Let's talk about using Logseq for content creation!
Our Community Manager @rroudt has been writing a curated newsletter using Logseq for more than 50 editions.
This is his step-by-step process 👇
@rroudt Why would you write a curated newsletter, and why use Logseq for it?
Curated newsletters are useful to share what you're learning about, or to share progress on projects for your job.
Logseq helps you to streamline the entire process.
@rroudt Every process has inputs, outputs, and the steps that lead to the outputs.
The easiest way to input useful resources or notes into your Logseq graph is by setting up a template.
Here's an example of a Logseq template for quick capture 📥
@rroudt Decide on a few standard tags or properties for your quick capture template.
No need to complicate things; a todo and two or three tags usually suffice. We'll use these values in a query, so make sure the combination of values is unique in your graph.
@rroudt As you go over your day-to-day activities, you'll encounter useful resources or ideas.
To quickly capture things for your newsletter, run your template on the daily journals page. Nest any notes underneath the block containing properties and tags. This will feed your queries.
@rroudt The easiest way to retrieve blocks in Logseq is by using a query.
Queries are like a saved search/inbox. But using a few properties or links, you can create any pipeline process you'd like.
For the Logseq newsletter, @rroudt uses this query to fetch all collected resources:
@rroudt While Logseq is an outliner first and foremost, it's also an excellent companion for long form writing.
To make it easy to export text out of Logseq, write paragraphs as sibling blocks (so without indenting one after another).
Next, right-click and Copy As to export:
@rroudt We use @Ghost to send our newsletter, but many other platforms play nicely with Logseq's Markdown export.
Paste the text from the previous step in your newsletter editor and delete the bullets. Now you're all set for sending!
We love to write in outlines, but an infinite canvas helps us to think more creatively.
That's why we've deeply integrated the Logseq outliner with @tldraw!
While still in beta, our Backers and Sponsors can start testing today👇
To use Logseq whiteboards, you need to:
1) Be a Logseq Backer or Sponsor on Open Collective (opencollective.com/logseq); 2) Run version 0.8.14 of Logseq desktop (mobile support is coming soon!); 3) Login and enable the whiteboards feature in your Logseq settings.
Creating a Logseq whiteboard is easy.
Use the Create button in the sidebar, or add a canvas from the new whiteboards page.
After months of beta testing, our iOS app is now available to everyone. Thank you to all of you who tested and gave feedback 🙏
Download link in the next tweet👇
Logseq is available for both iPhone and iPad!
Do you like what you're seeing or do see room for improvement? Please leave a review as we're here to keep learning from you all. apps.apple.com/app/id16010139…
Since the last beta release we've also added:
• A voice recorder (saves as .mp3 to /assets/)
• Document view
• Quick capture