Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management
These types of tools (Roam, Obsidian, Second Brain, etc) get a lot of attention on HN and I've never understood it. It feels like these tools are only being used because they give people a false sense of being in control of their live by digitally hoarding all kinds of stuff even if it's useless.<p>I've done all my planning and note taking using plain text files for years, and never had the need for these complex tools. I tried Roam and Obsidian because of the hype, logging and connecting everything I read for a few months, but then I burned out and realized they don't help me at all. Most of the value from note taking I get is by <i>writing</i> notes, not by managing them or looking them up later. I'd almost never look up stuff again so all this management effort is wasted. And if I need to find something I can either use Google (no need to keep track of links) or it's so obvious that I can do a simple text keyword search through my notes.<p>Can someone explain why these tools are so great?