Logseq vs Tana | Which personal knowledge management app should I choose?

I like Tana, except the fact that all your information is stored in their cloud. That is the #1 reason why I prefer Logseq. In regards to projects & tasks? Omnifocus!

I've watched several of your videos, and they are all of excellent quality. This video particularly impresses in that you are willing to highlight where Tana outpaces your preferred tool Logseq. You have well-reasoned opinions supported by cogent, understandable examples.

Thank you for this video. I love to see how these apps learn from each other. The supertags in Tana become properties in Logseq and function in similar ways. For me at least.
One big difference to me is how one course-yours, thank you-feels like I now know how I want to use Logseq. I Tana, I find that was constantly thinking about new ways to structure the database or the "supertags." It felt like that was an ongoing project and distracted me from simply using the tool for what I need it for.
I am sticking with Logseq. Three reasons:
- It feels more simple to me. Without overthinking I have a very useable tool
- Logseq has a simple and elegant way to plan recurring tasks. That simply doesn't exist in Tana.
- Local storage is the deal breaker. I have plain text files that I still find from the early 2000s. I find that immensely valuable. I don't see Tana being able to provide that kind of longevity. I tried downloading Tana data, but that gave me a completely useless file.
I agree with your notion of queries in Tana. Very very nice. And I am jealous of the recent Tana Capture app in IOS. That is massive.
And when it comes to longform writing, I love outlining in Logseq and then I write in IA writer. Still the best writing interface for me. Obsidian doesn't invite writing for me as well. No matter, still all markdown files that I can work with in various places. Love that.
Good luck with your new ventures. I wish you all the best.

The insight that Tana is not necessary for Personal PKM is pretty helpful. I enjoy your Logseq videos a lot.

Thank you for all the content you produce and for this very helpful video. You are saving me a lot of time by exploring the use of these tools, using them much as myself and others want to do, and then laying it all out for us in easy to follow videos. You have done the time consuming part -- exploring these tools, working out how to best use them, and so can get the rest of us up the learning curve quickly. I don't mind at all paying a nominal fee for your courses, especially when you've made such impactful material like this available for free.
I'm very sympathetic to your view of loosely structured PKM information. In my 20+ years of using these tools I have also concluded that a simple structure is the best way to enable re-use of information in ways that were not, can could not, be foreseen. Your assessment of Tana vs Logseq for PKM rang really true for me.

Great video. I could see myself moving my work stuff to Tana and keeping logseq for bullet journaling and pkm.

If you're serious about growing the channels my main suggestion would be better backgrounds. A blond white guy with a white/beige background is pretty difficult to look at for more than an few minutes and it tends to make mt eyes tired. Darker backgrounds with a nice key light on you would do wonders.
I appreciate the comparison video. I've been using Tana for almost half a year now and agree with al your points. I end up going back to Logseq for 99% of my note taking because it's so basic and simple. I still can't figure out how to create a super tag without going into the schema and actually typing it in there and then I have duplicates everywhere...it's such a mess. But when i finally get the supertag created it's great for very specific documentation for tax purposes for me. But to be honest, as soon as they start charging I'll never use it again.
Keep up the great work 👍

Love the videos! Glad to see this comparison. One small note though-the audio is a bit quiet, I've had to boost the audio externally with KRplus's volume at 100%.

Thanks very much ❤ for this video. This helped me to better understand different workcases using the one or other software.

Comment from a fellow South African geek in all the same stuff! Found your channel yesterday and your Logseq knowledge has helped so much, have been bouncing between Notion, Obsidian with all the same issues like privacy, local vs cloud, etc. There’s one in beta you’ve probably heard of, Anytype, like Notion but with local storage and encryption. Local (storage)is lekker, so will come down to Logseq or Anytype! Thanks for all the work put in, so appreciated.

Thank you very much for the information!

Thank you for this video! I have actually found Tana much easier for me to use for knowledge management as I love that everything is a node. I actually have found the page and block format in Logseq (and Roam) harder to use. Just goes to show how much personal preference plays into which tool is right for you. I just find it easier to collect and move bits of information around in Tana; in Logseq I never seemed to get the hang of finding the particular block I was looking for without remembering which page it was on. I will say it is easier to use super tags to collect information about a given thing (I have one for “topic, so when I am in #book I have a field for an instance of #topic that tells me what this book or video or whatever it is about. Obviously one thing can be about more than one topic) then presto can have a list or table of everything about a given topic. I totally agree there is a temptation to over structure everything in Tana; I did have to think through do I need to find this in a list or a table later or not? If not then no need for a super tag. I also find writing long things to be easier in Tana (again, personal preference). I think it is the total disconnect from having to think hard about “where should this live” that makes it easy for me to write. Would love to see more Tana content, or even better, Tana and Logseq content as I do use both for different purposes.

