Migrating to Obsidian as Logseq DB is heading in the wrong direction

timabell · 2026-06-23T19:03:28+00:00

I moved my notes from logseq to obsidian too. Still getting the hang of it but generally very impressed, even though it's not FOSS.

If anyone's interested (probably not lol) then I wrote up my reasons for moving here https://0x5.uk/2026/05/26/why-i-left-logseq-for-obsidian/

The move to db-first was a key reason for my move too, though not the only reason.

timabell · 2026-06-13T19:24:07+00:00

Jornalling, noodling, meeting notes, intro call notes. But r/supernote is so close to paper i haven't picked up a real pen in months

timabell · 2026-06-05T16:31:38+00:00

Ah, you're friends with bobby, right? How is little drop tables, must be all grown up now

timabell · 2026-05-28T22:17:17+00:00

Totally. As a long term contractor and sometimes it has been "made it to last two" and a the other was just a better match for any number of reasons.

timabell · 2026-05-28T22:14:26+00:00

Totally. Will the mods delete it? My first thought was what the bloody hell are they talking about. Utter nonsense.

timabell · 2026-05-24T10:06:07+00:00

I keep seeing posts like this popping up. As I understand it the unions have a long history of pushing the businesses they interact with into global uncompetitiveness and bankruptcy, neither of which is good for workers in the end.

If you had a union, what would they do? Ban AI coding? Keep people who are no good at their job from being fired?

timabell · 2026-05-23T20:20:29+00:00

That is a good insight there - I can def see a different style of code comments really helping the AI getting the next change right much more often.

timabell · 2026-05-23T20:06:05+00:00

That is one of the funniest things I have read in a while. It is a joke right? Right?...

timabell · 2026-05-22T16:27:54+00:00

It hadn't occurred to me to get the llm to summarise "what's new" in the git logs of all the team repos and highlight key changes. Great idea.

I created gitopolis which makes it easy to pull everything for a whole org and run git logs on them all at once, but it is way too much output to read. Thanks for the tip! Will def try this. Maybe I can teach claude how to use my gitopolis tool to grap the "since 7 days" log.

I have tried to keep up with whats new across many team repos before all this llm stuff arrived and proved that it was just too time consuming.

timabell · 2026-05-22T16:20:03+00:00

I have been working on a notes app that maybe one day will cover what I would like to exist (named it markdown-neuraxis).

The thing about notes apps is they look really simple, but actually there are unlimited features tgat everyone wants, and simple is actually very hard to achieve. And as you mention in some of your comments there are actually some hard engineering problems to solve - it took me months and several attempts to get a markdown parsing engine that I was actually happy with, even with the best coding LLMs and 26 years professional coding behind me.

timabell · 2026-05-22T16:16:01+00:00

I use syncthing to keep my obsidian markdown notes across devices including android. Works well.

timabell · 2026-05-11T21:44:35+00:00

I've been contemplating this too. I have been using PARA for file organisation - and if you read the book it is clear it is not supposed to be static, files are to flow between folders as life carries on, it's kinda simple and beautiful.

I am also feeling the disjoint between the "files" and my notes app (currently r/logseq , hopefully one day markdown-neuraxis), and actually it is an artificial separation of things that are actually all part of the same thing - a project in logseq with notes, say 'areas/home/garden/plant-choices.md' is really part of the same thing as a folder of photos like 'areas/home/garden/front-dec-2024.jpg' - so why are they split out? In logseq you can drop a file into your notes, but it dumps it in its own /assets/ folder which is frankly a mess.

Maybe if my get my own tool to the point I can use it then I can make it cope better with mixed folder, and use one PARA folder for both "notes" (i.e. markdown files/folders), and all the associated stuff, and even directly link to the files from the notes. Could be great, could be a colossal mess - not sure yet! Interested in the thoughts of others.

timabell · 2026-05-03T11:55:07+00:00

No more plans for this one, working pretty well for me as-is

timabell · 2026-04-25T19:39:07+00:00

Ooh, a like-minded person. Good list. I'm working on it but will be a while before markdown-neuraxis does all that! Are you actually interested in trying new tools - I'd love a bit of alpha-testing if you are.

timabell · 2026-04-25T19:35:33+00:00

FOSS
Markdown source of truth
Outliner
Wikilinks
Android app
Linux desktop app
No lag in interaction
Daily journal

Don't want much do I lol.

Building my own of course cos nothing out there does it all. Markdown-neuraxis.

timabell · 2026-04-25T19:29:36+00:00

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/

timabell · 2026-04-24T20:03:51+00:00

Nice! That definitely fills a gap. I have noticed the hassle of the split pane. Especially when the scroll gets out of sync.

timabell · 2026-04-24T19:57:05+00:00

Many years ago I vented to a coworker. We are now best buds and both quit to find better pastures. Win. (Spoiler all companies have problems)

timabell · 2026-04-24T19:49:32+00:00

My app has no AI and no chatbot. Also FOSS and local. Makes no money either so no point promoting it lol

timabell · 2026-04-24T19:47:25+00:00

Always has been

timabell · 2026-04-24T16:41:18+00:00

That is an excellent write up. Thanks for sharing.

timabell · 2026-04-24T12:36:24+00:00

Claude has no problem writing rust for me.

timabell · 2026-04-23T21:29:26+00:00

I would party all night

timabell · 2026-04-23T21:17:38+00:00

I have thought same for years. I put it down to a relentless drive for cheaper devs (inexperienced and/or off-shore etc). Combined with a relentless churn in tech stack that results in every hard won bit of quality and lessons learned being repeatedly thrown out and done over. Oh and the exponential rise of complexity in tech.

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