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Well that's good to know. But I still say the OG logseq was the best of these apps: open source (mostly), plain markdown, visually clean, backlinks, browser acc

by flkiwi 4y ago

Well that's good to know. But I still say the OG logseq was the best of these apps: open source (mostly), plain markdown, visually clean, backlinks, browser accessible (so no issues jotting down a note from literally anything with an internet connection), almost zero friction for note-taking... It was just the best. Now the contortions we have to go through to synchronize notes is painful. A cynic would say it's a deliberate choice to make the paid sync more appealing, when previously it was unnecessary. Athens is getting there as an alternative, but I wish they were markdown-based for portability.

packetlost 4y ago
idk what you're talking about, they have a pretty easy script. The only thing they've changed in this regard is removing the periodic auto-commit feature which wasn't very good in the first place and the github repo as a back-end, which was also half-baked and not very good. IMO they've only improved things and have not shied away from dropping features that do not work as they intended.
- flkiwi 4y ago
  Moving from a simple, browser-based, git-backed model to something that requires bash scripts and git hooks and still has chronic sync errors and requires installing apps (that may not be available for a platform or installable for security reasons)? I mean, I respect that not every use case is the same and I'm glad many people find logseq useful (as I still do), but, from my perspective, they have significantly increased the friction of using what was an almost magical tool for capturing transient thoughts at high speed anywhere. I do like the features they are adding, which is why I continue to use it, but it's definitely not the magic tool it used to be.
  - gbro3n 4y ago
    Which old version number are you referring to as magic? I'd like to try it.
    - flkiwi 4y ago
      Pretty much anything before they announced deprecation of github integration. You would have to self-host the legacy backend (which is doable, but it's not simple). I apologize for not knowing the version number, but it would've been, oh, maybe 2 years ago?

by flkiwi 4y ago

packetlost 4y ago

idk what you're talking about, they have a pretty easy script. The only thing they've changed in this regard is removing the periodic auto-commit feature which wasn't very good in the first place and the github repo as a back-end, which was also half-baked and not very good. IMO they've only improved things and have not shied away from dropping features that do not work as they intended.

flkiwi 4y ago
Moving from a simple, browser-based, git-backed model to something that requires bash scripts and git hooks and still has chronic sync errors and requires installing apps (that may not be available for a platform or installable for security reasons)? I mean, I respect that not every use case is the same and I'm glad many people find logseq useful (as I still do), but, from my perspective, they have significantly increased the friction of using what was an almost magical tool for capturing transient thoughts at high speed anywhere. I do like the features they are adding, which is why I continue to use it, but it's definitely not the magic tool it used to be.
- gbro3n 4y ago
  Which old version number are you referring to as magic? I'd like to try it.
  - flkiwi 4y ago
    Pretty much anything before they announced deprecation of github integration. You would have to self-host the legacy backend (which is doable, but it's not simple). I apologize for not knowing the version number, but it would've been, oh, maybe 2 years ago?