The fall of Roam

The inevitability of this article's title feels like Roam was always tempting fate. I haven't used Roam, but I've toyed with Obsidian and Mem without any real commitment. I like the concept of bi-directional links, but it's not vital (I've tried to hack an approximation of this into Notion in the past). I actually like categorising and compartmentalising things myself if the system is accommodating enough. I use Notion for fairly structured notes, like phased learning for a language (whether it be Spanish or C#) or a knowledge system (moved a bunch of process guides and employee handbook type stuff to Notion for my team and it works really well). Small notes, fragments, and things there aren't really a place for yet have traditionally gone into Evernote, but Notion is absorbing some of this as well. Evernote is very much a text-only tool for me. In the past, URLs would be a big part of what I was using Evernote for, but Raindrop has taken over in that capacity for me. Eagle is my favourite tool for categorising images and design resources, and Milanote 2.0 has an edge for me when it comes to visual bookmarking over Notion (if layout and control of space is very important). Workona has some interesting features for merging static resources and bookmarks. In my head, something like Obsidian was meant to replace a lot of this Second Brain stack, but I never really got to grips with how I was going to achieve that without adding to my cognitive load instead of subtracting from it.