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I've been meaning to set up Roam since my org folder is getting unmanageable. Before Emacs I abused a Tomboy "wiki" style journal - even there I could set up s

I've been meaning to set up Roam since my org folder is getting unmanageable. Before Emacs I abused a Tomboy "wiki" style journal - even there I could set up several Notebooks as entry points. Every time I typed a word that happened to be a title it would link. Initially this was useful for discovering links between subjects but without a naming convention it became overwhelming. Is that what you mean by leaking? Can you briefly explain these issue and how Obsidian solves it?

gexla 5y ago
By leaking, I mean how much of other content I see when I'm using the app for some purpose where that content isn't important. It has been a while since I used Roam, so maybe these points have significantly improved. But the first thing I would see when I logged into Roam was the most recent page. I don't care about these things, Obsidian with a plugin allows me to create a a home page from an MD file which then has links to whatever else I want. Roam also pushed things like a daily journal and backlinks in the sidebar. Most of the time, I don't want to see backlinks and I don't use the daily journal. I only want to see exactly what I have set the thing to show, anything else is a distraction. With Obsidian, all of this is so much more configurable, and easy to do so. I think a lot of the thinking overhead issues people have when they think "where do I put this" is from seeing too much stuff which isn't important to what they are working on.