A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
I was going to make a point on how it’s cool that it’s open-source, and if you’re looking for a certain feature-set, then this might be the most open you can find, but that it still doesn’t sit well with me, that it’s being developed by a corporation.
But then the demo made this point much more succinctly:
…with an absolutely atrocious mobile app.
Doing the job well enough though,
On portable device, i note,
On PC after an easy sync i manage and make pages/update subjects .I love tags,
It has many upsides like every page being a markdown file, the interface is nice and easy to use, it supports embedding files images, videos, diagrams and PDFs, highlighting PDFs and referring to the highlights, saved searches (e.g all tasks about “life”, pages about science and " forum responses", …), and I’m probably forgetting a few. It even has a mobile app that’s works quite well.
The downside however is that it’s all in some functional language transpiled into JavaScript to run in electron. There’s no CLI to take a directory and spit out HTML files to host your notes, “automation” means downloading and running the electron app, then interacting with an API that controls electron and simulates clicking. It’s amongst the worst solutions I’ve seen for automation and I’m not sure why they built the application this way. And because it’s an electron app, there are unnecessary difficulties on read-only system partitions / atomic operating systems. Finally, though opensource, they have a Contributor Licence Agreement (CLA).
My fear is that there will be a rugpull at some point in the future and I’ll have to find an alternative solution, so right now I’m on the (passive) lookout for opensource alternatives with mobile apps. Found nothing yet and I don’t want to start developing one myself (no time).
My fear is that there will be a rugpull at some point in the future and I’ll have to find an alternative solution
If history has shown us anything, that’s quite a legitimate worry to have. I didn’t know they had a CLA :(
If you find anything that seems like a safer bet long-term, please share it here!
I switched to Logseq from Obsidian since I preferred FOSS and it’s been a good experience so far. They are working on a big update to switch to an sqlite db for storage which should help with performance (and I hope improve the search experience) so that’s exciting too.
I think there’s something I’m not understanding with logseq because I use it and obsidian and massively prefer obsidian. I can’t pinpoint why or what the problem is but it never feels like I can access the notes that I want when I want them. Did you have any issues making the switch?
I only used obsidian for a few weeks so i didnt get that used to it, but what you mean could be the mental switch from hierarchical file structure in obsidian to logseq’s journaling/time based one? You’re supposed to organize data with tags rather than remembering their location and structure in folders. I spend most time searching for tags, not specific files, and in that way it’s functional enough for me, although I do not really understand the query syntax yet so I am unable to create more complex searches in this way. Tbh I’m hoping the sqllite switch lets me just write direct SQL
For a specific example, instead of having folders like Software > Programming > csharp > my projects > projectx … I will just have a page for the project that has tags #programming #csharp #myprojects etc. And then I can search for #myproject and see all relevant info for it, even sorted by the date when i added it which adds some nice historical context
