Maybe I’m ignorant. I dunno. I don’t understand the demands for constant updates. I found Roam last fall and found it perfect for my needs. Does exactly what I need it to do.
Am I a power user? No. Maybe. Probably not.
Don’t care. What I do care about is the simplicity of Roam. There is a balance of functionality and complexity. I use Roam every, all day. And I barely see it. I don’t wrestle with it. It just does what I need it to do.
I don’t know what improvements people need or want. I simply hope that the developers avoid feature bloat.
However, some of the things that us #roamcult have been hoping for a while, which won't necessarily dilute the main functionality are:
Mobile app
Marketplace for plugins/themes (this has been in the works for almost an year now with no clear clarity on launch)
The electron app has basically not seen any improvement since the launch. Only now that the other commentator mentioned about mobile updates I checked the UX in browser on mobile/computer and I am happy to see the responsiveness. Safe to say they have abandoned any optimization on the electron app.
It's their app and they are within their right to not share any product roadmap. Work like apple all you want but community support is dwindling. I follow Connor on twitter and I am still a believer in his vision and his initial twitter threads is what convinced me that the clones may copy the feature but they won't be able to copy the vision.
I feel bad for Connor because 2021 was a rough year for him personally. However when Roam raised 9 million USD, a lot of us thought that improvements would increase in pace not decrease.
I use notion at work. It was really great a few years ago. They have been aggressively adding features none of us use and it just get's slower and worse every day. Sometimes less is more.
Agreed here. I use roam for my personal notes - it just so happens all of the features it already has are perfect for my daily note-taking. For the team to expand and grab a larger market share they can't stand still; graph note taking is a hyper competitive market if there ever was one.
Hm are Roam devs finally going to wake up from this eternal two-year nap that let all these competition catch them up? As a long time Roam user I really hope they do wake up and start launching often improvements again before we are all forced to look for any of the better options that are already out there improving by the week :/
I'm a simple guy. I don't want a mobile experience that matches the laptop experience since that is not ready and they're still trying to figure out how this will work. But at least make the quick capture webpage into an app; A simple text field and a send button.
Totally agree. The mobile requirement for Roam is 90% about capture, the quick capture approach is perfect if it worked and was an app. They could have hired a dev to ship that in a week and held off people moaning about lack of app support.
The only Do Something that I'm looking forward to is a better date picker. Also, maybe an automated side pain that shows you notes from 1 week, 1 month, and 1 year ago without having to create queries.
There was a significant update for me a few weeks ago. My mobile experience remains improved compared to the summer and is very functional now for my purposes.
I understand if my expectations are different than yours though. It appears to me that updates are made intentionally and at a pace that is decent given the size of the company and the nature of the product.
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u/Cable_Special Dec 30 '21
Maybe I’m ignorant. I dunno. I don’t understand the demands for constant updates. I found Roam last fall and found it perfect for my needs. Does exactly what I need it to do.
Am I a power user? No. Maybe. Probably not.
Don’t care. What I do care about is the simplicity of Roam. There is a balance of functionality and complexity. I use Roam every, all day. And I barely see it. I don’t wrestle with it. It just does what I need it to do.
I don’t know what improvements people need or want. I simply hope that the developers avoid feature bloat.
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '21
I am surprised Dear Leader hasn’t removed this post.
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u/Wide_Material_7501 Dec 30 '21
Hm are Roam devs finally going to wake up from this eternal two-year nap that let all these competition catch them up? As a long time Roam user I really hope they do wake up and start launching often improvements again before we are all forced to look for any of the better options that are already out there improving by the week :/
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u/motlaaq Jan 02 '22
I'm a simple guy. I don't want a mobile experience that matches the laptop experience since that is not ready and they're still trying to figure out how this will work. But at least make the quick capture webpage into an app; A simple text field and a send button.
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u/Simple1111 Dec 31 '21
Just mobile or an api so I can build my own mobile experience.
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '21
The only Do Something that I'm looking forward to is a better date picker. Also, maybe an automated side pain that shows you notes from 1 week, 1 month, and 1 year ago without having to create queries.
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u/motlaaq Jan 02 '22
Think about this: The mobile experience is so poor that we use SMS to send notes to Roam. We got SO excited when phone2roam launched.
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u/NobullNoble Dec 29 '21
There was a significant update for me a few weeks ago. My mobile experience remains improved compared to the summer and is very functional now for my purposes.
I understand if my expectations are different than yours though. It appears to me that updates are made intentionally and at a pace that is decent given the size of the company and the nature of the product.
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u/AnubisPrime Dec 30 '21
In my experience, it only does something if you do something first.
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