Goodbye to Logseq

In 2022 I went through a run of trying different note taking tools and broadly settled on Logseq. It’s a journal based logging tool with storage in markdown – something that made me feel better about trying it than other proprietary storage based tools.

However, I learned a big lesson here. Logseq may use markdown but the way it structures documents and organises things it may as well be storing in a proprietary format. The only benefit I found was being able to do version control storage of the notes. The migration from Logseq to another tool took days to complete, mostly fighting with its bizarre output.

The other issue with Logseq was just how unpolished the UI is. Even copying and pasting data out of it only worked a fraction of the time. I’m tempted to blame it on being an Electron based UI, and I’m sure that’s part of the cause, but others have shown that it’s possible to create slick and responsive Electron UIs.

For some people Logseq is going to be a great tool, and it worked well for me on an interview based project last year, until I had to share the output notes with other people.