Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management

Re:Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Mana... by brunoqc on Sunday October 16, 2022 @12:16AM (#33220987)

I wonder if the sync feature will be open source eventually and allow us to host it.

For me the Holy Grail of note-taking app would be:

- free and open source

- offline first

- encrypted sync

- collaborative

- backlinks and cool things like logseq queries

Personally, I wouldn't mind paying but I want to be able to collaborate with anyone. As an example, my mom wouldn't be interested in paying for a software that she would barely use even if it's a software that I can't live without.

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Re:Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Mana... by arvigeus on Sunday October 16, 2022 @12:48AM (#33221107)

May I recommend motif.land? Not open source yet, but it seem to be ticking all of your checkboxes.

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Re:Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Mana... by brunoqc on Sunday October 16, 2022 @11:28AM (#33224325)

Do you know if a mobile app is planned?

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Re:Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Mana... by mfester on Sunday October 16, 2022 @07:19PM (#33228090)

Not yet. We do support file sync though (https://motif.land/blog/syncing-text-files-using-yjs-and-the...) so you can use your mobile Markdown editor of choice.

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Re:Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Mana... by 124816 on Sunday October 16, 2022 @10:35AM (#33223895)

> wonder if the sync feature will be open source

According to [1] they don't plan to open source it due to "business considerations."

I'm not against people making a buck, but as far as I understand this isn't permitted by the AGPL, which logseq's current authors are bound to as much as anyone else. (Unless they have all past contributors grant them a secondary license.)

It's likely the sync protocol will be reimplemented for self-hosting, but I'd assume the mobile apps will hardcode the server address to encourage use of their paid sync service.

1: https://discuss.logseq.com/t/what-is-the-logseq-open-source-...

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Re:Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Mana... by brunoqc on Monday October 17, 2022 @10:49AM (#33234241)

I'm wondering if there's something wrong with marketing something as open-source, privacy first and collaborative if the sync part is not open source.

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