Roam Research — A note-taking tool for networked thought

Congrats to launch @gunar. I have few questions: 1) What tech stack did you use to build this app? 2) Do you have any plans for creating iOS and/or Andrioid app? 3) Do you have any plans for monetization?

I'm a huge fan of Roam since I started making the transition a couple weeks ago. As a base for personal knowledge management it has a much more pragmatic philosophy around how information should interlink. I love it so much so that I wrote up a 3,000 word user guide on it: https://nateliason.com/blog/roam

Roam is a game changer. I highly recommend giving it a try. I've moved all of Notion content over to Roam and haven't looked back.

@conaw and co. have built something truly astounding in Roam. no other tool allows for the kind of connected thought that Roam does, in ways that allows for seamless capture and synthesis.

This product has so much potential I want to already call it product of the decade. It's the first digital product that actually makes me want to journal my daily life and habits and collect as much information as possible. Bi-directional links are absolutely a game changer.

The Workflowy on steroids you never knew you needed. Watch the short explanatory videos by the Conor: http://rtlnk.com/36Ol83F

Really like the idea so far, but can't commit yet without seeing what the monthly price ends up being (sounds like $30 /mo https://twitter.com/Conaw/status...)

First time posting after long time lurking. This is the best new digital product I’ve used in YEARS. Once you take a few minutes to understand the philosophy behind it, their YouTube videos and help pages explain it simply. Has totally changed the way i take notes and I feel more connected to my thinking than ever before.

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?!

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.

I started using Roam Research only a day or so ago. It's been absolutely incredible for my workflow and staying on top of notes, the bidirectional links is going to be such an integral part in how I am able to surface content as time goes on. Outstanding!

I admit at first glance I was skeptical for yet another online note taking/journaling app. But after watching the videos and a quick play, I can see value in this due to the ease of timeline automation. I will be trying this for a while to see if it can replace a few tools, which is key to any new app/service.

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/...

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

This is one of those "tools you never knew you needed" until it just pops up on the homepage. I'm delighted by Roam! :)

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!

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.

Evolution of knowledge management. Will change the way you take notes, consume content, and ultimately, think. It is already absolutely essential and I can't wait to see how it matures.

Roam is the note taking, personal crm you have been waiting for. Read @nateliason post. He did a thorough deep dive of the beast. And the creator of the beast: Conor has been candid about the roadmap. His bluntness inspired trust.

Roam Research became not just a replacement of my note-taking system. It changed the way I read, write, and think. I can't sit with a book now without taking some notes in my Roam. When I write, I think of how the idea I'm writing can be linked with the previous or future ideas that I'm interested in.