In this blog, you’ll discover my personal experience with:
- How I manage knowledge through note-taking.
- How I use my two favorite tools, Logseq and Obsidian.
- The simple plugins I rely on for everyday tasks.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Obsidian and Logseq: Picking the Best Among the Rest
- Recommendation
- Enhancing Daily Efficiency
- Obsidian: Mastering the Art of Personal CRM
- My favorite plugins
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Utilizing Both Tools
Introduction
Tracking your records and taking notes are crucial aspects of daily life. In my experience, I only started keeping track of my records in the past year, and it has made a significant impact on my progress, both personally and professionally.
Developing the habit of writing down ideas, no matter how small, has prevented me from forgetting them, leading to a consistent development the ideas in a greater level of success in my personal and professional life.
Obsidian and Logseq: Picking the Best Among the Rest
There was a time when I used to mock people who used note-taking apps, thinking it was unnecessary and a waste of time. However, over the past year, I started using apps like Obsidian and Logseq, and I must admit, it has been an amazing experience.
I now realize the importance of note-taking apps and how they greatly improved my productivity and developing my organization.
- Privacy: The Top Priority
- Markdown Editor
- Crucial Difficulty: The Task of Managing Knowledge
- Free of Cost
- Marketplace
- UI/UX
1. Privacy: The Top Priority
When it comes to note taking, privacy is of utmost importance. Great ideas and information hold value in this digital world, so it’s crucial to protect them from unauthorized access.
Keeping your notes private helps ensure that your thoughts, plans, and data remain confidential.
Due to privacy concerns, I prefer to use Obsidian and Logseq as my go-to note-taking apps. I particularly enjoy the Wikipedia format, which makes using obsidian feel like writing for Wikipedia.
It’s an enjoyable experience, and I’m sure there are others who feel the same way.
Both tools enable local saving of your knowledge management. However, given that Logseq is open-source, I highly recommend it over Obsidian.
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2. Markdown Editor
Some might question why I consider this reason significant enough to rank it second. The answer lies in my non-technical background.
I genuinely appreciate the simplicity and convenience of the easily human readable .md files.
Logseq offers more than just .md files.
3. Crucial Difficulty: The Task of Managing Knowledge
Information is wealth.
In the realm of note-taking, it can be aptly described as personal knowledge management. The challenge lies in maintaining consistent management of your ideas, knowledge, and vision amid the distractions of our modern world.
Both offer task management capabilities, but their effectiveness compared to Notion is uncertain to me. Nonetheless, they function well in their own right.
4. Free of cost
On a personal level, I address my privacy concerns and fulfill my need for effective note-taking by utilizing Logseq and Obsidian.
Both platforms offer free usage, allowing you to save your data either on your local machine or in a location of your choice.
I encourage everyone to consider donating to these fantastic tools that are provided free of charge.
5. Marketplace
Both platforms boast a wide array of plugins and themes accessible in their marketplaces.
Nearly all items in these marketplaces are open-source, allowing you to effortlessly explore the source files of the plugins in their respective GitHub directories.
Obsidian provides a richer array of plugins compared to Logseq in the marketplace for users to explore.
6. UI/UX
I rank the user interface and user experience of both platforms last. In this regard, Logseq offers a more appealing and attractive interface compared to Obsidian.
However, it’s worth noting that both platforms have a variety of themes available for installation and use. This is completely my personal opinion.
A Glance:
| Characteristics | Obsidian | Logseq |
|---|---|---|
| UI/UX | 🥇🥇 | 🥇🥇🥇 |
| Cost | 🥇🥇🥇 | 🥇🥇🥇 |
| Plugins | 🥇🥇🥇 | 🥇🥇 |
| Privacy | 🥇🥇🥇 | 🥇🥇🥇 |
| Daily Journaling | 🥇🥇 | 🥇🥇🥇 |
| Graph View | 🥇🥇 | 🥇🥇🥇 |
Enhancing Daily Efficiency
The comparisons of both graphs show how my productivity changed in the past year. You can clearly see the differences. I use these tools every day for writing blogs, keeping a journal, managing contacts, and learning new things. Words can’t capture the change; the graphs say it all.
