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Another excellent video, Dario! Logseq's PDF reading and annotations capabilities are terrific. I especially like the built-in integration with Zotero. If you pull in a Zotero reference with a PDF attachment, you can open and annotate that PDF in Logseq. It's kind of amazing! Logseq also puts the Zotero metadata in the properties block. About the thumbnails: I agree with Ashley that you should take a bunch of headshots -- the algorithm finds them very enticing. By all means, stay true to yourself. But IMO you're making the best videos about Logseq, and more people should see you in their feeds!
Thanks Ed, much appreciated again! I haven't really used Zotero much since investigating it initially, but I imagine that in the academic space it would be a serious winner. Both my sisters are in academia, so I should get them to breakdown some writing workflows 🙂 Maybe I should give this headshot thing a try - "everybody's doing it!" 😋
I'm only halfway in while trying it out myself and I just wanted you blew my mind. Up until now I used to read the pdf separately and take notes in logseq with lots and lots of place markers, like 'chapter 1, page 27' etc... then write down my thoughts, this should solve so many problems.
I like this, it looks easy to do. Now, for a typical research project I'd have dozens of PDFs, indeed in my reference library I have over 20 thousand pdfs, accumulated over a couple of decades of work. I'd like to think that your method would be resilient to scale. Probably is, but I'll keep testing.
I think it should be, but I haven't tested either. I've updated the way I take notes on PDFs though - it's detailed in this video czcams.com/video/uogIrNSYy64/video.html
I love the concept of Logseq. It is a tool I can really use, but the learning curve has been hard. These videos have given me a lot of ideas on how to use the software. Thanks.
I love your content, going to dive into logseq now, in particular, I have been searching up and down for a consolidated PDF annotations note taking and summarise product, thank you
Pretty cool! I kind of want to use Obsidian because of the nice graph view but i like the pdf annotation and also youtube video timstamps build into logseq a lot!
Hey! Thanks so much for these videos! You were the first channel to introduce me to logseq and I absolutely love it. The friction of getting started because its so underground right now was a bit hard. But after hunkering down for a few days I cant believe its free. As for the thumbnails: I know its probably not fun, but putting your face on the thumbnail is supposed to appease the algorithm gods I hear. Preferably more exasperated lol
Thanks Ashley. I have been going through my earliest notes and realised how messy everything was! But I'm also really glad I hung in there. Well done to you :) I better start practicing my exasperated face 🤦♂️
@@CombiningMindsPKM I don't think you have to start exacerbating the face, especially if you feel it's not who you are. Your channel seems like it has an audience that is above silly faces and is looking for insights/education rather than entertainment
Suppose the PDF, and your notes and observations on it, was something likely to be used in several different use-contexts -- the writing of several different papers, say. A question then arises as to where to keep those notes and observations. One option is to do as you have shown, and keep the notes from all use-contexts in a single logseq page centered on the particular PDF in question. But while that means the centrality of the original PDF is preserved, this option means losing, or at least making less obvious, the significance of each particular use-context. So an alternative option might be to keep the notes in a logseq page dedicated to the use-context in question. So notes arising from an initial reading of the PDF -- a general, context-less reading, as it were -- might still go in the logseq page centered on the PDF; but then notes associated with writing a particular paper might go in a logseq page dedicated to that project; notes taken while writing a different paper would go in a page dedicated to that; and so on. But now the problem is that while this option preserves the contextual association of a given set of notes, it means losing, or at least makes less obvious, the significance of the fact that the different sets of notes are all about the same original PDF. So, PDF-centered noting, versus use-context-centered noting, or what?
That is a difficult question to answer in a CZcams comment. In short, it's a matter of personal preference. If you add consistent tags in your writing, it's easy enough to resurface your notes independent of location, so I tend to default to PDF-centred noting. The use-context is then captured in the [[backlinks]] and #tags (both serve the same purpose). You can then block reference those notes at a later stage. Use-context-centered noting might be more easily lost years down the line, e.g. if you shelve a certain project. But arguably you will be able to find the PDFs more easily in years to come.
Hi, this is great. An issue that I found is that the asset names appear as linked nodes in the graph view, and it becomes very messy. How can I hide assets from the graph view?
