Note-Taking Introduction

I love taking notes and I’ve been using all kinds of systems including Roam Research (which I use the most), Obsidian, Evernote, among others. I’m combining the ideas from Zettelkasten (with influence from Andy Matuschak on Evergreen Notes), progressive summarization and others to a rough system that works for me.

I stumbled upon Logseq recently (which is very heavily influenced by Roam Research) and have started testing it out.

Logseq vs Roam Research

Similarities:

• Daily Notes
• Backlinks
• Right Sidebar
• Graph View
• Block Referencing & Embeds

The things that Logseq has that Roam doesn’t:

• Privacy focused (notes are stored locally in markdown format)
• Flash Cards
• Space Repetition
• PDF Highlighter
• Logseq is free

I’ve noticed quite a lot of Roam Research users heading over to Logseq mainly because of security and the fact that it’s free.

The things that Roam has which Logseq doesn’t: