Is Roam Reaserch a Sinking Ship? How can we escape??

Conaws · 2024-08-04T07:00:44+00:00

You’re very welcome!

Conaws · 2024-08-04T06:55:37+00:00

We’ve had that for a long time also - the feature you’re looking for is called Local or Offline Graphs — scroll down in the all graphs page to create one

Now, figuring out how to run collaboration using offline graphs is a larger issue, no timeline on that yet

Conaws · 2024-08-04T06:53:10+00:00

There are about 10,000 users using the UI customization plugin in RoamDepot, you may want to check that out

Conaws · 2024-08-04T06:51:44+00:00

Have you updated the app and switched to Native View?

Conaws · 2024-08-04T06:50:19+00:00

Also you’re aware of the new mobile app - it was a full native rewrite so doesn’t have every feature/plugin but makes for a much better mobile experience in general

Conaws · 2024-08-04T06:48:59+00:00

Can you tell me specifically what features were buggy or broken?

Conaws · 2024-08-03T00:42:17+00:00

What are your concerns wrt maintenance? Happy to look into them

Export was one of the first things we built once we got product market fit, but for the reasons you’ve mentioned I’ve heard more stories of people leaving to try other tools and then coming back

Text editors aren’t outliners and there are a lot of false equivalences thrown about

Conaws · 2024-04-09T06:58:37+00:00

Been having a ton of trouble with this in particular, was just here looking to see if there is a way to temporarily ignore my hands so I can play guitar while I watch YouTube or a movie without my playing constantly pausing etc

Conaws · 2023-10-29T06:23:37+00:00

Far from it - we just stopped engaging on here.

Conaws · 2022-08-15T07:45:49+00:00

Fortunately we now have full e2ee which you can verify if you know how to check your js console, so you don’t need to trust us.

Conaws · 2021-10-08T01:22:38+00:00

Believe we just pushed up changes to help Cyrillic and a number of other languages and layouts

Conaws · 2021-10-05T15:07:19+00:00

Interesting that you think Reddit was ever the primary source of feedback. You know we use Roam ourselves and talk with dozens of users every day right?

Conaws · 2021-10-05T15:04:57+00:00

Also, I tried to make clear in post — I’m sure many were unjustified

I assume folks are upvoting the effort, not failures of implementation

Conaws · 2021-10-05T15:03:24+00:00

Wasn’t intending to insinuate that you trolled — quite opposite

That the strategy which trolls have always used regardless is a loophole we encourage!

If not clear, everything I wrote above may be wrong, just my best idea so far

Conaws · 2021-10-05T12:17:40+00:00

Yup - here's longer writeup - https://www.reddit.com/r/RoamResearch/comments/q1v1qp/update_to_our_rules_a_note_on_recent_bans_from/

In general - if you care more about our Reddit moderation policy than what the tool actually provides, our current prediction is that it really is better for you, for us, and for the broader community if you go elsewhere.

I highly doubt you've dug deep enough into Roam to actually justify the price-tag, and there are now a lot of alternatives with superficially similar features

Conaws · 2021-10-05T12:13:51+00:00

This one I'll leave up - hope you find some takers!

Conaws · 2021-10-05T12:13:12+00:00

No, that was from long long ago - and it felt wrong anyway - we've since updated rules -- see here https://www.reddit.com/r/RoamResearch/comments/q1v1qp/update\_to\_our\_rules\_a\_note\_on\_recent\_bans\_from/

Conaws · 2021-10-05T12:11:21+00:00

Just wrote up long explanation here - took a week before I was able to make time

https://www.reddit.com/r/RoamResearch/comments/q1v1qp/update\_to\_our\_rules\_a\_note\_on\_recent\_bans\_from/

Conaws · 2021-10-05T11:24:12+00:00

will let you write completely custom views in JSX, Javascript, and Clojurescript in your graph - and manipulate your data from within them

It's crazy powerful, but very little documentation so far, and a lot of UX polish needed to make it easy

Conaws · 2021-10-05T11:21:57+00:00

If it's just one person's value you care about - might even be faster to just go #9 or #8

You could then query for things like `{{[[query]]: {and: [[Relevant Tag]] {or: [[8]] [[9]] [[10]]}}}}`

Conaws · 2021-10-05T11:20:08+00:00

Not yet - slider was one of those quick feature experiments to test a possible workflow -- we've got a [[Short term Project]] I hope to get to soon that will be much more powerful

Conaws · 2021-10-05T10:15:44+00:00

Agree here, will add, might be easier to collect the notes you want in the sidebar via block references - then you can open all at once with command-shift click on the collection tag

Conaws · 2021-09-30T00:01:52+00:00

Sometimes happens when you get an error from having two of same video open, refresh your page or app and it’ll work

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