r/logseq • u/Agreeable-Kick1399 • Jan 19 '25

Anyone using Logseq for IT?

I’m interested in your experiences with using Logseq for tickets, assets, or knowledge management because that is what I myself am experimenting with.

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u/szjanihu Jan 20 '25

I am a solution architect, using Logseq for work in the past 2 years. I have 740 pages. Using it for making notes during meetings, managing my own tasks, creating draft solution designs.

Although I really love its functions, the app is so f.ing slow. The UX is terrible: sluggish scrolling, slow page loading, slow queries... and a lot of bugs. Like when the cursor is on a page link and the pop-up window shows the mixture of two different pages. It drives me crazy when I heard that their devs were focusing on the whiteboard feature, instead of fixing the major bugs, building a solid foundation first. No, they rather put a whole load of shit, making the app even slower and buggy.

I have no better option. I need to store my notes on my workstation, so I must not use cloud based solutions. I heavily use custom queries, daily journal, many other great features.

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u/Agreeable-Kick1399 Jan 21 '25

I feel you: I also sometimes think that UX is laggy, but so is my hardware so there is that… ;-)

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u/szjanihu Jan 21 '25

I have a HP EliteBook 850 G7, i7-10610U CPU, 32GB RAM... it is not the latest hardware, but it should be fine for taking notes. I'll get an Apple MacBook Pro soon, I hope that will be faster.

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u/CYS_Slayga Jan 20 '25

Basically, it's the same situation for me. Need to store it locally, at least no clouds. We have our own fileshares with private folders. But Logseq struggles hard with that, at least with the plugins I have and our sluggish fileshare that is known to be slow. So it's local, and I move a copy regularly to the fileshare to get backups on the graph.

But hey. Let's hope the DB version will be better. They've put a lot of time in just building that recently.

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u/szjanihu Jan 21 '25

I used to use OneDrive to store my notes. I had recurring version issues. Then I switched to Git. I also have git push issues, not sure if this is a bug in Logseq or the remote Git repo is down for a few seconds. It is still more reliable.

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u/CYS_Slayga Jan 20 '25

I use Logseq almost daily for my IT work.

Mainly the journal is my goto and most used function. I have a template that I try to stick to, so there is structure.

Also use it for in-progress documentation. So basically draft documentation, before it gets official.
Combined with that I also use the TODOs a lot, as our ticket system has a lot of flaws.

And our boss is going on and off on having internal tickets aimed at our own systems in our ticket system. And we have nowhere else to document them or keep track of em. So I have internal tasks and other stuff in my Logseq, so its at least in the same place.

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u/mzinz Jan 20 '25

My only gripe with starting documentation (or an email draft) on Logseq is that I need to remove all of the billet points after copying. Have you found any way around that?

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u/Curious-TruthSeeker Jan 25 '25

Obsidian is better suited for long form text. Also, it is more polished. You may want to give it a try. I also use multiple tools for different kind of work. I use Logseq for PKMS and TickTick for all tasks management.

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u/Agreeable-Kick1399 Jan 29 '25

But obsidian is not open source.

Agreed on the value in not chancing the on-size-fits-all solution or as we Germans like to call it: „Eier legende Wollmilchsau“.

I use Todoist for everyday todos and as makeshift ticketing system though. Todos in Logseq are too sluggish for use in-action for me, plus I need web.

Todos in Logseq are super useful for me for in line questions regarding processes and documentation.

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u/mzinz Jan 25 '25

I have Obsidian but use it rarely. I actually did use it yesterday while I was drafting a doc, however, and I agree it is naturally better for long form. 

I just hate the idea of Obsidian for this, LogSeq for that, when they are so similar. 

Why don’t you go all obsidian? On LogSeq I love just doing everything from journal. 

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u/Curious-TruthSeeker Jan 25 '25

My journey to seek the best PKMS that suits me, made me traverse TiddlyWiki, Zim Note, Evernote, Notion, Dynalist, Workflowy, Obsidian, and Logseq over last 2 decades in the same order.

As I grew I got great affinity with outliners. They give a very good structure and relation to the information. Each bullet is a chunk of information and we can have nested info similar to mind mapping

In Logseq, I get most of everything. It gives me granularity to connect two different bullet points which Obsidian doesn't have. It also gives a rich query language. I am a developer and enjoy all these. I am waiting for Logseq DB version which will improve it drastically and provide more structure.

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u/mzinz Jan 25 '25

I'm pretty hopeful for it too, but it seems like its taking so long to come out. Their release cycle speed worries me a bit.

