Hello everyone!
I am a university professor in Seoul. I recently learned about the DB version of Logseq in development and decided to use it to organize notes for my current research project as a test run.
I stumbled upon Logseq serendipitously. I had been trying to implement a flexible scheme of typed links in Obsidian after the Bases functionality was released. I made a lot of progress with it, but the process of trying to bend Obsidian to its limits made me think more earnestly about what I want to get out of my notes.
When I first heard of Logseq years ago I hardly even considered it. I was uninterested in using an outliner at the time. I had come to Obsidian after using Org for years and felt like I wanted a more conventional wiki-like PKM system. However, I have started to appreciate the benefits of working straight from the journal thanks to the DB version.
I have high hopes that Logseq will continue to evolve into an even more versatile tool. I am transitioning cautiously and tentatively being that the project is very much in flux at the moment. I always thought Logseq’s whiteboard was such a killer feature, but that seems to have been put on the backburner in the DB version. I have been using the beta (alpha?) builds of the desktop version, which works quite well. There are rough edges, but I can tolerate them given that this is an unreleased version that is a work in progress.
Like many, I am also really disappointed that Logseq Sync will not be open source and that there are no plans to make facilities for self-hosting sync for the DB version. So I will just have to see how things progress before I fully commit. I am hopeful!