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fmos | 10 months ago

Why and how did you switch from Logseq to Obsidian?

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fredoliveira|10 months ago

I'm not the parent commenter, but made a similar transition (years ago at this point). I have always loved outliner formats, but the obsidian ecosystem is quite strong, and because I already had thousands of notes that were just plain old markdown, it was a more natural home.

I wrote code to facilitate the migration. Nothing too crazy, but in general I wrote scripts that:

  - Add lines between logseq's daily notes format and the rest of the content
  - Moving daily notes to month-based subfolders
  - Automatically adding frontmatter to files that didn't have any
  - Removing indentation when unnecessary
  - Covert everything to space-based indentation rather than tabs

packetlost|10 months ago

Bugs and performance mostly. The elusive database refactor might bring me back but we'll see.

I definitely have a preference for outliner, flat zk style, but I'm able to get the majority of the benefit from Obsidian while having access to a stronger ecosystem of plugins and first class publishing and syncing support. Meanwhile Logseq seems to have lost a lot of steam.