Logseq for personal notes and knowledge management
Needed a personal knowledge management system that can I can use in my daily workflow that consolidates, daily journal, tasks, schedules, deadlines, contacts, files, links etc. and discovered logseq.
- Local storage, plain text, markdown formatting
- GTD priority, tasks, schedule/deadlines across everything
- Custom queries on tags, properties, references
- Quick lookup and embedded references between notes
- Upload easily local assets (files, images etc.)
- Templates
- Open source
Logseq as of 0.6.1 has all the features, that I need at the moment, but new features and improvements are being added on a weekly basis.
Example workflow for me:
- Open daily journal, organize tasks by projects (which can be referenced later), see overview of upcoming schedule and priorities for everything
- If a task is to say follow up on someone asking for focal points, in Thailand working on Digital Rights and Network Censorship. I should be able to find that person and organization within 10 seconds and then respond quickly.
Because everything is linked, I should be also then be to quickly able to quickly see/query when and for what I have interacted with those focal points in the past (or upcoming), whether it's a call, an event, worked on a project together, or part of same community of practice network.
In a similar way, I can quickly pull up parliamentary replies, with data of reported cases of domestic violence during Covid19. The original task took 30mins to research, but now takes me a few seconds for the same info when needed. This now adds to a growing list of useful references on use of parliamentary information that is automatically linked.
Logseq has helped a lot with reducing pain and anxiety for context switching between multiple projects with resources in multiple online systems and locations. I can quickly deal and file away new information knowing it's in a system I can depend on.
You can find plenty of resources on Youtube by others on using logseq for these sort of things, and I'll add some of mine shortly as well.