The structure of how you can organize thoughts in Roam is a bit hard to convey to folks who haven't really tried it yet. Harder still for me to convey, as you have incentive not to trust one of the creators of the tool. (NOTE: OP is just a passionate user, we havent met them, nor asked them to write the piece)
We've taken a lot on inspiration from plain text wiki tools like nvalt, and outliners like workflowy or dynalist and we've had a lot people switching to Roam from those tools (Cut and paste do work, I'd probably suggest using Chrome or a Chrome en
...You try Roam if you've got some itch that there has to be something more for structuring thought than files in folders, or tree based outliners, and you are willing to deal with a few inconveniences to get access to features and workflows you definitely won't find anywhere else.
Yes, that's why I did try it. And found that I could neither get my data into it nor out of it while preserving structure or markup semantics. That's kind of a killer, since style issues I could theoretically fix with a user style sheet. Plus, having your own unique markup lan
...Yeah. That's a bug.
Most of our users have come from Workflowy, Dynalist, Evernote or Notion, and copy/paste works (preserving indentation) for them, both to and from.
If you email conor or josh at roamresearch.com happy to help.
Great LW post on Roamresearch.com (the digital Zettelkasten tool that Abram referenced), here
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BHp82PvqCDayFpefg/implementing-an-idea-management-system
Added Intercom today. Already worth the cost. Thanks for tip