Fantastic and clear video! Thank you for you work. I an happy logseq user also thank to you video and lessons. Looking at Tana it seems to me very similar to Notion as approach. This is not bad but I am building my PKM and I want to open the tool and write down my ideas. The simple structure of Logseq is for me the real plus in my workflow.

I am a Logseq user since 1 year and am definitely interested in using Tana for project management 👍 as I also believe Logseq is not ideally suited for that purpose, so that would be lovely if you could add that video 💪

Just started trying out Logseq for the first time yesterday and watched an hour long intro video by you on somebody else's channel. Found your channel today and got a little concerned that I might already need to consider moving to Tana. Thankfully I only needed to watch the first 6 min 40 seconds of this video to make up my mind. Going to stick with Logseq because it's Open-source and theoretically free forever*. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Cheers! (like'd & sub'd)

Tana UI is great, and the Query views are superb, they look fantastic! I whish Logseq could have that type of query builder, filtering and viewing options.
In the other hand, you need to tag each node in tana in order to appear ina aquery result, meanning, you wont see any child note or task. Also the UI ends very cluttered in tana, because if your supertags have fields, these fieldes will be shown expanded by default in each node, so you will have a lot of extra information besides the child nodes of a block. Also, all task and todos end with a hashtag, so all you text is filled with tags and become somehow congested. Logseq looks cleaner to me at the end.

Very nice video. For me having a tool that i can easily use offline is a must. Being forced online is not what I want.

Do you think supertags could be natively supported by Logseq one day? I was quite impressed by the task management demonstration. The distinction between supertags and tags seems useful. One is a record, while the other one is a concept. In retrospect, do they even overlap? By the way, I'm new to Logseq and I'm really loving your videos! Having the outline in the video makes it really easy to follow.

For your Logseq vs Obsidian comparison, you touched on performance. Not sure if you have any similar comparisons for Tana or if it's too apples to oranges to do similar comparison?

We are waiting for the project management video 😉

The new shiny just grabs your attention doesn't it? :-) I know how it is. I was just about to sign up for your Logseq course too...

Hey random question, is there a way to colour words in a block different colours on Logseq, or can a block only hold one colour?

Hi Dario @CombiningMindsPKM, I saw this video 5 Month bevore and chose logsec for my notes too. But now I am a little bit overhelmed by using logsec for projektmabagement and want to try tana vor this aproach. But I definitely don't want to give up logseq, it is amasing for me in other things. The solution is to combine this two softwares. Just like you do, if I undestood it correctly. Can you please make a video how do YOU use logsec and tana (simultaneously)? Where/what is the connection? What is the effective way to separate the content between logsec and tana? How not to loose myself in this two tools? ...

Tana - Saved Google Searches ("AI" based) vs Logseq with is knowledge management. It's literally a choice between actually learning and getting dumbed down possibly with faulty information.

I love your videos on Logseq, but I want to ask you how do you handle documents ?
Is it possible to attach a local document, and not "uploading" the asset ?

I really hope the database version of Logseq allows some of these features to be added (it sounds like that's the plan).

howd you get what seems like omnivore book manager thing there ?

Very timely for me as LogSeq sync sucks still. Looked for an alternative and luckily had a Tana invite :D

Just want to check in after 6 months do you think Tana can totally replace Logseq as the primary repository of personal knowledge ( for those who aren’t bothered to host PKM on a cloud va local).

Tana looks beautiful, but proprietary+cloud-only really is scary, I'd feel insecure trying to use it for PKM jshfjfhj. Do you think there's any chance some features like more powerful properties might be implemented in Logseq in some form eventually?

"Alternative entering the room"
Good to have multiple options.
But, when is the time right.... That a eink tablet company like Onyx, makes a tablet with a good LogSeq application.... That would be a "bang", do I think.

I’m Logseq user and now I’m also using Tana…I don’t know, it is a very powerful app, indeed, but sometimes for simple things Tana-team make the procedure a little laborious or complicated. Nevertheless, I think it will be a great alternative 😊

volume!!!!

6:24 so not an option right now.
5:58 6:36 and 7:01 proprietary, you don't own your data, and you will be charged an ever increasing amount of money. so it will never be an option.

The number one absolute worst thing about Tana is the extreme limited use of their mobile app. You can only “capture “ and it just gets thrown in for you to organize later. Complete deal breaker unfortunately

logseq is better

5:53 cloud-based, proprietary and expected fee ... and that is where all interest for Tana dissapeared.

$120/year for a note-taking app is never going to be a winner. The end goal for all closed-source startups in the productivity space is to get get rich after being bought out by Microsoft or Google.

Tana is cool but IMHO pretty overrated.
If you want database functionalities you are way better with tools like Coda, Seatable, Airtable, etc.