Obsidian gets folding

Posted by Paul Korm
May 18, 2020 at 10:41 AM

Actually, due to the Roam Research mania there’s quite of bit of this popping up everywhere. Obsidian pretty shameless advertises it’s Roam without the cloud (you can add your own cloud storage but it’s not required.). Then we have the venerable (but fading) and incomparable ConnectedText. Tinderbox recently got onto emulating Roam with substantial new linking / back-linking features. Other Roam emulators with wikilink/back-link support of some sort or another include Amplenote, TiddlyRoam, Org-Roam. And now apparently Roam Research itself is getting onto the anti-Roam bandwagon by suggesting it will have a feature-limited local-storage (i.e., not cloud) version some unknown time down the line.

It’s sort of interesting to watch how these wiki-like things are popping up all over—did Roam scratch an itch?

bvasconcelos wrote:
I find it astonishing that automatic wiki linking is so
>underrated as a feature and how poorly disseminated it is. Apart from
>DT3, only VoodooPad has it. And this last one is not even worth
>considering at this point.