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by conaws
2414 days ago
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Cofounder here -- just want to let people know that we STRONGLY believe that your data shouldn't be trapped in a SAAS application. Roam does allow you to export all your data to an org-mode file (the emacs outliner), we're working on other import/export options, and want to get to the place where there is a close to plain text representation of your Roam workspace on your file system that syncs both ways. We weren't expecting someone to post us to HN yet. This is a case of, if you're not embarrassed on launch, you launched too late. Just want to let y'all know we dont believe in SAAS lockin for a tool for thought, and data portability for the folks who aren't emacs users is coming. |
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Key claim we have is that knowledge doesn't really fit into the tree structure of a file system (nearly 100% of knowledge management tools follow that structure)
In Roam, you can organize things hierarchically -- using indentation -- but when you link to another page, the paragraph or bullet point where you made that link appears in the "references" for that page.
Pages -- like a page for a person, or a concept -- end up getting a sort of implicit definition from all the other places where you talk about them.
So, a page for Alice or Bob for example has all the tasks that have been assigned to them, and all notes from meetings that involved them.
A page for a concept like [[Paul Graham recommends Clojure]] pulls in all the paragraphs or bullet points where you used the term -- and the bullet points nested below.