When comparing VoodooPad 5 vs Logseq, the Slant community recommends Logseq for most people. In the question“What is the best single-user wiki?” Logseq is ranked 9th while VoodooPad 5 is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Logseq is:
Logseq is a privacy-first tool for thought.
Specs
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Pros
Pro A desktop wiki
VoodooPad 5 is focused on use by an individual. It is a mature application. Its polished refinements are based upon many years of user experiences and feedback.
Pro Markdown support
You can use Markdown syntax to write your documents.
Pro Good task management features
Within the collections palette you'll find "to-dos" that are all @todo entries that you've left across all of your pages.
Pro Synchronize via Dropbox
You can utilize Dropbox to keep VoodooPad synchronized across all of your devices and allow for collaboration with other people.
Pro Java scriptlet & Event scripts support
To dynamically change HTML, ePub and PDF exports you can use Java scriptlets. To extend the functionality of VoodooPad you can use Event scripts.
Pro Export to ePub and PDF
Alongside being able to export a page as HTML, RTFD, Plain Text, or as a Word Document, you can export the whole document as XML, RTFD, Plain Text, .doc, ePub, PDF or to an iOS device via VP Reader.
Pro Collections palette
Collections allow creating an organizational structure of your pages.
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 OS X only
There are no Windows or Linux versions of VoodooPad.
Con Costs $24.99 USD
Price can be found here: http://www.voodoopad.com/
Con Breaks compatibility with VoodooPad 4
VoodooPad 5 uses a new file format that is not backwards compatible.
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.