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ghost_laptop lemmy.ml gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml
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MisterBen lemmy.ml MisterBen@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-09-15
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

in my experience, it's still a bit unstable for everyday use, but there are more convenient alternatives like Logseq or siyuan.

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ghost_laptop lemmy.ml gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2020-11-25
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in my experience, it's still a bit unstable for everyday use, but there are more convenient alternatives like Logseq or siyuan.

i've really been wanting to replace obsidian. i tried logseq for some time but i wasn't very satisfied. i've heard aboyt siyuan but never installed it. do you have any thoughts?

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Farooq realbitcoin.cash farooqkz@realbitcoin.cash
Joined: 2025-09-09
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So from what I have understood, it is entirely AI generated? Or was the prototype AI generated and then a human continued the way?

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illusionist lemmy.zip illusionist@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-30
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i've really been wanting to replace obsidian. i tried logseq for some time but i wasn't very satisfied. i've heard aboyt siyuan but never installed it. do you have any thoughts?

I never understood why logseq uses lists for everything.

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itsoveranakin_ piefed.zip itsoveranakin_@piefed.zip
Joined: 2026-07-16
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So from what I have understood, it is entirely AI generated? Or was the prototype AI generated and then a human continued the way?

This is at the end of the README:

opensidian was built predominantly with AI models. Nearly all of the code, the design docs, and this README were written by Claude (Anthropic's models, via Claude Code) working from prompts, reviews, and corrections by a single human maintainer. The human decided what to build and what the trust model must guarantee, read and pushed back on the output, and ran it; the models wrote most of the lines. Commit messages record the design rationale in the same way — many were drafted by the model and edited by the maintainer.

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skrlet13 feddit.cl skrlet13@feddit.cl
Joined: 2023-06-12
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I never understood why logseq uses lists for everything.

It wants to be like a bullet journal

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sopularity_fax sopuli.xyz sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-07-23
#8 · (edited) Quote Reply

I never understood why logseq uses lists for everything.

Outliners are king. A native Workflowy, or dare I say it, DynaList replacement is on my bucket list

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gravitas_deficiency sh.itjust.works gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-20
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So from what I have understood, it is entirely AI generated? Or was the prototype AI generated and then a human continued the way?

Sounds like it was reverse engineered by an LLM

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JustEnoughDucks slrpnk.net JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2026-03-10
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This is at the end of the README: opensidian was built predominantly with AI models. Nearly all of the code, the design docs, and this README were written by Claude (Anthropic's models, via Claude Code) working from prompts, reviews, and corrections by a single human maintainer. The human decided what to build and what the trust model must guarantee, read and pushed back on the output, and ran ...

Holy balls, someone who actually disclosed the AI writing the program for them instead of lying and/or trying to hide it! Amazing!

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lavander lemmy.dbzer0.com lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-08-11
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i've really been wanting to replace obsidian. i tried logseq for some time but i wasn't very satisfied. i've heard aboyt siyuan but never installed it. do you have any thoughts?

What about foam? FWIW It’s what I use

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RumRunningDevil lemmy.zip RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-03-18
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I'll do you one better.

Emacs Org mode, Logseq, Vi + .MD files + grep.

I'm partial to that last one. Un-ironically I would use the closed source Obsidian before this.

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Farooq realbitcoin.cash farooqkz@realbitcoin.cash
Joined: 2025-09-09
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I'll do you one better. Emacs Org mode, Logseq, Vi + .MD files + grep. I'm partial to that last one. Un-ironically I would use the closed source Obsidian before this.

You are lucky you don't work with RTL languages with Complex layout ;)

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Farooq realbitcoin.cash farooqkz@realbitcoin.cash
Joined: 2025-09-09
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Sounds like it was reverse engineered by an LLM

I think more like cloning the closed source software.

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RumRunningDevil lemmy.zip RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-03-18
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You are lucky you don't work with RTL languages with Complex layout ;)

You know I've been playing with typst and I just found it supports multiple directions

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