Thank you for the informative video intro, Gabe. I tried Obsidian a while ago, but could not derive enough benefit to outweigh the formatting challenges. Logseq looks very similar; how do they compare?
I have thousands of screenshots that would be interesting to label and link (many text notes, too), but so far I've been content to just add pseudo-keywords to the filenames, and use (Mac) spotlight to do the locating. Easy web publishing is a plus, since that's where I'd likely share the info -- so maybe I should review my use case again.
I used to use Obsidian and haven't missed it after making the switch. Obsidian requires the premium feature to publish your notes, so this felt like a huge upgrade.
Note links are not portable, as I described above. So, if you go for Logseq, don't make links if portability is important to you; only use Logseq if you intend to always stay with it.
I have been an Obsidian user from May 2020, almost (but not quite) from the day it launched.
A couple of years ago I decided to investigate Logseq, and although in many ways it is similar, there are some differences.
For me the biggest drawback is that when you open a NOTE generated in Logseq with links to other notes, and you then open that NOTE in another note-taking app, such as Obsidian, all those links are just multi-multi-character IDs. It is impossible to trace them to the other notes they linked to.
With Obsidian you don't have this problem because the name of the linked-to note is always included in the link. So, even if you open an Obsidian-generated NOTE with links to other notes, you can always trace back the links.
Another drawback of Logseq is that everything is a bullet point, even a heading is a bullet point, which in my view is ridiculous. Headings are often used in outlines/tables of content, but if they are bullet points that is not possible.
So, esp. the biggest drawback made decide to stay with Obsidian, and, TBH, I have not found a better note-taking app – I have tried many, incl. QOwnNotes most recently.
Very helpful, thanks Gabe!
Thank you for the informative video intro, Gabe. I tried Obsidian a while ago, but could not derive enough benefit to outweigh the formatting challenges. Logseq looks very similar; how do they compare?
I have thousands of screenshots that would be interesting to label and link (many text notes, too), but so far I've been content to just add pseudo-keywords to the filenames, and use (Mac) spotlight to do the locating. Easy web publishing is a plus, since that's where I'd likely share the info -- so maybe I should review my use case again.
I used to use Obsidian and haven't missed it after making the switch. Obsidian requires the premium feature to publish your notes, so this felt like a huge upgrade.
Thank you for your thoughts. If I try this route again, it will be with Logseq.
Note links are not portable, as I described above. So, if you go for Logseq, don't make links if portability is important to you; only use Logseq if you intend to always stay with it.
I have been an Obsidian user from May 2020, almost (but not quite) from the day it launched.
A couple of years ago I decided to investigate Logseq, and although in many ways it is similar, there are some differences.
For me the biggest drawback is that when you open a NOTE generated in Logseq with links to other notes, and you then open that NOTE in another note-taking app, such as Obsidian, all those links are just multi-multi-character IDs. It is impossible to trace them to the other notes they linked to.
With Obsidian you don't have this problem because the name of the linked-to note is always included in the link. So, even if you open an Obsidian-generated NOTE with links to other notes, you can always trace back the links.
Another drawback of Logseq is that everything is a bullet point, even a heading is a bullet point, which in my view is ridiculous. Headings are often used in outlines/tables of content, but if they are bullet points that is not possible.
So, esp. the biggest drawback made decide to stay with Obsidian, and, TBH, I have not found a better note-taking app – I have tried many, incl. QOwnNotes most recently.