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Any chance we can get the devs to give us a release bumping the electron version to the one used on nightly without waiting on the db version?

5:40 this corresponds exactly (i think) to tiago fortes highlighting method which goes 3 levels deep

Outstanding clarity.💡

you guys are both great thank you

I have only recently begun to use Logseq "or real" in my work and it is a Godsend. And it is really thanks to you two that I was ready for it. Yes, I have looked at Obsidian and Tana, and somehow I keep returning to Logseq and it just works so well. It is a both simple and has so many possibilities. It works for me. And I just want to say thank you both.

quotable: "... things in life don’t always resolve. you have to learn to live with paradox..."

Bas & Dario ... I've learned so much from your independent tutorials on Logseq in particular and PKM in general. So it's always a treat to see you guys in conversation. The unexpected bonus in this case was your frank and heartfelt personal remarks at the end. Thank you. I wish you both all the best.

Thanks for this video Dario; I know you are heavily invested in Logseq based on the videos and courses that you have prepared. Bas too produces wonderful content. My loyalty to Logseq has been tested by the duration of this development hiatus. I still believe that Logseq most closely approximates my “perfect” tool with the fewest barriers to defining structure, entering data and retrieving it, but I’m questioning my sanity for choosing to remain on something that seemingly cannot evolve from beta. I tried leaving for Obsidian, and spent weeks trying to recreate my workflows, but the ease of operation just wasn’t there. The opposite in fact: the variety of Obsidian plugins and their settings just adds unwanted complexity. But I have stopped my Logseq supporter sub until I see some evidence of progress. On the plus side, an elementary project structure in Logseq has (again) simplified my life hugely and enabled a level of productivity that I could not have achieved by relying on memory or personal organisation alone. So, it seems I’m married to a beta.

What about Meeting note as a TODO block? Pros and Cons?

Meeting note as a PAGE with its Page properties vs Meeting note as BLOCK with is Page properties. Pros and Cons, beyond Blocks won't appear as Graph Items.

I love your Mural board! I studied it in detail and thought it was a great summary of the requirements for personal knowledge management. I've come to many of the same conclusions, but I've found that GTD and To-do lists don't work well for me. I agree with keeping to some basic principles of knowledge management and not worrying about the tools. Seems like the last thing you need is another book suggestion, but, like you, I've been struggling to find a good solution to this problem and I think you might find Personal Kanban a good replacement for GTD and To-Do lists.

You probably just was needed to start that Tana is not open-source and cloud-based. It could save us a lot of time :)

Quick capture is also why I really love Tana, it is much slicker than Obsidian, and I am always itching to pull out my laptop when I want to add notes. But Tana's word processing is so ugly ;__; and I have great annoyance with needing the internet to access all my notes. Thanks for this video and helping me to feel not so crazy in combining tools!

I'm an Obsidian user. And I was looking for "Create a New Note" in LogSeq, but found it more complex. What's wrong in giving an option to Create a New Note and Create a New Graph, as a gesture of "Simplicity"?

Hi Dario! As always, great video and message clarity and tone. I wanted to ask about your sub-process to drop the data within your Tana inbox once is captured to your Logseq environment. Do you export the node manually to Markdown or did you automate that process in some manner?

Slight audio sync delay on video but great content. How do you get those blue indent lines? Oh! you answered by question in your video!

I gave up on Zettlein because I didn’t like how much maintenance and micromanaging it required. Plus, it really seemed to catered towards the academic research and literature as opposed to a knowledge worker fiction writer.

To resurface information with Logseq I use the plugin "Random note" that opens...well, a random note. I track various aspects of my life through a Postgres database in Dbeaver (spreadsheets are very limiting for my workflow). Could you make a video about databases?

How can we support you and this project?

I can't stop asking myself "why the hell did I not know about all of this earlier?". This is super awesome! Can you imagine how big of an impact this will make for ADHDers out there?? Thanks so much for doing this course!

