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Me and some friends have played around with Roam a bit and we are baffled by the app. It just does not work well. It is a badly-designed, lower performance, glitchy note-taking app. You end up staring at its gaudy giant astrolabe loading spinner more often than not. We look at it and end up baffled why anyone would pay a monthly subscription for it!



I agree- A notetaking app has to be speedy and 100% glitch free, this is way way more important than "bidirectional links" or any other such niceties.

Like everyone else, I'm building my own clone just to address this fact (mine is fully unix cli to maximize performance and reliability)


This has not been my experience. I use it daily and after the initial load screen my graph is very responsive. They’ve fixed a lot of bugs since last year as well.




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