Offline mode / better offline handling

Feedback Feature Requests
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Hi all, I’ve been loving my logseq experience so far and recently setup git auto-commits. Recently decided to do some offline notetaking / air travel and noticed the app gets a bit noisy with errors.

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Recommend a feature to either detect network connectivity and warn once, or provide an option for offline mode. Might look like the following:

  1. Detect whether the OS has a valid internet connection and warn the user once if auto-commits are on or logseq sync is enabled. “No internet connection available. Updates will be stored locally until the application is restarted.” ← or until internet connectivity is restored, or maybe allow for a snooze of the alert?

  2. Add option for enabling Offline mode in the prefs. If enabled, add an icon or menu drop-down to toggle the functionality. If it’s toggled on, then no git syncs or other network activity is attempted. When it’s toggled off, a git commit/sync and any other regular network requests are performed.

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This “feature” of constant error messages is very frustrating when offline.

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Very much the same disruptive experience when using paid sync as well. Screenshot below on macOS w/ Logseq 0.9.20. Offline notetaking is one of the most important reasons I use Logseq, wish that experience would be supported as first class.

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+1.
Graphs accumulate and hold tons of personal/work and private data. I suspect for a few (or many?), the option to set that Logseq never connects to the Internet would be a core feature.

Note: This becomes even more relevant when using plugins. If a plug-in is loaded manually, it is easy to inspect the code, but:

  • this assumes the user can inspect and understand it
    • even if that is the case, the user may miss something

There are ways to jail the application, but I agree that it would be ideal to have a native option.

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+1 to this.

In an app that is supposedly “offline first” or at least “offline friendly”, those errors are off-putting.

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Will this ever be addressed? It’s 2025 and I still have to deal with “Network connection test failed” when using logseq offine on my android ereader. I usually use my ereader with airplane mode on as wifi use drains the battery. Can we please have a snooze button or something to fix this issue? As a multi-year paid subscriber, this is my number one issue.