I love Obsidian for everything but moved to Logseq a while ago because I find it better for handling quotes from books more fluid. However, maybe there’s a better way to achieve what I’m trying.

So…I’d like to be able to write specific quotes somewhere and link them to a book. That’s pretty easy due to internal links. However, can I somehow write (i.e. into my daily note) the quote, place a #quote [[Link to Bookname]] behind it and then display it (for e.g. with the Dataview plugin inside the note for the book the quote is from?

In Logseq I can do this using their queries and filter for the “nodes” I have a specific link or tag included while leaving out the rest of the page.

My main reason for trying to achieve this is because I don’t want to force myself to have my quotes only inside the book’s note (maybe 2 quotes of 2 books are connected. Having all quotes of a book inside the book’s page prevents me from correctly linking) and I also don’t want to create a specific page for that quote because:

  • this would create thousands of files that would at some point have negative performance impacts onto my vault
  • I struggle with naming those files in a good way when creating a file for every note

I mostly want to have this fluid approach of just showing / querying for the quotes I want to query after using tags or something. It’s much more flexible so I just write and don’t care about the structure or having to plan beforehand which YAML frontmatter to use, etc.

  • Brayd@feddit.deOPEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Yes, this is helpful but still very complicated to have it fluid. Could be something for a plugin that somebody could write, that expands Dataview with this tho

    • GodEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Pioneers have it hardest lol, that’s why you guys see a little seen problem and you have to write a bunch of code to do it and propose it be abstracted into a plugin. But if it’s a little seen problem, the likelihood of actually getting that plugin is slim unless you yourselves develop it or convince someone to do it. It won’t happen spontaneously.