6000 words discussing the differences and why you might choose one over the other
Table of Contents
- My Note-taking Background
- It Took Some Time
- Plain Text Files + Local Storage = Future-Proof
- Privacy
- Data Loss
- It’s Beautiful
- Plug-in Methodology
- Backlinks, Linked Mentions, Unlinked Mentions and Tagging
- Block Structure
- Block References
- Note Outline, Tag Panel and Pinning Panels
- Boolean Search
- The Graph View
- The Developers
- The Community
- Pricing
- Conclusions (aka: tldr)
My Note-taking Background
This will be a long read, but hopefully a helpful one for folks trying to decide between these two applications.
For some background, I am a fairly long-standing Roam user, having used the application since around February 2020 up until the last few months.
Let me start by saying, I think Roam is amazing. …
The Discovery of Viagra
In 1989, sildenafil citrate, the active ingredient for Viagra, was failing.
Classified under the low-priority project, UK92480, sildenafil was undergoing testing in South East England as a potential new agent for the treatment of high blood pressure.
The results were underwhelming.
It was so close to failure that people weren’t coming to meetings. I mean, you know how people sort of smell failure and disappear? It was that close.
— David Brown (Pfizer chemist); Excerpt from Bloomberg Interview
The team were given an ultimatum. Come back with results or the project gets canned.
Fortunately, that’s when results began emerging from a cohort of miners in South Wales. …
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