Top 5 Roam Alternatives

Posted by Luhmann
Aug 27, 2021 at 10:39 AM

Seems something isn’t right. Should post this in the forum, or for a quicker response perhaps in the official Discord channel. As far as the deleted pages showing up on the other computer - you probably need to do a re-index (from the drop down menu) to get the iMac to register the changes. The last update greatly sped up re-indexing so that should help, but the need to occasionally re-index changes from another computer will probably persist until they offer their own paid sync solution (as Obsidian has done).

Darren McDonald wrote:
@Luhmann, I was actually working with Logseq today and discovered the
>problem is not just with Dropbox.
> >Basically, when I change the name of a page using “rename” in the
>pull-down menu, it creates a new page and leaves the old page intact.
>You only discover this when you view “all pages” to see the list of
>pages. This results in a long list of unwanted pages and gets rather
>confusing.
> >Also, when I delete unwanted pages from a Roam JSON package that I
>imported into Logseq, the pages reappear when I open Logseq on my iMac
>at home. I made sure to sync and close Logseq before logging off and
>opening Logseq on another computer. I am using the Mac desktop version.
>I tried the online version using my space on Github (repository). The
>issues with an imported Roam JSON package are worse with the Github
>repository. This time all the files disappear when Logseq syncs.
> >So my biggest issues are with pages I made in a fresh new graph
>(repository) and also when importing a Roam JSON package. I hope I am
>making sense. I am neither a programmer nor a technical expert when it
>comes to computer software. I could be doing something wrong, but I
>don’t know what to do to find out. Any clues? Should I post this to the
>Logseq forum?
>