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The biggest unanswered question in nearly every book, article, and video on note-taking I have seen is:
WHAT DO YOU DO AFTER YOU HAVE TAKEN #NOTES?!

Well, to misquote the great Carl Sagan, before you can write an essay from scratch, you must first invent the universe:

https://youtu.be/Tyw6quANpiY

Obsidian For Learning II: Process

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@noboilerplate perfect timing on this series as Obsidian has become my new hyperfixation 😁

@noboilerplate As always, wonderfully insightful and idea-inspiring video!

As a lowly Logseq user, it's amusing to watch how much effort needs to be put in with Obsidian to make notes independently linkable, yet browsable in a contextual heirarchy. Logseq isn't flawless, but I'm proud that I identified early on that its native structure was powerful, even if I didn't fully understand Zettelkasten concepts at the time.

The video inspired me to figure out how to make subcategories of flashcards (another native feature) to help my fleeting/task/chore reviews be more focused and less overwhelming 

I get stuck in epicycles with my Zettelkasten where I'll use it extensively before entering a period of burnout. A lot of the times, it's your videos on knowledge processing and organization that end up pulling me back in. Thanks for helping me better my abilities to think for myself in this time of aggressive pressure to stop thinking 

@kii_chan wonderful! logseq is great for specific things, but I found that obsidian's more mature plugin ecosystem and more flexible file based model means I can mould it into the shape of my brain!
Is there any movement on logseq's rewrite to be database-first? I was sad to read that a while back, files being the source of truth is so powerful for an ecosystem outside of obsidian!

@noboilerplate The database version has been stuck in perpetual development hell for a few years now. I'm not overly concerned about it personally, since it already has markdown export. Plus, it uses a SQLite DB for the back end, so worst comes to worst I would be able to explore the data and write my own conversion software.

The plugin ecosystem is definitely less mature, but I also have not desired more than a handful of plugins to make it work for me. I only have 12 plugins installed currently, most of which are just for UI tweaks or small "shortcut" tools. The only plugins I've needed that truly alter Logseq's behavior are for KOReader annotations import, mermaid diagrams, and displaying furigana.

I'm not trying to argue that Logseq is better than Obsidian on all fronts; I just find that, for me, it's pretty much perfect straight out of the box. My brain already operates best in bulleted lists, so that format also being great for Zettelkasten is just a win-win for me.

@kii_chan glad it works for you! IMO there is room in the world for thousands of markdown note takers...
provided they work on real markdown files.

BTW if the db updates comes to logseq, I would urge you then to consider if your brain being trapped in a sqlite db that you have to write code to access is a viable long-term plan.
How do you sync that? you use logseq sync or nothing. how do you sync a folder of markdown? let me count the ways! πŸ˜…

BTW my latest find is https://lib.rs/crates/ekphos

@noboilerplate FWIW I am 99% sure that their roadmap for the full DB release lists custom sync server backends as a feature. Either that or the main dev had mentioned it on their Discourse forums, I'm not at my desk to check. And again, I'm not super worried about sucking everything into a database format because markdown export is already working in their beta builds, along with the Publishing feature.

I'm a very "I'll do it on my own hardware or I won't do it at all" type of gal, so if they get too centralized with it, I will definitely be jumping ship. For now I'm happy to keep using the MD version and if I'm not happy with my testing with the DB migration, I guess it'll be time to start shopping around again. But I'll burn that bridge when I get to it. For now though, I'm following inertia

@kii_chan fair, if it ain't broke!
@noboilerplate Great video! I am wondering if you have any tips for taking fleeting notes on-the-go. I feel like I'm doing it too crudely (opening obsidian app, typing #fleeting, typing note out).