Discussion of Roam-like Knowledge Managers

Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 14, 2020 at 08:24 AM

Absolutely - this is one of the major reasons why I’ve moved away from Ulysses (and Bear, actually), although I’m very fond of it both as a writing but also as an information management app. An organised collection of markdown files is one of info management’s most wonderful things, but needs stringent discipline and a really good search function.

Also, dare I say, I nice, aesthetically pleasing editor or editors (which is where Bear is especially strong). Typora is glorious, but is desktop-based and doesn’t support standard tagging.

Luhmann wrote:
> On the other hand, the fact that Obsidian is based on
> Markdown files means that your documents can exist in
> an external folder, sync via Dropbox (or similar), and be
> edited and accessed by other apps. This offers a lot of
> advantages that a database based program like Roam
> can never fully match.