Thank you very much for your awesome work! It helped me a lot in writing my bachelor thesis and I hope it will for my master thesis as well. I have one question about pdf pages. When I highlight something in the pdf and copy it as a reference, I don't have the correct page of the reference because the title page is counted . Do you have any advice for me? Thank you very much.
Hi Dario! Loving the content it's really helping me get to grips with PKM and Logseq. A quick question however, what theme are you using for your graph in this video?
@@YogiSharma Hmm, that's very strange. If you re-index it might update on the web-app. Although I'm using the Desktop app so I update to the latest edition with a download so I'm not sure
Thank you so much for your share! I have a question. I'm using Microsoft Edge for my pdf. Because it provides a handwriting function on pdf. But with the highlited pdf in Edge(only highlights not handwritings), Logseq doesn't show the highlight in page. Only the highlighted sentence in Logseq is possible . It is possible in Obsidian plug-in to show the highlighted sentence done in Edge. Is there any ways to use this function in Logseq?
Thanks for sharing! The PDF functionality really stands out compared to Obsidian. Are PDFs also searchable from within Logseq? I mean, can I find content by searching in Logseq that has no block reference?
Thanks Tom. Unfortunately PDF search is not available at this stage, although there is a feature request so you can get your vote in here: discuss.logseq.com/t/please-add-pdf-search-word-at-pdf-and-page-search-word-at-page-use-shortcut-ctrl-f/1988
Dario. Thanks for the video. Just wonder. All these may not work if we have a "dynamic" pdf. What I mean is every month we have report on certain project or research and every month we will convert them from MS Word into pdf format. So if we take note on the pdf, problem is when next month comes, there will be changes on the pdf file. So ... whatever we have highlighted and make notes on will be either shifter or even deleted.
Thank you Dario for another very helpful video! 🙂 What I realized is that Logseq automatically creates a dedicated page for each PDF once you start annotating. This seems to be where the annotations are actually stored by Logseq. In your video you describe that you create dedicated page per PDF yourself where you capture the respective highlights via reference, add meta data and your observation. In this sense there would be two pages per PDF in the graph, which I would like to avoid. From your experience, does anything speak against just using the page created by Logseq to work with, capture own thoughts in it, etc.? Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Cheers, Alex
Hi Alex. There is indeed some duplication there, but for me it wasn't a big issue. I think for long term usage it might be more favourable to go with the single page approach, and this is an approach I'm looking at in other resources. It's a little bit more cumbersome to configure, but it is cleaner. Let me know if that prompts any further questions.
A supplementary question to your excellent video - are there any practical limitations as to the size of a pdf file? Most of my pdfs are below 25Gb. Many are below 1Gb. However, in my digital library I have terrabytes of books, monographs, aricles and notes. Large books, (mainly scans of 19th century and earlier works) could be split into chapters or sections - a bit of a pain). How will Logseq cope? Can Logseq, somehow, access the cloud digital library and call-up an asset when needed (to save duplication into an asset folder) or does one call the entire digital library your asset folder?
Thanks Harry. Those are some pretty large files you have there, getting into the gigs! I would be lying if I said I knew that Logseq would cope seamlessly, but I imagine the desktop version would function much the same as if you were opening the file in any other PDF reader? Not so sure about the web-app though. I think the best place would be to ask on the forum - the team are pretty good at answering these sort of queries 🙂
Thank you for the insights. Is there anyway we can edit a pdf reference to add some end lines or spaces without losing the pdf link? Or can we give that reference to a word maybe?
Thanks a lot, great video, the integration of the pdfs is a gamechanger for me. I have one question: what is the best way to do an automatic export with #Tags to Airtable. The rest of my data is in Airtable, I could do a script with keyboard maestro, but a switch in logseq would be great. Do you have any ideas? Thanks
Oooh - great question. Unfortunately I'm not sure of any way in Logseq. You could take all the file names from the "pages" folder in your Logseq root file, and process them in Excel or something to remove the .md suffix and move that into Airtable?
Ta for this, as it'll be most useful for my university modules as the 2nd part of each unit is a PDF version that I can download (though I have the printed copy as a book). Do you know what the best way to do similar functionality with data from web pages?
