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Joplin — the privacy-focused note-taking app: Markdown notes and to-dos on every platform, offline-first, with end-to-end encrypted sync you control
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View guide →Logseq — a privacy-first platform for knowledge management: an outliner over your local Markdown files, with a graph, journals and spaced repetition built in
Logseq is an open-source productivity project by logseq (logseq/logseq on GitHub). It has 45,266 GitHub stars and 2,834 forks, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 17 October 2026.
Download Logseq for Windows, macOS or Linux from logseq.com (Linux users can also use the install script in the README).
Point Logseq at a folder — new or an existing folder of Markdown notes. That folder is your graph; it stays plain files on your disk.
Start each day in the journal page, use [[page links]] and #tags as you write, and watch the graph and backlinks assemble your knowledge base for you.
Bullets, nesting and block references on top of local Markdown/Org files — no proprietary database.
Every link is bidirectional; the graph view shows how your notes connect, and unlinked references find hidden connections.
Built-in queries pull pages and to-dos together dynamically; tasks, flashcards and spaced repetition live in the same graph.
Local-first and offline-capable; sync is optional and your files remain readable in any text editor.
Desktop installers from the official site.
https://logseq.com/downloadsFrom the README, for a scripted Linux install.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/logseq/logseq/master/scripts/install-linux.sh | bashLogseq reads standard Markdown — point it at a folder and your files become a graph, untouched on disk.
File -> Open Graph -> choose folderThe Logseq team and open-source community (logseq/logseq on GitHub), funded by sponsorships and an optional sync service.
Yes — AGPL-3.0 licensed and free to use locally. Optional paid offerings (like hosted sync) exist for those who want them.
In a folder of Markdown (or Org) files on your machine. You can open them with any editor; Logseq adds structure, not lock-in.
Against Obsidian, Logseq is fully open source and outliner-first, with journals at the centre; Obsidian is page-first with a larger plugin marketplace and a commercial core. Against Roam Research, Logseq is the same outliner philosophy without the subscription or the cloud lock-in.
Install the app, open a folder as your graph, and write your first journal entry with a few [[links]].
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