I understand that for me, only I will be able to answer this question, but I wanted to hear what others have to say. Currently, I use org-roam
in emacs, and that was going nicely. After discovering logseq I’ve taken the journal based approach in org-roam, that is, whenever I have a note/thought on something while I’m reading, I’ll write it down on the journal page. And at the end of the day/week I’ll make actual, separate notes.
So org-roam
doesn’t have the ability to reference/embed individual blocks (I know org-transclusion
exists, but that seems to embed entire notes only), but logseq does. When I’m making a new note, sometimes it just seems too cumbersome to write it from scratch but just reference the stuff I have in the journal page, which logseq lets me do. In contrast, in org-roam
, I either have to write it from scratch, or copy/paste.
So I was wondering, for people who made the move to logseq or the like, do you think the block referencing feature is really useful? Similarly, for the people who moved on to something that doesn’t have this feature, do you miss it?
One nitpick I might have with this functionality is, I heard that you’re supposed to give some thought to individual notes, which you do not/might not give to the text you write in journal pages. So by referencing a block from a journal page, aren’t you somewhat defeating the purpose?
So the second use case I could come up with, is referencing blocks from other separate notes, e.g. in a note titled ‘Potential Energy’, I might want to reference a block from ‘Conservative Fields’, rather than just linking the note. I don’t see much use in this, although I want to know about examples from people who do make use of it.