Logseq — Creating a Reading / Book List with Templates, Page Properties and Queries

Hi everyone, as it’s been a while since I’ve done a Logseq video I thought I would do one to showcase my reading list and my set up and how you create the same or something similar with a few steps.

What I will try to cover in this video whilst creating the reading list are:

Let’s get started.

Template

We will start off by creating a new page called Templates. I find it so much easier and simpler to have a page for all of my templates. In this way I can have them all in one page and not dotted all over the place.

The first block I will call “Books” and then we’ll put a couple of subheadings called underneath it. The first one I like to call “Meta”. This is where I store the meta information I want to extract on the the book properties.

After having the Meta block, we Shift + Enter to create a new line and this is where we will store our properties. I like to have the following:

Be sure to add a space after each so that when you insert the template on a page you can just get…