Hi I’m Simon, an IT dinosaur in Edinburgh, Scotland and I’ve been trying out Logseq for about a week.
I didn’t really know what to expect from Logseq but wanted to see what it could do for me. I had moved away from Evernote and Notion in favour of Anytype because I’m reducing my cloud dependencies, preferring local-first solutions; but my daily workflow does feel clunky at times, so time to look for improvements.
I’m liking what I see so far. I don’t think Logseq will outright replace anything in my current toolkit, but I’m already thinking it’s going to my daily driver for new notes as it’s such a frictionless experience.
I really like being able to just jot something into my journal, maybe tag it, maybe not; and then go back later and do a bit of housekeeping. No having to decide on how to organise things up front and possibly lose my train of thought.
I seem to be solving problems that I didn’t know I had.
- Rather than starting the day wondering where I left off yesterday, it’s all there in the journal rather than out of sight in a maze of project pages.
- I’m no longer building up hundreds of open browser tabs with things I have on the go, leaving them there all week, and forgetting to go back to them. Just paste links under a few headings in my journal or under the relevant TODO items and close everything down, knowing I can come back to what I need later.
- Same with browser bookmarks, rather than adding more and more by the day, not having any context around them, and never finding them again; just spend a few minutes pasting them in the journal with a few words and maybe link to a relevant project or task.
- And I’m sleeping better because I feel less need to stay up and finish for fear of forgetting where I was; and once something is journalled properly it doesn’t play on my mind so much.
Having EVERYTHING as a bullet point did grate on me a bit. I do love bullets, my notes are usually full of them, but having them at every level was visually distracting. That said, I’ve managed to come up with a custom.css that I think is a nice fit for me, allowing a mix of headings and todo without bullets, and plenty of bullets for the details.
I like that everything is stored as markdown(ish) as it will give me the opportunity to write code to transform my notes into web pages, wiki site, repo documentation, etc; as parts of my graph become static and can be archived. I’m not sure what I’m going to think of Logseq-DB so maybe too soon to commit to this tool.
My next step is to dive into plugin development as I’ve already come up with a good sized wish-list that doesn’t seem to be satisfied by the existing selection in quite the ways that I would like.