So I'm really curious about but I *just* got going with and honestly I'm pretty happy with it. Am I missing something? How do they compare?
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They're very different, though they both appear to be basically text editors. Bear's conceptual model is roughly a filing cabinet; it's trying to be a very highly-polished digital one. Roam's concerned with expressing specific answers to "how are ideas developed over time?"
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Roam reifies some interesting, potentially-powerful ideas about knowledge production!
I use Bear as part of a system exploring ideas in a similar neighborhood, but it's certainly not what it wants to do: I use lots of hacks to do what I'm doing.
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If I weren't doing my own research on questions in knowledge systems (which necessitates tinkering with my own), and if I weren't allergic to doing serious work in webapps, I'd likely use Roam instead!
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And would local first software be an anti allergen?
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If you're interested, I'd love chat about upcoming projects in local-first software! inkandswitch.com/local-first.ht
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