# roam research: sources

> the catalog — every source behind every claim, dated and typed.

- [roam research — a note-taking tool for networked thought](https://roamresearch.com/) — roam research, roam research (2019, primary). the product site and its own description of the tool.
- [the roam research white paper](https://roamresearch.com/#/app/help/page/dZ72V0Ig6) — roam research, roam research (~2020, primary). roam's own statement of the thesis: a directed graph instead of a file tree, with bayesian and collaborative ambitions that mostly never shipped. the page lives inside roam's js-rendered help graph; a readable export sits at heckler.roam.garden/@white-paper.
- [roam: why i love it and how i use it](https://www.nateliason.com/blog/roam) — nat eliason, nat eliason (2020-01-18, community). the article most often credited with triggering the 2020 sign-up wave; eliason later reported it drove meaningful referral revenue.
- [how to use roam research: a tool for metacognition](https://nesslabs.com/roam-research) — ness labs, anne-laure le cunff (2020, community). the 'tool for metacognition' guide that onboarded much of the first wave.
- [getting compound interest on your thoughts with conor white-sullivan](https://nesslabs.com/conor-white-sullivan-interview) — ness labs, anne-laure le cunff (2020, interview). conor's own framing in interview: compound interest on your thoughts; good ideas come from ideas having sex.
- [roam research faq](https://nesslabs.com/roam-research-faq) — ness labs, anne-laure le cunff (2020, community). the pricing record: $15/month, $165/year, and the $500 five-year believer plan.
- [roam research: the limitless tool](https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/roam-research) — the generalist, mario gabriele (2020, reporting). a long, favorable company profile published near the peak of the hype wave.
- [roam is a note-taking tool, and a dream of a better self](https://www.builtinsf.com/articles/roam-note-taking-app-personal-wiki) — built in sf (2020, reporting). the feature that documented #roamcult as a genuine community phenomenon and traced the bush-to-roam lineage in the popular press.
- [a $200 million seed valuation for roam](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/a-200-million-seed-valuation-for-roam-shows-investor-frenzy-for-note-taking-apps) — the information (2020-09-11, reporting). the scoop that fixed the public number: ~$9m at ~$200m, roughly 25x the median seed valuation. paywalled.
- [roam research raises $9m at a $200m valuation](https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/28/roam-research-raises-9-million/) — techcrunch (2020-09-28, reporting). the techcrunch writeup that carried the round to the general tech audience.
- [how roam research got their first 1000 customers](https://medium.com/first-1000/how-roam-research-got-their-first-1000-customers-7cacd90ec67) — first 1000 (medium), ali abou el atta (2020-07-29, reporting). the 'low floor, high ceiling' product philosophy and the enterprise-first start.
- [why note-taking apps don't make us smarter](https://www.platformer.news/why-note-taking-apps-dont-make-us/) — platformer, casey newton (2023-09-11, reporting). the marquee postmortem by a believer: 'i waited for the insights to come. and waited. and waited.' notes designed for storage, not sparking insights.
- [a note on the cargo cult of zettelkasten](https://boffosocko.com/2023/02/03/a-note-on-the-cargo-cult-of-zettelkasten/) — boffosocko, chris aldrich (2023-02-03, community). the cargo-cult diagnosis: users follow the motions of zettelkasten for months, don't see the promised gains, and quietly give up.
- [why i left roam research after 5 years](https://yu-wenhao.com/en/blog/roam-research-to-obsidian/) — yu-wenhao.com, wenhao yu (~2025, community). a five-year believer ($500 plan, $1k investor) leaves for obsidian: 'ai changed everything, and my data was locked in the cloud.'
- [i wish i knew how to quit roam research](https://investing101.substack.com/p/i-wish-i-knew-how-to-quit-roam-research) — investing101 (substack), kyle harrison (~2023, community). the loyalist counterweight: roam 'was not building a productivity app' while most users wanted one.
