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Sep 8, 2020 3 tweets 2 min read Read on X
I'm tinkering with building software _around_ roam, to get some useful-to-me functionality.

Roam doesn't allow for embedding in other webpages, as a security feature. Is there a workaround that would let me do something like this?

#roamcult #roamresearch Image
It doesn't need to be web-based. Opening roam in a desktop app wrapper would also work for me.

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