Pleasure Toran. I know there are a few webclippers being developed which convert pages to Markdown. I imagine that Logseq will eventually have a built in one, although I've seen a few people recommend forum.obsidian.md/t/markdownload-markdown-web-clipper/173
@@CombiningMindsPKM I will take a look at the extension. Ta for the recommendation! 👍 I'm hopeful that more progress towards this will be made, especially with the rising popularity of Markdown editors like Logseq and Obsidian.
In my opinion this workflow has a pretty big flaw, because it becomes impossible to move or even rename the files. If I understand it correctly, doing so will just break everything. In general, I'd like to have a way of renaming / moving files later. Without some sort of re-indexing this becomes a showstopper: No way of re-arraging things, or just fixing typos in file names. The classic dangling pointer issue.
Yeah, that's a bit of a risk when the 'format' is locked into the program. You'll still have the HLS files with the annotations captured as text, but you'll lose the 'location' of the text (i.e. you won't be able to click on the block and navigate to the the source in the PDF immediately, even though it will still preserve the page number as a property)
There is a feature request to support epub books (which has a lot of votes -> discuss.logseq.com/t/support-epub-format-ebooks/2010/16), but unfortunately can only use pdf at the moment
I have tried using logseq to edit PDFs and I was online with an expert from logsek today and he was saying that you can't edit PDFs from the web page. Is that right?
@@CombiningMindsPKM Hello. And do you know if highlighting/annotating from the mobile app is in the works ? All the pdf are read/highlight I do so on my tablet....
I'm a bit confused. This seems to waste A LOT of space. Why should I have to upload it as an asset when I already have the thing on my file system? It would be great if I could just stick in the asset folder and call it a day.
Hi Tanchwa. Uploading it to Logseq is the same as sticking it in your asset folder. You can point to PDFs in other directories (e.g. if you have a local Zotero folder) but I cautious of doing this whilst there is still so much development happening
Great tool! But It did not work for me. The PDF went into the assets folder but when I click on the reference in logseq, it does not open. Kindly help!
Hi Jerry. Sorry to hear that it didn't work for you. The best place to ask for assistance is on the forums - unfortunately it's very difficult for me to diagnose the problem for you
And do you have a bug with searching into Logseq Linked references from Pdf`s? For example if i inserted some paragraph into Logseq using "Linked references" from Pdf - every first word is not searchable into Logseq.
Hmmm, this is an interesting bug - I haven't encountered it myself and I don't see anything at quick glance on the forum or on the Github bug report. Might be worthwhile bringing it up on the forum or filing a bug report? github.com/logseq/logseq/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=bug_report.md&title=
Hey Mike - when I started looking at alternatives to Roam, I tried both Obsidian and Logseq, but found that Logseq was closest to the Roam paradigm of outliners, and was also more beginner friendly than Obsidian. Obsidian is an amazing tool though, and I've learnt to appreciate it more now as a supplement to my Logseq workflow
When you are adding tags to the pdf (in the metadata) you prefer to create new links (pages) [[ ]] and name them tags in metadata section, rather than using the native # (tags) attribute of logseq. Why is that? Why not use something that is natively designed for that purpose but use another way, then call it after the name of the original function? (create pages but call them as tags in metadata)
Hey Alan. Unfortunately not yet! There is a feature request, though, which is gaining some traction. You can add your vote here: discuss.logseq.com/t/support-epub-format-ebooks/2010
@@CombiningMindsPKM I'm getting through your video... getting things worked out towards understanding this part your teaching. Can I delete Obsidian & just work with logseq?
Hey - it's not a Logseq feature, you have to use another service. I use a service called aText, although if you're a mac user you can use Alfred. I made a video on aText here czcams.com/video/-SqKjzSfTXU/video.html
@@CombiningMindsPKM So I can't use the online version, I understand. Another question is where can I find information on how LogSeq parses my text files? It seems it takes TAGS or similar to create pages. Where to know what is the logic for LogSeq to consider something a "tag" for a page? Thanks!
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Another excellent video, Dario! Logseq's PDF reading and annotations capabilities are terrific. I especially like the built-in integration with Zotero. If you pull in a Zotero reference with a PDF attachment, you can open and annotate that PDF in Logseq. It's kind of amazing! Logseq also puts the Zotero metadata in the properties block.
