Roam Research is a revolutionary note-taking/knowledge management software. It is designed with the idea that data structure for a second brain should be associative (graph) rather than a rigid hierarchy. It is meant for everyone who needs to manage their knowledge effectively. Their founder aims for the product to become more or less excel for knowledge management. Professor Balaji Srinivas introduced it to me. I have been using this for about a month and fell in love with its features. Canadian philosopher who predicted the web tells that “Medium is the message”. The properties of a medium in which communication occurs can impact society a lot. I believe that roam is one such tool that shifts the medium of note-taking in a groundbreaking manner. The features of Roam allow you to arrange for the serendipity of ideas, unexpected connections with your past, present and future selves. It is built on simple building blocks that come together (emergent property) to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Each building block of Roam might look simple if looked separately, but together they become very powerful. Note: It is still in beta with a pricing yet to be announced. But if you try it I think you will share this sentiment.
Here is the Roam white paper written by founders on a Public roam database about why they think Roam is revolutionary.
