Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to SafariWhen comparing WackoWiki vs Logseq, the Slant community recommends WackoWiki for most people. In the question“What is the best single-user wiki?” WackoWiki is ranked 3rd while Logseq is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose WackoWiki is:
It allows pages to be divided among "directories / namespaces" using forward slashes.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Supports namespaces
It allows pages to be divided among "directories / namespaces" using forward slashes.
Pro Access control
WackoWiki has built-in ACL support.
Pro Highly customizable
You can use themes and plugins (actions, handlers, highlighters) to extend functionality.
Pro Section editing
Allows editing only a section of a page.
Pro File upload and management tools
WackoWiki allows to upload and manage uploaded files for certain pages and for the whole system.
Pro Very fast, consuming very few resources
WackoWiki allows to run it on web hostings with few resources.
Pro Forum component
WackoWiki allows to organize wiki pages with comments to a forum.
Pro Hierarchical page tree
WackoWiki has a hierarchical page tree and page categories.
Pro Version control
WackoWiki offers unlimited page revisions.
Pro Built-in template engine
It has a powerful and easy to use templating system.
Pro RSS-feeds
WackoWiki allows to feed recent changes, recent comments and news as RSS.
Pro Free and open source
Distributed under the BSD License.
Pro Runs on any PHP server
It requires a webserver running PHP.
Pro A dedicated page for Alphabetic pages catalog
A dedicated page for Alphabetic page tree catalog is set by default.
Pro News component
WackoWiki allows to organize wiki pages with comments to a news feed.
Pro Multilingual with UTF-8
WackoWiki is multilingual with full UTF-8 support
Pro Search functionality
WackoWiki allows searching through pages.
Pro A dedicated page for recent changes
A dedicated page to quickly note what has changed recently is set by default.
Pro A dedicated page for recent comments
A dedicated page to quickly note what pages has been recently commented is set by default.
Pro Responsive Mobile-friendly template
Has responsive mobile-friendly design template.
Pro Privacy-first
Logseq is a privacy-first tool for thought.
Pro Networked notes
Similar to Roam's technique of letting the notes flow with links to each other.
Pro Local-first software
Every topic is its own flat file. Nothing is better than keeping your data in the file system with an option of git source control or online backup.
https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
Pro Daily journal is capture on Steriods
The daily journal feature allows you to quickly capture disparate topics under today's date and by way of tags make things organized and findable from any topic page.
Pro Open source
Logseq is opensource.
Pro Structured data over willy-nilly formatting
Lots of apps are too graphically flexible in how they allow content to be entered, placed, and formatted. They act like Word when what you want when authoring content is Markdown. Content and semantic structure, not graphical frills.
Pro Org syntax
Logseq support Emacs Org syntax out of the box.
Cons
Con Keyboard-driven editing/navigating is descent but average
It is only because I was a long-time Checkvist user that I say this. Checkvist has keyboard-driven controls which are in a league of their own.
Con Still in Alpha
Logseq is still in Alpha and is under heavy development.
