Hi!
Relatively new user of Logseq here, trying to figure out my workflow. I’ve come from Obsidian, as I found that having to store notes in a folder based organisational system was too restrictive, and I like how Logseq is based on blocks rather than pages.
So far I am making notes from sources such as YouTube videos, gaming wikis etc. on pages for the playlist and then tagging the blocks with tags and back links to create references to topics so I can find information again without having to remember where it came from.
I’m experimenting with using the journal to capture all of my notes, but I am having trouble getting used to having everything all jumbled up together like that and finding everything via links or tags.
However, I’m wondering if it would be better to migrate my notes from the page that is related to the source onto the topic pages, so that I can more easily combine information from multiple sources.
What do people think is the best approach here?
For the approaches of other people, there is much material available in the community. But the best approach is the one that fits your very particular needs, which only you really know. Moreover, your needs happen to change as you advance, so the approach should also adapt.
Logseq doesn’t enforce any particular approach, it is instead quite flexible to support multiple approaches. Can even apply multiple approaches at the same time, as long as all information is connected enough to be found when needed. Therefore, Logseq is a tool that tries to serve your own approach, rather than you trying to serve the approach of the tool.
So feel free to structure, migrate and restructure your notes however it makes more sense at the time. They will never be perfect, but you won’t lose time in futile efforts of achieving perfection. In other words, the primary criteria are intuition and easiness.
I think that might be partly my issue and why I’ve bounced around so many systems… I’m trying to make things too perfect, because otherwise I just see an overwhelming mess and stop using it all together.
I’ll try watching some videos of different people’s approaches and see if any of them really click for me I think - that’s what I did with my To-Do list/task management and eventually I found something that worked by adapting something I saw from someone else.
i’m afraid you won’t get more than a normand’s answer: “a bit of this a bit of that”!
i believe the best solution will be yours - as Logseq system is versatile it will adapt to
your work
your words and key-words
your habits
your organisation
This only comes after using it - as if you where entering a new office with a new job: job has to be done and organisation will appear as it goes.
I guess reading the Docs might help you especially the Features pages.
To find out how to organise myself i’ve recreated my own user manual to see how to order information. i’ve also played with biology categories, as a practice to mentally figure out data structures, discover Logseq functionalities and how i’ll use them to sort my notes. I’ve tried different ways and abandoned some.
Now i make sure to create a max of links and back links. i carefully use TODO not to surcharge my list.
You might be interested in
- namespaces
- managing your tags, what you use them for
- page properties - or blocks props
- queries - to call information from your personal database
- and local graph
- see howto create pages of content menus - for general organisation AND specific topics
I like using page properties and page templates - i usually write in the journal what i’m about to do and develop the content inside:
ex: 2024-12-30
• read article about #ai [[DeepSeek/V3]]
– • how to use [[DeepSeek]] with [[Cursor]]
---- • step 1
---- • step 2 /todo 2024-01-04 reinstall [[python]] for local user
In this example, i will write a sum up and info i gathered about DeepSeek in the [[DeepSeek]] page and what is specific to V3 in [[DeepSeek/V3]].
but i would keep the record of how i tried to use it in Cursor in my journal, as it is properly what i did on that day. and i will see this journal entry in Cursor and DeepSeek/V3 page as backlinks. and also in #ai and on the 4th of january.
If i had to list the steps of how to install Cursor app, i might write the steps in the journal, and later move them in a block inside Cursor’s page.
But you might all ready know all of this ^^
just trust yourself, put it all in, you’ll see what comes out. we are not meant to remember everything anyway ^^
good luck 
Very similar answer to the previous posts on this page. I’ve always struggled to keep my notes in oneplace and to keep on top of them but I’ve found that Logseq has really helped me keep my thoughts organised.
I’d suggest starting off easy, just using the basics in Logseq and reading the documentation to see what would fit you best.
I think it’s a bit of a journey to find what suits you best, but think just getting stuck in, reading the documentation about what everythign does will get you to where you need to be by the end.