- [zettelkasten, honestly](https://notesnudge.com/systems/zettelkasten/) — notesnudge (~2025, community). the cleanest evidence audit: 'the system will surprise you with connections' is the least-supported claim; only survivors write essays.
- [moving from roam research to obsidian](https://mickmel.substack.com/p/moving-from-roam-research-to-obsidian) — mickmel (substack), mickmel (~2022, community). a representative migration note: price, privacy, and sync driving the move to obsidian.
- [conaw on sync issues and the state of roam](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1356454768223293441.html) — threadreader app, conor white-sullivan (2021-01, archive). conor's own january 2021 thread on sync bugs and performance — 'roam is far from done' — plus the subreddit friction it answered. captured via threadreader.
- [as we may think](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/) — the atlantic, vannevar bush (1945-07, primary). the 1945 memex essay every networked-thought tool cites as origin.
- [augmenting human intellect: a conceptual framework](https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html) — doug engelbart institute, douglas engelbart (1962-10, primary). augmenting human intellect as an explicit program — computers as thinking partners, six years before the mother of all demos.
- [computer lib / dream machines](https://archive.org/details/computer-lib-dream-machines) — internet archive (scan), ted nelson (1974, archive). hypertext, hypermedia, and 'everything is deeply intertwingled' — plus transclusion, the ancestor of roam's block reference.
- [the curse of xanadu](https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/) — wired, gary wolf (1995-06, reporting). the cautionary precedent: xanadu as the longest-running vaporware project in computing — vision shipped partially, ambition unreached.
- [wikiwikiweb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb) — wikipedia (1995, community). ward cunningham's 1995 wiki: every page editable, every camelcase word a link that creates the page if missing — bottom-up structure made nearly free.
- [communicating with slip boxes](https://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes) — luhmann.surge.sh (translation), niklas luhmann (1981, primary). the slip-box as a partner that surprises you — and the caveat roam lived out: the box needs years to reach critical mass, until then it is a mere container.
- [how to take smart notes](https://takesmartnotes.com/) — northbooks, sönke ahrens (2017, primary). the book that popularized luhmann's zettelkasten for the roam generation.
- [history and acknowledgments (org manual)](https://orgmode.org/manual/History-and-Acknowledgments.html) — orgmode.org (2003, primary). org-mode's own history: a plain-text outline mode born in 2003 — the grammar roam rebuilt as a product.
- [turn your entire life into a list with workflowy](https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/workflow/) — techcrunch, alexia tsotsis (2010-11-04, reporting). workflowy's 2010 launch: proof a whole product could be one infinite, zoomable list.
- [about this particular outliner: outliner history](https://atpm.com/9.09/atpo.shtml) — atpm, ted goranson (2003, community). the desktop-outliner lineage — thinktank, more, acta — that roam's surface descends from.
- [hypertext gardens](https://eastgate.com/garden/Enter.html) — eastgate, mark bernstein (1998, primary). the first recorded use of 'digital garden' (1998) and a deliberate argument for irregular, curated link structure; tinderbox put agents inside notes in 2002.
- [the story of tiddlywiki](https://tiddlywiki.com/static/The%2520Story%2520of%2520TiddlyWiki.html) — tiddlywiki.com, jeremy ruston (2004, primary). the personal wiki as one self-contained html file of reusable tiddlers — quasi-transclusion in 2004.
- [the garden and the stream: a technopastoral](https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/) — hapgood, mike caulfield (2015-10-17, primary). the garden-vs-stream frame that became digital-garden canon: topology against serialization.
- [augmenting long-term memory](https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html) — michael nielsen, michael nielsen (2018-07, primary). spaced repetition and memory systems as tools for thought — the intellectual neighbor roam sat next to.
- [how can we develop transformative tools for thought?](https://numinous.productions/ttft/) — numinous productions, andy matuschak & michael nielsen (2019, primary). the essay that named the field roam came to represent — and warned that good tools for thought arise mostly as byproducts of serious work.
