putting daily notes in ‘journals’ folder, new pages in ‘pages’ folder and attachments in ‘assets’. This helped since I didn’t like everything in the top Obsidian vault anyways.

  • I also set the daily notes format to YYYY_MM_DD to follow Logseq’s approach and also since I find this useful and intuitive generally.

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