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It's been a while since I recorded this, so big thank you for giving the timestamp. Github was mostly because it's easier to understand for many, but any central hosting solution for git should work and of course keep in mind that git isn't encrypted. Diving into hosting your own secure git storage would however totally be out of scope for the video

@@toolsontech Okay, that's understandable.

I think they are doing a great job, but will revisit this check with future devices if I get them.

I still use these queries daily, except for some minor tweaks to fit change in workload. Hope they help and don't be afraid to tweak them as needed.

Glad it was helpful!

tbh, I don't even use the Boox account that much since all I care about is the PDF backups it makes to my own host. I'll see if I can logout without losing that sync and do another quick test.

You're welcome!

Well, it is if you want to generate tables because you need some way to mark those lines, ideally those tags would already match your workflow but if it's not the case then you can build tables by hand using markdown table markup. If you do want to filter and you already have a system I would try and build the table using the existing tags you have and modify the query for example to combine some tags to get to the same result. The final way would be to make it a subblock of something that is tagged elsewhere, but once you get to that it might just be easier to make a tag and see if the plugin u use has a ignore setting so you can hide it.

@@toolsontech Thank you for your time! :)

@@toolsontech I was looking for something like a sheet (ex.: Google Sheet). Where you can have a table and you just put entries there without having to create a page for every entry. But I think this is a different concept that doesn't exist in LogSeq. Correct me if I'm wrong. (I'm a newbie).

@@RodrigoKormann Sadly no, would love that function since I often have data in tables that I quickly want to edit. I hope it will come with the DB version. My current workaround is to shift click the pages and load a stack in the sidebar and edit the notes there but it's very clunky. And welcome to the rabbithole that is Logseq (and pkm, not sure if starting with that as well)

Glad Obsidian is working for you, nothing wrong with that. I'm well aware and warned people that once you start usings embeds you are kind of stuck with Logseq because it's incompatible with other tools but I don't think it's worse then the internal linking of Obsidian or any of cloud solutions out there that will give you hard to parse backups as well. I'm mostly happy we get the choice

A query has no set order and as such if you get things in the right order it's more luck. I do however uses queries for my tasks and then unfold them to get subtasks and those will remain in order. So for me query is -> Based on priority, due date, etc.. If order is important -> Subtasks onder a main task that has a priority

@@toolsontech Ouch. 😒 I would have hoped, if it wouldn't apply active sorting, it would at least accept the order in which everything was entered instead of throwing it around. I guess since I use the TODO Master plugin to show the progress, my tasks look like subtasks, but in reality they aren't. Maybe I'll have to ditch that one as well and work with real subtasks. So annoying having tons of great plugins that don't add much to the experience after all when you try them out. 😕 I still appreciate your response very much, thanks for getting back to me! 👋

I'm adding that to the content creator bingo card. Thanks for sharing!

That's too bad, I try and make things simple but this one in particular is really getting into using the more advanced features of Logseq. No matter how I cut it, a video is always aimed at a general audience so if you still didn't find anything hit me up on DM and we can always have a call. No costs, I really like talking note taking and love seeing how other people struggle or tackle the issue so I can help out.

Video is fine (imho)

1. The way you use the note-taking for depends on your goal. - In the beginning no one has a clear goal, so just grab something and start to write and copy/paste any stuff you think you need to remember. - I recommend something Markdown based (it forces you into a simpler style) and local folder based. - DO NOT create preliminary folders/tags/... structures! It will never work and never did, you will just waste time. 2. Once you have many notes, you will have a troubles finding the stuff you need. Start linking things together and regroup them together. - DO NOT classify, unless you are a librarian - let it grow organically, and the structure will emerge. Grow organically means, for example, looking somewhere, finding it in another place, and moving the stuff you found into the place you started to look for it in the first place (or dropping a link there). - make a decision, what do you use your system for: to support knowledge collection/thinking, or to support your workflow - knowledge stuff and writing: - read Sonke Ahrens book, Cal Newport book (Deep work) - workflow - read Getting Things Done by David Allen 3. At that point you will have a set of troubles we all have, and this video will make sense))) P.S. Difference between knowledge garden and workflow is that the result of the first one is a deep structured book describing something you really want to know. In the second case, you will have a set of clearly defined actions that will be easily applicable in any context where they are needed. P.P.S. There are hybrid systems like PARA by Tiago Forte, but the basis is to start from 1. and work your way without making stuff complicated unless you need to. Just start writing and go forward. Good luck to you!

Yes, from what I can see you can assign multiple tags to a single page and it will combine properties. Good question

Reading PDF's is fine, mind maps work if they are not too big. The slower screen makes the zoom in/out less ideal when building bigger maps.

I don't see why not, though Tana lacks a mobile app so if you have tasks that aren't behind a computer you might need a workaround for that.

