I’ve been hearing good things about Logseq for a long time but avoided it because it lacked a mobile app and I’m an iPad-first person. Now that the mobile beta is there, I decided to give it a try. And boy… was I missing out.
I’ve always thought in outlines, and I used to be a big user of apps like Workflowy (which is still the best outliner out there in my mind). However, I had some experiences that made me skeptical of online-first apps. This is also the reason why I never gave Roam Research a try.
I’ve also always wanted to create a personal wiki, and could never find a satisfying solution until Bear came along. From Bear, I moved on to Craft, and finally to Obsidian – and I got really hooked on the idea of local files which remain readable even if the app ever stops working.
Well… Logseq feels like a perfect union of these two needs of mine: a personal, plain-text wiki, and an outliner.
What really made me fall in love with Logseq immediately, though, is the paradigm of the daily journal (which I imagine is borrowed from Roam so big kudos to them for inventing that). I open the app, and I can immediately start writing. I don’t have to worry about creating a file, figuring out how to categorize anything, etc. Search, interlinking, etc., does my categorization for me. It reminds me of my analog Bullet Journal in that: it’s simple, inviting.