Recovering Lost Roam Notes • Hacker News Board

Re: Recovering Lost Roam Notes

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Post by kixiQu » Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 7:29 PM UTC

arikr wrote: post #3

Roam is the app I love to hate. I love it, but I really wish a competitor was built with a focus purely on speed, security, and reliability (plus the roam innovative linked references and tagging). I suspect a large % of users are over served by all the intricate features and many just want something basic with bi directional links that’s fast, secure and reliable, which is exactly the disruption-ripe scenario Christ…

If you need something mature, [tiddlywiki](https://lesser.occult.institute/an-opinionated-approach-to-t...). If you're open to something real new (and like that shiny interface), [Logseq looks really good](https://github.com/logseq/logseq)

Re: Recovering Lost Roam Notes

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Post by hawkoy » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 1:12 AM UTC

ffpip wrote: post #10

srinathkrishna wrote: post #5

#+begin_rant I've been very very skeptical about Roam - I appreciate the sentiment behind it and the fact that it's making more people aware of networked thought but the marketing around it has been insane. Especially investor Twitter is raving about it for many weeks now about how the tool is a savior. It's almost as if they're doing it to increase user count to Roam to justify their investment, which is likely. It…

> Especially investor Twitter is raving about it for many weeks now about how the tool is a .. I see this a lot. Especially on Youtube and twitter. productivity geeks rave about how xyz app changed their life, how they have squeezed out every productive minute out of their life just because they used the xzy app. Notion, Roam, Todoist, etc. > If you're just starting out, I'd recommend using [Obsidian][ https://obsidi…

How productive it is to talk about how productive you have been on twitter?

Is there a standardized productivity test?

Re: Recovering Lost Roam Notes

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Post by cwackerfuss » Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 3:14 AM UTC

throwawaw wrote: post #2

> Importantly for us, Roam differs from other webapps in that it doesn't store all state and history in its backend. Instead, Roam's backend just stores a snapshotted Datascript database (updated ~daily as far as I can tell) and the list of transactions since that last snapshot. If I'm reading this right... A) OP was hosed if they didn't finish this within ~24 hours. That's fun. B) I now know why Roam takes a long ti…

Isn't it impossible for the 16kb partial to be valid json? Json starts in either a curly or square brace -- valid json more than 16kb would never close the outermost brace in the first 16kb of data, otherwise it would be invalid