500 Days of Logseq
What does my knowledge graph look like after 500 days of Logseq as my personal knowledge manager? And how has my usage shifted over time?
The graph of all my notes has become much larger and more interconnected:
That evolution is mostly a function of time: I have read and annotated more. My usage of Logseq has been pretty consistent throughout the 500 days or so I have used it. What has changed are the integrations.
Integrations
In the centre is still Readwise, which combines all highlights from articles, documents, books, videos, and podcasts.
Readwise’s Reader has replaced Feedly, Pocket, and Command for me. It archives RSS feeds, newsletters, documents, and YouTube videos with synchronized transcripts, so that I can highlight text, images, or screenshots, which subsequently arrive in Logseq via Readwise.
In the meantime, I have added Shortform and Snipd. While I can highlight transcripts from YouTube videos in Reader, it does not yet support podcasts. Snipd solves that problem. It generates text from speech and generates summaries. That text I can highlight and sync with Readwise. With Snipd and Reader, I can extract knowledge from podcasts and videos easily and quickly. I prefer to read to listening or watching, which is what these tools enable me to do.
Due to the lack of development progress, I migrated from Paperpile to Zotero. The advantage of Zotero is that it directly integrates with Logseq. That said, annotations are not yet synchronized from Zotero to Logseq, which is why I have my own setup. For research papers I have already annotated in Zotero, I export the annotations to markdown with Add Note from Annotations and copy-paste the text into Logseq. Perhaps not ideal, but it works.
Aliases
A feature I rely a lot on are aliases.
At the top of a note, I add a line alias:: tag1, tag2, where tag1 and tag2 are pages/tags that I want to combine on the same page.
Let’s say the page itself is called audio and the aliases are music and guitar.
Any page or block tagged with any of these three labels will show up on audio page.
This way, I can group related topics and have a better overview of my notes.
I use it, for instance, to group research papers on related technologies or highlights on civilizations in the same region in the context of archaeology:
