Roam Research

Horrible horrible experience! Lost over 50hours of research, working on my Masters dissertation...their technicians claim I should have done this and I should have done that, but I followed all the basic tutorials and it was not at all obvious beforehand what I should have done to prevent such a disaster. For two months all my new work was syncing and then two weeks later it was all gone...

Does it support google calendar notifications ?

Roam is awesome. I haven't been excited about a new product this much ever. People interested in playing around with live Roam workspace should look at the help workspace: https://roamresearch.com/#/v8/he... Also the information here does not quite cover the main things of interest for Roam - you should explore the database + there is a bunch of videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/...

The innovation of bidirectional links is crucial. Really helps thoughts organize with a minimum of effort.

Roam changed how I work. I extensively used Notion, Dropbox Paper, and GitHub gists, but I was always missing _something_. There are a lot of features I miss (better mobile UX, sharing pages and blocks), but Roam revolutionized note-taking for me. Roam isn’t a software with one use case. It’s rather a "choose your own adventure" type of thing. Best thing about it is not the software. It’s the research behind it and the people using it. #roamcult hashtag on Twitter introduced me to Zettelkasten, GTD, and Second Brain.

Roam is a tool designed to make your notes *actually useful* to your future self. If you're anything like me, 95% of the notes you take end up languishing in dark corners of your internet, never to be seen or used again. Roam uses easy bi-directional links and semi-automatic page creation to create a knowledge graph as you take notes, enabling easy access and meaning for later use. Have been using this since November and it's been great so far!

i tested this out, but didn't really "get" it. ended up sticking with Dynalist