Roam Research is great. Here’s why I switched to Obsidian.

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00:00 Intro
00:49 What is Roam Research? And what for?
02:39 How to take smart notes · book by Sönke Ahrens
04:06 Can I use Roam Research for free?
04:42 Why I left Roam for Obsidian
07:09 Alternatives to Roam Research
07:53 Migrating from Roam to Obsidian
Roam Research is a note-taking and note-management software. Through features like bidirectional linking and block-based working, it mimics the way the human brain thinks. Roam calls itself a "note-taking tool for networked thought."
It was Sönke Ahrens who gave me the final push to try Roam - after Ali Abdaal, Thomas Frank and others had already sparked my curiosity.
Roam Research is useful for researching, as the name already states, and writing on various topics. Seemingly unrelated topics are not a problem in this case, but a feature. They bring out the strengths of programs like Roam Research or alternatives like Logseq or Obsidian.
The app Notion is also often mentioned and very popular right now. But Notion is only comparable to Roam Research at first glance. More on that in the video.
Some Roam Research ressources:
Anne-Laure Le Cunff: How to use Roam Research: a tool for metacognition, nesslabs.com/roam-research
Mark Koenig: 100 ROAM TIPS: Beginner to Advanced in 25 Mins, • 100 ROAM TIPS: Beginne... (it’s hilarious!)
...and useful to strip Roam text from formatting: roam-tools.ryanguill.com/
Nicole van der Hoeven: Migrating from Roam to Obsidian, notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/...
Nicole’s RUclips channel: / nicolevanderhoeven
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