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Any org-roam users here? I started with Roam Research (one of the believers, even), but then moved to org-roam to keep the files under my control.

Is Obsidian worth trying if one's already using org-roam and is reasonably familiar with Emacs?

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You can use LogSeq[1] if you'd like to continue with org-roam. It supports both Markdown and org-roam, stores data locally, and has a good community as well. It is still in beta though.

[1] https://github.com/logseq/logseq

> Is Obsidian worth trying if one's already using org-roam and is reasonably familiar with Emacs?

What features do you need that org-roam doesn't have? Hard to say if it's worth moving on without knowing that. If org-roam is working for you, then why bother moving? If it's not, why not and does obsidian possess those features?

That was exactly my point. Perhaps a clearer, if much more verbose phrasing, would be: "If you've used org-roam before and then moved to Obsidian, what are the benefits you realize only after moving to Obsidian?"

I don't know these because I haven't tried Obsidian myself and I suspect if there are benefits they won't be immediately obvious without some sustained use.

Obsidian has now exceeded roam for me. The community plugins are great and getting better.

Roam has better embedding eg tweets, but not for long.

I also use org-roam, I'm wondering the same thing. I really like org-roam, and I'm very used to the keybindings, but I've always felt a little bit of friction with it that I can't really explain.

Exactly this. I have a hard time using Roam Research now that I'm on org-roam, but org-roam DOES feel slower and have more friction. One of those cumulation of little things that make it so, I suppose.

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