Why LogSeq?

It is a F/OSS alternative to Obsidian.

Plus you can use Ollama - F/OSS Local LLMs together with LogSeq.

The LogSeq Project

Fully Open Source Note Taking App with AI Support

SelfHosting LogSeq

Pre-Requisites! Just Get Docker 馃悑馃憞

You can install it for any PC/mac/Linux at home or in any cloud provider that you wish.

It will just take few moments, this one. If you are in Linux, just

apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sh get-docker.sh 
#sudo apt install docker-compose -y

And install also Docker-compose with:

apt install docker-compose -y

And when the process finishes - you can use it to SelfHost other services as well.

You should see the versions with:

docker --version
docker-compose --version

#sudo systemctl status docker #and the status

LogSeq with Docker

  • With Docker CLI:
docker pull ghcr.io/logseq/logseq-webapp:latest
  • And with Docker-Compose:
version: '3.8'

services:
  logseq:
    image: ghcr.io/logseq/logseq-webapp:latest
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"  # Expose Logseq on port 3000
    environment:
      - LOGSEQ_SERVER_PORT=3000  # Set the Logseq server port
    restart: unless-stopped
    # volumes:
      # - logseq_data:/path/to/data  # Uncomment and set the path if you need persistent storage

# Uncomment the following lines if you need persistent storage
# volumes:
  # logseq_data:

Now you can enjoy LogSeq at:

And here you have some guides to help you improve your Workflow with LogSeq

Making LogSeq Better

LogSeq is already great. But we can make it even better.

LogSeq Plugins

Logseq 鉂わ笍s Ollama

AI Powered Notes with the Ollama - LogSeq Plugin.

You will be able to perform few interaction with Ollama directly from Logseq UI, for example:

  • Ask Ai -> which is a prompt the AI freely without any context
  • Ask Ai with context -> This is the same as Ask Ai but it gives the model the context of the current page
  • Summarize -> Summarizs the whole page

Thanks to Omagdy7 who released the Plugin under MIT License.

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