Precursors

First generation

Own way devleoped parallely to Roam; similar, yet unique

Workflowy

Dynalist.io

Scrapbox.io

TiddlyWiki

OrgMode

Original

sin

Roam Research

Tinderbox

MacOS

⚠️ Outdated!

Roam-genealogy

LogSeq

PDF support
Zotero
local files

Athens

retired

RemNote

WYSIWYG
PDF support

Main goal: A free alternative

Local files or local database

Just taking some features

ObsidianMD

local files

Second generation

Notion.so

Zettlr

local files

Reflect

Organizedly

Thunk Notes

mem.ai

AI
calendar

Return to subscriptions (not always)

Not local first

Inclusion of a calendar natively

Searching for visual Roam

Scrintal

Heptabase

AI

Better visualization of graphs

Incorporating features from community plugins from Roam and 1st gen

Focus on UI / UX

New frontiers?

Whiteboards

Trying to implement some Roam’s concepts
whiteboard

True

multiplayer

Visual “Roam”

“Roam” for programmers

Best

PDF support

AI

Kosmik

Integrations

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

calendar

e-mail

Mobile first ☎

myReach

mobile