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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install --cask roam-research
About Roam Research
Roam Research is a note-taking tool built around linking notes to each other. Writing works like a bulleted list or simple document, while links between pages let you collect and connect related ideas in the way a graph database connects records.
It supports real-time collaboration with other people, and the developers say you can also choose to store all your data locally instead of in the cloud.
Strengths
- Linked notes for building a graph of ideas
- Outline-style writing that feels like a bulleted list
- Real-time collaboration
- Option to store data locally
Limitations
- Little detail is published on the homepage
- Proprietary with no open-source version
Details
- Pricing
- PaidPaid subscription; current plans are listed on the Roam Research site.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Roam Research
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application, Hosted service
- Best suited for
- Researchers and writers who connect ideas through linked notes
- Categories
- Note-taking
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Roam Research
Compare allSoftware that can replace Roam Research for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Logseq
An outliner that stores notes as plain Markdown files, built around a daily journal and linked blocks.
Logseq is an open source outliner with block-level linking and a daily journal, storing notes as plain Markdown files on desktop and mobile.
Obsidian
A notes app that works on a folder of plain Markdown files on your own disk, with links between them.
Obsidian offers linking, backlinks and a graph view over local Markdown files, free with no account, though it is document-based rather than an outliner.
Reflect
An end-to-end encrypted note app with backlinked notes, calendar integration and an AI assistant.
Reflect offers backlinked notes with end-to-end encryption, calendar integration and AI help on iOS and web, and is paid after the trial.
RemNote
Note-taking app that pairs outlining with built-in spaced-repetition flashcards.
RemNote pairs outlining with built-in spaced-repetition flashcards on Windows, macOS and web, with AI study features behind paid plans.
SiYuan
A block-based notes workspace with Markdown that renders as you type, and an option to self-host it.
SiYuan provides block references and two-way links in open source desktop and mobile apps with a self-hosting option, under AGPL-3.0.
Workflowy
A nested outliner that organizes notes, lists and projects as a single tree of bullets.
Workflowy is a nested bullet outliner with desktop, mobile and web apps, freemium, but it offers less linking between ideas than Roam.
Capacities
Object-based note app that organizes ideas as typed, tagged objects.
Capacities organizes linked ideas as typed objects with native desktop and mobile apps, offering a freemium model instead of Roam's paid-only access.
Org-roam
An Emacs package for linked, plain-text personal knowledge management built on Org mode files.
Org-roam gives backlinks and a graph view over plain-text Org files inside Emacs, free and open source, but requires Emacs familiarity.
Roam Research as an alternative
Listings that name Roam Research as an alternative.
Bike
A fast outliner and rich text writing app for the Mac that uses standard file formats.
Roam Research is a web-based paid outliner focused on linked notes and a graph, adding real-time collaboration but losing native Mac files and scripting.
Checkvist
A keyboard-driven online outliner for building nested task lists, checklists and research notes.
Roam Research is a paid web outliner focused on linking notes into a graph of ideas, with real-time collaboration and an option to store data locally.
OmniOutliner
An outlining app for Mac, iPad, iPhone and Vision Pro for structuring ideas and documents.
Roam Research is a paid, web-based networked outliner focused on linked notes and a graph of ideas rather than columns and attachments.
Supernotes
A collaborative note-taking app that stores ideas as linked notecards with Markdown and LaTeX.
Roam Research is a paid, web-only networked outliner with linked notes and real-time collaboration, replacing notecards with bulleted outline pages.
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