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I tried both and am using Obsidian now. I wanted to use logseq (I felt good about "Obsidian, but open source") but when I tried to find some text in a page I w

I tried both and am using Obsidian now. I wanted to use logseq (I felt good about "Obsidian, but open source") but when I tried to find some text in a page I was writing it didn't work. I'm a total logseq noob but as far as I could tell I needed to install an extension/plugin to search through the page, which was weird. Plus, the plugin didn't work for me (I typed in the thing to search for, clicked "go find it" and nothing happened, I think - it's been a while and I didn't use it much). I kinda boggled my mind that logseq wouldn't have a 'Find' feature for finding text in the page I'm editing. Please tell me that I missed something obvious so that I can feel dumb for missing that obvious thing but happy that I can take another look at logseq :)

soulofmischief 4y ago
Ctrl+K or the macOS equivalent provides a universal search dialog with a toggle for page-only search. The UX is extremely lacking, but it's open source, gaining steam, and they recently closed $4mil in funding so I expect it to massively improve over the next two years. Notably, page search should function without needing a dialog+overlay, and should support highlighting/navigating every match.
- MikeTheGreat 4y ago
  Thanks! I'm excited to hear that there's support for expanding it. And I'll definitely go back and take another look at it! :)
cldwalker 4y ago
Cmd-K to find any line in your notes and Cmd-shift-K to find any line in your page. Starting with 0.8.3 there is also a native find-in-page feature, https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/Find%20in%20page https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/Find%20in%20page, which can search anything that is visible including results of queries
- MikeTheGreat 4y ago
  Thanks! I think I tried Control+F, and maybe looking through menu items (it's probably there & I just missed it).
- arcbyte 4y ago
  Its already lost me with nonsense keybindings and I haven't even installed it.
Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
Pretty sure search works, used it mang times. Anyway the major logseq power from my point of view is the ability to tag every bullet point, and then query it. Granted I never needed to write a query, I just search for the tag and find all references to it. First note taking tools where I actually *read my notes*

soulofmischief 4y ago

Ctrl+K or the macOS equivalent provides a universal search dialog with a toggle for page-only search. The UX is extremely lacking, but it's open source, gaining steam, and they recently closed $4mil in funding so I expect it to massively improve over the next two years. Notably, page search should function without needing a dialog+overlay, and should support highlighting/navigating every match.

MikeTheGreat 4y ago
Thanks! I'm excited to hear that there's support for expanding it. And I'll definitely go back and take another look at it! :)

cldwalker 4y ago

Cmd-K to find any line in your notes and Cmd-shift-K to find any line in your page. Starting with 0.8.3 there is also a native find-in-page feature, https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/Find%20in%20page https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/Find%20in%20page, which can search anything that is visible including results of queries

MikeTheGreat 4y ago
Thanks! I think I tried Control+F, and maybe looking through menu items (it's probably there & I just missed it).
arcbyte 4y ago
Its already lost me with nonsense keybindings and I haven't even installed it.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago

Pretty sure search works, used it mang times. Anyway the major logseq power from my point of view is the ability to tag every bullet point, and then query it. Granted I never needed to write a query, I just search for the tag and find all references to it. First note taking tools where I actually *read my notes*