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by tangjeff0 6y ago
It's not either or as you mentioned! Plan to have user data stored in plain files as well. Roam's performance suffers mainly on first-load because they are server-first, and they load the entire db into memory at the beginning (su
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
We mention mobile on our OpenCollective in our OSS Sponsor plan. Plan to have a great mobile experience, which most notetaking apps are not great at. https://opencollective.com/athens/contribute/open-source-spo...
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Similar to my belief that a db will win over markdown long-term. The features you mention are all easy to reproduce, (especially with more open-source examples). Long-term, open-source is great at building communities around a product/
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
LogSeq is great, tried collaborating with them a while ago, starting with a shared spec, but it didn't work out. How much of this is standard is up to the tool makers! All features are possible, especially given similar technologies. T
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
The current major difference between markdown-based and db-based apps is block references. Over time, the difference will become significant as knowledge bases grow in size. CSV -> Excel -> SQL -> Distributed Cloud DBs Furthermore,
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Would be great to have a canonical resource like that. For now, I'd just read the Roam resources that use block refs and bidirectional links apply or ask in our Discord! We actually have people doing a live workshop right now on workfl
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
1- I cover this in the post: > Something else that's interesting about the most powerful networked tools like Roam and Athens is that you can't really make these apps with JavaScript or plaintext/markdown. For maximum powe
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Yes! Good import/export functionality is important. Ultimately, it would be awesome if there was direct serialization between our database and markdown. This would allow seamless "import", the same way Obsidian/Foam&#x2F
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Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research
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