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Re:Why I Like Obsidian by kstrauser on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:32AM (#39029951)
Search for “Logseq data loss $current_year” and you’ll see horror stories of people who did everything exactly right and still lost a bunch of data from it. The most recent one I saw involved someone getting on a plane and thus losing Internet access to the paid syncing service. They did a bunch of work as they flew across the country. When they landed and the connection resumed, it synced everything back to the pre-takeoff state and erased their work.

Logseq is so very close to being exactly what I want, but there are way too many tales like that for my comfort. Yes, I could come up with something involving Git or rsync or whatever, but at that point I’ve conceded that I don’t trust the tool. And if I don’t trust the tool, I’m not going to use it.

Re:Why I Like Obsidian by iamjkt on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:59AM (#39030329)
Logseq's native sync now has smart merge which I have found prevents issues like this.
Re:Why I Like Obsidian by kisamoto on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:51AM (#39030221)
Ouch - I hadn't heard of that so thanks for raising awareness.

I'm trialling both with syncthing across multiple machines and so far no data loss but I'll make sure backups are in place!

Re:Why I Like Obsidian by kirso on Friday January 19, 2024 @11:25PM (#39064663)
Pretty much a weekly occurrence for my work with Confluence.

Never happened to me with Logseq, also why are we making a trend of something that has happened to 5 people out of 10000 users?

Kind of a bias when you see only horror stories of people losing data, but not the rest who are fine.

Re:Why I Like Obsidian by asdfgeoff on Thursday January 25, 2024 @08:27PM (#39137856)
This exact issue happened to me. I think it was related to crossing timezones during the flight. The experience has definitely made me think twice about adopting Logseq my primary notes tool.