How to use properties and templates in Logseq

Learning how to use properties and templates will help you be more effective in managing knowledge in Logseq. In this video, I go step by step through the different aspects of using properties and templates to help you get started using them in Logseq.

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⏲TIMESTAMPS
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00:00 - Introduction
01:46 - What are properties in Logseq?
02:19 - How do properties work?
04:51 - How do I create properties in Logseq?
08:42 - Block properties vs page properties
11:35 - Potential errors with properties
13:42 - Significance of properties
18:26 - Useful page properties to know about
21:20 - What are templates and why would you use them?
22:46 - How to create, use and edit templates in Logseq
25:03 - Adding a template to your Daily Journal page
26:04 - What makes for a good template in Logseq?

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[kenfhill]

This is a masterpiece tutorial. And without mindless, distracting background "music" so prevalent in videos. Thanks.

[orange-vlcybpd]

aliases are also great to provide translations for terms if you are speaking multiple languages

[AthanassiosHatzis]

Hi Dario, thank you for this awesome explanation on logseq properties, especially the highlight on the distinction between page properties and block properties.

[elzorro]

Thank you Dario for such a terrific tutorial! You're my main reference in my journey to mastering Logseq. I started using it for building my Zettelkasten workflow and your help has been invaluable. Warmest regards from Nicaragua.

[chipmonkey]

Thank you Dario for this update on properties and templates. This was a very well done update on your earlier content.

[juschenten]

Dear Dario, you are such a great explainer. It would be so helpful if you extend your expertise to tana as well. Thank you also for your great logseq course. It is worth every cent.

[MrHugomesquita]

This as an awesome refresh on properties. Thanks a million Dario!

[anydroid]

Thank you, Dario, that’s a useful update. I also use daily journal pages to ingest new content (the alternative of consciously filing everything in pages just recreates the analogue folder problem) but I was too lazy to perfect the advanced queries needed to retrieve and filter stuff. However, I can see from your demo that a couple of block properties provide enough structure to retrieve anything via simple table queries and {filter} 🚀

[zachmorgan]

Thanks for this video - I definitely learned some new things. One area where I am still not entirely clear: you mentioned not wanting to create new pages and "polluting" your graph. But, I believe you still made [[links]] out of the properties.

Also, I thought Logseq made properties into pages by default (unless one turns this off in their .EDN config file). Or am I conflating block properties and page properties.

If Dario or anyone else could shed some light on what advantages one gains by using block properties over tags, I would be very grateful!

[joeyyyyang]

Thank you Dario. This introduction is useful. But I am wondering what is the use case to apply property in the page or in the block? For example, we have inputs like paper, article, blog, video and book. Or, it doesn't matter if we can change query for these two types.

[RodrigoKormann]

Awesome content!!
I'm doing a book reading list using the same concept with blocks. If I want to add a property called review, in this example. Can I have logseq to retorn a shorter sentence where I define the maximum length of the paragraph? But I'd like that not messing around the config and CSS file. Is there a property or something else to be defined inside the table? Thank you!

[nabbopersempre]

thanks for this great tutorial. I wanted to ask: there is a way to hide block properties when I visualize a block? It would be great to see only the block without the properties and be able to see properties only if I need to see them

[kevinmullan]

Thank you Dario, this concept is so intuitive. One thing that I have used is a comma separated list in a property in the past, so if John lived half the year in Australia and half the year in Ireland I would be inclined to put the property lives-in as [[Australia]], [[Ireland]] so rather than 'subject, predicate, object' it would be 'subject, predicate, objects' - this is actually very useful when defining the areas / groups / expertise within which you interact with a person (whose record this would be). Is this still possible and is there any special syntax that needs to be adopted - I must admit to being bewildered by { and ( and [[ and just a plain,
Thank you for your selfless journey since I first encountered LogSeq which has been an insightful help as I have bumbled my way to a (mostly) useable Graph!

[hofjen]

Hi! Very good explantiono, But I have one question. If I define a template with some page properties in it and the properties in the template are empty, so, if I use the template there is no pull down menu with all already defined property values to choose them. Instead I have to use ::, then choose the property and at least one of the existing values. But this counteract the sense of templates if I have to new define each property and choose the value. 😞

[ask_questions]

How do you enable the cool icon pack that you seem to have ?

[DrPuneetGupta]

I maintain a contacts database on airtable

Can I sync columns of airtable as properties in logseq.

Is there a way to do it via api

[robbiep]

New user, quick question - I have been placing block properties as the first child to the block they are intended to reference, which felt natural (given how page properties work)... can you explain why this approach is incorrect? (Also, thanks for your content, really helping me get started with logseq)

[achim]

The disadvantage is that Logseq becomes slower and slower the more properties you add. Why one means in the face of these speed losses, nevertheless not to implement everything into a database (and to hold on to the incomprehensible Datalog), Logseq can cost now nevertheless the one and the other user, because Tana fetches at present the users to itself. Also, if you look at how fast Obsidian starts with exactly the same files, it's demoralizing. I have always appreciated Logseq and stayed with it until today, but it really costs me effort to still stay there and I really want to leave, because it also can't be that this becomes a permanent beta for years. I've been paying Opencollective long enough now and the iOS app either can't parse the URL or can't find the Vault and stories like that. It's getting really embarrassing.