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Kai Klostermann

Edit: Wow, don't. There really is a lot of controversy. Further information here: qoto.org/@post/110203051859101

Original: For reference: choose over .

Qoto MastodonPost (@post@qoto.org)#Logseq honest review 🟢 #FOSS with AGPL license (in theory) 🔴 In reality it depends on a closed source module responsible for sync, dubious legality and misleading 🟡 Developed almost privately by a Venture Capitals funded company but accepting small contributions on GitHub and donations on OpenCollective 🟢 Store notes in #Markdown (or in less supported #OrgMode) locally 🟡 Forces indented lists in .md files and it doesn't support normal paragraphs at all 🟡 Introduces syntax that breaks Markdown in a very bad way instead of using code blocks where possible (in Advanced Queries?) 🟡 Based on Electron, NodeJS and NPM 🟡 UI and business logic mixed together, it forces you to always run the whole UI, including for sync 🟢 Available for Linux on FlatHub (unofficially) 🔴 AppImage is the only officially supported way to install on Linux 🟡 No official reproducible builds but unofficial Flatpak ones are reproducible 🟡 Not in F-droid (and the closed source sync feature wouldn't be allowed there anyway), you have to grab their APK manually or automatically 🟢 Supports Wayland but not by default 🟢 Custom CSS 🟡 Fixed UI, no tabs, no split view 🟡 Multi-window means multiple conflicting whole instances 🟢 Plugins platform 🔴 Plugins marketplace based on GitHub 🟡 Poor integration of plugins especially from UI/UX PoV 🟢 Very interesting concept of PDF annotations 🟡 PDF annotations not stored in the .pdf as standard annotations 🟡 PDF annotations stored in their own .md files with odd names 🟢 LaTeX formulas support 🟡 No native PDF export and in general problematic 🟡 Too many menus, command palettes and other redundant UI elements 🟢 Queries with simple syntax and UI 🟡 Advanced Queries are too often needed 🟢 Datalog query language in Advanced Queries 🟡 Very broken aliases feature 🟡 Inconsistent requirements of capitalize, lowercase etc in query syntax and elsewhere that even break some functionalities 🟢 Macros 🟡 Macros don't work with most syntax, including Advanced Queries 🟢 Supports HTML and Hiccup syntax 🟢 Supports embedding Web pages using iframes 🟢 Sync is e2e encrypted 🔴 The code for e2e encryption can't be audited because it is closed source 🟡 Tons of functionalities must be configured by editing a EDN file that it is very easy to break 🟢 Forum based on Discourse 🔴 Use (and abuse) of Discord, even release announcements are made there 🟡 Some Matrix bridges Concept: 8/10 Execution: 5/10 CC @logseq@a.gup.pe
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mellowfish

@OddDev tried that first. Felt lacking. Obsidian is way better.

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Blf_tpe

@OddDev What makes Logseq really good and interesting is that you can create references to blocks inside a not. That's very powerful and explain the weird things with Markdown.

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Kai Klostermann

@Blf_tpe absolutely! Don't get new wrong. I am a power user and love it. But I was under the impression that it's also the more ethical choice.

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Blf_tpe

@OddDev I really can understand. It's an app that was a surprise for me, it sounds like Obsidian but in practice I loved it for how I could handle tasks, notes and projects together. But now I think the questions you ask are shared by many people... The team says they focus on the database version, let's see what it brings!

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