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Re:Logseq – adding settings for self-hosted sync by setopt on Monday July 15, 2024 @01:43PM (#40969916)
I completely agree. Logseq is definitely the note-taking app that has fit my brain best.

I especially like the workflow of writing basically everything in the journal, in an outline like:

    - [[Topic1]] [[Topic2]] Headline
        - Blah blah blah
            - Blah
        - Blah blah
    - [[Topic3]] [[Topic4]] Headline
        - Blah blah blah
        - Blah blah blah
And then when you open the pages for say “Topic1”, you get an automatic inline “timeline” of all your thoughts on that topic. I find that this way of writing makes me procrastinate less with polishing the pages themselves, while giving a valuable recollection of how my ideas on that topic evolved over time (which is useful when later e.g. writing a paper on that topic).

With that said, I’ve also gotten nervous after Logseq’s quiet period, especially since they use a non-standard Markdown dialect that doesn’t work well in other apps. I also find Obsidian lacking in the outliner department. Recently, I’ve therefore gone back to Emacs Org-mode. I can use it in a similar way to Logseq (with Org Roam), and feel safer that it will continue to be developed for the next decade or more. As an added benefit, I now have CDLaTeX and Evil available.

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