First off, I’d like to thank Ramses Oudt.
He’s the one who inspired me to do this connection on this Twitter thread.
Why?
Outlining is the way I think. It gives structure to my thoughts and ideas.
I didn’t feel comfortable with Obsidian’s outlining GUI/UX.
Steps
The steps are pretty straightforward:
- Install both apps.
- Change some settings in each one.
Installing
- Obsidian. Install Obsidian’s vault in a local folder outside any iCloud folder if you want to use Obsidian’s sync service on Mac devices.
- Logseq. Open your graph by selecting your Obsidian’s vault folder.
Settings on Logseq
Set “Preferred date format” to yyyy_MM_dd.
Settings on Obsidian
Go to Files and Links inside your settings:
- Set “Default location for new notes” to “In the folder specified below”.
- Set “Folder to create new notes in” to “pages”.
- Set “New Link Format” to “Relative path to file”.
- Turn “Use [[Wikilinks]]” to “off”.
- Set “Default location for new attachments” to “In the folder specified below”.
- Write in “Attachment Folder Path” the value “assets”.
Go to “Daily Notes Core Plugin”:
- Set “Date format” to YYYY_MM_DD.
- Set the “New file location” to “journals”.
Warnings
- If you have the Periodic Notes plugin installed, turn the Daily Notes core plugin off.
- Make all the settings in the Periodic Notes plugin instead of the Daily Notes core one.
- Refresh Logseq whenever you open it so that your graph will be updated with the content of your local files.
- I recommend not having both apps opened at the same time, although I’ve opened the same file at the same time, and it’s great seeing how I write in any of them and everything gets updated in both systems in real-time!
My Workflow
Now, I can make all my outlining process in Logseq, an app I love more and more day by day.
Later on, I develop that outline on Obsidian, completing and polishing everything.