Malte Krupa

I spent one or two days with logseq because a lot of people on the internet recommended it.

Initially I found my way into this bubble via the sprachnachrichten podcast and a youtube video where a person explained their way of “taking notes”.

Let’s start with the things I immediately didn’t like about logseq:

Promotes “privacy-first” but you have to manually disable tracking for multiple error-tracking-application-analytics-monitoring-sites after the first start
You also have to disable tracking on every device separately
Has keyboard shortcuts that just don’t work for me. E.g. 🍎+, is not working
In general it feels way too mouse-centric
vim mode is available via a plugin which makes everything a bit more complicated
Does not allow to disable auto pairing for brackets and back-ticks (I even had to tweet about it)

Let’s compare it to what I like about Obsidian:

Has a working vim mode included
Only opens one connection to releases.obsidian.md when opening the application
Has decent keyboard shortcuts that make sense to me
Allows to disable auto pairing for brackets and back-ticks

After fifteen minutes with obisidian I was ready to pay them even tough it is free for personal use.