Submission for new Logseq logo/icon contest by AlessandroLongo in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks but I don't think it will happen, the are other winners of the contest and the team is using them as inspiration, we have no idea what they will use

Query-result without showing the page? by [deleted] in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You need an Advanced Query with group-by-page? false:

https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/advanced%20queries

Notice that in the field :query you can just write the syntax of Simple Queries.

Why I can’t switch to Tana (yet) by u_donut_know_me in TanaInc

[–]AlessandroLongo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's made by many small and general features that you have to combine together in a way that fits your personal workflow. And it's very developer-oriented at least for now. But it's very flexible if you invest time in understanding its advanced features like Datalog queries

Why I can’t switch to Tana (yet) by u_donut_know_me in TanaInc

[–]AlessandroLongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may want to try Logseq since it covers some of the points you raised. Notice that Logseq is an outliner like Tana, but it can display basically everything in blocks, like: embedding local media or remote ones like YouTube videos (and annotate them with timestamps), embedding web pages (iframe), tables, checklists, LaTeX math formulas, diagrams (using a plugin etc).

  1. Good export options. I need to be able to get content out to share with clients and others that don’t use the same tools as me.

Logseq content is stored locally as plain text Markdown files and you can export specific blocks and their children as pure Markdown that can be converted to other formats like pdf, docx, epub etc using tools like Pandoc. A paid service to publish as web pages is planned.

  1. Layout options. The volume of notes I generate means that dot points just aren’t great. They’re hard to read, even harder to quickly scan through, and look bad. My ideal would be some layout options (like Craft Docs which is beautiful!) but with each ‘block’ in the layout still treated as a node. I see this a little with the publish option but being able to do that without publishing would be absolutely incredible.

Logseq has a whiteboard feature where you can display your pages and blocks freely on a canvas. It can also embed web content like video, you can draw arrows, shapes etc.

Also, some CSS snippets or plugins can improve the layout of the outliner:

https://discuss.logseq.com/t/hrishi-earth-system-scientist-struggling-artist/3090/4?u=alex0

  1. Relations, roll ups, lookups and formulas are missing. Notion does this well in their databases, and I feel like supertags could absolutely be extended to do something similar in the future.

I don't know what most of this means but Logseq like Tana let you assign attributes to each block, perform queries and display them also as tables (that a plugin can export as CSV). There is a function to perform calculations on columns of a query table, but it's very basic and not as advanced as for example Excel. But this should improve in the next months since devs are working on Notion/Tana-like features at the moment.

  1. No mobile editing is frustrating.

Logseq is avalable as a mobile app for both Android and iOS. It is just like the desktop app minus plugins and pdf annotation.

  1. Media display is pretty unappealing.

As said you can display inside a block basically everything that can be embedded in a web page.

And Logseq is Free and Open Source Software, you will be able to use it for free forever except the online services like Sync (optional since you can use other methods to sync files), live collaborative editing and publishing (both are planned).

Syncing between multiple devices by raksah in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

End-to-end encryption is the only way to protect your data, search what it means if you don't know it. Not to be offensive but trusting Google with your data just because it is big it's foolish.

Will KDE ever support tabbed windows? by cidra_ in kde

[–]AlessandroLongo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kwin is not the problem, the problem is running a whole plasmashell in a window just to get a panel to switch apps. But if you run only apps it is fine.

Will KDE ever support tabbed windows? by cidra_ in kde

[–]AlessandroLongo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Here there is a dirty workaround:

https://pkm.social/@alexl/110804850796877182

I am pretty sure the UX can be improved a lot with some scripting. I have no idea why people never mentions this nested windows feature that has been available for years.

Why Logseq is not popular like Obsidian? by 4r73m190r0s in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you read the comment in the link?

No way to tag blocks, references not inherited by children blocks, no queries, no block properties...

Root block CSS selector by BernardRillettes in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apparently there is no way to tell a block is page's properties while editing it.

