#logseq

[endeavorance]

My body is a MACHINE

that turns PASSING IDEAS into OBSIDIAN NOTES

[ventanawindow]

I've been thinking about making this for a while... It has taken me a lot of time trying to understand myself and how I work, to hopefully try to adapt my devices to make it as easy as possible for me to use and focus on the things I have to do...

(I also find it worthy of mention that I lean heavily towards open-source and free alternatives that focus on privacy, so everything you'll find here should be easy to use without paying at all or be completely free and also not want to harvest your every digital footprint.)

So here's a list of apps I recommend and help me not be a complete disaster, and also some other general tips at the end.

🔸LogSeq - available in every device (her web connects all)

LogSeq is an open-source, privacy-first, all-purpose application you can adapt to your every whim-- it comes already from the start with a lot of different functions, but what I find most useful of all is the ease with which it can help you connect everything you write and not let it become forgotten words you don't know the meaning and intention of anymore.

The way this app changed my way of taking notes and my feelings about writing random stuff to remember later cannot be overestimated-- it allows you to categorize every individual thing you write with tags, much like you would do on [tumblr].

To learn how to use it, I recommend reading the official guide, which is written in a way very similar to how writing in LogSeq works. Searching for videos explaining how it works is a good idea too-- it may look challenging at first sight, but once you get the hang of it it is easy!

(It also comes with a lot of customization options and, it allows for very in-deep customization and plug-ins, and has a huge community too.)

(An example of LogSeq's graph function, which allows you to visualize your pages as a conceptual map)

(Another image I stole online showing LogSeq's flash card function, meant for memorization purposes and studying.)

LogSeq also comes with extensive PDF annotation tools and makes integrating PDF files into your notes 10000000000 times easier.

🔸ReadEra

ReadEra is a lightweight, ad-less app available in the Play Store, App Store and AppGallery. There hasn't been a single annoying file this app hasn't been able to open... And it comes with a lot of functions for organization and viewing documents and books and annotation and reading and text-to-speech... Dream app...

It has a paid version, though the free version is incredibly nice either way, and it's the one I use.

🔸VLC

The best app for opening audio and video files... There's nothing this little cone can't open and! it's 100% open-source!!! You can do basically whatever you want with it!! Personalize however you want it!!! play puzzles with your videos!!!! Available in every device too!!!

🔸Language Transfer

Here's a language learning app! It has available (this was written the 4/3/2026) the following language courses to learn different languages from English:

Spanish

Arabic (Cairene)

Turkish

German

Greek

Italian

Swahili

French

English (from Spanish)

And a non-language course, Music Theory!

Language Transfer's method of teaching is unique to what I otherwise found online... It focuses on conversations and getting you go head-first into speaking and learning sentences. The format is an audio you listen to in which the host teaches a second person about the language, teaching very basic sentences first and then more elaborated as the lessons go on, meant for you to repeat after and be able to formulate yourself... It is honestly amazing I am not doing it justice here but please give it a try I promise it won't disappoint...

General tips:

I swear music changes your brain. Listen to music that makes you feel happy or stimulated to help you with your homework-- I usually listen to gen 2 pokémon music. I recommend listening to lyric-less music to help you focus because lyrics are very distracting.

Find something to do while you listen to audio-books or audios in general you need to focus on but can't. My strategy is to play a very easy no-thinking game to keep my hands occupied and be able to focus on the words being said. I use that pixel-art app you paint the numbers with the correct colours to keep me occupied while listening to the videos my teacher sent me to study.

I think nothing more... OH WAIT I FORGOT

DOWNLOAD EPUB FILES PPLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THEY ARE SO MUCH NICER TO READ THAN PDFS PLEASE DOWNLOAD YOUR E-BOOKS IN EPUB FORMAT I BEG OF YOU

[talleyran]

LogSeq vs Obsidian

В последнее время появилось несколько альтернатив Obsidian, правда пока я не видел нормальных обзоров на русском, но альтернативы это всегда хорошо, в наше время особенно.

А чаще всего зарубежные блогеры в этой связи упоминают LogSeq. Это достаточно свежий Opensource проект, который как и Obsidian является менеджером заметок на базе локальных текстовых файлов в формате Markdown.

А в чём разница?

Концептуально Obsidian был придуман для Zettelkasten (хотя его совершенно не обязательно именно так использовать) и единицей смысла там является отдельная заметка. Дальше заметки можно связывать друг с другом ссылками и тегами как угодно и получается база знаний.

В LogSeq единицей смысла является не заметка, а каждый параграф текста, а точнее элемент вложенного списка.

Там вообще абсолютно вся информация хранится в виде вложенных списков, которые можно бесконечно вкладывать друг в друга, а еще превращать в задачи. Эта концепция называется Bullet Journal.

Идея вообще не новая сама по себе, если вы когда-нибудь видели, например, мобильное приложение WorkFlowy, то поймёте, о чем речь. Ему много лет и появилось оно задолго до всего этого хайпа со вторым мозгом и ментальными картами. И до сих пор успешно работает.

Вторая концепция, которую активно исповедует LogSeq это Ежедневные заметки. Каждый новый день, когда вы заходите в приложение, автоматически создается заметка с текущей датой, в которой можно размещать тот самый вложенный список. Но эту фичу можно отключить, если вам это не нужно и создавать страницы вручную.

