I went Obsidian → Logseq → Emacs.
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Great. The next logical step in this evolution is going back to pen and paper, lol
Pen and paper is great for whenever I can’t get my hands on a chisel and rock wall.
I have good experiences with cuneiform. You only need a bit of clay, a wedge and some dedication.
Especially in meetings it has the advantage that it is less noisy compared to your rock and won’t ever be noticed in your tribes meetings.
It doesn’t support real Markdown tho
Org-mode is like the SAP of personal knowledge management tools.
I have never used emacs or org mode but I know enough about SAP to find that horrifying…
Emacs for everything…
/jk I mean everything text.
Emacs could techbically pkay videos though
I mean there’s the EWMM, emacs based windows manager. So it can absolutely do anything.
But doing something because you can, vs because it’s useful is different. I like emacs fo text edit. I open images and pdf in the process of writing documents but that’s about it.
And edit videos.
Todoist works great and I don’t need to learn a whole operating system to use it. Plus, it works on my phone!
Emacs is also on my phone
I am always surprised people like it, because when I used it, it was full of small annoying bugs, that ultimately made me switch to other app (Google Tasks).
Emacs + puppygit on my phone
I love orgmode to a point, but when I tried to learn how to do the more complex stuff, that syntax began to make my eyes bleed.
Emacs is a great operating system just a shame it doesn’t have a good code editor.
I understand this now! 😂
But it really does, with evil/meow mode. But to be honest, the default emacs keybindings are actually not bad
Vim was my primary tool of development for over a decade, and I used Obsidian for about 3 years. However, in early 2024, I tried out Emacs and never looked back.
I find it functionally equivalent to Vim albeit perceivably slower, and Org-mode (+Denote) is far superior than Markdown and Obsidian with its slew of plugins.
Migrating my 3 years worth of notes was a pain since I was using Obsidian’s variant of Markdown syntax to link other notes. In the end I gave up trying to convert those notes, and used them alongside my new Org-mode notes, thanks to Denote’s interoperability.
In fact, Denote’s naming philosophy is so powerful yet simple that I started using it for all documents and downloads.
It’s Nano or nothing for me
Did you replicate the daily journal workflow of logseq in org mode or did you end up with something different?
Something different. Just plain org mode with org-super-links. I didn’t use/understand the daily journal workflow in Logseq. 😅
Once you discover org mode… you’re not going back.
I love infinite nested tasks; subtasks, sub subtasks, subsubsubtasks, subsubsubsubaubtasks.
See check this. You start by creating 3 main points… then you need to give more info to these 3 points, and you can either insert tons of text under it… or create subtasks. Now you figure the subtasks need explanation, again either text or subtasks. Lovely
Any good tutorials? I’m on OP’s “logseq” step but I’m still floundering with how to actually organize my thoughts and notes. The “daily journal” style of logseq is alright for brain dumping, I guess, but I have a hard time reorganizing the dump into cohesive tasks/projects/future reference notes.
My 2￠:
David Allen’s GTD for the overarching structure and routine.
Rainer König’s Getting Yourself Organized with Org-mode for application within Org-mode.
YMMV
This is the way. Once I went Org mode, I ain’t going back.
My problem with that is mobile. If I want tasks, I’ll use a dedicated primarily mobile app, (e.g. Tasks.org) because if I’m checking a grocery list or tweaking my daily todo list while out of the house, I’m not gonna pull out my laptop lol
Of course it seems reasonable for more long-term plans which you don’t need to change day-to-day, but at that point I’d just end up with two to do lists/apps which is also a bother.
i just have a file called “notes” in my home directory, which i edit via nvim
Ah, I need images in my documents…
which apparently neovim supports?? https://github.com/3rd/image.nvim
Are you me?
This is the way.
org-mode
Why would you want to use a 20+ year old Mac for notes?
Emacs. Not even once. 🚫
org mode is king!
