Logseq
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)
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
- Flathub
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
- Distraction-free
- Lightweight
- Customizable
Features
- Bidirectional links
- Graph view
- Outliner
- Local Storage
- Backlinks
- Knowledge base
- Support for MarkDown
- Knowledge Management
- Works Offline
- Note organization
- Ad-free
- Hyperlinks
- Full-Text Search
- Dark Mode
- Wiki
- Backlink
- No Tracking
- PDF annotation
- Learn with Flashcards
- Mind Mapping
- PKM
- Syntax Highlighting
- Subtasks
- Calendar View
- File Tagging
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Cloud Sync
- Spell Checking
- Decentralized
- Pomodoro Timer
Support for LaTeX- Recurring Tasks
- No registration required
- Task Time Tracking
- Goal Setting
- Hierarchical Structure
- Import/Export OPML Feeds
- Calendar Integration
- Code Formatting
- WYSIWYG Support
- Kanban Board
- No Coding Required
- Live Preview
- Portable
Git Support- Web Clipper
- Goal Tracking
- Real time collaboration
- Encrypted Backup
Sync with Google Calendar- Support for scripting
- End-to-End Encryption
- Support for @mentions
- Zettelkasten note method
- Org-mode
- Themes
- Sketching
- Theme Customization
- Flow Chart
- Custom templates
- Integrated Search
Logseq News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Notion
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Recent activities
POX added Logseq as alternative to Prism Notes
JohnathanSmith10 added Logseq as alternative to MyParticularNotes
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What is Logseq?
Logseq is a platform for knowledge sharing and management. It focuses on privacy, longevity, and user control. Notice: the backend code will be open-sourced as soon as we’re sure that the backend service meets the security standards.
The server will never store or analyze your private notes. Your data are plain text files and we currently support both Markdown and Emacs Org mode (more to be added soon).
In the unlikely event that the website is down or cannot be maintained, your data is, and will always be yours.
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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.
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