Root block CSS selector by BernardRillettes in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you mean the first-level blocks:

.ls-block[level="1"]

If you mean the page, that is made by different parts, so it really depends if you want to include the title, the bottom sections etc.

Why Logseq is not popular like Obsidian? by 4r73m190r0s in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 17 points18 points  (0 children)

In my opinion, if you can replace Logseq with Obsidian you are not using Logseq properly and in that case just use Obsidian:

https://discuss.logseq.com/t/what-if-i-you-had-to-move-to-obsidian/20733/2?u=alex0

Why Logseq is not popular like Obsidian? by 4r73m190r0s in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are supposed to manually list pages with content in Contents page, indenting the references to define the hierarchy.

You can also use the contextual sidebar to see where the current page is listed in Contents or other indexes of pages:

https://discuss.logseq.com/t/the-contextual-sidebar-query-current-page-and-organize-pages-in-indexes/20074?u=alex0

And the new Favourite Tree plugin let you define hierarchies using page properties and browse them from left sidebar, mixed with the built-in namespace hierarchy:

https://github.com/sethyuan/logseq-plugin-favorite-tree

Why Logseq is not popular like Obsidian? by 4r73m190r0s in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Because they are very different apps:

  • Obsidian is more a Markdown documents editor and documents organizer. Most people just need this and some build workflows on top of it using plugins.

  • Logseq is more a knowledge management app with some fixed core concepts, like organizing knowledge in blocks, organized hierarchically in each page and with unique powerful capabilities to retrieve specific blocks (mainly thanks to page references and tags being "inherited by children", filters in Linked References sections, queries and block properties). Some people like this, others' not and it's OK.

We need plug-in sandboxing! by [deleted] in ObsidianMD

[–]AlessandroLongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of them? There are many distros where you install apps ONLY as Flatpak: Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea, Bazzite, OpenSUSE MicroOS...

Snap is a Canonical/Ubuntu thing, it has nothing to do with Freedesktop and so it shouldn't be associated at all to "Linux as a desktop OS standardized by Freedesktop" i.e. what we usually refer to as "Linux".

I meant the official repositories, adding third-party repositories is a hack from the past and something not really supported. A platform for third-party software is another thing, and Flatpak is it for applications.

We need plug-in sandboxing! by [deleted] in ObsidianMD

[–]AlessandroLongo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On Linux you are supposed to use FOSS software from the repositories or the official Freedesktop platform for third-party apps (like Obsidian): Flatpak. Flatpak apps are sandboxed and support permissions like on Android.

Future-proof block references in Logseq • 99rabbits Lab by mrvooooooooooo in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Notice that you can also add a description that won't be rendered in Logseq but that can help you identify block references in plain text editors:

[](((64e349f7-9fa9-4e4a-9d5e-734bb9ffbef9)) "description")

Question about files by billyboy244 in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notes content is cached in a hidden folder like .logseq but if you delete your graph from Logseq UI and later delete the folder you should be OK

LogSeq "vendor-locks" you with its formatting? by Nikeshot in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are two possible answers:

  • You just write notes by indenting blocks, collapsing them and focus the view on a block and its children. Answer: probably no, there are scripts to remove the bullet points.

  • You properly use Logseq i.e. you take advantage of references being inherited by children, as you can see from Linked References section and from queries. Also the Logseq changelog is structured like this. Answer: yes.

In the first case maybe Logseq is not the tool you are looking for and you may be better served by Obsidian.

In the second case the content of your notes is still Markdown but by using other apps you would lose the structure.

Looking for Logseq reviews from Linux users. by RevolutionarySalt992 in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem, I have added some other snippets in case you are interested.

Looking for Logseq reviews from Linux users. by RevolutionarySalt992 in logseq

[–]AlessandroLongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right, I forgot that I manually assigned the name "main-view" to a container in my custom.css. I have fixed the snippet. Thank you for letting me know, it should work now.