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I keep hearing about loqseq, is there anyone using it here that can give me their opinion on it?

I use it and mostly like it. It is excellent at being a WYSIWYG, markdown-first, stream-of-consciousness, note-taking application.

The plugin ecosystem is sparse/immature, and the special features like PDF embedding/annotating are not very usable. It is difficult to set up sync properly (I self host Nextcloud and usually have to resolve sync conflicts whenever I switch devices). There is an Android app, which works fine, but the integration with the Android system (e.g. creating a note from a "Share" dialog) is... obtuse.

Another nice thing about logseq is that you can use it as a self-hosted web app. Thus, there is no need for Electron, you can use a regular browser. However, this requires the File System API, which is missing in Firefox.

I use it casually. I really like it, except for the fact that the UI shows empty log days. So if I don't take any note for a week, I get a big blank scroll, instead of whatever my last note was.

Structuring everything into "nodes" is a paradigm that works well for me.

I use it daily for work. The core concept is a single time-sequential outline. Each entry in the outline is referenceable and can be included by reference in other pages. Pages are created wiki-style. Entries can have additional metadata. There is a “todo” system of metadata (that I don’t use.). There is a data log query capability. All content is markdown. The editor inlines images. Outline + markdown + inline images + wiki-ish system is a sweet spot for me.

Reindexing will eliminate empty pages, fwiw.

I ended up on logseq after trying nearly every other notetaking platform and paradigm under the sun. Logseq is the only one I found myself using, and I've used it at nearly ever day at home and work for coming up on two years.

It works for me because I can just start typing. I don't have to worry about creating new pages. If I click on a reference (that is, a tag or page -- fundamentally the same thing), I can see all of the other places I referenced it. And all of the places I used that word but _didn't_ reference it.

I can go on and on about logseq and I'm happy to answer specific questions, but the important thing is: it works for me.

It has nice linking and macros, it is very painful when it comes to code blocks. It's also a bit weird that every paragraph is a bullet point. I prefer being able to write Markdown documents where not every paragraph is a bullet point.

For an example of macros, I have a macro that makes it so when I enter `{{mergerequest JIRA-1000, 2222}}` I get links to the JIRA ticket and the GitHub PR. JIRA-1000 is the ticket ID and 2222 is the GitHub PR number. Macros are really powerful and a lot of fun to customize.

Features are a bit better than Obsidian at the cost of much more jank.

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