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
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
- Flathub
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
- Distraction-free
- Customizable
Features
- Bidirectional links
- Graph view
- Local Storage
- Outliner
- Backlinks
- Knowledge base
- Support for MarkDown
- Knowledge Management
- Works Offline
- Note organization
- Ad-free
- Full-Text Search
- Dark Mode
- Hyperlinks
- Wiki
- No Tracking
- PDF annotation
- Backlink
- Learn with Flashcards
- Mind Mapping
- Syntax Highlighting
- PKM
- Subtasks
- Calendar View
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- File Tagging
- Cloud Sync
- Spell Checking
- Pomodoro Timer
- Decentralized
- Recurring Tasks
- No registration required
- Task Time Tracking
- Hierarchical Structure
- Import/Export OPML Feeds
Support for LaTeX- Goal Setting
- Calendar Integration
- Code Formatting
- Kanban Board
- No Coding Required
- Web Clipper
- Goal Tracking
- WYSIWYG Support
- Real time collaboration
- Live Preview
- Encrypted Backup
Sync with Google Calendar- Support for scripting
- Zettelkasten note method
- Org-mode
- Themes
- Sketching
- Theme Customization
- Flow Chart
- Custom templates
- Integrated Search
Tags
- note-sharing
- math-equations
Logseq News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
elasticnote added Logseq as alternative to Elasticnote
haidoit added Logseq as alternative to Journal it!
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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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Logseq, Inc. Licensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Rating
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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).
The UI is really confusing
offline working with whitebeards - is like beeing a master chief in siberia
Logseq is a FLOSS note-taking tool that offers an exceptional user experience while keeping your data stored locally.
It provides a high degree of flexibility and offers a lot of features and formatting options thanks to plugins.
For anyone who needs a “second brain” while prioritizing privacy and open-source, Logseq is the best choice.
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.
You have to use a markdown statement to embed an image within the note. I'm not fond of doing plug-in routines when there are other programs that facilitate standard items.
Has many plugins, are AI-supported, helps in making mind maps and publishing Wikis, and fully FOSS unlike Obsidian. Also it is less like a PM tool (e.g. Notion).