![]() ![]() Notion is more robust and expansive, geared towards capturing information to get things done. Roam Researchĭespite Roam's name, I think as an app, it's more ancient Greece to Notion's ancient Rome. Zapier also connects to Roam, but it's through another third-party tool called roam-bot. Here's a calendar and list view of a project task list, as an example. Notion offers a variety of views for the same information and lets you create highly visual pages and dashboards. Look and feel: Roam loves its bullet lists, but both offer visual customizationīoth apps are minimalist out of the box. ![]() The gist: Roam realizes it's a poor collaboration space and is working to improve its collaboration features. You can create local graphs, but you cannot share them. Officially, you can set read or editor access to a page. Users have expressed security concerns, as each hosted Roam graph is a public link, albeit hard to find if someone hasn't shared the link with you. It was designed as a solitary tool, but it's working to grow beyond that. Roam, on the other hand, was built with the goal of helping an individual boost their creativity and uncover overlooked connections in their research-basically, to help someone think and process their notes better. Because Notion is meant for collaboration, it provides multiple access levels, so granular security can apply to pages and databases. Once you upgrade, you'll get a lot more collaboration features-the highest-tier plans even have tools for things like workspace analysis. The Free plan allows the page owner to invite guests to access the page (with limited collaboration). Notion's hyper-flexible functionality and pricing model push towards increased collaboration. Collaboration: Notion excels at it, but Roam might catch up Notion's onboarding gets you into something workable fast, even if not perfectly optimized yet, surpassing Roam's onboarding experience. ![]() They're mostly tools that help you do more things in Roam, and many of them seem to take some command line work-not an inviting option for non-technical people. Roam has a marketplace for third-party extensions. The tough part for me is that I still need a research/note-taking organizational structure that goes beyond connecting phrases and topics, and I don't see a path to get there with Roam Research that's easier or less expensive than the path Notion offers me. While working with Roam's bidirectional link concept is super easy, I quickly realized that's the simple part. There aren't templates, per se, but videos and articles where a Roam user shows you how they set up a graph or page to meet their use case. Roam also has well-organized native and third-party resources, although its ecosystem isn't as large. I feel confident a research structure that works for me exists in Notion I just need to fine-tune it. It's not exactly what I need for how I work, but I'm able to modify the template, which helps. Those who've been willing to climb its steep learning curve and "get it," seem to love it. If you gather a lot of research and information that you want to go back to often and want a tool that might help you discover connections and nuances from your notes and research that might not be obvious, Roam Research may be for you. Roam is very tailored to hardcore researchers and tech folks. If you want an app that can work for your information organizational needs, and you also like its usefulness for other tasks, Notion is the better option. Notion is easier to use and less expensive. So which is better for note-taking and organizing thoughts? ⭐ Free, third-party web clipper available copies text over in bullet point format rather than article format ⭐⭐⭐ Captures the full text of the article without the extra garbage, but you're limited in where you can drop it you may need to move it once in Notion to get it where you want it ⭐⭐ No free version, but has a 31-day free trial the Pro version is $15/month or $165/year the Believer plan is $500 for five years discounts available for students and academics ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four plans from Free to Enterprise the two mid-tier plans (Plus and Business) range from $8/user/month to $18/user/month ⭐⭐⭐ Can integrate with other apps through its API easier path is through Zapier and the Roam Bot, but it's not affiliated with Roam Research ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Built-in integrations with many popular apps, including Zapier ⭐⭐ Less customizable than Notion, but can be used for more than note-taking ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Possibilities infinite, which can make it feel overwhelming the enormous ecosystem of third-party Notion templates (free and paid) eases the transition ⭐⭐⭐ Well-organized Welcome and FAQ wikis strongly recommends joining Roam support forums ![]() ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Large library of videos from Notion and third parties ![]()
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