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I'm checking out various "personal knowledge management" tools in a sandbox to see if it be an upgrade my ragtag collection of text file-based notes.

I'm checking out various "personal knowledge management" tools in a sandbox to see if it be an upgrade my ragtag collection of text file-based notes.

First candidate is #Logseq, supposedly "privacy-first".

How #privacy friendly is something based on Electron (aka Chrome)? Debatable, but then they also do this:

  1. Have "Send usage data" on by default
  2. Start with an example page that embeds a YouTube video, and accepts all cookies

tcpdump and mitmproxy go wild when starting the program.

Shows that the "Send usage data and diagnostics to Logseq" setting is enabled by default.
Shows the services being contacted by Logseq over HTTPS right after starting it for the first time. Hosts that are being contact: www.youtube.com, googleads.g.doubleclick.net, jnn-pa-googleapis.com, play.google.com, app.posthog.com, o416451.ingest.sentry.io

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  • @[email protected] I'll be following this thread because I'd like something not locked in to a large company... but one of my requirements is it needs to be usable by a non technical person (I use Markdown files for myself).

    In the past I used:

    • Evernote but this had problems syncing changes when my gf and I edited the same note (huge deal breaker)
    • OneNote but this was replaced by Loop, I don't like that it's MS and it force-opens links in Edge but for now it's the least worse option I've found.
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