Редактор только визуальный, т.е. нельзя править полностью сырой Markdown. Для добавления, например, блока кода надо вызывать выпадающее меню, напечатав "/" и там искать кодовый блок. Так же с видео и картинками. Это типа более юзер-френдли, потому что работает через «мастер» и ты можешь не знать кастомный синтаксис, но мне лично неудобно.

Вместо дерева папок тут есть вот такое окно со списком всех страниц, которое в Obsidian можно сделать через DataView:

Очень сильно не знаю, насколько удобно будет этим списком пользоваться, если страниц будет несколько сотен.

Что общего

Тут так же можно создавать отдельные страницы, которые не являются ежедневными заметками. Но нельзя разложить их по папкам, либо я просто не нашел, как. Можно ставить такие же вики-ссылки через двойные квадратные скобки и такие же теги через решётку. Тут так же есть визуальные графы связей между страницами и тегами и панель с отображением обратных ссылок.

Ещё возможность рисовать схемы. В Obsidian это называется Холсты, а здесь Интерактивные доски, суть одна и та же, но реализованы они хуже в части редактирования.

По итогу

Если вы хотите работать в Obsidian точно так же как в LogSeq, вам достаточно включить встроенный плагин Ежедневные заметки и ещё поставить сторонние плагины Outliner, добавляющий хоткеи и рычаги к выпадающим спискам и Zoom, который позволяет «погружаться» в элементы вложенного списка, как в отдельные виртуальные страницы с хлебными крошками, чтобы лишнее не мешало. К слову очень советую, удобные штуки. И собственно всё, получаем профит и радуемся.

А вот работать так же свободно в LogSeq, как в Obsidian у вас не очень получится. Вернее отчасти получится, но будет неудобно, из за ограничений редактора и физической невозможности отойти куда-либо от Bullet Journal. В нем просто меньше гибкости, во всяком случае пока что. Но если вам эта гибкость и не нужна и вы не пишите большие объемные заметки, а только хотите вести ежедневные дела и короткие записи, то это приложение вполне можно рассмотреть. Но я не буду.

[wanderingmindthoughts]

I think I've finished reorganising my work files! and just in time for my boss to ask me for all my published articles in pdf lol.

there are still some kinks to work out, but that's for next week. organisation systems are living, ongoing projects -like cleaning your house or decorating a room, I'm never going to be "done" organising.

if there's something I must credit tiago forte's book with, is that it's made me think about my life in terms of information flows. I have information sources (email clients, twitter, books, AO3, podcasts, etc) and information "sinks" -not in the sense of information being destroyed, but in the sense that I have discovered that I have "places" where I consume information. the places that I have discovered thus far are:

my RSS reader (I use feedly. please, somebody make a better reader than feedly)

my kindle

the "reader" function in the firefox browser

my logseq

my chosen filesystem

I think that it's obvious why I see an RSS reader and a kindle as information sinks, but it's a little bit less obvious why a notetaking program like logseq or a filesystem "consume" information. it's because I often have little bits of information (tweets, pictures, screenshots of a conversation, a book that I may want to read but can't yet) that I want to keep. like, I don't know if there are people who simply let all of their files live in the downloads folder, but personally, I need to "process" the files in some way in order to do anything useful with them.

usually this simply involves moving them from "downloads" to a different directory, but sometimes I also need to take notes on them (if they are a book, or a fanfic, or an academic paper), or maybe I want to add the new snippet to the existing collection of snippets about a topic, and I may have to string all of them together in some coherent order. so that's why I think my notetaking program and my filesystem are information sinks.

I think that finding my information sources and information sinks in my life can really help me write more and be more creative in general, because a thing I've noticed is that when the information travels fast and smoothly from my sources to my sink, the faster I read it and the easiest it is for me to actually work on it and use this new information in my life.

(and also, I know I'm using very abstract terms, saying things like "processing information" that maybe put the picture of a maganer pleased with how the lines in their graph are all going up. but please, have in mind that the use case that made me realise the importance of having my data sources and sinks well connected was me wanting to leave a nice comment on all the fanfics I read. my "line going up" is "I can post around a dozen nice comments per week now!")

[faizmokh]

migrating logseq to icloud

Logseq released their iOS app April this year. I've been putting the migration on hold for a while since to make it work across devices nicely I've to sync it with iCloud. Too lazy.

By default if you open your logseq app on your iOS devices, they will create a Logseq/ folder in your iCloud drive.

I've been using a custom folder path in my ~/Developer directory since I want to sync it with git but I figured I might as well use the one created by the logseq app.

To migrate, I just have to copy/paste all of my existing logseq folder content into the newly created Logseq/

Re-Index it again on each devices and it should work.

Now I can access my logseq notes on my iPad. 🤘

[roxytonic]

this is why you don't get asks /lh

[in a terribly crone-like way] i'm too far abstracted from mcytblr and every time i claw myself back to earth i wind up blasting myself away...again. 💅

but you are right. i almost encourage my own obscurity. hopefully my venture back into Logseq will help me atomize my points and get to the meat of the topic in future drafts.

since you actually took some time to send an ask (even lighthearted), i'd like to add in some things from my Logseq as a small thanks:

(each point on the graph is an entry, or an entry in the making.)

(i'm a sucker for meta.)

[rostglukhov]

Practical guide to personal knowledge management: choose between Obsidian, Logseq, and DokuWiki, understand PKM methods like Zettelkasten and PARA, and build self-hosted knowledge systems.

[toolsonfire]

ICYMI: Logseq, Glean, and the AI Tools Reshaping How We Work in June 2026 http://dlvr.it/TTDFxD