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Darius Kazemi

I don't know if I've recommended Roam Research here before, it's a mental organizing tool for research that works well for my brain. They just took $9M in funding so I fully expect them to either not be around in 5 years or to make some compromises that make them fully unacceptable for me to use in 5 years. I am old enough to know that there is no middle ground. So I now retract any recommendations I had previously made.

This page includes many self hosted alternatives: github.com/brettkromkamp/aweso

20 Sep 2020 at 18:28 | Open on friend.camp
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Darius Kazemi

I also do not particularly enthusiastically recommend any of the self hosted alternatives I've evaluated, by the way. But I'm interested to hear from people who have tried one and successfully incorporated it into their knowledge management / research workflow.

20 Sep 2020 at 18:31 | Open on friend.camp
KawaiiPunk

@darius I really like Tiddlywiki. It's very non-linear and mine is quite chaotic which suits me fine.

The simplest way of using it is just a html file that you just use in a browser and then just save (I use git for version tracking).

20 Sep 2020 at 18:33 | Open on sunbeam.city
Hal

@darius

I've been using a fairly patched-up gitit to great success. Version control, categories, and templates make for some nice note taking no matter where I am.

20 Sep 2020 at 19:01 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Hal

@darius

I've been using a fairly patched-up gitit to great success. Version control, categories, and templates make for some nice notetaking no matter where I am.

20 Sep 2020 at 19:01 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Digital Ape
@darius I second @kawaiipunk about tiddlywiki. There are two apps built on TW using plugins billed as Roam alternatives: TiddlyResearch and Stroll With a basic understanding of programming concepts you can build on and turn TiddlyWiki into anything you want. It has a NodeJS server as well that can be used to serve files or do things like make a static site generator.
22 Sep 2020 at 1:22 | Open on friendica.olliespeople.place
Darius Kazemi

Update: I've tried out a bunch of solutions and unfortunately Roam is the only one that offers real block-level transclusion that isn't a messy hack. I've decided to continue paying for Roam but also pay for Obsidian in the hopes that they (or some other non-hosted or self-hosted solution) manage to figure it out.

For a short example of block-level transclusion in action see here youtu.be/O413tVCseio

24 Sep 2020 at 21:20 | Open on friend.camp
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