<story><title>Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management</title><url>https://logseq.com/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mudrockbestgirl</author><text>These types of tools (Roam, Obsidian, Second Brain, etc) get a lot of attention on HN and I&amp;#x27;ve never understood it. It feels like these tools are only being used because they give people a false sense of being in control of their live by digitally hoarding all kinds of stuff even if it&amp;#x27;s useless.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve done all my planning and note taking using plain text files for years, and never had the need for these complex tools. I tried Roam and Obsidian because of the hype, logging and connecting everything I read for a few months, but then I burned out and realized they don&amp;#x27;t help me at all. Most of the value from note taking I get is by &lt;i&gt;writing&lt;/i&gt; notes, not by managing them or looking them up later. I&amp;#x27;d almost never look up stuff again so all this management effort is wasted. And if I need to find something I can either use Google (no need to keep track of links) or it&amp;#x27;s so obvious that I can do a simple text keyword search through my notes.&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain why these tools are so great?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smeej</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m chronically interested in nearly everything, but usually obsessively interested in only one thing at a time for 6 weeks to 6 months...but the topics resurface.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve started keeping all my notes in Logseq because being able to pull up a map of all my research about, say, small-plot intensive farming, the three times I&amp;#x27;ve really gotten into that topic over the last 15 years and quickly review what I had already learned saves me so much time. I can &lt;i&gt;expand&lt;/i&gt; on previous research rather than forgetting I&amp;#x27;d already reviewed some particular source and duplicating the research.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t do that yet because I&amp;#x27;ve only been using Logseq for about a year, but I don&amp;#x27;t expect my personality is going to change enough in the future that this will stop being amazingly useful!</text></comment>
<story><title>Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management</title><url>https://logseq.com/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mudrockbestgirl</author><text>These types of tools (Roam, Obsidian, Second Brain, etc) get a lot of attention on HN and I&amp;#x27;ve never understood it. It feels like these tools are only being used because they give people a false sense of being in control of their live by digitally hoarding all kinds of stuff even if it&amp;#x27;s useless.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve done all my planning and note taking using plain text files for years, and never had the need for these complex tools. I tried Roam and Obsidian because of the hype, logging and connecting everything I read for a few months, but then I burned out and realized they don&amp;#x27;t help me at all. Most of the value from note taking I get is by &lt;i&gt;writing&lt;/i&gt; notes, not by managing them or looking them up later. I&amp;#x27;d almost never look up stuff again so all this management effort is wasted. And if I need to find something I can either use Google (no need to keep track of links) or it&amp;#x27;s so obvious that I can do a simple text keyword search through my notes.&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain why these tools are so great?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmingod666</author><text>I do Dev and manage servers and databases -- I need one place where I can find all my stuff. Googling and going through 15 links for the same issue every 7 months all over again is a chore -- as a knowledge worker. I need to have a base of stuff I can refer to, my own curated knowledge base.&lt;p&gt;I need the info to be available to me on multiple pcs and even better from my phone so I can refer to common things immediately.&lt;p&gt;I write down stuff that I know works correctly, but have to use very infrequently -- my tmux config or the correct network config so hyperv will work.&lt;p&gt;I use Notion for tons of stuff like that.&lt;p&gt;I use Miro (diagraming app) when I am trying to understand complex stuff for the first time -- where there are tons  dependencies and I have no clue what is going on like an existing large codebase.&lt;p&gt;Text files tend to become very limiting in how you can express and present the information back to yourself in a meaningful way.</text></comment>