Newbi Q - 'write everything in Daily journal', so what about the Graph?

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#1

Hi All,

I’m developing my Logseq skills nicely. Writing everything in the Daily Journal, as advised. New block for each atomic thought or subject. Loving the Outliner/Indents view for keeping the focus. Good tagging system in place to find Blocks at a later date. Occasionally creating a New Page for a particular subject, although it doesn’t even seem necessary to create a new page, as most CAN be contained in the Daily Journal.

So, what about the Graph? When I look at the graph, all there is are a few individual pages, plus all my Tags (which are pages). All my actual work is locked away in my Daily Journal pages, and when I turn on that feature on the Graph, all I get is a mass of (meaningless) dates. so all my actual content is locked away hidden. I just don’t get that :frowning:

Can it be that the Graph isn’t much use in Logseq?

Edit: so for example Ramses says, he has a very large graph. Please how does that work, if you put everything into the Daily Journal?

What am I missing? Do you write everything in Daily Journal, but THEN at a later stage, using block embeds, have actual pages with your subjects written on, so like a two-step process? Thanks all x

#2

I don’t use the journal-centric approach but I think you are supposed to use a lot of [[wikilinks]] and #hashtags in your journal. Those will be displayed in the graph view and the structure of your notes would emerge.

For example:

- [[Your Project]]
  - [[Meetings]]
   - 12:00 call [[Alice]] and [[Bob]]
- [[Reading]]
  - [[Books]]
   - [[Alice in Wonderland]]
  - [[Articles]]
   - https://example.com #category

stuff like this, did you get the idea?

#3

I think so Alex, so even though you’re writing in the Daily Journal, you’re still focussing on creating pages for everything, even though those ‘subjects/pages’ are in the background.

It seems a bit of a convoluted way of working, I guess I’ll keep chipping away at it.

So what do you do, what’s your approach?

#4

  • I manually create pages and organize them with page-properties::

  • Pages are almost two types

    • One looks an encyclopedia/Wikipedia page about a specific thing, very concise and a lot of properties
    • The other is a “composition” i.e. a long writing about a subject that usually mentions a lot of the pages above with [[wikilinks]]

  • I use queries to list all pages with certain properties and I place queries generally in pages representing a category, for example [[Algebra]] page contains a query that lists all the pages with the property area: Algebra

  • I use very long indented lists of blocks containing only [[wikilinks]] as indexes to browse them, for example:

    • [[Mathematics]]
      • [[Algebra]]
        • [[Linear Algebra]]