About the thumbnails: I agree with Ashley that you should take a bunch of headshots -- the algorithm finds them very enticing. By all means, stay true to yourself. But IMO you're making the best videos about Logseq, and more people should see you in their feeds!
Thanks Ed, much appreciated again!
I haven't really used Zotero much since investigating it initially, but I imagine that in the academic space it would be a serious winner. Both my sisters are in academia, so I should get them to breakdown some writing workflows 🙂
Maybe I should give this headshot thing a try - "everybody's doing it!" 😋
This is such a killer feature.
I'm only halfway in while trying it out myself and I just wanted you blew my mind.
Up until now I used to read the pdf separately and take notes in logseq with lots and lots of place markers, like 'chapter 1, page 27' etc... then write down my thoughts, this should solve so many problems.
Haha, glad to hear :)
My god, this is amazing! I've been looking for this magic. THANK YOU!
My pleasure :) Love seeing comments like this, thanks!
The PDF annotation features are super useful, thanks for sharing.
Pleasure :)
I like this, it looks easy to do. Now, for a typical research project I'd have dozens of PDFs, indeed in my reference library I have over 20 thousand pdfs, accumulated over a couple of decades of work. I'd like to think that your method would be resilient to scale. Probably is, but I'll keep testing.
I think it should be, but I haven't tested either. I've updated the way I take notes on PDFs though - it's detailed in this video czcams.com/video/uogIrNSYy64/video.html
I love the concept of Logseq. It is a tool I can really use, but the learning curve has been hard. These videos have given me a lot of ideas on how to use the software. Thanks.
Glad to hear that 🙏🏼
Excellent work! Really opened my eyes on what Logseq can do with PDFs. Thanks!
Glad to hear 🙂
I love your content, going to dive into logseq now, in particular, I have been searching up and down for a consolidated PDF annotations note taking and summarise product, thank you
Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully Logseq meets your needs 👍🏼
Pretty cool! I kind of want to use Obsidian because of the nice graph view but i like the pdf annotation and also youtube video timstamps build into logseq a lot!
I found myself using the graph view less and less over time. Just a consideration :)
thank you so much for this, really helpful, really need some time to learn this powerful tool
I can confirm that it's well worth it in the end :)
I love this video just like how I love the others! Thank you, Dario🙏 !
Thanks Jenny, appreciate the positive vibes 🌞
Hey! Thanks so much for these videos! You were the first channel to introduce me to logseq and I absolutely love it. The friction of getting started because its so underground right now was a bit hard. But after hunkering down for a few days I cant believe its free.
As for the thumbnails: I know its probably not fun, but putting your face on the thumbnail is supposed to appease the algorithm gods I hear. Preferably more exasperated lol
Thanks Ashley. I have been going through my earliest notes and realised how messy everything was! But I'm also really glad I hung in there. Well done to you :)
I better start practicing my exasperated face 🤦♂️
@@CombiningMindsPKM I don't think you have to start exacerbating the face, especially if you feel it's not who you are. Your channel seems like it has an audience that is above silly faces and is looking for insights/education rather than entertainment
@@puhkaberik1356 and that would mean I would have to neaten my beard and do my hair - ain't nobody got time for that :)
thanks for the guide, bruddha
My pleasure :)
Suppose the PDF, and your notes and observations on it, was something likely to be used in several different use-contexts -- the writing of several different papers, say. A question then arises as to where to keep those notes and observations.
One option is to do as you have shown, and keep the notes from all use-contexts in a single logseq page centered on the particular PDF in question. But while that means the centrality of the original PDF is preserved, this option means losing, or at least making less obvious, the significance of each particular use-context.
So an alternative option might be to keep the notes in a logseq page dedicated to the use-context in question. So notes arising from an initial reading of the PDF -- a general, context-less reading, as it were -- might still go in the logseq page centered on the PDF; but then notes associated with writing a particular paper might go in a logseq page dedicated to that project; notes taken while writing a different paper would go in a page dedicated to that; and so on. But now the problem is that while this option preserves the contextual association of a given set of notes, it means losing, or at least makes less obvious, the significance of the fact that the different sets of notes are all about the same original PDF.
So, PDF-centered noting, versus use-context-centered noting, or what?
That is a difficult question to answer in a CZcams comment. In short, it's a matter of personal preference.
