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

[Alan]

Feature requests for these two:

Table View

A method that makes a lot of sense to me is to have the list interpreted as json, and thus each node consists of a key value pair. Example: Fruit table apple price:20 health:10 toblerone price:100 health:2 danger:5 In this case, the nodes (Apple) become the table index and the keys are column names. Values are, well, values. If there is no key-value pair for a node, it would default to null. It’s a similar approach to many other json-to-table implementations. One clear benefit of t…

Transclusion/clone (display item in multiple places)

(Moved from Trello; you can vote for this feature and see past discussion at https://trello.com/c/zrla0Fmx/150-clone-display-an-item-in-multiple-places) This feature would allow you to “insert” an item elsewhere. This is not a copy, as the updates of the original item will be reflected everywhere that it’s referenced this way. “Clone” is a temporary name for this feature, lacking a better name. Cloning still indicates having multiple copies (in the sense of cloning an animal), but that’s not …