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I was totally nerdsniped last night by

@andy_matuschak

who pointed me in the direction of

@Conaw

's work on roamresearch.com There's so much good stuff in this thread:

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏

@Conaw

· Feb 23, 2019

A brief rant on note-taking apps and the structure of thought. Or "Why Evernote is a terrible second brain."

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Kevin Dangoor

@dangoor

Nov 1, 2019

Roam looks very interesting, but that thread helped me learn new techniques for

@BearNotesApp

and I ended up finding a Reddit thread which makes it sound like reverse links may be coming to Bear:

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[feature request] Reverse Links - A Note shows all the notes that...

# Feature request I would like a note to show all the notes that link to it. For example: I have a note called **House** and I link inside it...

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Nov 1, 2019

I have a little script which adds them to Bear notes automatically. Maybe I will get my act together and open source it soon.

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏

@Conaw

Nov 1, 2019

There's much more to Roam than just backlinks. And much more coming Why wait for the field to catch up :-)

Kevin Dangoor

@dangoor

Nov 1, 2019

That's totally fair. I saw your demo video and it looked _awesome_. I loved the ability to expand stuff out in the sidebar, for example. I don't anticipate Bear ever having stuff like that. I will give it a try and see if it pulls me from Bear.

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(fwiw I don’t expect Bear to even attempt to catch up with this kind of stuff; they seem to focus on doing just one or two key features a year, very well, instead of supporting niche things. Alas! At least I can script my way out of it, sort of...)

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏

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We'll get a jeweler's loupe in 2020 Andy. And your precious native apps 😉

Kevin Dangoor

@dangoor

Nov 2, 2019

One thing I've gotta ask, as is reasonable if I'm considering a new second brain, what's the business plan? Roam really does look like a lot of what I want (the daily notes! The outlines! that's what I'm already doing!), but I'd hate to see it disappear once I've got data there.

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