I've spent some time this week toying with the idea of using Logseq for my daily logging. I prefer writing in outliners and Logseq's outline-based blocks are handy and easy to deal with. Linking is fast and easy. There are queries for when I need to get fancy. Easy, automatic daily notes makes Logseq a tool well-suited to keeping a daily log. Plus, it creates .org files natively.

I even put my Logseq vault folder inside my ~/org folder so it's right there with everything else in Emacs and Org-mode.

The problem is that I have come to love and standardize on using Denote for notes and file naming. Logseq's file names and linking syntax don't work with Denote. I imagine one might be able to create a combination of Denote hooks and Logseq plugins to make them work together but that feels like too much.

I thought about using Logseq only for the daybook-style logging. The problem is that Logseq practically begs one to add links and backlinks and related notes and TODOs and the rest. Using it as a nothing more than a competent outliner front end for org-mode files feels wasteful or unnecessary and asking for trouble down the line.

So for now I'm reluctantly tabling the Logseq idea and sticking with my life in Emacs full-time.

Today I think out loud about my wiki wiki.baty.net.

The wiki (built using TiddlyWiki) is chock full of old notes and ideas and journal entries. 3,674 of them since 2018, to be precise.

I need to remember this whenever I drift away from using it as a place for dumping links and quotes and conversations and anything else. Click the "random tiddler" link a few times. Wow, how fun!

Here's the thing: Emacs.

Once I started putting everything in Emacs, it no longer made sense to duplicate those things in TiddlyWiki. Except what I'm finding is that I prefer dropping little one-off notes in the wiki to creating a org-mode file using Denote in Emacs. And I also quite often prefer browsing and finding things in the wiki.

This is a problem. My system has grown to depend on everything being in my ~/org folder. Wiki stuff isn't. I don't think I care anymore. The stuff I put in the wiki is just as findable and future-proof, and it's potentually more valuable because I like using it there and it's also public so someone might find a helpful nugget or two.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'd like to go back to putting my notes that can be public in the wiki instead of org-mode. I'm not sure how to do that without re-introducing the where-do-I-write-this? dilemma.