Roam Research is a note taking and knowledge development application. Roam uses bi-directional links to connect and reveal relationships between your notes. Its flexibility and list of innovative features mean that it has many other uses within the personal productivity ecosystem as well, on its own or in combination with other apps. These other uses include goal and project management, task management, information management and writing.
Roam’s power comes from its ability to connect and organize your notes and information, act as a central repository for your information and knowledge which can then be utilized in many different areas.
QUERY BUILDER SEARCH FEATURE
Query Builder has a Search feature! ?
Quickly filter your results with a live search across all columns.@RoamResearch pic.twitter.com/rnk7A9X1L0
— RoamJS (@roam_js) August 29, 2023
BEGINNERS GUIDE: 3 KEY FEATURES - CONTENT CREATION
A Beginner's Guide to Roam Research: 3 Key Features for Content Creation#ship30for30 pic.twitter.com/hWf3QzaTJg
— Nuno Menezes ? (@nunoHQ) July 17, 2023
ROAM 0.10.0
Roam 0.10.0 is out with some huge improvements, including a public API and lots of performance enhancements ?
— Roam Research (@RoamResearch) June 30, 2023
ROAM DEPOT: PAGE HISTORY
A new plugin is just online in the @RoamResearch #roamdepot
**Page History**
Now you can track your page changes and restore back to it. pic.twitter.com/fYk1ZqEAoq
— hyc (@Whychuan89) June 16, 2023
MAGIC TAGS
My new plugin, "Magic Tags" for @RoamResearch, is now available at the Depot.
It magically transforms your tags into beautiful icons ? pic.twitter.com/gOJORclV2b
— Alexander Rink ?? (@rcvd_io) June 12, 2023
QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS
Love that @RoamResearch is investing in the foundation of its tool.
Performance is often underestimated. pic.twitter.com/QUu3BXj3gx
— Alexander Rink ?? (@rcvd_io) June 6, 2023
PAGE REFERENCES COUNTER
I just realized that my own Page References Counter extension for @RoamResearch does something cool that I hadn't thought of:
it takes just one click to open a page in the main window AND its linked references in the sidebar, or insert a reference AND open its linked references. pic.twitter.com/ZzkyLJssio
— Fabrice Gallet (@fbgallet) May 22, 2023
UPDATE FOR ROAM STUDIO
My latest update for Roam Studio for @RoamResearch has just been released at the Depot.
Contains a beautiful new icon theme, additional settings (remove top- and sidebar-borders, non-breakable dates, tighter log-page) as well as various minor fixes. Have fun! pic.twitter.com/mePyTaUr6Q
— Alexander Rink ?? (@rcvd_io) May 10, 2023
ROAMJS: CUSTOMIZE HOTKEYS
? Attention Workbench users! Customize your own hotkeys! ??
A new version was submitted for review, which includes migrating hotkeys/commands to the extension command palette. This means you will be able to customize your own hotkeys!
(*Note: available once it's reviewed)— RoamJS (@roam_js) April 5, 2023
AI chat x Roam
New iteration on AI chat x @RoamResearch
– official ChatGPT API, optimized for chat
– 1/10th the cost
– more natural chat UX pic.twitter.com/0CwjoqVxuP— John 'LayBacc' (@Lay_Bacc) March 12, 2023
CHATGPT FOR ROAM
Bringing "ChatGPT" to @RoamResearch
Introducing ChatRoam ?
Chat with AI directly from your knowledge base.
The convo history is editable, and auto saved. pic.twitter.com/heprAqB1gP— John 'LayBacc' (@Lay_Bacc) February 25, 2023
"STREAK" FEATURE
New 'Streak' feature of @RoamResearch is so cool,
I've added a way to see it at a glance for any page in 'Block & Page Info' extension (v.4 under review) pic.twitter.com/20EeYCuy2d
— Fabrice Gallet (@fbgallet) February 21, 2023
ROAM - QUESTION ANSWER CHATBOT
?? Quick demo for @RoamResearch Question-Answering ChatBot
? Ask questions to your Roam Research graph in natural language ?
