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by jm4 892 days ago
+1 for Logseq. I have tried so many note taking and organization apps. Logseq had a little bit of a learning curve, but it works better than anything else for my ADHD brain.

With other apps, I would still spend so much time thinking about where to put my notes when it's already difficult for me to take notes and organize things in the first place. I would end up with what was essentially a digital junk drawer. It was all there, but it was a scavenger hunt when I needed to find something and nothing was ever connected.

With Logseq, I started using the journal, tagging and linking as needed as I write. I don't ever think about where to put anything. Although I occasionally create separate pages, I'm mostly in the journal. The tags I add to individual notes become their own pages that are sort of a hub containing every reference. Sometimes I go into those hub pages and add more substantive documentation than the journal references. After several days, I saw this network of information starting to come together. It's like being able to make a contemporary recording of my brain and then reference it later.

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When it works, it works. But just having a dozen pages for each project and maybe a few fixed pages (say "Currently reading") also work. Not sure what is better.