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Foam: A free Roam alternative for VSCode github.com

sputknicka day ago

I tried switching to this a few years ago, but switched back to Obsidian. My problem was actually the strongest feature: the VS Code integration. Only about a third of my note taking is related to software development, so for me going into VS Code the other 2/3rd of the time was clunky. If 100% (or close to it) of your note taking is software related, this is a great product.

nchmya day ago

I used both from, essentially, day 1 and had a similar experience. Obsidian is just fantastic and I vastly prefer keeping it separate from my coding, even for coding-related notes.

Though, once in a while I'll open the notes in VS Code just to make use of things like better find/replace, regex etc... - especially globally.

metayrnca day ago

After reading the README, the only missing thing seems to be the equivalent of Dataview from Obsidian. Will wait for something like it before considering switching.

pivica day ago

Speaking of which, have you seen the new Bases feature in Obsidian? https://help.obsidian.md/bases

Reminiscent of Dataview.

alessandroberna3 hours ago

That looks awesome!

fouc2 days ago

> Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code

senkora20 hours ago

See also org-roam which is similar but for emacs using org: https://www.orgroam.com/

schonfinkel2 hours ago

This is what made explore orgmode altogether and got me addicted to Emacs.

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mtzaldo16 hours ago

Is vscode the new electron?

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