If you add consistent tags in your writing, it's easy enough to resurface your notes independent of location, so I tend to default to PDF-centred noting. The use-context is then captured in the [[backlinks]] and #tags (both serve the same purpose). You can then block reference those notes at a later stage.
Use-context-centered noting might be more easily lost years down the line, e.g. if you shelve a certain project. But arguably you will be able to find the PDFs more easily in years to come.
Fantastic! Thanks for the walk through.
Thanks Steven :)
Danke!
Thanks Michael 🙏🏽
amazing. thank you
Muy bueno!. Muchas gracias por la explicación. Saludos
Gracias :)
Good
Very helpful video!
Glad it was helpful :)
Hi~
Execllent guide!
How your "status:" has a icon before "Done" in metadata?
Thanks!
If you go to the "Done" page, then add a page property "icon:: " and choose whichever icon you want.
Hi, this is great. An issue that I found is that the asset names appear as linked nodes in the graph view, and it becomes very messy. How can I hide assets from the graph view?
I don't think you can do that currently.
Great videos Dude... Dario da Silva?... hummm 🤔🤔
Thanks Luiz :) Why hummm? 😄
@@CombiningMindsPKMYour name sounds very "Brazilian" doesn't it? 🤩🤩🤩🤩
@@luiza4142 Portuguese 🙌🏽
Thank you very much for your awesome work! It helped me a lot in writing my bachelor thesis and I hope it will for my master thesis as well.
I have one question about pdf pages. When I highlight something in the pdf and copy it as a reference, I don't have the correct page of the reference because the title page is counted . Do you have any advice for me?
Thank you very much.
Hi there. Unfortunately nothing that I can recommend for that. Try asking on the Discord forum 👍🏽
Hi Dario! Loving the content it's really helping me get to grips with PKM and Logseq. A quick question however, what theme are you using for your graph in this video?
Thanks Sam 🙂I'm using the Discord Like Dark Theme
@@CombiningMindsPKM cheers mate! Keep going with the videos 💪
I’m assuming if your PDF gets renamed all of your Meta Data becomes useless.
If you rename it in the assets folder then it will become useless, but it's not usually an issue when renaming in Logseq
Great video and functionality. On my logseq, I don't seem to have "upload asset" menu. I do have "upload an image". Any idea why?
Thanks Yogi. Have you updated to the latest version of Logseq (0.4.9)?
@@CombiningMindsPKM I am on web, and see that I am on 0.4.8. How do I update?
@@YogiSharma Hmm, that's very strange. If you re-index it might update on the web-app. Although I'm using the Desktop app so I update to the latest edition with a download so I'm not sure
Thank you so much for your share! I have a question. I'm using Microsoft Edge for my pdf. Because it provides a handwriting function on pdf. But with the highlited pdf in Edge(only highlights not handwritings), Logseq doesn't show the highlight in page. Only the highlighted sentence in Logseq is possible . It is possible in Obsidian plug-in to show the highlighted sentence done in Edge. Is there any ways to use this function in Logseq?
I'm not sure, but I somehow doubt it 😕
Thanks for sharing! The PDF functionality really stands out compared to Obsidian. Are PDFs also searchable from within Logseq? I mean, can I find content by searching in Logseq that has no block reference?
Thanks Tom. Unfortunately PDF search is not available at this stage, although there is a feature request so you can get your vote in here: discuss.logseq.com/t/please-add-pdf-search-word-at-pdf-and-page-search-word-at-page-use-shortcut-ctrl-f/1988
Dario. Thanks for the video. Just wonder. All these may not work if we have a "dynamic" pdf. What I mean is every month we have report on certain project or research and every month we will convert them from MS Word into pdf format. So if we take note on the pdf, problem is when next month comes, there will be changes on the pdf file. So ... whatever we have highlighted and make notes on will be either shifter or even deleted.
Hi Rick. Unfortunately the highlights will disappear when you delete the PDFs, so this won't work for that use case.
@@CombiningMindsPKM . Thanks for your reply.
Thank you Dario for another very helpful video! 🙂
What I realized is that Logseq automatically creates a dedicated page for each PDF once you start annotating. This seems to be where the annotations are actually stored by Logseq. In your video you describe that you create dedicated page per PDF yourself where you capture the respective highlights via reference, add meta data and your observation. In this sense there would be two pages per PDF in the graph, which I would like to avoid.
