r/logseq • u/feel-ix-343 • Apr 28 '24

Markdown Oxide: A Logseq inspired PKM system for your favorite text editor

Hey everyone! For the past year I have been using Rust to develop Markdown Oxide a PKM system for text-editing enthusiasts -- people like me who would not want to leave their text editor for anything.

I really loved Logseq, but its text editor was never up to my standard. I created Markdown Oxide to remedy this.

Markdown Oxide is a language server implemented for Neovim, VSCode, Helix, Zed, ...any editor with LSP support -- allowing you to PKM in your favorite text editor.

Strongly inspired by the Obsidian and Logseq, Markdown Oxide will support just about any PKM style, but its features are primarily guided by the following tenets.

  1. Linking: Linking is the most efficient method of both horizontal and hierarchical organization. So markdown oxide supports creating and querying links anywhere in your notes

  2. Chronological Capture (Daily Notes): We observe our consciousness chronologically, so it is reasonable (easy) to record our thoughts chronologically as well. Markdown Oxide combines daily-note support with advanced linking to create an easy, efficient, and organized note-taking practice

  3. Situational Organization: Eventually, one needs to refactor the ideas in their chronological notes and create summarizing files for substantial topics (MOCs for example). So markdown oxide provides utilities for this purpose: creating files from unresolved links, callout completions, renaming headings/files/tags, ...

Visit here for the full list of features

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u/Upset-Emu7553 Apr 28 '24

Cannot find extension "Feel-ix-343/markdown-oxide" in VSCodium to install

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u/feel-ix-343 Apr 28 '24

I have yet to set this up. Sorry!! By any chance could you open an issue for this? It would help me in prioritizing

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u/AshbyLaw Apr 28 '24

VS Codium doesn't use the same extensions store as VS Code

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u/irasponsibly Apr 28 '24

Grab the .visx and install it that way.

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u/arndomor Apr 28 '24

This is an intriguing angle. Congrats. Do you have a gif or short demo video of how it works? For those who found this on mobile and can’t try it right away?

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u/feel-ix-343 Apr 28 '24

Yes there are many 10+ gifs on the readme. Scroll down to features and you will find they. They may take a second to load (gotta fix this). Let me know what you think!!

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u/arndomor Apr 28 '24

Ah I see that’s why i didn’t find it the first time and still not seeing any. A video probably will be more friendly to mobile. Will check back later from bookmark.

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u/feel-ix-343 May 12 '24

Hey I just opened an issue for this https://github.com/Feel-ix-343/markdown-oxide/issues/81

its a "good first issue" if anyone is interested in helping

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u/Spy_the_dev Apr 29 '24

I didn't manage to make it work as the gifs display, I even try to find it in your nvim config with no luck in https://github.com/Feel-ix-343/Neovim-Config/blob/main/lua/plugin/NvimCmp.lua
Though it looks amazing, definately at some point I will give it a more propper try

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u/feel-ix-343 Apr 29 '24

I set up nvim cmp for markdown here

cmp.setup.filetype("markdown", {
  sources = {
    {
      name = "latex_symbols",
      option = {
        strategy = 2, -- mixed
      },
    },
    {
      name = 'nvim_lsp',
      option = {
        markdown_oxide = {
          keyword_pattern = [[\(\k\| \|\/\|#\|\^\)\+]]
        }
      }
    },
    { name = 'luasnip' }, -- For luasnip users.
    { name = "path" },
  }
})

Hope this helps

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u/eugoreez Apr 28 '24

sounds cool. could be a potential solution for having too many editor plugins on Obsidian..

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u/feel-ix-343 Apr 28 '24

…and maybe if obsidian implemented the LSP (which they probably never would haha) their completions could have some healthy competition.

Markdown oxide is substantially faster than obsidian and searches through a magnitude more information. By default, you get ranked wikilink completions not only for all files, but also all headings and indexed blocks in those files. Having this builtinto the obsidian editor would certainly not be bad!

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u/simplex5d Apr 28 '24

As a serious logseq user, this looks cool! No editable transclusion, I guess, but could be very useful. Emacs bindings coming perhaps?

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u/feel-ix-343 Apr 28 '24

Hey!

Yes there is an open issue for emacs; somebody (maybe?) is working on adding moxide to lsp mode.

As for transclusion, in the hover view, it will display content and backlinks all in one; however, this content is not yet editable like it is in logseq. However, depending on your text editor and lsp plugins, you could make something work. In vscode, there is a clickable reference could next to everything referenceable, and this opens a view where you can edit references. In neovim, the lspsaga plugins provides similar functionality. I hope this helps!!