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I believe the founder mentioned that they will eventually allow you to encrypt your data. If you do any sort of public writing, you could use it for your writi
by gexla 7y ago
I believe the founder mentioned that they will eventually allow you to encrypt your data.
If you do any sort of public writing, you could use it for your writing process since that info would be private eventually anyways. Or you could expand that idea and include anything which you would be okay with being public.
For example, I may not have a reason to share a snippet from an article, but I wouldn't be bothered if it became public. I may also not be bothered if notes on that snippet were shared. And maybe if I did some writing for myself for understanding a subject, then that might be fine as well.
That's pretty much how I use the app.
- m0zg 7y agoDoesn't it bother you that "the app" will be gone and forgotten in 5 years?
- gexla 7y agoNot if there's no other app which doesn't have the same functionality. I would rather get the power of the app now and then lose that power in 5 years rather than disregard it completely. If the work I did in the app provides an ROI today, then I'm willing to face the possibility of the app evaporating.
- oursin 7y agoI'd like to add to this that since the app lets you export your content, even if/when Roam dies, it would still be possible to move the data to another app somewhat easily.
- gexla 7y agoYou can export, but you lose the links and ID's of the sections.
- kalleboo 7y agoUsually these end with an "Our Incredible Journey" post[0] and 14 days to back up your data, with the site half-broken during that time and nobody manning the support. I'd set up a script to keep your data backed up if the notes are important, or pray you're not on vacation when they get acquired. [0] https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
- Summershard 7y ago> I believe the founder mentioned that they will eventually allow you to encrypt your data. Well, as soon as the encryption comes this product will be usable. Giving my personal data to a non open source note taking project without any encryption capabilities is a big no.
- conaws 7y agoUse nvalt till that ships then, import will be easier, and you'll start to taste power of very fast two-way links.
- gremlinsinc 7y agoIf it were me... I'd probably have the data stored in a postgres db, maybe use graphql+elasticsearch indexes to provide the linking and searching... then the user could simply supply aws creds and what not to their own instances and basically host their own data that way. UI/UX still would be proprietary but that data fully owned by user.