What do people think of SiYuan?
The community submitted 22 reviews to tell
us what they like about SiYuan, what SiYuan can do better, and
more.
What do you think about SiYuan?
Leave a rating or review for the community
4.8/5All time (22 reviews)
4/5
Recently (1 review)22 Reviews
Version 3 has great additions to an already awesome app. General availability of databases and we can now set any LLM that is openAI or Azure compatible. I use ollama to serve Mixtral locally and use it in Siyuan.
As a paid user and donor who has been using the software for half a year, I do not recommend its usage. Certain features of the software require account registration. However, the developers manage accounts arbitrarily, unilaterally changing account usage rules temporarily, and exercising speech control within the forum, directly altering or deleting posts that question their actions. You might consider using Obsidian or Logseq instead.
Disastrous usability and aesthetic appeal, infrequent updates, no free synchronization quota, all of which are indeed dissatisfying.
But in terms of functionality, it's almost impeccable, and flawless coupled with the plugins.
As an Obsidian user for two years, and continue to pay attention to applications such as Anytype.
I think the experience with Siyuan surpasses that of Obsidian.
Self-hosting allowed and local first, PDF annotation, block sync.
Looking forward to next year's maze feature (whiteboard).
I've been searching for months for the ultimate PKMS. SiYuan is it, and it's made by a power couple who are dedicated to FOSS. Offline first, beautiful transclusion support, completely cross platform. I'm in love. The pace of development is incredibly rapid as well, as opposed to some FOSS projects that seem to be on life support.
Nice and easy to use. Like Loqseq and Obsidian combined.
Shame for online sync which requires 1 time payment.
It's like if Obsidian and Notion had a baby in every good way possible
Switched from Trillium and feel like this is what i want as my personal note taking app
useful enough for computer newbies, and powerful for computer geeks