Roam Research -- Recent Experience?

Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 8, 2026 at 03:18 PM

exatty95 wrote:
>I have been using Tana since its early days and think
>it’s great, but increasingly find it best for power users—I’ve fallen
>into the dreaded CRIMPer’s habit of spending more time customizing it
>than I am working with it.

I looked into Tana a few times but I found it too taxing on the brain to have to think of all the possibilities that the architecture allows.

Roam just allows me to function as a basic user, using just a few key features that I really like.

>Roam and Logseq seem to be best at linking
>to/embedding individual blocks, which is a feature I really like—it
>helps me knit together the most relevant parts of longer articles, etc.,
>about a topic. That helps keep me from continuing to accrue information
>about a topic that I’ll never use because the amount has become unwieldy
>to work with.

Yes, the various embedding and linking functions are very helpful. On Mondays for instance I create a list of objectives for that week, and then I embed the weekly list in the daily pages of that week, and then every day I am reminded of what I still need to do (and can select activities to schedule for that day) and also see visually what I’ve already accomplished that week.