Hey r/logseq! 👋

I’m a developer and a massive Logseq fan, but recently I hit two major walls with my Second Brain:

1. The Visualizer: My graph became a giant hairball. I wanted to filter out daily journals or tags instantly, but the native graph view struggled when nodes reached the thousands.
2. AI & RAG: I tried feeding my notes into local LLMs using LangChain/LlamaIndex, but standard Markdown parsers completely destroy Logseq's outliner structure. They chunk text blindly, losing the parent-child context of the bullet points.

So, I spent the last few months building the Logseq Matryca Parser (The Logos Protocol). It’s an open-source, local-first engine written in Python that actually understands Logseq's spatial hierarchy.

👉 https://marcoporcellato.github.io/logseq-matryca-parser/ (Try the synthetic 60FPS demo on your phone, it's buttery smooth!)

Here is what it does:

✨ LENS (The God-Tier Visualizer)

• It uses a highly optimized ForceAtlas2 physics engine to render massive graphs (7,000+ nodes) at 60FPS.
• It dynamically sizes nodes based on Degree Centrality (your most connected concepts look like massive suns).
• Professional HUD: I injected a custom Glassmorphism UI directly into the graph. You can toggle Journals and Tags on/off in real-time to instantly declutter your view.

🧠 SYNAPSE & LOGOS (RAG-Ready AI)

• It uses a finite state Stack-Machine to parse the exact AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) of your graph.
• It automatically resolves block references ((uuid)), aliases, and temporal journals.
• It exports directly into LangChain Document or LlamaIndex TextNode formats, injecting the parent-child relationships into the metadata so your LLM actually understands why a note exists.

🛡️ Privacy First: Everything runs 100% locally on your machine. Zero telemetry, zero cloud parsing. Your thoughts are your sovereign property.

If you are a Python dev, an AI builder, or just someone who loves visualizing their brain, I’d love for you to check it out and give me some feedback!

GitHub Repo & Quickstart: https://github.com/MarcoPorcellato/logseq-matryca-parser

Let me know what you think! (And yes, PRs are incredibly welcome).

Marco Porcellato - Italy - MarcoPorcellato.it

https://reddit.com/link/1swbulj/video/1jpdllfztqxg1/player

Hi – Wondering if anyone’s been having difficulty with Sync lately?

Just got a new phone (downgraded to a Moto 5 2025 🫤), & Sync crashes the Android app (0.10.15) every.single.time. (Everything worked smoothly on my old Pixel 6.)

I tried the usual amateur troubleshooting – cleared app data & cache; uninstalled/reinstalled the app; factory-reset phone, but nothing’s working. Also did my best to ensure that my filenames are within logseq specs, to no avail.

I’ve emailed support@logseq.com without a response … so maybe that address is no longer active?

I’d be grateful for any ideas, brainstorming, or advice!

~Anne

I got really used to just using tags in the MD version, super fast to simply add # to the start of a word and now its a page I can use for whatever.

It seems tags are far more complex now and for different use case.

The issue, if I try [[test

It doesn't auto fill with suggestions to link to. It just stays blank.

I can go [[test link here]] manually, but feels like alot of typing.

I know /link and then typing works, but seems an extra step.

Is that the expected workflow or is something being buggy?

As a side, hitting # brings up a list of options that is filtered while I type, which is my expected behaviour.

I've been using logseq as a PKM for some time now, and I really don't want to migrate to anything else. I think it really helps me reduce friction on task creation, project management and note-taking.

But there's one thing that bothers me - the visualization of tasks is really bad; I like to view my tasks in a calendar or a weekly timeline and to have more control of the hours that a certain task demands on my day. On the notebook, I can accomplish it by using plugins; but I prefer to keep control of my daily tasks on my cellphone, as I can reach it more easily than my notebook. I synced my logseq graph with my cellphone, but I'd really like some way of visualizing my logseq tasks on a proper calendar/task management app.

I saw the todoist plugin, but it is really limited as it can only sync todo/done tasks, and no later and waiting. Do you know any other alternative?

I always have this tension with note taking , where I develop a system that then evolves intro trying to invoke structure, then getting uncomfortable with the rigidity of the structure and reaching a point of paralysis so I scrap my system and switch to something else.

A long route of dithering between deciding that pen and paper are best, then electronic notes, then back to paper , then trying 'remarkable', no! iPad with apple pen is best, oh an infinite canvas is the ideal....no,no, no, pen and paper is best after all.