- [evergreen notes](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes) — notes.andymatuschak.org, andy matuschak (2019, primary). the canonical public note corpus: 'better note-taking misses the point; what matters is better thinking'; titles as apis; notes densely linked.
- [of digital streams, campfires and gardens](https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/10/10/of-gardens-and-wikis/) — tomcritchlow.com, tom critchlow (2018-10, primary). the indie-hacker instantiation: streams, campfires, gardens, and the jekyll wikifolder — building your own garden before roam sold one.
- [a brief history & ethos of the digital garden](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history) — maggieappleton.com, maggie appleton (2020, community). the digital-garden history that places roam inside a longer tradition of public learning.
- [local-first software](https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/) — ink & switch, kleppmann, wiggins, van hardenberg, mcgranaghan (2019-04, primary). the counter-ideology roam violated: you own your data, in spite of the cloud — the banner obsidian and logseq recruited under.
- [building a second brain](https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/) — building a second brain, tiago forte (2017, primary). code and para turned pkm into a mass aspiration — the demand roam rode. eliason's verdict: 'roam is v4.'
- [tools for thought rocks](https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/tools-for-thought-rocks/) — bmann consulting, boris mann (2021, community). the tools-for-thought community layer — a monthly series running july 2021 to march 2023 that neatly brackets the wave's peak.
- [file over app](https://stephango.com/file-over-app) — stephango.com, steph ango (2023-07-01, primary). obsidian's ceo on why files outlive apps — in the agent era it reads as prophetic: plain markdown is the substrate agents already read.
- [obsidian — a private and flexible writing app](https://obsidian.md/about) — obsidian (2020, primary). the local-first competitor that won the pragmatists while roam won the evangelists — first beta march 30, 2020, free, plain markdown.
- [logseq/logseq](https://github.com/logseq/logseq) — github (2020, primary). the open-source outliner clone (agpl, local markdown/org files) that absorbed roam's most cost-sensitive users; its readme credits roam, org-mode, tiddlywiki, and workflowy.
- [logseq raises $4.1m](https://blog.logseq.com/logseq-raises-4-1m-to-accelerate-growth-of-the-new-world-knowledge-graph/) — logseq blog (~2022, primary). logseq's $4.1m raise from collison, friedman, lütke, and dave winer — explicitly on users 'jumping ship from roam.'
- [athensresearch/athens](https://github.com/athensresearch/athens) — github (2020, primary). the cautionary open-source clone: yc w21, 6.3k stars, unmaintained since ~2023 — cloning the graph was never the hard part.
- [tana — the all-in-one workspace with supertags](https://tana.inc/) — tana (2023, primary). the supertag successor built by ex-roam-community figures, launched on the explicit promise of finishing what roam started.
- [tana raises $14m series a](https://outliner.tana.inc/blog/tana-raises-usd14m-series-a) — tana blog (~2024, primary). tana's $14m series a as an 'ai-native workspace' — the category's pivot to agents made literal.
- [the next chapter for tana](https://outliner.tana.inc/blog/the-next-chapter-for-tana) — tana blog (~2025, primary). 'your graph is the context and conversations are your prompts… your knowledge graph builds itself every time you talk.'
- [automatically add backlinks using ai](https://reflect.app/blog/automatically-add-backlinks-using-ai) — reflect, alex maccaw (~2023, primary). the labor handoff as a button: 'decorate my writing with backlinks.'
- [mem's note-taking app plans to use ai](https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23424972/mem-ai-notes-app-search-google) — the verge, david pierce (2022-11-10, reporting). mem's ai-first pitch — 'a google search bar but for all nonpublic information' — and the memex homage in the name.
- [capacities launch thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31592670) — hacker news (2022-06-02, community). object-based notes: typed objects instead of pages — structure by type and relation rather than folders.
- [llm-wiki.md](https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f) — github gist, andrej karpathy (2026-04-04, primary). the agent-era restatement: an llm-maintained markdown wiki as 'a persistent, compounding artifact.' 'obsidian is the ide; the llm is the programmer; the wiki is the codebase.'
