Leaving Logseq - Alternative suggestions?

Questions & Help
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I’m a month into migrating everything (LogSeq, tasks, personal projects, Habit tracking, reminders, Markdown notes, calendar integration) into Super Productivity. It’s a pretty amazing project. For some longer form note taking I’m using also using Joplin.

SP has become the first thing I look at in the morning and the last thing I look at when finishing my day.

Both solutions are free and open source. Both are ‘local first’ and privacy focused solutions. Both have great communities of developers and users around them. SP syncs across my desktop, laptop, Android, and iPad without incident.

The developer of Super Productivity in particular is amazing all around. As a developer, and as a communicator.

It’s not without its flaws, but no CI/CD managed application is. But its stable and, features are developed quickly, by the project owner and collaborators alike. There’s lots of room to help improve an already great solution.

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I was in a similar position as OP and tried switching to other apps (Obsidian etc.), but kept coming back to Logseq. There’s something about the way Logseq’s outliner gels with my brain that I’ve not been able to shake off.

Using Logseq on desktop + Syncthing has been working well for me. Only pain point was Android.

For a few weeks now, I’ve been building a native android app for Logseq (the OG markdown version). It’s finally in a position where I can share it with others. More details here: A fast, native android app for Logseq OG (markdown version)

Give it a try if you were as frustrated with the mobile experience as I was.

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Wow that’s a really useful reference. I think that’ll solve things for a lot of people. Although it seems like it’s got a little way to go unless your a mainly terminal person (which is probably a reasonable percentage of us)

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I just created my own, browser based, plain markdown outliner, hosted on a self-hosted server. This thread reminded me to cancel my recurring Logseq payment. What a sad decline of a once useful project.

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this is actually very interesting: in Rust and MIT licensed. I tried the app and is far to be ready, but still interesting project to follow. The creator seems very passionate.

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I understand that your decision to leave Logseq was due to synchronization issues. I sync Logseq with an app called OneSync, which syncs my Logseq files through OneDrive with my phone, and it works perfectly for me.

I’ve just created an agent. Well, I already have two agents in OpenClaw, and I sync my Logseq files with my server using SyncThing, which also works perfectly for me.

Reading your post really scared me because Logseq is essential to me, and right now it’s the stronghold from which I run my agents.

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I have been using the built in sync for a long time (three years apparently…) and not had any problems with it - I have client on Android, Linux and Mac.

Are the people having issues with login / sync using IOS?

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Yeah, my issue was with syncing between macos and iOS.

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This thread made me look again at obsidian and weigh up options.

I have been paying for logseq for three years and yes, I have had use of the app in that time, but not only has it effectively stalled, but worse than that, it’s not even receiving security updates - the stale issues in GitHub tell you everything you need to know.

I have just signed up to obsidian sync and started migrating my notes - it’s a bit painful but doable; some things I’ll just fix over time .

I value having the raw .md files, I am not convinced by the database approach, not least because it’s taken too long and the team have neglected their paying users.

Hi logsequitur,

Your recurring contribution to Logseq (cced) for $5.00/month has been cancelled.

Warmly,
– Logseq

Goodbye logseq

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I have not found anything that comes close to what logseq (md version) does.

  • simple text files
  • journaling
  • cross site references
  • easy to sync with Syncthin
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Which mobile version are you using with Syncthing?

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Check out Tine. It’s really good. It’s new but it’s already a perfect stand in for Logseq (In my opinion). The creator posts about it in r/logseq . You can also find it on tine(dot)page and github.

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Thanks, nice to see more outliners popping up. Shame about no plugins, though.

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Ooh. Tine. That looks interesting.

I think Outl will probably be my landing pad but I’m definitely interested.

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I’m happy to read your comment, I’ve been dedicating a lot of time to build an outliner I’d use/use daily…

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Happy to see outl got mentioned here. I’m investing a lot of time to have an outliner tool that actually works, mainly without depending on someone else’s cloud.

Our sync is focused on p2p (no reliance on third-party storage), with data 100% encrypted in transfer between devices

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check this out: Introducing Reflect Open, open-source markdown first Reflect

It seems Reflect is going in the opposite direction as Logseq. They are moving to locally stored md structure.

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They are change to markdown, locally stored, open source: Introducing Reflect Open, open-source markdown first Reflect

Exactly the opposite of Logseq

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Interesting. I like their openness about direction, and I like their direction, although one concern is future pricing over their iPhone app.

What’s the advantage over Obsidian?

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