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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Well to start, some user testimonials collected here
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And philosophical difference here...
The big point is that all other notes tools have the FILE as the primary unit.
You think about what FILE to put a note in, and organize FILES in folders and tags
Roam is about organizing ideas, file is incidental
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So I guess Bear technically has a βfileβ as the primary unit, although I don't generally βthink about what file to put a note inβ, I just start a new note for every note. It's mostly append-only for me (with a handful of exceptions)
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IMO the most powerful idea that Roam encodes, relative to "normal" note tools, is that you'll develop ideas more effectively if (some) notes are durable units which evolve together, not append-only ephemera. This is hard; Roam changes the nouns & verbs to make it somewhat easier.