Any ideas for leo about Roam Research and/or Obsidian structured/graph note applications

Shakeeb

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Jun 22, 2020, 2:19:13 AM6/22/20

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I've recently come across the pay-to-use Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com), here a nice introductory video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMiodsp6OKo) and Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) which is similar, but available as a desktop app, and is free for personal use

These are basically graph based personal wikis (with backlinks) based on markdown with outlining features and graph generation to show an information overview or relationships between nodes.

It reminded me of leo, which has been ahead of the curve for decades.

Still, these applications show that the two-way wiki feature is quite popular.

Any thoughts about these apps and about making wiki links (with backlinks) a first class features in leo?

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Edward K. Ream

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Jun 23, 2020, 5:12:00 AM6/23/20

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 1:19 AM Shakeeb <shakeeb...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've recently come across the pay-to-use Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com), here a nice introductory video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMiodsp6OKo) and Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) which is similar, but available as a desktop app, and is free for personal use

Thanks for these links.

These are basically graph based personal wikis (with backlinks) based on markdown with outlining features and graph generation to show an information overview or relationships between nodes.

Imo, Leo's DAG (Directed Acyclic List) is better than a general graph, for reasons which I have discussed many times before. In particular, clones can not be intuitively defined in a general graph.

Edward

Shakeeb

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Jun 23, 2020, 9:30:54 AM6/23/20

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I agree. That's why I cancelled my free trial for Roam after a few minutes. Leo is more powerful, but my desire for universal variable substitution (see my recent post about sections) and first-class wiki features still applies (-:

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David Rosenbluth

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Nov 28, 2021, 3:26:45 PM11/28/21

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I've been using leo for note taking for man years. I'm interested in converting back an forth from obsidian to leo. Do you have any suggestions for tools that might be able to do that?

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