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Roam Research was a game changer for me. - I know it’s expensive, the founder behaves arrogantly, but nontheless: They have created a product that is very uniqu
by submeta 5y ago
Roam Research was a game changer for me. - I know it’s expensive, the founder behaves arrogantly, but nontheless: They have created a product that is very unique. Many have imitated it’s feature-set (athens, org-roam, logseq to name a few), but they were first and paved the way.
What makes this product exceptional is the way it allows to link notes: Deliberately by surrounding words by doulbe brackets or automatically by linking notes that have the same keyword in them.
I started migrating my journal entries (date stamped) and my markdown notes into it, and I start to see connections among the notes that I did not make intentionally.
Slowly I start to come up with more and more categories for note taking that I want to do in Roam: Dream journal, reading notes, articles, research.
Before I was using Bear, Ulysses, Evernote, later I started using Emacs/org, now with a small detour settled with Roam.
- kurko 5y agoI recommend taking a look Obsidian.md. I used Roam but now am in Obsidian because I can have my files with me, backup it the way I want, and it's free.
- jabyess 5y agoThere's also a FOSS version called foam https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
- neurotrace 5y agoSeconded. I've been using Foam for some time now and it's been great. Since it's all VS Code, it's also very hackable
- AlanYx 5y agoAnother two good Foam-like VSCode tools are Markdown Memo (https://github.com/svsool/vscode-memo https://github.com/svsool/vscode-memo) and Dendron. I personally prefer vscode-memo to Foam. It doesn't have a graphical view, but there a couple other things it does really well, especially its (optional) support for flattened wikilinks to hierarchically organized notes.