Good practice advice: take recurring class notes in journals or pages?

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Hi all,

I’m looking for advice on how to best take notes for recurring classes or workshops in LogSeq. I’ve tried two approaches, but each has some challenges.

Approach 1: Daily Journal Pages

Taking class notes directly in the daily journal and linking them to a page for the class. This keeps notes tied to the day and visible when browsing the journal. The downside is that reviewing or editing on the class page (which pulls from multiple journal entries) often causes the page to refresh and lose cursor focus, disrupting my workflow. Also, the notes are spread across journal entries instead of being in a single file.

Approach 2: Dedicated Class Page

Using a separate page for the class, organizing notes by session date. This keeps everything in one place and avoids cursor focus issues. However, this approach disconnects the class notes from the daily journal context, making it harder to see class notes when reviewing daily activities.

Question

What’s the best way to balance these approaches? Any tips to manage class notes while keeping them easily accessible?

Thanks for your help!

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  • Write everything on the journal page and decide what to do with them when reviewing. Good if you regularly review your notes.
  • Write on a dedicated class page and reference the journal page of the day using [[]]
  • One page for each individual session. Use namespace to associate with the [[class name]] page, and a page property to link to the day’s journal.

Each of the options above are IMO equally practical.

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  • A page for each Course (or subject or semester or subject)
    • Take notes in a parent block for each class on that course page
    • embed the block for each class in that day’s journal

or

  • Take notes for any class in a parent block in the journal
    • embed each class block on the page for that course
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Thanks. That gives an idea that might work:

I had played with writing notes in the daily page, for some reason that seems more practical to me, and later transferring it to a class page when reviewing them, but then lost them in the daily page…

… but I could embed the block for that class in the days journal. At least for the ones I want to see more often.

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  • Could use queries for each class that pull only the entries that you want to review or edit, also sorted by journal day.
    • It is still advisable to turn quick-and-dirty journal-notes into clean knowledge inside dedicated pages.
      • Preferably not by class, but by knowledge concept.
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The linked references section provide that query as default.

A good option to play with seems

  • Turn quick journal notes into a cleaner notes on a dedicated page for the class, and
  • Place a block embed back in the daily notes for the sessions if the session should be visible at the daily pages.
  • (By knowledge is the next iteration)