Sharing Pages in Logseq
Logseq is a real power tool for note taking and knowledge management. I had mentioned I’m using it a while ago already.
I keep my personal logs strictly separate from work related logs, for obvious reasons. However, there is one important part of the knowledge graph that is good to have both in the work and personal hemispheres: my collection of notes about articles and books I read. I’m going to describe now how I’m ensuring I keep this particular info synchronised across the work and personal knowledge graphs.
Thankfully, Logseq has a very simple storage model: Markdown files in directories. That makes it easy to use an independent synchronisation tool like git to synchronise and share parts of the storage. Logseq stores all individual Markdown files in the pages directory. It also has a notion of “name spaces”, where pages can be grouped by prefixes separated by the / character. For example, an article I file under Articles/Redis Explained will have the file name Articles%2FRedis Explained.md - it really is as simple as that.
I’ve made the root directory of my Logseq storage a git repository. I have a .gitignore file that looks like this:
.logseq
.gitignore.swp
.DS_Store
journals/**
assets/**
logseq/**
pages/**
!.gitignore
!pages/Articles*
!pages/Books*As you can see, it excludes pretty much everything but then explicitly includes the things I want to share across machines: the .gitignore file itself, and any page that has an Articles or Books prefix. Occasionally, I will have to force-add a file in the assets directory, which is where images are stored. That’s manageable. The rest is git add, git commit, git push, and git pull, as usual.
With this setup, I can freely share notes about articles and books across my two Logseq graphs, and reference the articles and books from my personal and work notes easily.
Tags: the-nerdy-bit, hacking, work