From your experience, does anything speak against just using the page created by Logseq to work with, capture own thoughts in it, etc.?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Cheers, Alex
Hi Alex.
There is indeed some duplication there, but for me it wasn't a big issue.
I think for long term usage it might be more favourable to go with the single page approach, and this is an approach I'm looking at in other resources. It's a little bit more cumbersome to configure, but it is cleaner.
Let me know if that prompts any further questions.
What theme are you using? Very readable.
I'm just using the normal theme with some custom CSS.
Why block properties instead of page properties at the top of the notes page?
I think it is page properties? They appear the same.
A supplementary question to your excellent video - are there any practical limitations as to the size of a pdf file? Most of my pdfs are below 25Gb. Many are below 1Gb.
However, in my digital library I have terrabytes of books, monographs, aricles and notes. Large books, (mainly scans of 19th century and earlier works) could be split into chapters or sections - a bit of a pain).
How will Logseq cope?
Can Logseq, somehow, access the cloud digital library and call-up an asset when needed (to save duplication into an asset folder) or does one call the entire digital library your asset folder?
Thanks Harry.
Those are some pretty large files you have there, getting into the gigs! I would be lying if I said I knew that Logseq would cope seamlessly, but I imagine the desktop version would function much the same as if you were opening the file in any other PDF reader? Not so sure about the web-app though.
I think the best place would be to ask on the forum - the team are pretty good at answering these sort of queries 🙂
My concern is how orphaned \obsolete files are cleaned up.
Yeah, file management (esp. with PDFs) can be a bit of an issue.
Thank you for the insights. Is there anyway we can edit a pdf reference to add some end lines or spaces without losing the pdf link? Or can we give that reference to a word maybe?
Hey Tuğcan - I'm not 100% sure if I understand correctly, but you might be able to use aliases for this.
Thanks a lot, great video, the integration of the pdfs is a gamechanger for me. I have one question: what is the best way to do an automatic export with #Tags to Airtable. The rest of my data is in Airtable, I could do a script with keyboard maestro, but a switch in logseq would be great. Do you have any ideas? Thanks
Oooh - great question. Unfortunately I'm not sure of any way in Logseq. You could take all the file names from the "pages" folder in your Logseq root file, and process them in Excel or something to remove the .md suffix and move that into Airtable?
Ta for this, as it'll be most useful for my university modules as the 2nd part of each unit is a PDF version that I can download (though I have the printed copy as a book). Do you know what the best way to do similar functionality with data from web pages?
Pleasure Toran. I know there are a few webclippers being developed which convert pages to Markdown. I imagine that Logseq will eventually have a built in one, although I've seen a few people recommend forum.obsidian.md/t/markdownload-markdown-web-clipper/173
@@CombiningMindsPKM I will take a look at the extension. Ta for the recommendation! 👍
I'm hopeful that more progress towards this will be made, especially with the rising popularity of Markdown editors like Logseq and Obsidian.
In my opinion this workflow has a pretty big flaw, because it becomes impossible to move or even rename the files. If I understand it correctly, doing so will just break everything.
In general, I'd like to have a way of renaming / moving files later. Without some sort of re-indexing this becomes a showstopper: No way of re-arraging things, or just fixing typos in file names. The classic dangling pointer issue.
Had never heard of the dangling pointer issue, but you're right - this is definitely a flaw in the system.
Buen video!
Thank you :)
okay, but if i will change my second brain to roam/obs or some future tool we dont know those "smart referneces" are gone or not?
scares me a bit...
Yeah, that's a bit of a risk when the 'format' is locked into the program.
You'll still have the HLS files with the annotations captured as text, but you'll lose the 'location' of the text (i.e. you won't be able to click on the block and navigate to the the source in the PDF immediately, even though it will still preserve the page number as a property)
Thanks! You brought up the PDF via a link. Is it possible to upload it from disk? Thanks.
Hi Jane. Yes, the PDF has to be uploaded from the disk. Type "/", then "upload an asset".
Can you do the same thing with epub or mobi? Or do you need to use pdf ?
There is a feature request to support epub books (which has a lot of votes -> discuss.logseq.com/t/support-epub-format-ebooks/2010/16), but unfortunately can only use pdf at the moment
Is there a way to write on the PDF with a stylus on a tablet?