16:49 KEYS TO A HAPPY LIFE, Linked References, Sep 29th NOT Sep 28th? I'm following along,,, :) Just saw your note... :)

Has your course been updated to reflect the Tana Core updates?

🎯 Key points for quick navigation: 00:00 *🤔 Introduction to Productivity Systems* - Skepticism about the sustainability and real-life application of productivity systems. - The video will demonstrate the speaker's weekly planning process using Tana. - Focus on processing notes, checking the calendar, and planning. 00:40 *📅 Calendar Integration and Task Management* - New agenda feature integrates personal and work calendars. - Review of tasks and events from last week and upcoming week. - Use of time frames and buckets for task management instead of rigid lists. 03:00 *📝 Task Prioritization and Flexible Approach* - Choosing tasks from a menu rather than a fixed framework. - Personal system for tracking tasks and managing due dates. - Using task management tools and notes to stay organized. 05:29 *📥 Inbox Processing and Simplified Task Management* - Processing tasks captured over the weekend and simplifying note-taking. - Utilizing different tools like Logseq for long-term memory and task tracking. - Approach to handling small tasks and miscellaneous notes efficiently. 07:47 *📊 Reflections on Productivity Tools and Future Plans* - Comparison of Tana with Logseq and the benefits of using both. - Emphasis on practical use cases and integrating tools for project and action management. - Plans to update and refine the Tana course based on new features and feedback. Made with HARPA AI

Thanks. At 19:56 you mention using chatGPT as you chat partner. I would be interested in more detail and insight on that. Plus advantages of chatGPT over Google Gemini or Copilot.

I was happy to see this video. You introduced me to Logseq so my list of preferred tools is now very similar to yours, except at this point I rely heavily on Apple Notes.
 I’m so glad you are doing more consulting and collaboration. And I love your new focus on visual controls. This KZfaq video on Collaboration Principles, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ocp8lKxomriaZpc.htmlsi=w0k3d561qbxVDRN0 might interest you for both its content and the use of Miro. I have just finished a Lean Agile Visual Management course with the same person at Modus Institute. I think you would be interested in the sort of collaborative consulting they are offering! Lean Agile Visual Management Described - KZfaq kzfaq.info/get/bejne/freco6hjzZ2zcac.html -Graham

Love your videos! I wish there was a way to clean my md files to be ready to logseq…

Welcome back, Dario! Glad to know you're doing well. In regard to using different apps for different purposes, but wanting to have a master index of important information no matter where I saved it previously, whether in other apps or in local files or folders, I am in the process of fleshing out a "Pointers to External Resources" page in Logseq. I've found Hookmark (formerly Hook) for macOS to be invaluable in streamlining this process. (I'm not affiliated, just a grateful user.)

Maybe I have not seen enough PKM focused videos but, sir, you are in the right direction in terms of practical content on this subject. Maybe there is a course. Maybe a book. But you are definitely on to something. My sense is so many of us who have actually tried such apps (Evernote, OneNote, Workflowy, Roam, Obsidian, Clickup, Things3, Mem, Tana, Heptabase ... the list is endless) want to think less about the apps and the risk of non-stop migration but simply how to think about organizing the process with the tools we have. I think for many people, they know that they want to focus on a small set of online apps. For example, Slack, Google Calendar and Obsidian. Or keep everything within the Google or Microsoft respective ecosystems. Your whiteboard of sticky notes is a great start for most people to think about how they can organize things. Maybe keep it simple with Workflowy and tags. I, for one, am strongly considering pushing away from the more complex apps with so many features including AI. Anyway, it seems like you've been on a break but I am eager to see what you come up with next.

Haven't finished the video yet, but since you asked in the beginning: I for one do like the presentation method of the speaker going through all the bullets on the screen. There is value in both seeing the bullets (or cards in this case) , while hearing your commentary over them. My only critique would be to zoom in closer so we can see the parts you're reading better. The text is just barely large enough for me to see on my phone. P.S. glad you are alive, welcome back to the land of the living!