These tools are like a reliable guide, helping me stay productive even in challenging situations.
These tools play a crucial role in my professional success.
Comparing these two graphs makes it evident how these tools have impacted my productivity.
Here are my current stats of my knowledge management (as dated on May 2024):
- Total Files: 21176
- Journal entry: 429 (Red)
- Business files: 1265 (Blue)
- Blogs and Articles: 199 (Yellow)
Obsidian: Mastering the Art of Personal CRM
Initially, I wasn’t tech-savvy, finding it a bit complex. However, within a month, after watching numerous online tutorials, I gradually learned to use it. I consider myself at an intermediate level now.
I began using my Obsidian vault as a personal CRM, gathering business contacts for both my professional and personal needs using customized templates.
I use it to schedule daily tasks, set reminders, plan messages, and write blogs for my business promotions.
I set up my People template by customizing it based on one of my favorite youtuber.
name: <% tp.file.title %>
aliases:
Reference:
company: working company
title: Position,occupation,profession
created date: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm") %>
updated date: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm") %>
type: Person,relation
Location:
Status:
tags:
- Social/Linkedin
category: Business connections
cover:
Sent:
---
> [! ]+
> **Links**
> [(Linkedin)]()
> **Relationship**
> -
> `="![LinkedinCover|250](" + this.cover + ")"`My Daily use plugins
I prefer a minimalist approach, so I rely on specific plugins and in-built features for my daily productivity.
Some of my most favorite features and plugins are:
| Obsidian | Logseq |
|---|---|
| Templater | Bullet threading |
| Dataview | Helium |
| Excalidraw | Tabs |
| Tasks | PDF annotations (Default) |
| Kanban | Daily Journaling (Default) |
| Meta Bind | Agenda |
Advantages and Disadvantages of Utilizing Both Tools
Before I started using Logseq, I had been using Obsidian for several months. Both Logseq and Obsidian have similar functionality and features, but each has its own strengths and weaknesses.
Both Logseq and Obsidian are great options for journaling or writing a thesis. They can also be utilized as a personal Customer Relationship Management tool.
Advantages:
- Logseq and Obsidian both are markdown-based knowledge management tool that provides several key features. Both have work on advanced file linking.
- Both have greatly helping me in following daily task preferably in my start-up.
Incredible! I nearly taught myself and dveloped a website with use of these tools.
I sync both content of my knowledge in same folder with markdown format. In my suggestion, you should use both the tool to fully utilize both of its own benefits.
I am a minimalist user who relies on the above-listed features regularly. These plugins meet my needs and provide a satisfying experience, so I prefer to stick with them for a minimalist and efficient approach.
For new users, there are numerous tutorials available on the internet, and the community is very active on Discord servers and forums, providing helpful support and guidance.
Recently, I’ve been consistently using Obsidian, rather than Logseq.
Downsides:
I personally feel the only downside: Unlike Obsidian, Logseq automatically creates backup files with a {bak} folder extension when sync the files together.
This has led to multiple duplicates of the same file, disrupting my work.
Fortunately, I found a solution: what I was trying to resolve and what I discovered.
Issue at Hand:
When both systems sync, a folder named “{bak}” is automatically generated, leading to duplicate files with every update of a particular file in obsidian. So it means it creates duplicate for every update.
What I Tried to Resolve:
I attempted to eliminate the folder when using Obsidian by manually deleting it.
However, it reappears automatically with each subsequent update of certain files. This recurring occurrence is undoubtedly frustrating for users like myself.
What I Discovered:
I found that in Obsidian, there’s an option to exclude specific files or folders. Here’s how you can do it:
Navigate to Settings > Options > Files and Links > Excluded Files. Then, click “Manage” and exclude the desired files or folders from Obsidian search.
However, I must admit, I’m not entirely satisfied with this approach. It doesn’t completely hide the folder or files, as they may still appear in search results, albeit at the end.
The following YouTube channels focus solely on personal management, and I highly recommend them:
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