Roam Research

Name: Roam Research
Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)

A note-taking tool for networked thought

4.8•8 reviews•

108 followers

A note-taking tool for networked thought

4.8•8 reviews•

108 followers

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Note and writing apps

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Team collaboration software

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Databases and backend frameworks

As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.

Launch tags:Web App•Productivity•Task Management

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Roam is redefining digital note taking. Want to offload things in your brain? Retrieve information when you need it? Recall what you've forgotten? Roam is the the tool to help you do this.

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6yr ago

A few thoughts on value prop Use case - Useful for those who synthesize many things, i.e. jack-of-many-trades vs trade-for-all-jacks. I use it for: roadmapping, CRM, brainstorming, deal tracking, organization of projects, progress tracking, and then distill / map-reduce everything weekly. Pricing vs Alternatives - $30/month (if still the case) initially gave me a sticker shock, 3x others. Then I realized I've been tolerating, rather than be delighted, with other things I paid for: Evernote ($8), Airtable ($12), remote assistant ($200-ish per month) Value - Roam has the best of these tools, and cuts the workload of my assistant by half. Things that I used to delegate, Roam makes it so frictionless that I'd rather do it myself -- $30/mo is a good deal. Onboarding - Landing page can be overwhelming for non-early-adopters. First glance, I questioned what the true value was - was it just another gimmick? The copy felt like it undersold its potential - I think of Roam as a lightweight executive assistant by fixing my information workflow. @nateliason's teardown helped explain it in a practical way, which compelled me to try. All in all, awesome product I'd be happy to pay for. Love your philosophy on pricing, all about the right positioning.

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6yr ago

This note-taking app over is outstanding! One of the best product ideas I saw in the past years. Seriously! I love the way how you can capture notes, easily create a [[page]], and the automatic cross-references on the pages. But I am wondering? Who is behind the company, how long it will survive, what happens with my data after that? That's important for a note-taking app, especially, as there is no option to store them on your phone or tablet. And: Will there be a more natural way to capture from a mobile phone or an iPad? And how much we have to pay in a couple of months? What should I do if I'm not on my computer or the internet and still like to capture something?!

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6yr ago

I've tried tools like this for 15+ years including all the original wiki tools and Roam nails it. I've used the tool 100+ hours for my startup and personal stuff in be last couple of months and still feel like I'm scratching at the surface of what you can do with Roam.

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6yr ago

How Apps Are Built - 3: Khan Academy's mobile apps with Andy Matuschak

I've been using Roam for a couple of months now and the bidirectional links and frictionless page creation alone make it an amazing product. There a many other UI touches that make Roam a much better second brain than any other product I've tried so far.

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6yr ago

Roam is a strange app, it feels more like a command-line interface OS than just a notes app. It seems fairly simple at the outset, but once you use it for sometime you start to understand it's true power and you end up wanting to do everything in it. It's super addictive and the possibilities seem endless. It starts off looking like a Bullet Journal, dropping you into a 'daily log' page which is created automatically everyday. The note page itself looks more like Workflowy/Dynalist, with bullet points and indent to nest bullets, with children that can be collapsed under a parent bullet. You can scroll and see all your Daily Notes on one page. The best thing about it is bi-directional links. You create new pages as you type, say [[Meditation]] or #FoodLog, and when you go to those pages, it lists all the bullets where you've mentioned the tag. This way you can create a network of notes that are interconnected and not linear or hierarchical. You can mix and match and use filters to do a ton of things inside it like GTD, Morning Pages, Bullet Journaling, Project Management, Quantified Self Logging, Building a Second Brain, Progressive Summarization, 5 Minute Journal, Anki, etc. to name a few AND you can start to benefit from the cross-pollination of these frameworks. Eg. You can free write like Morning Pages, put down some todos as they come up, list out some things you're grateful for AND then filter and view only what you want to see later, like say todos or all mentions of 'bananas'. The best thing about it is that you don't have to 'set it up' with any of these systems to use it. Just start putting things in it. Watch some of the use case videos to get more ideas. #RoamCult

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6yr ago

This product is absolutely phenomenal. Best note taking experience I've ever had with dedicated developers who deeply understand what is necessary to build an incredible tool for thought. Perfect for anyone who writes to think.

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