Issue with is not the price, but the lock-in. Once you invested years in your notes, you want to quit. You are left with a big XML file? Yet searching through all the alternatives ... that might as well collapse or its plugins
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Actually you’re left with a bunch of markdown files which can be displayed in many other apps, and there are already tools which can render back links from roam dB dump. Might change once they add more features, but that’s current status.
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Care to share examples of tools that can render back links from a Roam db dump? Couldn't find anything. Thank you!
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Note-link-janitor was created by , I forked it to make it work on Roam backups. Unfortunately it only grabs the bullet with the link, not its children (would really like to fix this, as it would help us share backlinks with people, anyone?)
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Call out to #roamcult, . This great tool uses remark, unified, unist to parse and organize Markdown. Right now it finds blocks of nested Markdown in other files with the right link, but it doesn't include the children like Roam. I tried fixing it, but couldn't...
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figure it out. It might be trivial for someone who understands the parser logic better than me, and it would make this tool vastly more useful, allowing us for example very nice Markdown exports of mentions. (I could also turn this into an online tool). Anyone want to help?
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Sorry: it's hard to figure out because this script is a mudball.
Children aren't included because "context" is defined as the closest block-level ancestor, which for you is the paragraph node containing the link. You'll need a better predicate here:
I went a different direction, but thanks for the help!
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Parsing @RoamResearch JSON exports enables us to do lot's of fun stuff. Starting with simple things, like detecting duplicates
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