- [graphrag: unlocking llm discovery on narrative private data](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/) — microsoft research, larson & truitt (2024-02-13, primary). microsoft's graphrag: llm-extracted knowledge graphs plus community summaries beat baseline rag on global sensemaking questions.
- [ai's trillion-dollar opportunity: context graphs](https://foundationcapital.com/ideas/context-graphs-ais-trillion-dollar-opportunity) — foundation capital, jaya gupta & ashu garg (2025-12, primary). the enterprise restatement: agents need decision traces — exceptions, overrides, precedents — captured into context graphs.
- [introducing the model context protocol](https://www.anthropic.com/research/model-context-protocol) — anthropic (2024-11-25, primary). anthropic's open socket between agents and data — the plumbing that makes agent-readable knowledge bases practical.
- [look ma, no rag! building agent-native knowledge systems](https://blog.pollack.ai/look-ma-no-rag/) — blog.pollack.ai (~2025, community). the links-beat-embeddings argument at project scale: index files as routing tables, let the agent follow links in two or three hops.
- [benchmarking ai agent memory: is a filesystem all you need?](https://www.letta.com/blog/benchmarking-ai-agent-memory/) — letta (~2025, primary). the strongest counter-evidence: a plain agent with file tools hit 74% on the locomio memory benchmark — files plus grep rival specialized memory systems.
- [introducing context repositories](https://www.letta.com/blog/context-repositories/) — letta (~2025, primary). git-backed agent memory: markdown plus frontmatter projected into a real repo the agent greps and commits — roam's data model reinvented as infrastructure.
- [agents.md](https://agents.md/) — agents.md (2025, primary). the cross-vendor convention — 'a readme for agents' across codex, cursor, jules, copilot, and 60k+ projects.
- [agent memory engineering](https://nicolasbustamante.com/blog/agent-memory-engineering) — nicolasbustamante.com, nicolas bustamante (~2026, community). the audit caveat: production agent memory converges on small markdown taxonomies, and 'remember this' behavior is harness-trained — structure matters less than habit.
- [karpathy's obsidian wiki broke at 100 articles](https://dev.to/zaferdace/karpathys-obsidian-wiki-broke-at-100-articles-rag-fixed-it-4d4h) — dev.to, zaferdace (~2026, community). the counter-lesson: at ~100 articles an llm-maintained wiki exceeds usable context and the model starts confidently fabricating cross-note relationships.
- [why your second brain is dead](https://self.md/concepts/second-brain-is-dead/) — self.md (~2025, community). the bluntest version of the against case: 'the ai does not care about your backlinks… the expensive operation became free.'
- [hraness/wordcell](https://github.com/hraness/wordcell) — github, hraness (2026, primary). a knowledge base for coding agents built from markdown, backlinks, semantic search, and git context — markdown and git authoritative, indexes as replaceable views.
- [wordcell docs](https://wordcell.io/docs) — wordcell.io, hraness (2026, primary). wordcell's docs: context, backlinks, and history per code path, installed as an agent skill.
- [sponge — a personal library for research](https://sponge.computer/) — sponge.computer, hraness (2025, primary). a knowledge harness where agents research against a saved corpus — cite the passages used, check claims against the text — while people steer, review, and control release.
- [hraness/oh](https://github.com/hraness/oh) — github, hraness (2026, primary). an ontology kernel for agentic research: content-addressed entity, statement, assertion, and evidence records with an append-only operation log; indexes derived and rebuildable.
- [what happened to roam research? magic, then friction](https://buildfirstbrain.com/journal/why-roam-research-felt-like-magic-and-why-it-faded/) — buildfirstbrain (~2026, community). a representative 'what happened to roam' essay — likely ai-assisted, used for the genre's shape rather than its claims: 'connections you do not understand are not understanding.'
