logseq/issues

31 Oct 2021 11:18 - 16 Dec 2022 12:22
Open in Logseq
    • This is my own notes on what I would like changed or fixed with Logseq. I don't always have the patience to file git tickets or whatnot (but would be happy to do that on request). Many of these are things I could at least in theory fix myself.
    • Usability things

      • (aka, things I would fix immediately if I could, but haven't found the time and hard to know how hard they would be)
      • Multiple windows
        • Wait, it has those, just no menu item...Cmd-N works. WAIT now it doesn't again. It definitely worked for awhile!˜
          • window has no easily-visible title if you are scrolled down.
        • Would be improved if
          • clicking a link went to new window if there was one, o
          • or if the user holds down shift
            • (replacing the current semantics of shift which is open in sidebar)
          • restarts remembered which windows were open (and positions).
      • Saving the last edit position per-page. ARGH. The combination of this and lack of multiple windows makes it extremely clunky compared to Emacs, where you can have as many buffers as you like and they remember where the fuck they were.
      • Selection across blocks seems utterly broken and really has a bad impact on usability for me.
    • Bugs

      • DONE The "show in Finder" and related commands don't work in Electron, and don't even show up in web version (fixed by later version)
      • config editing broke in Electron, works in web
        • kind of serious: I can't get the refresh from local files thing to work right, and I'm starting to wonder about all this mysterious state that I can't even find. Bad design.
      • Org mode causes all kinds of problems; avoid it.
      • Blockquotes: if there's an internal line break, the later paragraphs aren't rendered as quotes.
      • Another glaring transient bug: a whole page (this one) somehow got pasted into the journal...not at all sure how that happened.
      • Minor interaction bug. Type ( Marvin Minsky ) (or whatever – after typing the closing ]], you wind up with cursor beyond the ). Annoying and weird.
      • Cmd-Z Undo is unreliable; doesn't behave consistently around things like new block creation. Very bad for basic feel.
      • Really bad bug: when you get the db/disk out of sync dialog and select disk, it doesn't seem to work!
      • Presentation mode seems broken (hard to see how it maps things to Reveal styles)
      • foo

    • Misfeatures

      • Can't give graphs a name, they use the name of the directory...small annoyance
      • shows a stupid Properties block on every page....
      • Can't get current journal in sidebar, which is what I want...shift-click on left sidebar links should do it (sometimes this works, sometimes not? Seems to work better if right sidebar is closed?
      • Missing Print and/or a decent page export (that can go to GDocs with formatting)
    • Features needed

      • Should be possible to specify a home page for a graph, rather than always opening to today's journal.
    • Actual good points

      • deals smoothly (more or less) with multiple graphs (relative to Athens)
      • ooh holding down shift while over a link gives you a preview! Sweet!
      • Block includes seem to be fully Roam-like, not even sure how that works.
      • OK if you use the electron app and point to a git repo it does autosave for you.