Longform writing in Logseq

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@Leslie_P

In Workflowy, shift-enter creates a note under the current bullet, that’s ENTIRELY intuitive.

• ENTER for a new bullet item
• SHIFT+ENTER for a new note under the bullet item

For the internal workings…that new note could be treated like a separate markdown document, no special outline treatment, just standard markdown so it could be a huge longform document, or just a little note that allows markdown styling.

@gestaltist

Notes are a feature of OPML so all classical outliners tend to support them. Logseq is not based on OPML but on text files and there’s no natural way of doing that

Converting between OPML and markdown makes bullets equivalent to headers (with the h1-h6 hierarchy) and lines below the bullet into text. So there is a natural way of doing this, so long as you maintain awareness of the difference between paragraphs/bullets and lines.

My problem was with the shortcuts. I wanted to make the behaviour the same in document and outline mode, but changing shortcuts always gave the inverse action in the other mode. I found this very irritating because toggling document mode accurately switches bullets on in paragraphs, and not lines, but the keyboard behaviour was different. Now solved by editing config.edn as advised above.