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What's less obvious is all the other things. After treading water for at least a decade, I am deeply suspect of any VC's organizational capabilities. Mostly my own. Believe it or not, for the longest time, my notes lived in saved (and unsaved) text files in Sublime Text. At some point I've tried using TiddlyWiki, bandwag", "context": "VC", "use_case": "daily journal notes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: How I take notes as a VC, and the app I built for it"}, {"id": 749295392, "item_id": 46830962, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830962", "by": "appsoftware", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "use Logseq day-to-day. I find it pretty easy to dump information without too much work", "excerpt": "I like obsidian, but use Logseq day-to-day. I find it pretty easy to dump information without too much work due to the block / indenting structure. 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It's so easy to clone the repo and just say, \"Claude, make this do X as well.\"", "context": "longtime user", "use_case": "note-taking with custom plugins", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 749226864, "item_id": 46826679, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826679", "by": "foxygen", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check Logseq for an open source alternative to Obsidian", "excerpt": "Check Logseq for an open source alternative to Obsidian: https://github.com/logseq/logseq", "context": "", "use_case": "note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backseat Software"}]}, {"label": "Fits their thinking", "summary": "Users say the daily journal and block structure suit how they think and make capture easy.", "quotes": [{"id": 805013207, "item_id": 50313325, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313325", "by": "coffeethursday", "date": "2026-10-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Logseq came the closest, the daily journal clicked for me", "excerpt": "If it's not obvious from the title, I'm a VC and I spend a ton of time in meetings with founders. What's less obvious is all the other things. After treading water for at least a decade, I am deeply suspect of any VC's organizational capabilities. Mostly my own. Believe it or not, for the longest time, my notes lived in saved (and unsaved) text files in Sublime Text. 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I find it pretty easy to dump information without too much work", "excerpt": "I like obsidian, but use Logseq day-to-day. I find it pretty easy to dump information without too much work due to the block / indenting structure. Retrieval isn't too bad, because you navigate to the wikilink you need, and everything is under it (I do sometimes swear I used a specific wiki link and then find I used something else, and have to dig for information). 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It's so easy to clone the repo and just say, \"Claude, make this do X as well.\"", "context": "longtime user", "use_case": "note-taking with custom plugins", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}]}, {"label": "DB version speed", "summary": "One nightly DB user calls it very fast and easy to learn, with useful block tags.", "quotes": [{"id": 782353216, "item_id": 48897076, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897076", "by": "wosk", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's a really great concept, way better than anything I tried for notes and organisation", "excerpt": "I've been using Logseq DB (the nightly, for a year) and it's a really great concept, way better than anything I tried for notes and organisation. You can apply tags to blocks, which make them a kind of thing (a project, an author, a quote, a thought). It is very fast, and easy to learn. I switched to it from Apple Notes + Obsidian (I've used logseq MD in the distant past). I have to say though that there are still so", "context": "uses Logseq DB nightly for a year", "use_case": "notes and organisation", "switched_from": "Apple Notes", "story": "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"}]}, {"label": "Mobile apps", "summary": "One user appreciates that it has apps for tablets and phones.", "quotes": [{"id": 786414000, "item_id": 49150875, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150875", "by": "xvilka", "date": "2026-08-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Using Logseq[1][2] for years and quite happy with it", "excerpt": "Using Logseq[1][2] for years and quite happy with it, especially since it has apps for tablets/iPad and phones as well, while being completely FOSS. 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I have to say though that there are still so", "context": "uses Logseq DB nightly for a year", "use_case": "notes and organisation", "switched_from": "Apple Notes", "story": "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"}]}, {"label": "Slow indexing", "summary": "One user reports indexing taking nearly a minute on about a hundred files.", "quotes": [{"id": 782376000, "item_id": 48898500, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898500", "by": "Groxx", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it and like it, it fits my brain better than obsidian", "excerpt": "The thing that keeps boggling my mind is that they say it's for indexing performance... while plenty of other editors index files in complex ways just fine in a fraction of a second, but logseq takes nearly a minute on only a hundred or so files.[1] (and for real-time collab, which I can totally believe is much easier with a DB. but I can't imagine most people will use that, though some (especially paying ones) will)", "context": "", "use_case": "note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"}]}, {"label": "Mobile app", "summary": "One former user calls the mobile app atrocious.", "quotes": [{"id": 782356304, "item_id": 48897269, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897269", "by": "ReluctantLaser", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Despite enjoying logseq a lot it has stagnated for so long (and the mobile app is atrocious) that I ended up moving to obsidian.", "excerpt": "I really dislike this style of development: abandon the current version and start a perpetual beta that you're expected to use as your daily driver, as that's the only version that's also getting updated and QoL improvements. 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What's less obvious is all the other things. After treading water for at least a decade, I am deeply suspect of any VC's organizational capabilities. Mostly my own. Believe it or not, for the longest time, my notes lived in saved (and unsaved) text files in Sublime Text. At some point I've tried using TiddlyWiki, bandwag", "context": "VC", "use_case": "daily journal notes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: How I take notes as a VC, and the app I built for it"}, {"id": 786414000, "item_id": 49150875, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150875", "by": "xvilka", "date": "2026-08-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Using Logseq[1][2] for years and quite happy with it", "excerpt": "Using Logseq[1][2] for years and quite happy with it, especially since it has apps for tablets/iPad and phones as well, while being completely FOSS. [1] https://logseq.com/ [2] https://github.com/logseq/logseq", "context": "", "use_case": "note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management"}, {"id": 785133361, "item_id": 49070835, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070835", "by": "chrisweekly", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "some ppl like logseq which has some feature overlap w obsidian but is db-driven", "excerpt": "(sigh) I was replying to: >\"If you\u2019re a small shop and have a need for a little database, what do you use?