I am writing my own kind of Roam-style editor which is more free-form. From my experience, it's way easier – from a technical perspective – to think in terms of

I am writing my own kind of Roam-style editor which is more free-form. From my experience, it's way easier – from a technical perspective – to think in terms of list items (or "blocks" in general) where each one is some kind of mini-editor. It's much easier to link to a block instead of an arbitrary section of your document. Also, it's much easier to render a document consisting of blocks without thinking too much about performance.