¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

This is the first post about LogSeq / PKM. Run before it’s too late!

Expect more of these as I find myself slowly migrating from Obsidian to Logseq. More on that later.

When creating pages in logseq, there are two basic forms to link to other pages, and they are essentially equivalent.

The first one is to use a #hashtag (or simply ’tag’). For example:

Books to read in 2010:

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams #book #fiction
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling #book #fiction
- Elite da Tropa by André Batista, Rodrigo Pimentel & Luiz Eduardo Soares #book #nonfiction

^alpha

Under the hood it creates 3 pages: Book, Fiction and Nonfiction. Clicking any of these hashtags opens up the corresponding page. In the page it’s possible to find a backlink to the original page / block that links to it.

The second one is to use double brackets. For example:

- Elite da Tropa is a Brazilian [[book]] written by the ex-police officers André
  Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel together with Luiz Eduardo Soares. It was first
  published in 2006. The book originated the film Elite Squad.
  - Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_da_Tropa

^bravo

Clicking [[book]] goes to the same page as #book.

Why are there two forms? I don’t know. But here’s what I learned: it doesn’t matter which one you choose to use, as they are effectively equivalent. For example, you could have written instead:

- Elite da Tropa is a Brazilian #book written by the ex-police officers André
  Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel together with Luiz Eduardo Soares. It was first
  published in 2006. The book originated the film Elite Squad.
  - Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_da_Tropa

^charlie

…the effect would have been the same.

The idiomatic style seems to favour the use of double brackets when writing prose (i.e. bravo), and the use of hashtags when “tagging” or qualifying sentences (i.e. alpha). That said, intermixing them is harmless.