![]() So when I first looked into Obsidian, I actually thought you needed to do one of two things to use the application successfully: In Obsidian, this is not the case right now, though WYSIWYG is on the roadmap and coming soon. The main hindrance? The separation of edit and preview modes.Ĭoming from Roam and other note-taking applications like Notion or Evernote, I was used to a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) writing experience. I should probably start by saying that it took me several tries to get into Obsidian. This post is a way to explore, in probably too-great detail, the differences between Obsidian and Roam and why I think Obsidian, like Roam, is a truly revolutionary writing and note-taking platform - one that will likely explode in popularity in the coming months. There are a lot of reasons for the switch, only one of which is the difference in pricing models (Obsidian is free to use forever). I’m now around 2–3 months into using Obsidian and over that time, it has slowly become my daily driver for note-taking, knowledge management and writing. In any case, after a few weeks, I stumbled upon Obsidian. My goal here is not to be inflammatory or to build up one note-taking application over another, but instead to highlight my experiences over time with Roam and why I went looking for alternatives. ![]() And ultimately, I went looking for other alternatives that could meet my day-to-day needs without any of the additional background noise. Concerns over privacy, whether founded or not, grew. The cult mentality of the online community became a bit jarring. Since I had an account prior to the release of their subscription model, I was able to continue to work within Roam for free.īut over time, these issues did begin to wear on me. That alone was worth any other issues with the application (even the potential risk of data loss and lack of local storage). I was using Roam for the outliner functionality, block level referencing and frictionless linking and writing experience. I mostly didn’t care about any of the new additions.It was easy to keep up with changes and additions and I didn’t need a course to help me get up to speed with new functionality. I had been using Roam for a long time and knew it well.These things really didn’t bother me over the short term for several reasons: Help is spread out amongst an online forum, YouTube videos, Twitter, a Slack channel and a multitude of community-run websites and pricey online tutorial courses. There is no public roadmap outside of intermittent tweets from the company founders. New functionality, when it does get added, seems only half-baked (take the delta function, for instance, which was supposed to be the solution to spaced repetition in Roam). ![]() Releases are brisk, but what’s being worked on at any given moment is vague. Coming in at $15 per month - or $500 up front for a 5-year subscription as part of their “Believer’s” plan - Roam is more expensive than any other SASS application or knowledge tool out there.įor another thing, Roam’s development is a bit haphazard. That being said, I also think Roam has its issues.įor one thing, it is expensive. What the founders are doing with block-level text manipulation has turned it into a ground-breaking tool for writing and knowledge-work. ![]() Let me start by saying, I think Roam is amazing. This will be a long read, but hopefully a helpful one for folks trying to decide between these two applications.įor some background, I am a fairly long-standing Roam user, having used the application since around February 2020 up until the last few months.
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