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coldblues ◴[12 Apr 25 22:52 UTC] No.43668550[source]▶

I still feel like Roam Research did it best. Conor was truly a pioneer in the digital note taking field. I still miss the times when all of it was new, it was so exciting and everything felt revolutionary. A lot of Roam users are still using it even though the pricing hasn't changed a bit and neither has the design, but I don't think there's anything better even now. Zettelkasten is severely underrated and misunderstood. Notion and Evernote are disgusting, and PARA is a nonsensical grift. If you need more context regarding that, I recommend reading Conor's Twitter threads and watching interviews and livestreams featuring him.

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packetlost ◴[12 Apr 25 23:35 UTC] No.43668793[source]▶

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I would be more inclined to use it if there was offline support and it wasn't so expensive. I used (and really really like) Logseq for awhile but have since moved to Obsidian. I'd switch if there was a strong reason to.

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fmos ◴[13 Apr 25 06:27 UTC] No.43670540[source]▶

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Why and how did you switch from Logseq to Obsidian?

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1. packetlost ◴[13 Apr 25 17:32 UTC] No.43674397[source]▶

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Bugs and performance mostly. The elusive database refactor might bring me back but we'll see.

I definitely have a preference for outliner, flat zk style, but I'm able to get the majority of the benefit from Obsidian while having access to a stronger ecosystem of plugins and first class publishing and syncing support. Meanwhile Logseq seems to have lost a lot of steam.

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