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My guide for new users of Logseq
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Posted by Dormouse
Aug 17, 2022 at 11:34 PM
satis wrote:
>Tangent Notes seems neat but I’m not trusting an app that’s at
>v0.34beta.
That’s fair enough, but it’s more stable than Logseq and doesn’t have the breaking changes of Obsidian.
Mostly the v is about the present absence of features that many would regard as ‘essential’.
>Most importantly for those of us in this forum Logseq’s experience (like
>Roam’s) is that at heart it’s an outliner app, with a block-based
>paradigm, while Obsidian is a page-based writing app. (Obsidian can use
>block headings but you can’t edit them in other files - you can embed
>them with ![[..^..] but it’s just the reference.) For people who live
>inside outliners or think in outliner form I think Logseq is generally
>more appealing.
Yes, Logseq is an outliner and Obsidian isn’t, although Obsidian can contain outlines just as Logseq can work with folders of markdown files. And the markdown headings mean that Obsidian files can work as outlines (and blocks) though only six deep - and a outliner export through OPML will condense to a single .md file. And with embeds it’s easy to construct a very deep outline structure using multiple files.
But a block-based database outliner certainly is a very different design to a folder of markdown files.
Posted by satis
Aug 18, 2022 at 12:15 AM
Yes, fundamentally they come from two different paradigms. For me I’d rather build out from a high quality outliner than have a page-pased app that has some outlining in it - strange that Dynalist’s dev didn’t build Obsidian on its outliner.
My desktop machine has so many documents (more 4500+ epubs and 15,000+ pdfs alone), and I depend on sophisticated searches with HoudahSpot and Devonsphere. The writing apps I use like Ulysses have sophisticated searching, and one of Logseq’s advantages over its competition is its query abilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuy5A9LJiVE