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imputation | 4 months ago

I had to do some gap analysis between note-taking apps with a graph view functionality to allow me to visualise my knowledge-base.

Obsidian was my initial choice but I had grievances with it. I ended up going with Logseq for many reasons - yes it appears to be less mature however that doesn't mean that it is inferior by any measure (and open-source)

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Lapel2742|4 months ago

> I ended up going with Logseq for many reasons - yes it appears to be less mature however that doesn't mean that it is inferior by any measure (and open-source)

If I remember correctly it was inferior to Obsidian because Logseq used a proprietary format. Yes, it was/is officially markdown but not in a format that is easily transferred. I don't know if it changed but Logseq documents where literally just a big Markdown list if I remember correctly.

Personally I do see the problem with closed source solutions but the real problem with Obsidian are AFAIk the plugins and not the App itself. I mean: They have a long way to go to be even remotely as evil as people at Google or Microsoft. But if that ever happens I simply walk away with my .md documents.

quxbar|4 months ago

Exactly this. After the enshittification of evernote I swore I would only write documents in formats and contexts where I can easily pick up and move.

ezst|4 months ago

On the same boat few months (actually, almost 2 years!) ago, I found Logseq too limiting as soon as one need to manage notes consistently ("typing" them as collections of notes of similar nature and acting on their properties as metadata), went through quite a long list of contenders (including AnyType) and ultimately settled with https://triliumnotes.org/

astrikos|4 months ago

I am excited to try Trilium! though I think it might be hard to migrate all of my notes over with the [[tag]] conventions I have now. Did you use the trilium-py tool?