I know that you can write with a stylus in Logseq whiteboards, but I don't think you can do that on a PDF.
I have tried using logseq to edit PDFs and I was online with an expert from logsek today and he was saying that you can't edit PDFs from the web page. Is that right?
Hi Phil - yes, you can only upload and mark-up PDFs from the Desktop application
@@CombiningMindsPKM Hello. And do you know if highlighting/annotating from the mobile app is in the works ? All the pdf are read/highlight I do so on my tablet....
There is no upload of assets on iPad, right?
Not as far as I know.
I'm a bit confused. This seems to waste A LOT of space. Why should I have to upload it as an asset when I already have the thing on my file system? It would be great if I could just stick in the asset folder and call it a day.
Hi Tanchwa. Uploading it to Logseq is the same as sticking it in your asset folder. You can point to PDFs in other directories (e.g. if you have a local Zotero folder) but I cautious of doing this whilst there is still so much development happening
@@CombiningMindsPKM I've tried throwing it in there and it doesn't like the file. Won't let me tag it.
Great tool! But It did not work for me. The PDF went into the assets folder but when I click on the reference in logseq, it does not open. Kindly help!
Hi Jerry. Sorry to hear that it didn't work for you. The best place to ask for assistance is on the forums - unfortunately it's very difficult for me to diagnose the problem for you
@@CombiningMindsPKM Thanks. I was using the browser version, that's why it did not work...yet. When I downloaded the desktop app, I could annotate..
And do you have a bug with searching into Logseq Linked references from Pdf`s? For example if i inserted some paragraph into Logseq using "Linked references" from Pdf - every first word is not searchable into Logseq.
Hmmm, this is an interesting bug - I haven't encountered it myself and I don't see anything at quick glance on the forum or on the Github bug report. Might be worthwhile bringing it up on the forum or filing a bug report? github.com/logseq/logseq/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=bug_report.md&title=
What made you choose Logseq instead of going with Obsidian?
Hey Mike - when I started looking at alternatives to Roam, I tried both Obsidian and Logseq, but found that Logseq was closest to the Roam paradigm of outliners, and was also more beginner friendly than Obsidian.
Obsidian is an amazing tool though, and I've learnt to appreciate it more now as a supplement to my Logseq workflow
Hi Dario, if I click a hyper-link to a reference in the PDF, what shortcut can I use to jump back to the reading location? I tried cmd +
Hey Yiming - I think the shortcut you're looking for is Alt +
When you are adding tags to the pdf (in the metadata) you prefer to create new links (pages) [[ ]] and name them tags in metadata section, rather than using the native # (tags) attribute of logseq. Why is that? Why not use something that is natively designed for that purpose but use another way, then call it after the name of the original function? (create pages but call them as tags in metadata)
Hi Yalcin
Tags (#) and pages ([[ ]]) do the same thing in Logseq so I use them interchangeabley. I know Obsidian treats tags differently though
Can we open .epub files as well?
Hey Alan. Unfortunately not yet! There is a feature request, though, which is gaining some traction. You can add your vote here: discuss.logseq.com/t/support-epub-format-ebooks/2010
Clear as mud
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@@CombiningMindsPKM I'm getting through your video... getting things worked out towards understanding this part your teaching.
Can I delete Obsidian & just work with logseq?
Hi Mark - you can delete Obsidian if you'd like, but sometimes it's nice to use Obsidian plugins (e.g. I like Map view)
At 04:13 you say "my text-expander", is that a logseq feature or how do I set this up?
Hey - it's not a Logseq feature, you have to use another service. I use a service called aText, although if you're a mac user you can use Alfred. I made a video on aText here czcams.com/video/-SqKjzSfTXU/video.html
@@CombiningMindsPKM Ah, I just went for templates, found it much easier!
The PDF should be located online?
Hi Adelle - you upload the PDF from your desktop (and you need to be using the Desktop version of Logseq)
@@CombiningMindsPKM So I can't use the online version, I understand. Another question is where can I find information on how LogSeq parses my text files? It seems it takes TAGS or similar to create pages. Where to know what is the logic for LogSeq to consider something a "tag" for a page? Thanks!