I mentioned in a previous post my disappointment with the state of personal email and that I don’t check it for weeks at time. Well, I missed the renewal notification for Roam Research. I knew it was coming up (I just paused and set-up a reminder in ToDoist for June 1, 2022.) So I got hit with the auto-renew of ~$150.

Last night, I decided to login for the first time since the beginning of 2021 when I switched over to Obsidian to manage all my work-related note taking. There are things I do miss in using Roam Research. Probably my two favorite features that are the outlining feature (Obsidian does this too, but it’s not ass good) and the ‘/’ (forward slash) features that auto pop-up.

Since I am paid up for another year, I’m trying to figure out how I might be able to use it and fit it into my life. I am going to stick with Obsidian for work. I like the security of having .md files saved to my computer instead of out in the cloud as well as I get a .md file for each Topic I create.

Right now I’m thinking of using it for my personal writing and research. I like the ‘unstructured’ nature of Roam Research for this purpose. When I’m thinking of something, I can just pop it into my Daily Note and go back and add wiki links after the fact.

I will see. Obsidian is free (or super cheap to through the developers some money). I still think Roam Research is too expensive for what I am using it for. But who knows, maybe once I give it a try, I’ll think differently.