By Tienson Qin
Roam Research was powerful but proprietary and stored notes in the cloud. Wanted the same bidirectional linking and outlining in an open-source, local-first tool.
Launched in 2020. Grew through the PKM (personal knowledge management) community. Active open-source development.
Your knowledge base should be open source and stored in plain text files you own.
To be the best open-source tool for thinking and organizing knowledge.