- [huffington post acquires localocracy](https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/03/huffington-post-hits-37-million-monthly-visitors-1-billion-pageviews-acquires-localocracy/) — techcrunch (2011-10-03, reporting). the acquisition that anchors conaw's pre-roam history: localocracy — 'everyone is an expert about something' — sold to aol's huffington post media group.
- [umass start-up website bought by huffington post](https://dailycollegian.com/2011/10/umass-start-up-website-bought-by-huffington-post/) — massachusetts daily collegian (2011-10, reporting). the student-paper record: umass amherst founders, ages, and lead engineer jay voice.
- [conor white-sullivan author archive](https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/conor-white-sullivan) — obamawhitehouse.archives.gov, conor white-sullivan (2012, archive). conaw's obama-era white house blog archive — participatory democracy writing under his own name: 'an anthropology major … in 2008 founded localocracy.'
- [tedxboston — conor white-sullivan — localocracy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6PMb-cL5o) — tedxboston / youtube, conor white-sullivan (2010-07-29, archive). the earliest surviving conaw talk video: localocracy as an online town common — collective intelligence a decade before roam.
- [ignite amherst talk on tech, media, and political power](https://twitter.com/conaw/status/1265893478321385473) — ignite amherst (shared via twitter), conor white-sullivan (2009, archive). fall 2009, five minutes and twenty slides: 'an abundance of hope and the reckless confidence of a 21 year old. still stand by most of this.'
- [how i met my co-founder (origin thread)](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1176276601048199168.html) — threadreader app, conor white-sullivan (2019-09-05, archive). the first-person founding story: meeting joshua brown at 42, the prototype, the co-founder offer — and 'just started bringing in users from the public a couple months ago.'
- [the roam research white paper (mirror)](https://heckler.roam.garden/@white-paper/) — roam garden (mirror), conor white-sullivan (2018, archive). the readable export of the white paper — 'we wrote this white paper in winter of 2017/2018'; co-authored with journalist richard meadows, who became roam's first investor.
- [welcome to roam — founder introduction](https://bardia.roam.garden/) — roam garden (mirror), conor white-sullivan (2019, archive). the founder introduction inside roam's own public help graph — ending with his personal gmail and 'much love — conor.' the medium demonstrating itself.
- [365 propositions](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1077392657494593537.html) — threadreader app, conor white-sullivan (2018-12-25, archive). the living thread-as-publication: hundreds of numbered daily propositions on thinking, consent, communal living, and the limits of thinkable thoughts — public thinking before the product.
- [why evernote is a terrible second brain](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1099181050045952006.html) — threadreader app, conor white-sullivan (2019-02-23, archive). the 45-tweet thesis the white paper itself links as 'related twitter thread': 'writing isn't just a tool for communication. first and foremost, writing is a tool for thinking.'
- [the zettelkasten thread](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1129788853189955584.html) — threadreader app, conor white-sullivan (2019-05-18, archive). 'the zettelkasten — it's like the gtd for intellectual progress' — the thread that tied roam to luhmann and opened invites, naming joshua brown as co-builder.
- [trust in the gatekeepers / all time low](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1352457087230480384.html) — threadreader app, conor white-sullivan (2021-01-22, archive). the continuity thread: 'trust in the gatekeepers / all time low' — 'the answer is not a new channel. it's a new format, a new medium, with a new power structure.' 'if had been no @localocracy there would be no @roamresearch.'
- [api, fellowship, and the roam fund](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1307107745397604354) — threadreader app, conor white-sullivan (2020-09-19, archive). the peak ecosystem-builder thread days after the seed: new backend, api and multiplayer, the roam fellowship (first fellow dhrumil mehta), and $2m for a roam fund — $1m balance sheet, $1m option pool.
- [roamgames announcement](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1352824113019056129.html) — threadreader app, conor white-sullivan (2021-01-23, archive). $10,000 every two weeks for three months to community builders 'whose public work pushes the frontier the farthest' — judged on intermediate packets and growing the commons.


Published by @ben in profile revision 1.
Original document: https://hraness.com/roam-research/sources
Original credited author: Hraness
AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.

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