\" not the rest of the comment. mea culpa for not quoting that specific Q. Edit: as for the rest of it, I love using Obsidian for ~everything. It's not a database, but it does support queries and rendering of tabular data, which meets all my admittedly modest needs. (if a true db is required, some ppl like logseq ", "context": "", "use_case": "db-driven notes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Decker"}, {"id": 782376000, "item_id": 48898500, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48898500", "by": "Groxx", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it and like it, it fits my brain better than obsidian", "excerpt": "The thing that keeps boggling my mind is that they say it's for indexing performance... while plenty of other editors index files in complex ways just fine in a fraction of a second, but logseq takes nearly a minute on only a hundred or so files.[1] (and for real-time collab, which I can totally believe is much easier with a DB. but I can't imagine most people will use that, though some (especially paying ones) will)", "context": "", "use_case": "note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"}, {"id": 782356304, "item_id": 48897269, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897269", "by": "ReluctantLaser", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Despite enjoying logseq a lot it has stagnated for so long (and the mobile app is atrocious) that I ended up moving to obsidian.", "excerpt": "I really dislike this style of development: abandon the current version and start a perpetual beta that you're expected to use as your daily driver, as that's the only version that's also getting updated and QoL improvements. If you stay on the older version, expect breaking changes when/if they release a non-beta version, and have bugs unfixed. Or expect bugs/breaking changes if you use the perpetual beta and perhap", "context": "", "use_case": "note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"}, {"id": 782353216, "item_id": 48897076, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897076", "by": "wosk", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's a really great concept, way better than anything I tried for notes and organisation", "excerpt": "I've been using Logseq DB (the nightly, for a year) and it's a really great concept, way better than anything I tried for notes and organisation. You can apply tags to blocks, which make them a kind of thing (a project, an author, a quote, a thought). It is very fast, and easy to learn. I switched to it from Apple Notes + Obsidian (I've used logseq MD in the distant past). I have to say though that there are still so", "context": "uses Logseq DB nightly for a year", "use_case": "notes and organisation", "switched_from": "Apple Notes", "story": "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"}, {"id": 782349058, "item_id": 48896816, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896816", "by": "AbstractH24", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I love the concept of logseq, but the userbase is just too small", "excerpt": "I love the concept of logseq, but the userbase is just too small and in turn the speed of change is too slow. . Over the last few weeks, with the help of Claude Code I've finally been able to dive into Obsidian and build out the second brain I've always wanted. With the power to auto-sort small thoughts jotted down on my phone with minimal interruption and some automated maintenance & sorting. CC has really reduced t", "context": "", "use_case": "note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"}, {"id": 778406145, "item_id": 48650384, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650384", "by": "freedomben", "date": "2026-06-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "it saves me a ton of time creating a logseq meeting note page for important meetings.", "excerpt": "Really sorry to hear about this. It's so ironic because your tool is something that made G workspace so much more useful to me personally and was a deciding factor in which calendar project I used. Getting fired for making a product more useful to customers is quite ironic. Thank you for your work on the tool! Paired with a claude skill I wrote around it, it saves me a ton of time creating a logseq meeting note page ", "context": "", "use_case": "meeting notes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fired by Google for Creating the Google Workspace CLI"}, {"id": 775460048, "item_id": 48466253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466253", "by": "smeej", "date": "2026-06-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been a longtime user of Logseq, and thankfully both it and its plugins are open source.", "excerpt": "I've been a longtime user of Logseq, and thankfully both it and its plugins are open source. I've just been having a lot of fun tweaking plugins I use a lot to have the additional features I've always wished they had. It's so easy to clone the repo and just say, \"Claude, make this do X as well.\"", "context": "longtime user", "use_case": "note-taking with custom plugins", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 764142162, "item_id": 47758885, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758885", "by": "philips", "date": "2026-04-13", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I don't think any of the popular alternatives like logseq or joplin even attempt to do automatic file merges", "excerpt": "I love Obsidian, have written a popular plugin, and my wife and I use it for TODO lists and various planning. However, every few weeks the official Obsidian sync makes an absolute mess of our shopping list (which has fairly frequent edits and deletions across our laptops and phones). I have no idea how to fix it. This thread shows other users having the exact same issue as us: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-syn", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Introduction to Obsidian"}, {"id": 749295392, "item_id": 46830962, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830962", "by": "appsoftware", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "use Logseq day-to-day. I find it pretty easy to dump information without too much work", "excerpt": "I like obsidian, but use Logseq day-to-day. I find it pretty easy to dump information without too much work due to the block / indenting structure. Retrieval isn't too bad, because you navigate to the wikilink you need, and everything is under it (I do sometimes swear I used a specific wiki link and then find I used something else, and have to dig for information). Something that did work well recently, was creating ", "context": "", "use_case": "daily note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do you also \"hoard\" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"}, {"id": 749226864, "item_id": 46826679, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826679", "by": "foxygen", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check Logseq for an open source alternative to Obsidian", "excerpt": "Check Logseq for an open source alternative to Obsidian: https://github.com/logseq/logseq", "context": "", "use_case": "note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backseat Software"}, {"id": 745018982, "item_id": 46563686, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563686", "by": "adityaathalye", "date": "2026-01-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "logseq, a privacy-first, open-source knowledge base", "excerpt": "Same team! Also an orgmode user who uses it for all things longform... A decade+ and counting. Only recently do I see need to start adopting TODOs because work and life tasks are threatening to go beyond the capacity of my normie calendar and paper lists coping mechanisms. Orgmode text is fairly well supported now, across a plethora of non-Emacs apps and editors. I've enumerated several in my post [0]. Quoting onesel", "context": "", "use_case": "knowledge base with Org files", "switched_from": "", "story": "How Markdown Took over the World"}]}