I loved Obsidian to death, but felt a bit of friction. As nice as it was, I wasn't getting sucked in and resorted to writing my own bespoke bash program for organized note-taking.
Enter Logseq, and after a 20 minute learning curve, ideas just fly off of my fingertips. I reach for it daily. Can't recommend Logseq enough.
I’ve read similar narrative before on Reddit (while I was trying to decide Logseq vs Obsidian a few weeks ago). But I don’t get it.
When you open Logseq, you start with bullet points. Is that the only thing that pushes you to create more? In Obsidian, you can just start bullet points on your own.
Same experience here.
I was die hard fan of obsidian till I used Logseq.
Obsidian doesn't have proper outlining as they have another commercial app called Dynalist.
They probably don't want competition between their own products.
Lack of folders in logseq is a feature.
It force the user to follow zettelcasten style which results in serendipitous encounters with older notes.
You can do exactly the same with Obsidian, just don't create any folders and voila!
Nits aside, I use both and sometimes folder structure came in quite handy (like having separate notes for course modules and having 15 topics). I wouldn't remember even the names of these topics to come by when I need to.
But I agree also that the magic in Logseq happens more often than in Obsi (rediscovery). I think what contributes to it is the atomic nature of blocks as opposed to pages and daily scroll of all topics encountered recently.
I had the opposite experience with Syncthing + Logseq. The way Logseq is designed, refreshing the entire graph is a must before you even consider editing your pages in another device. I forgot to do it once and after some time editing my pages, I realized that I lost a good chunk of my notes from several days back.
Enter Logseq, and after a 20 minute learning curve, ideas just fly off of my fingertips. I reach for it daily. Can't recommend Logseq enough.