A simple personal knowledge platform with a focus on clean markdown files, simple queries and a journal.
Key Features
- Local Storage Your information is always exclusively in Markdown files.
- Fast and Efficient Scans and indexes large knowledge bases in under a second.
- Developer-Centric Insert code blocks with syntax highlighting, save and display existing code files. Save and display backups of websites in your pages.
- Simple Queries Use case based query language.
- Customizable Design Configure your own design with color variables or custom css, or choose from 7 prebuild themes.
Read more in What are the key selling points compared to other knowledge platforms?
How can you achieve added value with LookSyk?
1.
Clear your mind
- Write down thoughts and ideas in your wiki or your daily journal
- Manage your tasks and todos
- Search and find your notes
2.
Organize your knowledge and optimize your workflows
- Create templates for recurring events
- Organize your tags in hierarchies
- Reduce duplication
3.
Gain knowledge
- Link your notes and create a network of knowledge
- Use queries to gain insights across notes
Further Reading
- Idea and technical concept
- Install and Run
- Migration from Logseq
- Configuration and Usage
- Development and Contribution
- Changelog
Introduction
I have always been a fan of Logseq, but there were a few things that bothered me, such as the many control characters in the markdown files, the query language that is difficult to learn and limited in its capability, or the general performance. When the database version announced the move away from Markdown as the leading data storage format, I tried to write my own client: Looksyk (name may need to be changed).
What are the key selling points compared to other knowledge platforms?
- Runs local on your computer.
- Your information is always exclusively in the Markdown files. No replication in a database or similar. The files can be easily synchronized with other sync tools.
- Based on blocks, but these can also be larger, contain entire chapters and multiple queries.
- Simple, use case based query language.
- Multiple instances of Looksyk with different knowledge bases can be opened in parallel.
- Developer-centric file support:
- Insert code blocks with syntax highlighting
- Save and display existing code files in your pages with syntax highlighting
- Save and display backups of websites in your pages (with single-file-downloader)
- Insert videos, audio files, images, text files and PDFs.
- Custom styling of markdown content with html and css and support for custom themes.
Check out screenshots to see how each feature can be used!
Implemented Features
- Wiki and JournalTrack your ideas, thoughts and todos in daily journal pages or in a wiki
- Todos Create todos in your wiki or journal, visualize progress, query todos and more.
- Content Assist Create links, insert queries, tags, templates and media with content assist.
- View (and link) media Images, PDFs, HTML files (e.g. from SingleFile Firefox SingleFile Chrome), video, audio, code and text files.
- Templates Create templates for recurring events, such as daily journal pages, weekly reviews, or project pages.
- Queries Use case based query language to query your collected information. Query blocks, todos, page hierarchy, references and more.
- Search Search across all pages and journals.
- Refactor existing content Rename and move pages, update references across all pages and journals.
- Favourites Mark pages as favourites and access them quickly.
- History Show, drop, navigate to previous and next page. Keyboard shortcuts available.
- Custom Styling Customize the design of your Looksyk instance with color variables or custom CSS. Choose from 7 prebuilt themes.