The original article title is "DOGE canceled High Point Museum grant for HVAC systems after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI, lawsuit alleges" but I modified it so it could fit the character limit
Thanks to Jane for her contributions. Some great quotes from her: "We have a choice to use the gift of our lives to make the world a better place." and “If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.”
I've played with it enough to know I don't intend to move forward with it. It takes so many of the things that were intuitive and functional for me, adds a ton of stuff I don't want and wouldn't use, and ruins what made me love the product so much.
For example, I like just popping "TODO" on the front of a line, but the database version adds a bunch of stuff I don't want. I don't want to have a drop-down list pop up with distracting icons that don't even have a cohesive color scheme. I don't want to have to move my cursor down a list. I just want to click where it says TODO and have it change to DOING and then change back when I click it again, and then change to DONE when I click the box. I don't want tags on the ends of my lines. I like having the status right at the front, not singled out as just one more property, but just there, where I would put them if I were writing things down without software. I don't want to have to set properties, and I don't even use tags as a separate thing to be attached to my blocks, certainly not right-aligned.
What made Logseq elegant in its simplicity is absolutely ruined for me with the database version. It is the most concerted effort I've ever seen to destroy the best parts of the product to make it into something entirely different.
And it's fine that you're going to do it anyway. I'm just disappointed I'll be stuck sitting on a version that never moves forward, because there was SO much room for improvement, especially on mobile, which now won't ever happen to the product I actually love.
That you think this solves it for me is exactly the problem. It's taking the one thing that was ever intuitive for me when it came to managing things in my life, mangles it into a dozen steps that aren't remotely intuitive to me and don't even have common characteristics that would give me a heuristic to remember them, and asks that I completely change the way I do things and think about things to suit some back end I don't want and don't need.
That's why I rejected using Notion. Using it requires forcing my mind to operate inside someone else's system.
Logseq finally felt like someone whose brain works like mine made software for people like me.
And now it's being systematically dismantled for the sake of the hordes of people who already have other tools serving them just fine.
Like I said, I get that it's not my call and people are going to do it anyway. I just hate it more than I've ever hated any software change I can remember.
Thank you for this! I'll check it out as I do want to add the ability to navigate to pages from with the TUI. And at some point add in search functionality since I use it a lot within the Logseq app.
Logseq does! We at Logseq also believe in giving back so we sponsored learndatalogtoday.org when it went down - https://github.com/sponsors/jonase . I'd encourage others to do the same if they appreciate the author for making datalog more accessible
> Though I'm still eyeing open source options with Logseq, just waiting on their mobile app to pick up and properly support plugins. I'll be more than happy to port everything as soon as it supports that.
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