Just to be clear, I have no affiliation with Roam nor am I part of their development. I’m a user just like everyone else.
I use Workflowy for mobile capture and can copy to/from it just fine. I use Chrome on macOS for Roam (through Nativefier), so I don’t know why that isn’t consistent. I’ve added it to their bug-report (which currently lives on Slack, very alpha!)
The interface scales really well, so if you want larger text (as I did), I highly recommend simply zooming in the browser.
The reading may be a subjective thing, I quite like it. I’m sure interface customisations are going to be in the works.
Linking to/from bullet-points and having backlinks show up is a large part of the draw for me.
I use Workflowy for mobile capture and can copy to/from it just fine.
Depending on the direction of copy/pasting, I either ended up with huge blobs of text in one item, or flat lists without any indentation. i.e., I couldn’t manage structure-preserving interchange with any other tool except (ironically enough) my markdown editor, Typora. A bullet-point list or paragraphs from Typora would paste into Roam with structure, and I could also do the reverse. But markdown bullet point lists aren’t really interchangeable with any other tools I use, so it’s not a viable bridge to my other outlining tools.
Hi pjeby, thanks for your comments!
Just to be clear, I have no affiliation with Roam nor am I part of their development. I’m a user just like everyone else.
I use Workflowy for mobile capture and can copy to/from it just fine. I use Chrome on macOS for Roam (through Nativefier), so I don’t know why that isn’t consistent. I’ve added it to their bug-report (which currently lives on Slack, very alpha!)
The interface scales really well, so if you want larger text (as I did), I highly recommend simply zooming in the browser.
The reading may be a subjective thing, I quite like it. I’m sure interface customisations are going to be in the works.
Linking to/from bullet-points and having backlinks show up is a large part of the draw for me.
Depending on the direction of copy/pasting, I either ended up with huge blobs of text in one item, or flat lists without any indentation. i.e., I couldn’t manage structure-preserving interchange with any other tool except (ironically enough) my markdown editor, Typora. A bullet-point list or paragraphs from Typora would paste into Roam with structure, and I could also do the reverse. But markdown bullet point lists aren’t really interchangeable with any other tools I use, so it’s not a viable bridge to my other outlining tools.
Yeah. That’s a bug.
Most of our users have come from Workflowy, Dynalist, Evernote or Notion, and copy/paste works (preserving indentation) for them, both to and from.
If you email conor or josh at roamresearch.com happy to help.
This sounds like a bug. You might want to report it to Roaman on LW.