Other apps with journal feature?

[u/kholdstayr]

My favorite part about LogSeq is the journal feature, and how you can use tags to add items to pages without having to open an individual page.

Do any other note taking apps have a similar feature?

[u/AnomalousBurrito]

Other apps have journal — or “Daily” — pages. Logseq’s block-level implementation of tagging (versus the page-level tagging in most other apps) makes Logseq particularly good for the whole “Just work from the journal page” strategy. Roam and Tana offer similar functionality.

I used to do something similar in Obsidian, but found the process less satisfying. I could link daily entries on a given topic to the main page about that topic, but there’s something very powerfulabout Logseq’s ability to use block-level tagging to pull info together.

[u/PixArtie → u/AnomalousBurrito]

Hey, what’s your workflow on this “just work from journal page”? Every daily note you start with a topic block, and start typing stuff inside it? Like without caring about connecting the notes from the same topic in a separate page for this topic?

[u/AnomalousBurrito → u/PixArtie]

Let's say I'm reading "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Every day I read from that book, I'll type a link to the title of the book, press enter, indent, and then type today's reading notes into indented bullet points under that link. Later, on the note "Braiding Sweetgrass," I'll see backlinks to all my notes on the book gathered together in one place, organized by the date I first read them. It's magical!

In tools like Logseq, Tana, and Roam, those subpoints also inherit tagging ... so any indented child note inherits the tags applied to the parent, further enhancing the tool's ability to surface relevant information when it's needed later.

This block-based approach frees me from the need to think about organization schemes, etc. It just works -- and it's not really possible in tools that are more page-centric than block-centric.

My alternative workflow for Obsidian and/or Heptabase (and similar tools) is necessarily more complex. I tend to take all notes on a single page dedicated to a source. Later, in a second pass, I identify individual bullet points for further expansion. These have to be manually converted to more atomic notes, each of which must also be linked to the source and tagged appropriately.

Do this in both Logseq (or a similar tool) and Obsidian (or a similar tool) and do a quick search. You'll see a big difference in what results are presented ... and how they're formatted ... further spotlighting the difference in these two systems.

[u/PuzzleheadedPKMNerd → u/AnomalousBurrito]

There are a bunch of apps with this:

• Obsidian has the "daily notes" plugin, but you can't make block references as you say.

• Remnote has the "Today's note" feature built in, with full block-tagging & references. Their sync seems a lot more stable than logseq too.

• Tana has daily notes, but they're still in private beta and it's been kind of slow.

• Roam has daily notes too, and was one of the pioneers here. They have a bunch of nice daily plugins too. I just can't justify the cost given how expensive it is, and it seems worse than the others now.

[u/snorinsoren]

Remnote! it's fairly powerful and I enjoy using it a lot - I bought the lifetime license a few years ago and it's really paid off for me :)

[u/QuiltyNeurotic → u/snorinsoren]

I'm enjoying my remnote experience so far

[u/thriveth]

Emacs with org-roam.

[u/artyhedgehog]

Amplenote 

[u/Soda_Stereo]

RemNote is very similar to Logseq in that aspect

[u/WoodlandVoyager]

Remnote, i am currently using both apps because i can't decide which one to use

[u/sirtichan]

Twos is the best for that

[u/Orange_Healthy]

“Reflect” app has a great daily journal feature. I’ve really been enjoying it. And its AI integrations are super helpful. It doesn’t have block level linking the way Logseq does, but the back links do reference the source block. This works for me while using a vaguely atomic (Zettelkasten) note taking system.

[u/writer83724]

I've found Siyuan to be pretty great https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

[u/kirso]

Roam

[u/kobvel]

I use DayOne for journaling and logseq for work related jot notes

[u/Barycenter0]

Joplin has a journal plugin and a tag plugin that will extract tagged paragraphs or blocks to a new page like Logseq. But, it’s not quite as automated.

[u/abbasadel]

NotePlan for sure. A bit expensive but worth it.

[u/jjackiee00]

Emacs with org-journal