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Obsidian - https://obsidian.md 2. Stroll - Open source - https://giffmex.org/experiments/strol...]https://giffmex.org... 3. RemNote - https://www.remnote.io/homepage 4. Amplenote - https://www.amplenote.com/

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None of these alternatives (or others, AFAIK) have automatic references, which for me is the biggest Roam feature.

By automatic referencing do you mean backlinking?

I think the parent is referring to unlinked references: https://www.roamtips.com/home/roam-unlinked-references

Yup, that’s it :)

Org-roam supports unlinked references. In any case, that's super easy to implement (it's just plain search for the current document title in all other titles) and I expect others to soon offer this feature.

Obsidian does have that feature, so at least one of those options should work. For me, the best thing about roam is the outline level block references. Having to create a bunch of new atomic notes can start to make things really confusing from an organizational perspective and that is what always bogged me down previously. I can use Roam more like a bullet journal, just open up today's note, throw a header down for whatever meeting I am in and start to capture, then click on the header to get all the previous notes I have taken on that subject.

Note that I am not a researcher, but a dev manager, so most of my note-taking revolves around meeting notes and action items with some research thrown in.

Obsidian has no Latex support, so it's useless for me.

Obsidian supports LaTeX through the $...$ and $$...$$ syntax and renders them using MathJax.

A couple of weeks ago when I last tested it it didn't support inplace Latex. That might have changed.

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