Logseq

Logseq founder Tienson Qin takes a lot of notes about his work. He also likes to draw together with his six-year-old daughter on an iPad, and he found that the notes tool he had been using for years doesn’t run on the tablet. So like all enterprising engineers, he decided to build a new tool that does. It’s also designed to allow the development of plug-ins to add elements that don’t exist in the base product, such as Google Calendar integration and a tagging tool to extend the capabilities of the base tool. What’s more, Qin says the project has put a priority on privacy, and the company doesn’t have access to any notes on the system, which are all stored locally. The company only launched the tool in open source in October, but reports that large organizations like Google, Meta and MIT have been using Logseq. For now the product just consists of an editor, which is Markup language-based, but they are working on additional pieces, including real-time collaboration in which multiple users can work on the same document at the same time like multiple people working on a Google Doc. That capability is expected to be ready soon. The idea is so compelling that Qin has raised $4.1 million in initial capital led by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, and Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub. Other participants include traditional VCs Day One Ventures, Craft Ventures, Matrix Partners and Andreessen Horowitz. Users, including teams at Google Brain, IDEO, Meta, Tesla, MIT, Stanford and Harvard, also contributed to the round. The fact that users are contributing is pretty unusual, according to the company. When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission . This doesn’t affect our editorial independence. Previously, he was a long-time Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine. Past regular gigs included CITEworld, DaniWeb, TechTarget, Internet Evolution and FierceContentManagement. Ron was formerly corporate blogger for Intronis where he wrote once weekly on IT issues. He has contributed to various corporate blogs in the past including Ness, Novell and the IBM Mid-market Blogger Program. Last chance to save up to $190 on TechCrunch Founder Summit. Join 1,000+ founders and VCs at all stages for real-world scaling insights and connections that move the needle. Some areas of this page may shift around if you resize the browser window. Be sure to check heading and document order.