Logseq
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Local-first, privacy-focused notebook supporting Markdown and Emacs Org mode. Offers offline use, encrypted backups, plugin extensibility, LaTeX support, real-time collaboration, and hierarchical organization for personal knowledge management.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Flathub
- F-Droid
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Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Notion
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I spend a ridiculous amount of time searching for a PKM tool that fits my organizational needs. Everything falls short. I want to help others on their own quests by compiling this list. Tags on AlternativeTo are helpful, but I wanted a place to keep a curated list with my own findings that others can contribute to.
Where I can, I have tried to answer the following important questions for each app:
- Is it open source?
- Is it offline-capable?
- Can blocks/notes exist in multiple locations?
As well as providing rough overall ratings (Scale of 1 to 5) for the following metrics:
- Organization: How does the app allow you to structure information? Is it flexible? Is it logical?
- User experience (UX): Is it easy to use? Is the interface designed in a way that is not just logical, but natural for the everyday user?
- Privacy: To the best of my (limited) knowledge, does this tool protect your personal data AND is it designed so that you can ensure the safety of your data yourself rather than relying on the app developers (trust, but verify).
Please comment with additions/suggestions, collaboration makes things better.
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Comments and Reviews
It's like Dynalist or Workflowy but open source (GPL), and you can locally store your files (even to a SeaFile or Nextcloud instance).
I was really a fan of logseq, even convinced my friends to use it, but the program is just to buggy, slow and the architecture is absolute crap. They wrote the whole thing in clojure which makes totally unreadable source code that only someone who wrote it can read or someone who spends month trying fiddle thru to understand the core. They try since years to create a DB version, but despite trying to convince them that the core needs to be rewritten in a typsafe and fast language like rust, they frickle now since years on it and the finish line is not in sight. It's a shame because the idea is absolute super, but the actually implementation is crap. Have stopped using it some month ago
And what have you been using instead? I'm just interested in a good open source alternative.
seems promising but the android client is pretty bad and the overall service requieres more development.
It’s with great disappointment that I’m announcing the end of this program in my workflow. I’ve been using it for almost two years, but unfortunately my database has grown too large and the app can no longer handle it.
I only use daily notes — every day I add small entries that aren’t even the size of a Post-it note, but also not a book. Think of something like a one-page article, similar to what you’d find on alternativo.net. Even so, the program struggles once there’s too much information.
The suggested solution would be to open a new vault and start from scratch, but at that point I’d rather look for another application. I waited a long time for updates, and since they never came, I think the best option is to move on. That’s a real shame, because this program is otherwise perfect for my use case.
What do you use instead?
@very_unfortunate Right now, I’m using a program called SiYuan. It’s not good enough at handling “linked” and “unlinked” notes (even though it does exactly the same thing—except instead of putting them in the document itself, it puts them in a sidebar, which makes it worse to use). However, the calendar (journal) mode is more efficient for organization, because it’s similar to how Obsidian organizes things. It’s neither Org mode nor Markdown. It’s HTML imitating Markdown. In my view, it’s the most powerful free program I’ve found so far. But it’s one of those things—we’ll see in two or even three years whether it can stick around.
I use it for personal wikis. The only personal wiki application I used before was TiddlyWiki in "nodeJS/server" mode. My work related wiki is synchronized via GitHub and my TODO Wiki gets synchronized to my iPhone.
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Yes, but Tiddly is sooo tedious and troublesome even just trying to set up, what with trying to meet all of the dependencies (a Herculean series of tasks alone!), that in the end, you just say, "Aww, forget it!" Granted, this is from a Linux platform, and even with a CompSci degree, some things are just not doable! Now, if we are talking about Android, then I have the perfect solution! I had initially hated it when I had tried it almost a decade ago, but Markor is totally redone and it has LOTS of additional features! Okay, you don't like markdown? No problem, because you can choose from todo, AsciiDoc, and OrgMode! And, you have 16 color choices for text in AsciiDoc, and if you can put up with a CommonMark-like sort of Markdown, you can benefit from 20 different Admonitions (like you see in Obsidian, Logseq, and Joplin)! They are also called Callouts. Same thing. No, I am not affiliated with them or anyone else. I am just a middle-aged dude who would love to be able to make logseq work the way that they SAY is possible.
The UI is really confusing
offline working with whitebeards - is like beeing a master chief in siberia