Roam Mobile 4+

I’ve been with Roam for years now and waited patiently for a standalone app. Glad it’s finally arrived. It’s got its quirks which they will iron out—BUT!—unless I’m missing something the app is utterly un-useable with a Magic Keyboard [on a 2021 iPad Pro]. Ie: “Return”, “delete”, and other functions don’t map in the app.

It keeps saying “Before using the mobile app, create a graph on the desktop or web app”. I did and refresh times but it’s still not working. Also, the Support center is not working. The chat room lags so much and not helpful. How dare the app charge money with the sucks support center!💢

Forget Evernote, Notion, and any clones out there. Before Roam I was collecting notes and never going back to them, my Evernote and Apple Notes were packed with a useless mess of text, and tagging never helped. ADHD always made it hard for me to organize and remember where I put things in my notes. Roam is completely different. The app intelligently links your notes into a graph and builds up connections over time, so the bigger your collection the more useful it is! It’s relieving to know that you can trust the system and never worry about forgetting things ever again.

Roam Research is the most intuitive and powerful tool for note taking, research, zettlekasten, ontology, project management, relational and graph modelling, interstitial journaling, get-it-done productivity, and tracing your thoughts/thinking back to the source. The “Daily Notes” page is brilliant and is eventually going to be copied by every other note app. Every page and line of text is linked together, and you can add a ToDo anywhere in your notes which is fantastic for keeping in the flow of your work.

I can’t recommend this app enough, it will completely change your thinking about notes and productivity.