Thread by @TfTHacker

1/ Playing with @RoamResearch today (All day). I try to give it a fair shot every few months. It is improving & has some unique features. But it still lacks the love and finesse of a product that is $15 a month.

I want to love it. I would love to return. But....

#roamantics

2/ Playing with mobile you see it's the mobile version of their website wrapped in a mobile container. it is poorly optimized for mobile, and lacks basics for mobile use.

No drag and drop of nodes, no gestures on a block level.

p.s. Obsidian stinks in this category as well.

3/ Here is the mobile app and its menu. I am in the mobile app, but it offers to "Install Roam".

I am confused: I am in Roam, but now I should install Roam?

4/ I also opened a graph on Roam Mobile.

Then let it fully load (as indicated by the green light indicator). Then disconnected from the internet and reloaded the mobile app.

Then I see nothing. Is there some special "use offline" button I need?

5/ I was also working on importing data into a local graph via the desktop app. I loaded about 2MB of data (highly block referenced). Every time I load the graph I see this message. (note: reloaded this thing 10 times with the same results).

6/ I imported the same graph into an online graph and didn't get this message.

Why?

7/ Come on Roam, get your act together.

Polish

Quality

Testing

As I said, Obsidian lacks some of the same mobile features, but it's free, not $15 a month. Also, Obsidian Sync is solid.

8/ I am not giving up on Roam but it will be some time before I try again.

Ok, I am mentally ready for the attack of the #roamantics and to be twitter blocked. I can handle it.