My guide for new users of Logseq

Posted by Dormouse
Aug 17, 2022 at 12:42 PM

satis wrote:

>It seems to me that giong forward the most popular apps will end up
>being notes/writing apps which add linking while focusing on simplicity
>and WYSIWYG.

I’ve switched to writing all my notes in Tangent Notes. It’s relatively early stage but performance is very solid.
Uses Obsidian syntax, and like Obsidian, it works with folders (workspaces/vaults) of .md files. It doesn’t have a fraction of the features of Obsidian, but they are all available by using Obsidian on the same folders. I actually use Obsidian more since using Tangent (I’d been switching away toward rich text apps because they suited my required workflows better).

It has a nice (optional) card presentation of the files in a folder (it’s my preferred view) a simple, straightforward and usable(!) graph and has a different underlying editor (Typewriter as in Dabble instead of Codemirror). Also has an option for word processor Enter behaviour (Enter=New paragraph; shift-Enter= new line).

Also, unlike Obsidian, you can select and open a file directly using file explorer and it will open it in the relevant workspace or, if one does not yet exist, make a workspace out of the folder. I have switched from using the program’s file explorer 99% of the time and work from my preferred explorers (XYplorer, Directory Opus, One Commander and Q-Dir) together with my indexed search programs. This has the advantage of being both faster and more powerful than Obsidian’s equivalent (even with added plugins) and also enabling me to work seamlessly with other file formats (eg docx and pdf) as the search programs and explorers work with those too.

I find it much nicer to write in than Obsidian (less distracting, less to maintain and update) and it seems to encourage thoughtful note-taking and linking instead of the automation regarded as desirable in the Obsidian community.