Yeah, normally I do that as well, but on the boox the login form would reset as I switched between bitwarden and reader. Now I could copy the password beforehand and type my email but if 2FA was enabled then no joy either. Keyboard is tricky for sure, I currently run gboard so I can still use Logseq and will make a video about that, will have a look at unexpected keyboard. The default keyboard I consider unusable since it lacks swipe typing. This is basic stuff if you want to do any form of fast data entry I feel. (Except maybe speech to text, but can't use that everywhere) Annotated PDFs is always a bit of a pain with double checks, had it to many times I found empty pdf where I thought the updated saved version should be. Expect a few videos about the boox, I'm passed the "add as much as possible" and almost done with the "cut till the essentials" phase. :)

I always forget to clock-out, but ideally my workflow should be to always journal when I stop something since that would give me the time done, a good estimate on how much work was done and what was done. But if we are going into so much detail one might consider a dedicated tracking app like toggl

I had so many on my Samsung tablet, always looking for that perfect one. Sometimes less is more.

Always great to hear, since it was a first look I wasn't sure if it would provide people with enough value. Looking forward to diving a bit deeper on specifics once I have the notes collected. Such a fun device.

Reading ebook and making notes at the same time in logseq works fine. Just did a double check. In practice however I usually just read, highlight and use readwise to sync the notes back to Logseq but that's a workflow choice. Handwriting recognition is good, and even understands my horrible writing most of the time. But in practice using gboard with swype is just so much faster that I use that to take notes. I spend a lot of time using gboard and logseq to make personal notes and really enjoy that workflow. But in large part mostly because I still hold a pen so it feels like writing just faster and directly into logseq :)

@@toolsontech Thank you. So now I don't understand how it is not possible to use readwise (? Not sure if I remember correctly) and a password manager in split screen mode.. what is different?

@@stefanamnafunk9112 If I got split screen and have reader on the left and bitwarden on the right. Then go to reader and login it will open a browser with login on the screen that has bitwarden. Normally this might be good. You have reader and want to open an article source, see it on the side. But now the password manager is closed and if you open it, it will close the browser again. So you just can't win. Eventually I gave up and just opened bitwarden on my phone and typed it over but the fact that I had to do that felt like a real fail.

No, I take the layers from somewhere else and combine that to generate a unique new image. Now if I really wanted to generate from scratch I could use something like AI, but that wouldn't give me nearly as much control on the output.

www.amazon.nl/MoKo-Rechargeable-Ultra-Thin-Compatible-Smartphones/dp/B07BNB6R7G Here you go, my only pet peeve is Micro-USB instead of USB-C but since I only need to charge it once every couple of months I'm okay with it.

@@toolsontech thanks a lot, already have it and works great. For me just getting used to the split keyboard.

Yeah, the sync service to me wasn't as important anymore once I found out I can link it to drive or webdav and make it export a pdf at every change. Easy access backup was more important and since it's a cloud folder I can still access the notes anywhere else. www.amazon.nl/MoKo-Rechargeable-Ultra-Thin-Compatible-Smartphones/dp/B07BNB6R7G Here you go, my only pet peeve is Micro-USB instead of USB-C but since I only need to charge it once every couple of months I'm okay with it.

I think that's in large part due to the Android OS, when reading it lasts quite long but as soon as I start running apps, syncing, etc.. it really drains. Luckily as long as it lasts a couple of days I don't mind since I will just charge it next to my phone when sleeping.

Until now I haven't seen any major concerns, the main one I had was the ksync background app, but now I know that actually uploads my notes to my webdav store as PDFs. Something I'm very happy about because I will always have access to my notes even if the Boox device breaks or is no longer in use.

@@toolsontech You mean to say the notes on the Boox default app are note in an open-source format ? PDF is good but lacks "life" (ie editability). I'm currently migrating to kDrive, growing tired of Nextcloud despite numerous tries over the years

Yeah, if you already have an e-ink note taking device it's a bit of a hard sell. My current setup uses Moon+ Reader Pro and that sends all my highlights straight to Readwise. Readwise then will sync it to Logseq and it will show up in my Journal for processing. I'm making an assumption but assume that Readwise also has an Obsidian plugin. Will definitely be showing that workflow in a future video.

Hah, old habit from installing operating systems for companies where that is the default and later android where Google only released some features to the US English market. Then in practice I always need to go into localization to fix time to 24h, start the day on Monday, assign euro symbol.

While I tried a few of the plugins, the tradeoff is usually a steep drop in quality on the interactive part. So either it's prebuild queries that get me a specific result and stop me from refining the get the exact result I need. Or chat is build into Logseq but a very poor implementation compared to the ChatGPT chat interface. I'll keep an eye on the plugins obviously as I expect them to get better.

Not yet, but you can be confident that as soon as their is I will be making a video about it. And posting on Mastodon/X

I use a small css snipped to color bold text orange, that way it pops out and is easier to spot when reviewing my notes.

That's always a bit of a pain, I know some key manufactures have alice kits (Cerakeys comes to mind) and what I also often do is ask for extra shift keys with no markings as they are the same size. At least for one side of my Alice. On the nocfree they are the same making it a bit easier.

If they get 2 way syncing working it might still be like that. As you could use markdown as a single source of truth. Just really hope that the sync will be better with error handling then what happens now.

@@toolsontech I sync with my Koofr.net cloud and it works perfectly so far. I have Google cloud too, but it has no meaningful and stable sync tool for my Linux PCs and laptop.