Top 5 Roam Alternatives

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 23, 2021 at 04:17 PM

Yep to everything you say, Sarah.

Steve

Sarah wrote:
So do I. I consider it a completely different software experience,
>altogether.
> >And I won’t say it’s unwelcoming, but to me, it’s overwhelming. From the
>first page of whatever software you’re looking at, everybody’s speaking
>a different language. They all seem to know what they’re talking about &
>they’re all set.
> >That’s fine, it’s just where the fun ends for me.
> >
>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>A note of solidarity, Daly: I too find GitHub baffling.
>>
>>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>>I am sure those links are meaningful to some people if they’re into
>>>programming and coding. For the rest of us, I wonder if Athens and
>Foam
>>>have their own web pages which aren’t quite as esoteric as what is
>>>posted on GitHub.
>>>
>>>satis wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Luhmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>- Athens https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
>>>>
>>>>Athens is interesting in that the dev interviewed with Roam, and
>>>>apparently after failing to gain employment fairly quickly wrote this
>>>>open-source version using Clojure. And he later secured $1m+ in
>>>>financing for it.
>>>>
>>>>Another open source Roam clone to consider is Foam.
>>>>
>>>>https://foambubble.github.io/foam/