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Native speed
A pure-Rust core and fine-grained SolidJS reactivity in a tiny Tauri/WebKit runtime — no Electron, no virtual-DOM churn. Typing stays in the frontend; whole-graph reads hit an in-memory index. It stays quick on large graphs.
Local-first · open source · works on your Logseq graph
The same graph.
A faster outliner.
Tine is a fast, local, Logseq-compatible outliner. It reads and writes the same Markdown files Logseq does — so you can switch between the two whenever you like, with no import, no export, and no lock-in.
Free & open source (AGPL-3.0). Linux is the primary, best-tested platform today; macOS & Windows builds are newer. Not yet 1.0.
Built to sit beside Logseq — not replace it
We're long-time Logseq users and we have a lot of respect for what that project pioneered. Tine isn't a fork and it isn't a clone trying to pull you away. It's an independent reimplementation that deliberately targets Logseq's on-disk format, so your notes stay exactly where they are — plain Markdown files you fully own.
Logseq
Tine
- Point Tine at the
journals/,pages/,assets/andlogseq/config.ednyou already use. - Edit in either app — one at a time — on the very same files.
- Saves are byte-compatible Markdown that preserve your formatting, so they don't create sync churn.
- Keeps working alongside the Logseq mobile app (or fastlog) over your own Syncthing/Dropbox sync.
- Not affiliated with or endorsed by Logseq — just compatible with it, on purpose.
What Tine adds on top
These started as "I wish Logseq did this." They're the reasons Tine exists beyond raw speed — and you get them without giving up a single feature of your file format.
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Built-in tabs
Middle-click any bullet, page, or search hit to open it in a background tab. Pin, drag-reorder, Mod+W to close. Pins survive a restart.
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Focus mode & dim
Hide the chrome and fade everything but the block you're working on, with layered Esc. A calmer way to write a long note.
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Global quick-capture
Bind a desktop hotkey and a small always-on-top box pops from any app — with the full editor — and files a bullet to today's journal. Even when Tine isn't focused.
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Carry tasks forward
Roll unfinished tasks into today (last 7 / 30 / 365 days or a custom window), optionally keeping their ancestor context.
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A real data-safety story
Conflict detection instead of silent overwrites, launch snapshots with one-click restore, delete-to-trash, and transactional renames. Built to live safely on a graph you also edit from your phone.
Light or dark — it follows your system
Tine ships a polished dark theme and switches with your OS, or you can toggle it yourself. Your custom Logseq CSS and themes apply just the same.
Better defaults — always one click back to Logseq
Where we think a default can be improved, we change it — but we never take the choice away. Anything Tine does differently from Logseq is clearly badged Differs from Logseq in Settings, with a one-click ↩ Match Logseq button. Your muscle memory is safe.
- Copy only the selected blocks — selecting just a parent no longer copies its whole subtree. (Logseq copies the subtree — one click to restore.)
- Strip
collapsed::on copy so a paste into a text editor is clean. (Toggle off to match Logseq.) - Click a block reference to scroll to it in place, or switch back to Logseq's zoom-in behavior.
- Link-autocomplete default — create a new page (like Logseq) or link the first match.
- Fully remappable keyboard shortcuts — in Settings or via
config.edn :shortcuts. - Journal date format, file-format, and watcher mode — all read from your
config.ednand adjustable in-app.
What Tine doesn't do — for now
Tine is a faster outliner, not a wholesale replacement for Logseq. A few things are deliberately out of scope. For those, just keep using Logseq on the same graph — running both is the whole idea.
Whiteboards
The spatial canvas isn't part of Tine.
Flashcards / spaced repetition
No SRS review. Your #card blocks are preserved in the files, just not drilled.
Plugins & the marketplace
No @logseq/libs plugin runtime. Custom CSS and themes do work.
Built-in git / sync
Bring your own — Syncthing, Dropbox, git. Tine just reads and writes the files.
A native mobile app
Tine is desktop. On the go, use the Logseq mobile app — or fastlog — on the same synced graph.
On the radar, not yet shipped: a graph view, configurable typographic auto-replace, and broader coverage of advanced (Datalog) queries.
Built by AI, in the open
Tine is vibe-coded — built by Claude Opus, with help from Codex, under human direction and review. We're not hiding that, and we're not making a thing of it either; it's simply how Tine is made.
AI-built software makes some people wary — fair enough. So Tine is made to be checked, not taken on faith:
- Open source (AGPL-3.0) — every line is on GitHub to read or audit.
- Your files, your graph — it only ever touches plain Markdown you already own.
- Deliberately careful with your data — it detects outside changes and flags conflicts instead of overwriting, keeps launch snapshots, and deletes to a recoverable trash.
- No lock-in — it round-trips byte-for-byte with Logseq, so you can walk away at any time and lose nothing.
Point it at a copy of your graph and judge it by how it behaves.
Try it on a copy of your graph
Because Tine works on standard Logseq files, the safest way to try it is to point it at a copy of your graph and see how it feels. Nothing to import, nothing to migrate.