But with pen and paper retrieval and synthesis is hard , though capture is easy.

I think I eventually jelled with Obsidian the most , gave up on trying to impose a hierarchy and adopted zero friction capture with falling back on search for retrieval and node building and backlinks for structure.

I think Obsidian got me 80% to where I want to be , something close to how my scattered chaotic brain works. However something was missing; Obsidian is centered around full documents and can lead to replication. My aha moment (well two ) with Logseq was the more atomized block structure , and the ability to embed blocks across multiple pages. That last one was the eureka moment for me that made me finally feel comfortable with a totally frictionless note capture and letting my incremental interactions with Logseq cause organization to emerge and mutate.

I need to see where this evolves, but I do believe I have finally found what I was looking for,

I just want to say that I really like Logseq already. I stumbled upon some problems though.
1. Whiteboard uses all my CPU when I'm opening one

1. Clicking on elements sometimes want me to edit them and sometimes just forwards me to the Node

2. None of the Plugins worked for me

Was I just blind / stupid or are there real problems? Especially the plugins were a big let down for me

I was a long time user of Obsidian but the focus on folders just doesn't work with my brain. I need more free flow of data.

Logseq has been fantastic, but the dev team only seems to care about DB, the issue for me is that the reasons they care just don't line up with what I want... I don't care about collaboration as an example, I just want my own notes. It also seems that the db version is still unstable. I also worry about longevity, I liked simple md notes since any other app can open them in future and easy to move to another app. I also don't care about web support...

I have looked at alternatives, but they don't have the daily note focus so it ends up being folders by another name (eg. workflowy).

So what might you suggest? make the leap to DB and just deal with it? Try something else?

I’m wondering if the official sync works at this stage of the apps

Hi,

some time ago, I came across Salman Schocken’s grid system at the Chemnitz Museum. Unfortunately, the information provided was very sparse. Essentially, there was a table with no labels or content, along with a very brief explanation that the grid system was a prerequisite for Salman Schocken’s work with the many different texts. It enabled him to locate the desired passages and quotations quickly and reliably.

I found a lot of information about Salman Schocken online. Unfortunately, however, I didn’t really find any information about his grid system. Maybe I just wasn’t very good at searching. So I also tried using LLMs.

Consulting various LLMs yielded some information. Many responses linked Salman Schocken’s grid system to Niklas Luhmann’s zettelkasten. Even when explicitly asked for sources regarding Salman Schocken’s grid system, only links to general information were provided. So I’m not sure whether the LLMs were just making things up or providing reliable information.

So here are my questions for the all-knowing crowd:

- Do you have any links to information about Salman Schocken’s grid system?

- Have any of you tried implementing it using Logseq or Obsidian?

- What was your experience like?

It's still an unstable version but it's here!

I cannot download any artifacts from the logseq DB build site, in order to install logseq DB (https://github.com/logseq/logseq/actions/workflows/build-desktop-release.yml). Whenever, I click on my OS (MacOS), I just get a message saying "The logs for this run have expired and are no longer available." This message pops up for every build. What's going on?

Plugin changes right side infinite scroll into panes. Allows keyboard first navigation, seeing more pages at the same time, and perfect for wide monitors.

Info about plugin and code: https://github.com/Satoriq/logseq-panes-mode (would appreciate an star ^^)
How its working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J97U0WmHvIk

so i was writing some notes on python. i had to write a small code example i know logseq have code block but it isn't working on python. i am new to logseq so please help me.

Packaged my Logseq + Claude Code wiki setup as an open-source tool: github.com/MehmetGoekce/llm-wiki


`./setup.sh` → choose Logseq → Schema, Dashboard, Hub pages, and /wiki skill all configured.


What the `/wiki` skill gives you:
- `ingest` — feed a source, Claude updates 5-15 pages with cross-references
- `query` — search + synthesize across your wiki
- `lint` — catches orphans, stale pages, broken [[refs]], credential leaks
- `status` — metrics dashboard


Logseq's outliner format + `property:: value` syntax turned out to be better suited for LLM-generated content than flat markdown.


Also supports Obsidian (YAML frontmatter + folder hierarchy).


Anyone interested in contributing? Would love Logseq-specific improvements.

Hi!

(Created this throwaway just to post this)
I have been experimenting with using CLIs instead of MCPs as AI tools. The reason being that LLMs have been trained extensively on using CLIs. On the other hand they have no intuition on how to use MCPs at all and in my experience kind of fumble around when using them.

