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Hi! I’m posting this message for the following reason: I work in humanities research and I would like to create a file of the notes I take on a daily basis: reading notes, questions, ideas, reasoning, etc. Until now, I used Tinderbox, then Obsidian. But, although these two tools are really very ingenious, I no longer find them useful. To put it simply, I take atomic notes that I then reinject into research texts, articles or communications. Ideally, I need two “folders” or two “files”: one for floating notes, the other for permanent notes. A week ago, hesitating until then to try Logseq, I finally decided to do so and I discovered that this tool corresponds exactly to my needs. I would like to use it permanently. Hence this message and a few questions:

  1. I use the journal for floating notes and then transform them into permanent notes using a limited number of tags: zettel, question, journal, and so on. My permanent notes are pages. I don’t insert PDFs or images into Logseq. Is there a page limit?

  2. Does anyone know if Logseq is sustainable?

Thanks for your answers.

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There’s no page limit, but people have complained in the past about Logseq slowing down above 10,000 notes. I have a couple thousand notes and have no problems. The database version should solve this issue, but it’s not even at alpha yet. So to the question about sustainability, you’ll get differing opinions on this.

Logseq right now uses plain text files, either markdown or org, but it has its own syntax for certain features that can add friction to switching to other apps. Development continues on Logseq, but it’s slow and it’s on a completely new version of the app that will read and write directly from a SQLite database. It is open source, but the Clojure source code seems to be a barrier that has limited participation or forks from other developers.

If you work in humanities research, though, there’s a chance you might also be using LaTeX. Why not just use Emacs and org-mode? A tool like org-roam would fit your needs, and you don’t really need a sophisticated GUI if you’re not embedding PDFs or images, anyway. You could also quickly convert any of your notes from org to LaTeX or any other language with the right package installed.