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Posted by satis
Apr 12, 2020 at 03:57 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
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>That’s why I don’t use Roam, or Gingko, or any other pure
>online service.
Just to point out that Gingko bifurcated itself into a service, separate from a desktop app at https://gingko.io/
Not necessarily recommending either at this time however, as development on both are tortoise-slow and the developer hasn’t surfaced with announcements this year, I think. (Although the Mac app was given at least one small update this year.)
Posted by Luhmann
Apr 13, 2020 at 04:47 AM
Bill,
I totally respect your choices about what kind of file system you want to have. I do want to reiterate however that there are good reasons to play with Roam and learn what it can do *even if you never intend to use it as part of your workflow*. A good comparison is Workflowy, which transformed the landscape for outliner apps. I tried Workflowy, Dynalist, Outlinely, Mubu, and Transno… In the same way, I think Roam will be inspiring a whole new class of apps. Already one of the Dynalist developers is working on a similar app (her’s will meet your demands since it is just a folder of markdown files). The thing is, I think Roam works well because it combines a number of features that no other apps have combined: granularity, backtracks, filters, editable pages for each tag, query syntax, embedding, the sidebar, etc. The more I use it the more revolutionary I think it is. At the same time, it is still in beta and I would not recommend anyone make it an essential part of their workflow. The main reason to use it is to see what it is capable of and to understand the future of knowledge management apps / CRIMPing.
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 13, 2020 at 08:52 AM
Is there something more you can say about this other than a hint? Who? Where? URL?
Luhmann wrote:
>Already one of the Dynalist
>developers is working on a similar app (her’s will meet your demands
>since it is just a folder of markdown files).
Posted by Luhmann
Apr 13, 2020 at 10:08 AM
It isn’t an open beta yet, so I would feel bad about sharing the info here, but I found out about it myself on the Roam Slack channel. You can look there. It is very early beta so far, so not much to see…
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 13, 2020 at 10:27 AM
OK, so to cut through the mystery, this appears to be what the Roam Slackers are chatting about:
https://obsidian.md/index.html
Not much yet, as noted, but applications are being taken there.
Luhmann wrote:
It isn’t an open beta yet, so I would feel bad about sharing the info
>here, but I found out about it myself on the Roam Slack channel. You can
>look there. It is very early beta so far, so not much to see…