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Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge sharing and management platform

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Re: Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge sharing and management platform

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Post by aiisjustanif »

tiensonqin wrote: post #2

Author here, thanks for the posting! I've been working it since February, it started as an org-mode web outliner so that I can use it on my phone to check some todos and capture some ideas. I added some features (backlinks, graph, block embeds, etc.) from Roam Research after trying it. It can be self-hosted and the plan is to have something like TiddlyWiki so that you can use it as a whole HTML file in your own websi…

A bit ironic that you can only login using GitHub and the story today was “Never Use Third Party Auth to Sign In”[1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25091420

Re: Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge sharing and management platform

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Post by aiisjustanif »

vhanda wrote: post #20

If you're looking for a mobile client to go along with this checkout GitJournal [0]. It has basic support for wiki style links and backlinks, but I'm still working on the graph support. [0] - https://gitjournal.io

Why not just use Joplin [1]... that use tags and folders, can rsync almost anywhere, and can be encrypted at rest?

[1]: https://joplinapp.org

Re: Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge sharing and management platform

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Post by ryanklee »

aiisjustanif wrote: post #31
tiensonqin wrote: post #2

Author here, thanks for the posting! I've been working it since February, it started as an org-mode web outliner so that I can use it on my phone to check some todos and capture some ideas. I added some features (backlinks, graph, block embeds, etc.) from Roam Research after trying it. It can be self-hosted and the plan is to have something like TiddlyWiki so that you can use it as a whole HTML file in your own websi…

A bit ironic that you can only login using GitHub and the story today was “Never Use Third Party Auth to Sign In”[1]. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25091420

This is a really silly criticism of this particular application, given (1) this application's functionality depends on integration with a github account, and (2) that third party auth sign ins is a very common feature, so nothing application specific here.

Re: Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge sharing and management platform

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Post by vhanda »

dgl wrote: post #26
vhanda wrote: post #20

If you're looking for a mobile client to go along with this checkout GitJournal [0]. It has basic support for wiki style links and backlinks, but I'm still working on the graph support. [0] - https://gitjournal.io

Seems like a nice idea but it's very expensive for the feature set, Pro is on the same price level as OmniFocus but can do far less... It also misses outlining support, which logseq has. (Tried it out on iOS out of interest anyway and it failed to even clone my repo, as it's on a local network, iOS asked for local network access permissions and then it got confused saying "Exception: fatal: remote "origin" already ex…

Sorry. I've been refactoring the code for multi-repo and multi-remote handling and I introduced a bug in the process.

If you can clear all the app's data and try again it should work. I've fixed the bug, but I still have to publish the fix on iOS.

Re: Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge sharing and management platform

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Post by vhanda »

slow_donkey wrote: post #21
vhanda wrote: post #20

If you're looking for a mobile client to go along with this checkout GitJournal [0]. It has basic support for wiki style links and backlinks, but I'm still working on the graph support. [0] - https://gitjournal.io

If anyone's looking for a mobile notes app that syncs with git, I highly encourage checking out GitJournal. I used it for a bit before building a personal app specific to my workflow. Are you still bundling libgit? I remember checking this project out and was impressed you got the setup to work with flutter. It's actually a reason I switched to react native because there were pure JS git implementations [0]. [0] http…

Yup. I'm still bundling libgit2, it took a lot of effort to get it to work.

I've been working on dart-git https://github.com/GitJournal/dart-git and it's been slowly replacing most of libgit2. Eventually I would like to remove libgit2 completely and only have libssh2.

I would love to know more about your workflow.

Re: Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge sharing and management platform

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Post by vhanda »

aiisjustanif wrote: post #32
vhanda wrote: post #20

If you're looking for a mobile client to go along with this checkout GitJournal [0]. It has basic support for wiki style links and backlinks, but I'm still working on the graph support. [0] - https://gitjournal.io

Why not just use Joplin [1]... that use tags and folders, can rsync almost anywhere, and can be encrypted at rest? [1]: https://joplinapp.org

For two main reasons -

1. Git support - Having the history of all your changes is wonderful. I never have to worry about a note being accidentally deleted. It's also great for collaboration.

2. Mobile App - Joplin's mobile app really leaves a lot to be desired and is lacking a lot of essential features. Eg - Browsing your notes in a grid view similar to Google Keep, or linking your notes together using the wiki link format.

Re: Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge sharing and management platform

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Post by Shared404 »

tiensonqin wrote: post #9
chmod775 wrote: post #7

Why does this say it needs github? Can it not use any git repository?

The plan is to add self-host git support later.

I like the idea of the project, but this is a blocker for me.

Thanks for the work you do, and for open sourcing!

Re: Logseq – privacy-first, open-source knowledge sharing and management platform

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Post by neolog »

tiensonqin wrote: post #4
neolog wrote: post #3

Glad to see open-source tools like this starting up. Have you had a chance to look at Athens [1] to compare? They seem to be using similar tooling. [1] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

Thanks for the question! Yes, both Logseq and Athens are working on open source knowledge base tool, and both are using clojure/clojurescript and datascript. Some differences are: 1. logseq works directly with plaintext files (it support both org mode and markdown for the record, we plan to add more markup formats like asciidoc in the future). 2. logseq can be used on the web and can be synced using Git. 3. logseq dr…

In Roam there are only Page and Block. What is the role of a File in the Logseq data model? Is it a third object type? How does it relate to the other two?
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