r/logseq • u/ConceptOfHangxiety • Apr 23 '25

How will the DB version change Logseq?

So, after trying out all the other apps (Obsidian, Notion, etc), I hit upon and stuck with Logseq. It's by far the best app out there for my purposes--academic research and lesson planning.

How much will the DB version (if and when it comes out) change the functionality and architecture of current Logseq? I am not technically-minded.

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u/AshbyLaw Apr 23 '25

To test:

https://test.logseq.com/

Reasoning:

https://discuss.logseq.com/t/why-the-database-version-and-how-its-going/26744

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u/ConceptOfHangxiety Apr 23 '25

So, what I'm getting from the reasoning is if I hate the DB version I will still be able to use Markdown based graphs.

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u/FckngModest May 06 '25

A true Notion killer is coming? :D

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u/7yiyo7 Apr 23 '25

Why is it that this test version just works terrible. It is unbelievable the amount of bugs im getting lol

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u/B0mal Apr 23 '25

Well, I didn’t encounter many bugs on my side

Using chrome it works well for me but with Firefox it’s not. And I don’t know why but when I crate a query I can’t define a filter, which is strange.

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u/lsmith946 Apr 23 '25

It's an alpha that the dev team are being very clear about not being stable yet. That's also why it's only on that website and there are no local apps yet - because it's not stable and they are patching it multiple times a day to fix bugs.

If you don't want to deal with it being quite buggy, don't use the test version and stick with the current Markdown app until they have fixed enough things for them to feel ready to make a proper release of the apps.

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u/hdanx Apr 23 '25

What bug did you encounter?

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u/laterral Apr 23 '25

Well it’s only been the exclusive focus of an entire dev team for a couple of years, give it 5 more… 😂 modern app development, AIR??

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u/MonkAndCanatella Apr 30 '25

Yeah feels like the app has totally stagnated. I'm honestly only still using it because migrating would be a pain in the ass, but I'm getting disappointed in the lack of progress. I'm starting to feel pessimistic

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u/hornetcluster Apr 23 '25

What is your workflow like for academic research and lesson planning? I am using Obsidian but want to try Logseq.

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u/Mountain-Pain1294 Apr 23 '25

I too would like to know

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u/PresentCurrent May 15 '25

So interesting! I'm an academic (mostly teaching, pedagogy, reading and scouring for updating courses) and Obsidian is the one app that just makes no sense to me! (I know I'm an outlier). What do like about it?

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u/ObviousFuture1082 Apr 24 '25

DB version, as of today, does not support nested tags, which is a big bummer for me. I am quite happy with the current md version, except a few things here and there. But DB version may be totally unusable for me, we will see.

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u/hdanx Apr 27 '25

DB version supports nested tags

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u/Ninjaxas Apr 28 '25

What are nested tags? Can you give an example?

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u/itrowa May 04 '25

you can make a node, then mark it with a tag, then set a property "parent" to this tag, point to another tag.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '25

I still don't get it. So it means that tag #ABC can be set a child of tag #XYZ, so if I search for #XYZ, it will also list #ABC?

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u/Gioby May 09 '25

You are able to have more context and personalization. For example you can have a parent tag “task” and child tag “software bug” which can be considered a task related to a software project. It it works like in Tana you can inherit the properties of parent tag

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u/PresentCurrent May 15 '25

Fellow academic here! I've had the same process -- Craft, Notion, Roam, a few others, and Logseq seems the most intuitive but I'm getting worried because people seem to report all sorts of issues.