Roam Research and automatic bidirectional relationships between nodes

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Roam Research, new web-based outliner that supports transclusion & wiki features - thoughts?

The app is here: The help page is here: Pretty impressed with how powerful it is after using it for 3-4 days. Looks like they are directly competing with WorkFlowy and Dynalist (“Roam is pretty similar to tree based online tools like Workflowy or Dynalist …”) Some highlights: fuzzy tag search automatic display of backlinks global auto update of wikilinks on rename graph view (showing linking relations between pages) page transclusion + also (!) block transclusion (I suspect t…

Dynalist & Obsidian

Hi Dynalisters! As many of you have heard, for the past few months we have been working on the side on a new thing called Obsidian. Obsidian public beta was launched two days ago, and we figure we should let you guys know about it too. Obsidian is quite different from Dynalist, as it’s a knowledge base that’s works on top of a local folder of Markdown files. It’s also not an outliner (as in you can’t zoom, expand, or collapse). The use case of Obsidian is more about deliberately writing down a…