Roam
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A [[personal knowledge management]] [[tool]].
- An [[agora client]] via [[roam2agora]].
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[[whitepaper]] https://roamresearch.com/#/app/help/page/Vu1MmjinS
- [[white paper]] [[whitepaper]]
- [[pull]] [[roam research]]
- Full list of keyboard shortcuts: https://www.roamtips.com/home/the-complete-list-of-roam-research-keyboard-shortcuts
note taking app that does backlinks et. al
Roam
A [[note-taking]] tool for [[networked thought]].
I stumbled across [[org-roam]] (emulating Roam in Emacs), while looking for a way of improving my flow of working on my wiki, and am loving it so far.
Roam attempts to implement a near-full conception of [[hypertext]] as originally conceived by visionaries like [[Vannevar Bush]] and [[Ted Nelson]].
It implements a few key features of 1980s vintage hypertext visions — block-level addressability, [[transclusion]] (changes in referenced blocks being “transfer-included” wherever they are cited), and bidirectional linking — that utterly transform the writing experience at the finger-tips level.
You end up organizing high-level structure as you work at fleshing out low-level chunks of information, because the UX collapses high and low-level thinking into a single behavior.
It can also do note-taking, workflows (like kinda-sorta competitor Notion), and wiki-like knowledge management, but those use cases are not as interesting to me. Conspiracy theories and extended universes, in the best senses of those terms — escaped reality construction might be the general category — is what Roam wants to be about.
Written in Clojure.
You write things, and create relationships between them. Don't have to worry about meticulously putting things into a hierarchy. Using back links, and link tags get around this. You can use it for knowledge management, as a task manager, a CRM and a tool for writing.
Writing a block once and then just referencing that block elsewhere is nice.
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then #push [[roam]] (blew up in 2021), first somewhat mainstream [[graph database]]
- [[backlinks]] and [[transclusion]]
- [[daily notes]] page
"A note-taking tool for networked thought. As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul."
I currently use Roam for my private note taking. I practice making a daily [[Worklog]], taking notes on meetings, running a lightweight CRM, and managing my personal TODOs with it.
Roam Research
- [[go]] roamresearch.com
- Probably the lead in the [[personal knowledge management]] space.
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It is like a personall [[wiki]] with the following extra features:
- [[backlinks]]: very important.
- [[block references]]: important in that they are [[transclusion]].
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Unfortunately not [[open source]]. Has an [[extension ecosystem]] but that's also closed.
- I find this worrying.
- [[athens research]] tries to be an [[open source]] [[roam research]] -- and more.
- See [[wikilinking tools]] for other alternatives.
- [[pull]] [[roam likes]]
- public document at doc.anagora.org/roam
- video call at meet.jit.si/roam
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