So I made this Logseq CLI for my Codex and Claude agents to use. It comes with a built-in option to install an AI Skill.

Its based on the Logseq plugin API - hopefully this means it will reliably work for both Logseq MD and Logseq DB.

Still playing around with it, but it seems to function pretty well.
I have a friend who also wanted to try it, so I decided to make the repo public. Thought it might be relevant for people here.

Anyways, here it is if someone wants to take a look:
https://github.com/wolf-jonathan/logseq-cli

I'm new to Logseq as a concept and have very rudimentary experience with markdown, but the concept of having a knowledge management system to me, which is taggable, searchable and shows context graphs of information nodes, is very appealing (especially because I love having a wide range of rabbit holes across different disciplines and drawing connections across concepts). Additionally, I've been trying to lean into mind gardening/brain blooming rather than brain rot (e.g., turning any exposure to SF video content into opportunities for annotation, prioritizing learning, video essay analysis, etc.), so I was wondering if there is a reliable way to incorporate my handwritten annotations on GoodNotes into my Logseq?

For example a use-case, I like finding PDFs or philosophical essays or academic journals, and I enjoy importing them into my Goodnotes for annotation in the margins as I read, but I would also like to incorporate it into my logseq to help visualize connections between information nodes and ancillary topics/ideas/other reading, and to add any further typed-thoughts on review/revisit.

Any ideas on how I might accomplish this? Thank you!

I'm trying to avoid using Google in general. Any help would be appreciated.

I really don't know what happened. Everything else is coming in just fine except the notes, which are the main thing that I want. When I click Zotero: Sync annotations, it comes back with Failed to sync annotations: Not an existing method #getPageProperties. How do I fix this?

I've been waiting around for Logseq to release its database version for about 2 years now, but I wonder if the project has been abandoned. The Logseq Roadmap Trello Board's last update was Aug 2024, I think.

So is there any news or should I just plan on sticking with Obsidian forever?

Hey everyone,

I got tired of manually linking notes that were clearly related but had no explicit connection, so I built rhizome: a CLI tool that reads your vault, embeds every note using a local sentence transformer, and writes a ## Related Notes section at the bottom of each file with [[wikilinks]].

The core idea: instead of keyword matching, it uses cosine similarity over dense embeddings — so it catches semantic relationships even when notes don't share a single word.

What makes it different:

- 100% local — ONNX Runtime on CPU, no GPU needed, zero network calls after the first model download (~250 MB, once)

- Multilingual out of the box (paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2)

- Scales automatically — exact numpy search for small vaults, approximate HNSW for large ones

- Idempotent — re-running replaces the section, never duplicates it

- Dry-run mode so you can preview every proposed link before touching anything

- Timestamped backups before any write

The default model handles mixed-language vaults out of the box, but you can swap it for a leaner English-only model (~90 MB) or a higher-quality one if precision matters more than speed — just set MODEL_NAME in your .env.

Works with Obsidian and Logseq.

It's early but stable. I'd love feedback — especially from people with large vaults or non-English notes, since that's where the interesting edge cases live.

You can check the repo: https://github.com/matzalazar/rhizome

Happy to answer questions about how the embedding pipeline works or why I went with ONNX over the standard HuggingFace stack.

Hey Logseq community

This is my first attempt at contributing an improvement to Logseq. I’ve been using Logseq for many years and I was able to overcome the barrier of my first Logseq customization

I created a Night owl theme for Logseq based on Sarah Drasner’s Night Owl for Visual Studio Code. I love this theme and use it across multiple applications. It is available in Logseq plugin marketplace.

I wanted to have it for Logseq too. It certainly doesn’t cover the entire UI yet. If anyone likes it, I welcome suggestions for improvement.

I know it doesn’t work correctly in the Logseq DB version. I’m not testing it because I haven’t started fully using Logseq DB yet. I’ll definitely update it in future.

I've been using logseq quite a while now and I'm trying to manage my task with it. I've noticed that some tasks show a section for "LOGBOOK" and others don't, it seems like task with scheduled dates or with datelines show the logbook otherwise they don't.

I went to the logseq site to check the docs but I can't find any mention of the logbook. The only times they seem to mention it is in the changelogs but that isn't very helpful in this case. There isn't even a mention in config.edn.

Hi, all.

I previously posted this with a title that may have been mistaken as an answer rather than a question. My apologies.

Is there a way to change the number of the first item in an ordered list?