Working on the note taking system

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Working on the note taking system

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I had been meaning to try out Logseq for a while, and finally got around to it about a week ago. In order to understand the possibilities, I’ve also been playing around with Roam Research as it is a bit more mature. The thoughts that are sticking with me so far:

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Block based thinking makes a lot of sense to me.

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I wonder what it would be like if blocks were made 100% first class entities, and the difference between pages and blocks were trimmed down to their lowest possible level.

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I really want the underlying files to be human readable and universally pareseable.

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While Logseq uses Markdown files, block references are not meaningful in their pure Markdown form. There’s probably some sort of Markdown evolution we need to align how different applications that use Markdown files can share a protocol (thinking about Obsidian and Logseq here especially).

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If all goes well, we are probably heading towards making Markdown files a “human-readable database”.

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A small amount of structure to connections would unlock a lot.

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Block based thinking has me wanting to liberally connect ideas and notes. But as you add more connections it becomes harder to understand them.

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Ideas like Joel Chan’s Discourse Graph are highlighting what’s possible. More and more I am thinking of links as functions between notes (i.e. nodes).

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I will write more about this in the future.

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