I go the other direction - from using multiple apps to streamlining to LogSeq. Initially I thought LogSeq will never work for task management and would never replace my ToDoist, but it does. With its flexibility and queries, one can build the same project and label and container structure like in ToDoist. As for project management, projects without calculations and complex time schedules I handle in LogSeq with ease. For complex projects with costs calculations and gantt charts I have a vvery sppecial "system" - I use SQL, which frees me from a uncountable net of dialogues of specialized PM software, which gets very complex, while being still often limiting. And I do use Obsidian for a specific logging task, just becasuse it's somewhat difficult to create completely separate workspace in LogSeq.

This level of synthesis shows that you can ... wait for ... use these types of tools effectively. Most other channels are missing the forest for the trees. They say "Try X, it's the best knowledge management!" Except that they evidently are not skilled at knowledge management because, otherwise, they would have gone through the universe of KM apps to arrive at what works best. You have taken it a step further to overview the entire universe of what everyone should be doing. Kudos to you!

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I am a bus driver and use Logseq to organise my chaotic life

Logseq for tasks/logs/documentation, Obsidian, with files kept compatible with other markdown tools, for notes/longform/publishing for me. But I really would like to be able to use just one tool (maybe down the road after logseq DB version gets going).

Good to hear from you again. My 2c: for personal relationship management, I’ve tried lots of apps and settled upon Dex. Although it lacks email capabilities that seem important to you, Folk talks about ‘closing’ and other commercial CRM paradigms for sales, etc, whereas Dex (or Clay) really is a personal CRM that helps me organise my network contacts, and prompts me to reach out to people at certain intervals etc.

Isn't this just a wiki?

Voww man, I've just discovered Logseq today while I was looking for PKM apps in Linux app stores. It has amazing features, approaches and a very modern interface. There is also another app called Trilium that has similar approaches and very nice looking modern UI. As a matter of fact it is really hard to choose between the both, so I think I'll stick with the both. Thank you very much for all these nice tutorials.

Good series, thanks for the good entry point for Logseq.

Hi. Thanks I stumbled into this. I'm curious about the mastery course. Is it updated to the current version of Logseq? Please let me know before I subscribe to it. Thanks.

Great vid, thanks.

Awesome content!! I'm doing a book reading list using the same concept with blocks. If I want to add a property called review, in this example. Can I have logseq to retorn a shorter sentence where I define the maximum length of the paragraph? But I'd like that not messing around the config and CSS file. Is there a property or something else to be defined inside the table? Thank you!

This is amazing, indeed. I got the same feeling when desigining my workflow. A single-app system is amazingly universal, but multi-app does the trick at the end ;)

There were a lot of great takeaways in this conversation. Tools should be frictionless, a single self-contained thought in a block can be reused in other contexts, and so on. Thank you for this great conversation.

Incredible way of making presentations. Very clean and easy to jump back, specially by having the text outline all the time. Thanks for sharing your methods!

Hi, I would like to ask you as an expert in Logseq. Is there a way to connect Logseq with a site of WorldPress? Thank you

thanks for all the content... are you still using this method over built in templates ?

Those folder structuring methods are absolutely unnecessary in modern software with tagging. Zettelkasten and other could work together with tagging, but usually they only drag user's Focus away from true data markup. Tagging/linking is more like making folders in more dimensions. Google drive has tags that look like folders and most people don't even realize they're tags and that they can assign any number of folders to a file. So some build their folder structure methods in a good will, not realizing they actually downgrade their data management... Tagging and linking is super simple, but requires change of mind.

Seriously, you think putting in all the categories and tag is frictionless input? I can't think of anything higher friction lol.

I use Obsidian and I didn't use daily journaling before. After seeing your video, I'll probabily change my mind about. Thanks so much