Capabilities overview
Everything Looksyk can do, without hiding your data.
The landing page should stay focused. This page is the full overview of what you can actually do with Looksyk today.
Core capabilities
Capture and structure
- Wiki pages and daily journal entries
- Todos directly inside notes
- Templates for recurring pages and workflows
- Favorites, history and keyboard shortcuts
Link and enrich knowledge
[[Tags]]andblock:: properties- References across pages and journals
- Refactor page names and update links
- Organize notes into a connected graph
Query and act
- Use-case based query language
- Search across all pages and journals
- Query todos, references, hierarchy and plots
- Turn blocks into kanban-style board cards
- Generate diagrams with different backends
Media and developer workflows
- Code blocks with syntax highlighting
- Embed images, PDFs, audio, video and text files
- Display saved websites and HTML snapshots
- Edit and integrate Mermaid diagrams into your website. Draw class diagrams, flowcharts, and much more.
Sync and deployment
- Local desktop workflow
- Self-hosted Docker deployment
- Git sync between environments
- Use Looksyk on desktop and smartphone
Design and openness
- Theme variables and custom CSS
- Prebuilt themes
- Open source under AGPL
- Built and maintained in Europe
Why these features matter
- Plain files stay portable
You can inspect, version and synchronize your notes without relying on a proprietary database format.
- Queries create leverage
Looksyk helps you collect notes once and then reuse them in boards, views and reports.
- One workflow, multiple contexts
Write locally, sync with Git, and expose the same graph through a self-hosted setup when needed.
Go deeper
Queries
Learn how to filter, aggregate and inspect information across your graph.
Boards
Turn markdown blocks into practical task boards and project views.
Templates
Standardize recurring project pages, reviews and daily workflows.
Design
Customize colors, themes and CSS to match your personal workflow.
Sync
Connect local and remote workflows using Git-based synchronization.
Benchmarks
Inspect performance data for larger knowledge bases and test setups.