Precursors

First generation

Own way devleoped parallely to Roam; similar, yet unique

mem.ai

AI
calendar

⚠️ Outdated!

Second generation

Main goal: A free alternative

myReach

mobile

Mobile first ☎

e-mail

calendar

Freedom of note-taking + power of tables like in Notion?

Integrations

Kosmik

AI

Best

PDF support

“Roam” for programmers

Visual “Roam”

True

multiplayer

Whiteboards

Trying to implement some Roam’s concepts
whiteboard

New frontiers?

Focus on UI / UX

Incorporating features from community plugins from Roam and 1st gen

Better visualization of graphs

Heptabase

AI

Scrintal

Searching for visual Roam

Inclusion of a calendar natively

Not local first

Return to subscriptions (not always)

Thunk Notes

Organizedly

Reflect

Zettlr

local files

Notion.so

ObsidianMD

local files

Just taking some features

Local files or local database

RemNote

WYSIWYG
PDF support

Athens

retired

LogSeq

PDF support
Zotero
local files

Roam-genealogy

Tinderbox

MacOS

Roam Research

Original

sin

OrgMode

TiddlyWiki

Scrapbox.io

Dynalist.io

Workflowy