Hello I have been using logseq for a while now, and I really liked, I’m very disorganized and absent-minded (“despistado”) in general, people say I have ADHD, but I’m not been properly diagnosed. I believe logseq can bring a little structure to my life some sort of organized safe place and would like to take my logseq experience to a next level. Also with the bad internet is great to use local-first applications 
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What are you hoping to use Logseq for, exactly?
For myself, I have two main graphs in Logseq. One graph contains my tasks and projects. Logseq’s non-hierarchy approach fits both cases very well.
As I said, I would like something I can rely on as organization refers to. Life is chaotic, I think that logseq is a tool that can help one to throw all that chaos in a common place and then give it sense, of course no the app by it self, I have to do my part and is what I think I need to learn.
But specifically I have 4 use cases I would like to try:
- Project management. A project is more than just TODOs, it have notes, concepts, etc.
- Life management. Almost the same has the previous point but focus on my personal life, take care of the house, my relations, etc.
- Keep track of my library, my personal physical library, the books I own. For this I already have a template for a book and a page with a query that show all of them
- And something similar of the book tracking but for movies/shows I watch
I believe the first thing I have to do is create the habit of, at least once a week, check logseq see whats been on my mind. Thank you for taking a time to respond my post
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Logseq changed my life forever!!! Simply tracking what I do in an interesting, flexible way has made me a permanent note-taker. Everything I need is now available at all times. Logseq is kind of like a fun, video game for me, built around my own life experiece, knowledge, tasks, requirements and notes. It has been instrumental in helping me take my life in hand. Perhaps you’ll have the same experience!
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I really hope so. Thanks
I have a draft write-up for how to setup Logseq as a Getting Things Done (GTD) tool. It’s actually pretty easy but, in practice, it can take a bit to get used to, especially if you are unfamiliar with the GTD methodology. But I’d recommend the GTD approach in Logseq to manage TODOs and Projects.
The first thing is that I think you should keep your actionable stuff separated from your non-actionable stuff. For Logseq, this means keeping those things in two different graphs. Some people advocate for one big graph. You can try that. But I’ve found that over time (after a couple of years, say), it will slow you down in your actionable stuff. Search will get slower and it’ll get harder for you to make sense of the results.
So, for me, I have a “GTD” graph and “REF” graph. For actionable things, like TODOs and projects I’m working on actively (or could activate at any time), I use the GTD graph. For everything else, I use the REF graph.
The important thing about managing either is that you create new pages that have appropriate titles. Be direct and literal. If you see an ad online for a cool new cooking product that you might want to buy but not yet, put that in REF as a new page.
The second thing is that you must add topical tags to each page. This is the key to get Logseq to do the work of organizing everything for you. Don’t organize things yourself. Instead, just tag each page with what it is. For my example of a cooking product, use tags Cooking, Appliances, and the area of your life this pertains to, which might be FAMILY if you cook for your family or it might be HOBBY if you like cooking for fun (not as a job or anything).
The GTD graph is a whole different beast. You need to learn GTD and how it organizes tasks. But the point is that if you have something like “Call the moving company back to schedule a moving date”, that’s an actionable item you don’t want lost in your reference material (REF graph). Create a TODO in your GTD graph in the journal page of the day you realized you needed to do it. Create a new page called “Next Actions” and write a simple query there that pulls in all the TODOs and DOINGs from the whole graph into one place. Now you have a basic list of all of your tasks that are actionable.
There’s much more to it, but that will get you started.