Making Obsidian play nice with Logseq

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I finally figured out one of the display issues I had when Obsidian read my Logseq files. The way indents and spaces are handled differently was causing ugly displays in Obsidian. I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t getting the standard bullets and only seeing dashes. That kept me from really using Obsidian. I fixed my template and now they look just as nice in Obsidian as they do in Logseq. This may have been obvious, but I couldn’t figure it out.

I have a daily notes template that looks like this:

  template:: daily-journal-template
  template-including-parent:: false
	- #### General & Planning
		- What do I want to get accomplished today and this week?
		  collapsed:: true
	- #### Meetings
		- Meetings for today
	- #### Tasks
		-

So I changed to this:

## Daily Notes

#### General & Planning
   - What do I want to get accomplished today and this week?

### Meetings
   - Meetings for today	

### Tasks
   -

Note that those leading spaces are actually tabs. So changing them to 3 spaces instead of tabs makes both programs display them correctly with bullet points not dashes.

I hope this helps someone else that missed this feature.

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