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Top 5 Roam Alternatives
9/4/2020
I'm still using Roam, but keep an eye on what is happening out there with the various alternative projects. These are the ones that seem the most promising to me right now:
- Obisian https://obsidian...
TiddlyResearch
9/2/2020
Version 1.0 of TiddlyResearch was just released. Already pretty robust. Only annoying thing is that you have to manually add a certain tag to some items for them to show up as backlinks... (See the tu...
Docxmanager, looks nice
8/30/2020
Worth mentioning that, according to the website, this is only available for Windows.
I think the new features are: Markdown based notes, integrates with iCloud Calendar and Reminders
It is actually pretty nice. $60 a year though is a bit much for what it offers compared to Roam, Obsi...
Or, I should say, I don't want to watch a video to find out.
What is new in the beta? (Couldn't find this info easily...)
If you would like to have better support for Markdown and LaTex with Paperpile, please fill out this survey:
https://forum.paperpile.com/t/survey-and-roadmap-for-latex-markdown-overleaf/5518
See announcement here:
https://forum.paperpile.com/t/paperpile-for-ios-android-and-word-now-available-for-everyone-in-public-beta/5517
TiddlyResearch
8/23/2020
An interesting project to merge Roam Research and TiddlyWiki. Unlike an earlier project I may have mentioned earlier, called Streams, this one seems to be under more active development:
https://githu...
Sounds like the TOS for Medium (where the blog is posted), not the Journal app itself?
Login is a continuous loop. Forcing you to download the app, because the "having problems continue in the browser" link just has you start over creating an account. But after you download the app it t...
Todoist Boards
8/20/2020
Todoist added kanban boards today, via the beta channel on all platforms.
Personally, I feel this feature is not very usefully implemented. They use "sections" to structure boards, which is how one'...
Block Reference Improvements in Roam
8/12/2020
Still figuring out how I will use this, but I think that "text and alias" will probably be the most useful for me. I already make a documents with highlights from my PDF and Kindle files, now I can re...
Block Reference Improvements in Roam
8/12/2020
The latest update to Roam gives block references extra super-powers. Details are here:
https://roamresearch.com/#/app/help/page/T5_XWWwDx
Basically, you can replace a block reference with an embed (...
New Outliner/Roam Clone
8/12/2020
I don't know if this post helps answer your question?
https://anthrodendum.org/2020/05/05/roam-if-you-want-to/
JakeBernsteinWA wrote:
I'd be curious to read somewhere about why block referencing is ...
New Outliner/Roam Clone
8/11/2020
For me, "block referencing" is as important as backlinks and transclusion. This is for me where markdown based Roam competitors fall short, since the best they can do is reference a section by the hea...
Probably not what you want (I admit to not fully understanding the request), but wonder if you've looked at airtable?
https://airtable.com/
New Outliner/Roam Clone
8/9/2020
The closest thing I know of to such a list is this one:
https://www.notion.so/Artificial-Brain-Networked-notebook-app-a131b468fc6f43218fb8105430304709
But I personally would like a list that worked ...
Obsidian in public beta
8/7/2020
The important point about 1Writer is that links you created in Obsidian will work there. So you can navigate and read your notes on mobile very much the same way that you would on desktop. (Although i...
Obsidian in public beta
8/6/2020
I'm using Roam these days, but on the obsidian forums most people recommend 1Writer as supporting the Obsidian wiki-linking features and sync a bit better than iA writer.... (Note, however, that while...
Note: Citavi is Windows only. (The Mac installation instructions tells you to install a Windows virtual machine...)
Taskade
7/30/2020
Those are probably the two most important missing features, and would go a long way towards bringing Taskade in line with other, similar, products.
Taskade
7/24/2020
I had a lot of hope for Taskade when it first came out. I loved the simplicity of the interface and the cute design (including the logo), but now I just find the interface overly cluttered and difficu...
New Outliner/Roam Clone
7/24/2020
logseq.com looks like it is still in early development, but worth keeping an eye on. Bullet lists, backlinks, markdown, syncs with Github, etc. (Not everything is working right yet.)
Organizing Bookmarks
7/20/2020
So I've used pretty much everything here, and still have a Pinboard account as well, but my current favorite method is to use Roam Research. It is hard to explain how Roam works if you haven't used it...