Show HN: Logseq – A roam like open-source plaintext note-taking app

Re:Show HN: Logseq – A roam like open-source plaintext note-... by solarkraft on Saturday November 14, 2020 @06:46AM (#25091726)

After a few minutes of looking around I'm pretty excited.

I like the idea of Org mode, but don't really like TUIs (looks, interactivity), Orgzly or the available web interfaces.

I've never gotten into roam.

Since my notes tend to be made up of deeply nested bullet points (Studies>Lectures>Programming 2>Lecture 1>History of C...) I've been stuck with Dynalist, which is like Workflowy but better in most dimensions (multiple documents, lower price, more features, wonderful developers from the interactions I had with them) ... but still proprietary SaaS I don't want to have to rely on for something so important.

I haven't yet thoroughly tested, but on first look it seems like it supports the basic bullet point features I need (collapsing with the state saved, dragging around) and maybe more (embedding of media, other node trees?).

Super exciting! Thanks for developing this!

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Re:Show HN: Logseq – A roam like open-source plaintext note-... by O_H_E on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:11AM (#25108285)

If you don't already know, the makers of dynalist are working on https://obsidian.md/

Pretty cool competitor in the space. Still closed source, but I think the community was able to get them interested in an open source pledge. Not sure if they are committed or not.

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Re:Show HN: Logseq – A roam like open-source plaintext note-... by solarkraft on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:19AM (#25122031)

Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea! I'm not sure whether it's for me since I'm pretty locked into the outlining style and while open source is always better no cloud dependency is definitely great (and essential for work).

My perception of the Dynalist devs' coolness seems just about right.

Random thing I think is cool about Dynalist: A full backup is one get-request to dynalist.io/backup with the right cookies away.

That said it does feel a bit like abandonware. Obsidian would explain that.

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Re:Show HN: Logseq – A roam like open-source plaintext note-... by O_H_E on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:11AM (#25125400)

I don't use Dynalist on a regular basis, but maybe "finished" instead of "abandoned"?

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Re:Show HN: Logseq – A roam like open-source plaintext note-... by tiensonqin on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:42PM (#25093931)

Thank you for trying logseq!

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