Notes on The Augmented Scholar

Notion — Databases Meet Documents

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Notion’s unit is the block, and its killer feature is databases-as-views: one table of experiments, papers, or deadlines rendered as board, calendar, or gallery. For lab groups it has become the default shared brain; for personal networked note-taking, Obsidian remains the stronger thinker’s tool.

Logseq — Outliner-First Networked Notes

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Logseq stores notes as local Markdown/Org files but presents them as an outliner: every thought is a block, every block referenceable. The journal-first workflow (today’s page is home) suits research logging naturally, and built-in PDF annotation links highlights straight into your notes.