Open source alternatives to Roam Research
One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Roam Research does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What Roam Research does
- Bidirectional links between notescore
- Outliner with blockscore
- Daily notes
- Block references
- Graph of connected notes
- Queries
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 logseqLocal-first outliner for notes and knowledge graphs in Markdown or Org-mode |
Covers one part0% | 46k+79 | 38 days ago | 100% | Install like an app | AGPL-3.0 | |
Covers 0 of 2 core jobs. Not shown: Bidirectional links between notes; Outliner with blocks; Daily notes; Block references; Graph of connected notes; Queries.See the evidence
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