Roam Mobile 4+

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Got the latest update. The bottom tabs are all gone. I don’t know how to use this apps anymore. I’m a power user and looking forward to native mobile experience for so long.

Over past few months, failed loading on the main graph, failure, extensive delay syncing of quick note. Really disappointed. I’m done with mobile app. Will use apple note for quick note and transfer to roam when I’m with the laptop or pc.

Roam is my second brain and I have no word to this app experience. Honest feedback: clojuredart, SwiftUI, ReactNative, firebase are not important. It’s 2022, just get a mobile app working. The best tech disappear, especially true for tool for minds.

Lots of improvements since earlier versions!

External keyboard now works as expected; this is now a reasonable facsimile of the browser app and completely useable. A few more things of note: * it seems as though the editor uses Ctrl+↔️ to navigate to End- or Start-of-line - Mac convention is that Cmd+↔️ serves that function, so this is a little non-idiomatic * I couldn’t get Quick Capture to work on the iPad * On the i__Phone__, Quick Capture was frustrating since it would load a time-and-date-stamped note placeholder when you sent a note, but when you come back later to add a note, it still has the time you sent the last one as it’s timestamp with no clear way to fix it. * maybe this is just me? A feature request: * please add some shortcut integration points so we can write our own automations

Developer Response ,

Sorry to hear you're disappointed -
re: external keyboards - we've fixed this issue in recent updates, if you give it another try it should work now

Great as a supplement on a mobile device

I use Roam primarily on my iPad Pro in Safari but I use this app as my portable task list and notepad on my iphone i.e. when I’m mobile. Sure you lose some functionality but the app is mostly a convenience tool in it’s present state, and it does a good job of that. It was very inconvenient to access and use the web version on an iphone.

Roam is not a perfect solution, but it’s what you make of it — you are the designer of your own system. People seem to *love* complaining about Roam, but you just need to find a way to make it work for you. Roam hasn’t let me down yet.