? Try yourself: https://t.co/x3V8XM0zXw
? Inspired by @hwchase17 #roamcult #openai #gpt3https://t.co/tREPlG4gvU pic.twitter.com/ov5IEPTmRv
— JimmyLv.eth (?, ?) 2?23 (@Jimmy_JingLv) February 7, 2023
SMARTBLOCK BUTTONS
Did you know that SmartBlock buttons can be applied to their sibling blocks?
Use "Sibling=prev" or "Sibling=next"@RoamResearch pic.twitter.com/KqTLxyUpYL
— RoamJS (@roam_js) August 31, 2023
MAGIC TAGS PLUGIN
The update is live! Get it while it's hot… https://t.co/loYognEOQB
— Alexander Rink ?? (@rcvd_io) August 28, 2023
ROAM DEPOT: READING MODES
Reading modes extension for @RoamResearch is a complete revamp of Bionic text, ideal for reading or public presentation.
4 new features:
– read-only
– navigation controls (sibling blocks browsing)
– focus on hover only
– click to select (highlight clicked block) pic.twitter.com/VMdSpuVhlO— Fabrice Gallet (@fbgallet) August 8, 2023
UPDATED GRAPH ENGINE
@RoamResearch has an updated graph engine. Woohooo.
Including an explore feature which can be used to dynamically display combinations of different parts of your graph. pic.twitter.com/UBLFnp2MPF
— Alexander Rink ?? (@rcvd_io) August 9, 2023
IDEA: TIMELINE BLOCK VIEW
Idea for @RoamResearch: Timeline block view.
I use timestamps a lot, but I still don't have a good sense of where my time is spent. Whether I spend a lot of time or just a few minutes on a task, everything just looks/feels the same.
I made a demo w/ @googlecalendar-y UX: pic.twitter.com/ikynutkQqc
— Kifah ?? (@maskys_) July 12, 2023
ROAM GRAPH API TOKEN
? Finally! @RoamResearch has officially released the Graph API Token, this means we can query or create blocks with the Roam Backend directly!
? For example, I built this Alfred Workflow for Roam Research to Quick Capture (with API)https://t.co/klDGT0RZs5 pic.twitter.com/U5OEMhL0r8
— JimmyLv.eth (?, ?) 2?23 (@Jimmy_JingLv) June 21, 2023
ChatGPT to Roam Importer
ChatGPT is your PKM wingman.
But without search history, it means a LOT of copy-paste.
So I created a little script to convert my history into a @RoamResearch friendly import file.https://t.co/shF2PUXZmU
Won't be useful for long, but it's nice for now. Enjoy!
— Lisa Ross ? Just Enough Tech (@thinkinghatlabs) June 2, 2023
switch+ Plugin
New Plugin just dropped on #roamdepot, "Switch+" This plugin is designed to enhance block navigation on page within @RoamResearch , making the process much smoother and more intuitive. Give it a try and see for yourself! pic.twitter.com/28KBR3KfZD
— hyc (@Whychuan89) May 15, 2023
EXCALIDRAW UPDATE
Roam Excalidraw update pic.twitter.com/LeJQo4ajmx
— RoamBrain (@RoamBrain) April 13, 2023
ROAM DEPOT: ROAM PORTAL
Roam Portal is now live in the Roam Depot ?
• Explore your Roam graph with unique visualizations.
• Create powerful search queries.
• Browse through your images and tweets in a gallery.@tfthacker @abhayance @conaw @baibhavbista @kvistgaard @Jeanvaljean689 @RoamResearch pic.twitter.com/NGs7MdLEcy— Dharam Kapila (@DharamKapila) April 6, 2023
NOTES ARE MEMORY POINTERS
Most notes ARE pointers to memory
Expanding them out to point that they can transmit to others is extremely labor intensive, but maybe exactly the kind of thing LLM can facilitate
Here’s expanded articulation of observation @sbelak is referring to https://t.co/mTdgEQyw08 https://t.co/q9A199tKUf
— Conor White-Sullivan ???? (@Conaw) March 20, 2023
Multiplayer Improvements
Roam multiplayer just got a little better, you can now filter queries by author of blocks with the clause `{by: [[user's display name page]]}` pic.twitter.com/4fLinEo6hY
— Roam Research (@RoamResearch) March 2, 2023
The Personal productivity diagram at the top of the page is a development of an idea that I came across in a tweet from Jakob Schwichtenberg.