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The Road from Roam to Obsidian
The road from Roam Research (Roam) to Obsidian.md (Obsidian) can be as short as a bullet-train ride, or as long as a family road trip with lots of detours and educational stops. Regardless of your route, it is worth the trip! Along the way, you’ll be building community relationships and enhancing your Obsidian competency.
Here’s an overview of our journey:
Get Psyched for the Trip
If you love Obsidian skip this part. If you’re reading this article to decide if Obsidian is right for you but have heard Obsidian functionality doesn’t match Roam’s, let’s dispel those myths upfront.
As @pjepy so nicely states in this post, he believes, “the public perception of Obsidian by Roamans is based on a combination of outdated information (some of the block indexing I’m describing has only existed for about 9 months) and the lack of highly-visible UI affordances for some (well, most) of the functionality.”
The post highlights some of Obsidian’s functionality that is often overlooked because either it is new (released in the last six months) or the functionality is not immediately obvious. This includes block references, line swap commanded, outlining functionality, folding toggle, and more. Thus, some in the Roam Community assume the functionality isn’t there. Ah, but it is! And the…