Comment by rodrigodlu
2 years ago
Painful to import things from Logseq or Obsidian. It imports one md at a time, and the 'zip' thing does not click me.
It seem to focus too much on individual collections and pages and investing time upfront thinking about how to organize and navigate.
Awesome replacement for some things I had in OneNote, thou. Like an easy personal wiki.
But logseq (and as a second choice obsidian) is taking my heart because the activation energy cost is really low to just start writing notes, the flow seems more natural.
It's really an alternative to notion and maybe onenote, but not to whom just want to write more freely and easily finding things later then reorganizing what it's still important with some plugins and keyboard shortcuts (auto/semiauto moving blocks from one md to another).
For instance, daily notes: I don't want to put a title. Just give me the current date, and ability to see previous days in a few keystrokes, some tags for the blocks I'm taking note, that will help me find the related blocks and pages later.
The P2P sync is what made me try the first place. It's working fine, nice!
I did a similar thing with logseq + syncthing, and all my notes are plain files. I can't find the format anytype is using. The local working folder just looks like a standard chrome/electron folder with everything inside. Unusable for my own backup purposes.
Nice to know about in general, ty!
(co-founder of anytype) thank you for this feedback! Totally agree, that import sucks - very few options. We plan to improve the import and also publish an API to engage our community of contributors to help us build and improve more of them. on titles of daily notes - again, well spotted - again, we have plans to improve :) happy you liked p2p sync - this was the main objective and the next big thing here is multi-player based on p2p
Logseq's journal is the biggest productivity hack we got that we never thought we needed.
Don't know where to put the idea, note or just a scribble? You have a 2022-05-12 page without the cognitive load or confusion.
Let's be cautious where we attribute credit. Daily journaling has been a thing for, oh, centuries.
At the very least Zim has had the same journal feature dating back over a decade. I'm sure others can't point to similar software stretching back at least another decade before that.
I haven't used Zim, but from a cursory look it doesn't seem like it has any way to query its daily journal entries. In Logseq your daily journal might contain a dozen todos, bulleted project notes, and random thoughts all mixed together, but you don't need to look at the day's entry to find them again. Instead you run a query against all your notes to collect stuff where it's relevant.