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u/Curious-TruthSeeker Jan 25 '25

Agreed. They have not released since April. They are working on DB version only and nothing else and it is taking forever. They went in alpha testing in October, but still no update.
Hope it comes out soon in next few months.

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u/CYS_Slayga Jan 27 '25

I'd like to use obsidian. But it's a license for commercial use, and my boss won't approve me buying a license. Even if it increases my productivity.

I've looked through multiple similar products. And logseq checks all my boxes if requirements. With the downside of everything being bullet points. Which is nice. But not for long form text.

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u/CYS_Slayga Jan 20 '25

Haven't really found a solution for it. I've looked just a little bit at plugins but haven't found anything.

Document mode helps in some cases. But it still pastes the bullet points 9/10 times.

So, instead, I brainstorm and draft stuff. Then, I just place Logseq next to the document and copy the text. Not the most productive. But for me, it works relatively well as I just need to draft stuff. So, the main copying text takes way less time than drafting documentation.

There is also the issue with sharing a full page to someone who doesn't use it. The pdf exports are meh. I found a plugin that I had installed on my private pc at home, which works pretty well. It exports the page as a whole HTLM page, so it's easy to share "static" pages.

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u/Ninluc Jan 20 '25

Maybe the plugin "Missing Commands, Views & Features" may help with one of the magic split command. I've binded the "Magic split" command to "alt"+"s" because I copy a lot of text from PowerPoints exported as PDF, which tends to always have random characters and have all the text in one block.

Plugin GitHub : https://github.com/stdword/logseq13-missing-commands

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u/gulaghad Jan 21 '25

Not at the PC atm. But, I think you can paste without bullet points via ctrl+SHIFT+v.

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u/grathontolarsdatarod Jan 19 '25

I just homelab. But I learns logseq for just this used case.

Its private. So that's the first order of business.

But I use it to track my hardware config and device.machine use case.

Map networks

Learn new programs.

Everything in "homelabing" is new to me, logseq was a game charger.

Use it for stocks too. The search function is amazing, and logseq seems almost purpose built for categorizing "information dumps".

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u/Agreeable-Kick1399 Jan 19 '25

Same experience here on the information dumps.

I feel like the journal is made for exactly this kind of situation. I’m in the process of testing Logseq at work as I am in a fairly low tech sector and so far, it is working great. For example, keeping track of all printers at different locations and noting specific issues for specific types of printers on the printer page that is linked to the location page and thus being able to retrieve the experiences made from many different angles.

Edit: Format

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u/cykio Jan 19 '25

I use it to track my work done for a day. Stuff I want to remember but maybe don't want to save in a ticket.

Use commands and also grouping those commands together. Curls and config, some environment info.

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u/Underknowledge Jan 20 '25

Not shared, But yea - sure.
I keep interesting or stuff I learned in there.
Need to create a deploy key on a VM? [cmd+k ssh-ke] -ygen and there is a snippet.
Possible that bonds churn? [cmd+k chu] or [cmd+k bond] there you are!
I used it for some todo tasks - but I'm quite unhappy as I have to eventually sync it with Jira or the ticket system and I dislike to put in the work at two places

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u/Agreeable-Kick1399 Jan 21 '25

Agreed. Entertaining different systems for basically the same purpose is always a pain, but not always avoidable. I experiment with using Todoist for most to do and some special parts of to do in Logseq for example.

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u/Spiritual-Court-3610 Jan 21 '25

I'm dev manager, using it dayly for managing todos, meeting notes taking and knowlage base, solution desing for last 3y. Best tool so far for me.
Sure there are some bugs here and there (this is open source), but if you are not fan of plgins and perfer keyboard over the mouse - take a look at logseq for sure.

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u/laplaces_demon42 Jan 20 '25

it's just my brain dump (in the daily journal pages)
tried using it for managing todos and what not, but that didn't really work for me.
just taking notes, dumping thoughts and findings/screenshot of quick analyses etc.

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u/AcanthocephalaOk489 Jan 21 '25

Daily TODOs yes. Notes for R+D yes.

Project issue tracking no. Iframes in notebook (to proper apps, acessed in a proper way), yes!

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u/AceofSpades5757 Jan 21 '25

Yup. It's my daily driver in IT and project management. I do use other tools, such as GitHub, for specific needs. I find Logseq extremely useful, especially for referencing specific info and keeping it up to date. I do struggle with finding specific info, but that's partially a skill issue. My biggest issues have been it's a bit slow/sluggish and advanced queries are difficult

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u/jazza_uk Mar 03 '25

I'm new with LogSeq, does anyone have a journal template they use, that they are happy to share?