Foam: A free Roam alternative for VSCode

58 AbuAssar 9 6/4/2025, 10:57:08 PM github.com ↗

Comments (9)

sputknick · 1d ago
I tried switching to this a few years ago, but switched back to Obsidian. My problem was actually the strongest feature: the VS Code integration. Only about a third of my note taking is related to software development, so for me going into VS Code the other 2/3rd of the time was clunky. If 100% (or close to it) of your note taking is software related, this is a great product.
nchmy · 1d ago
I used both from, essentially, day 1 and had a similar experience. Obsidian is just fantastic and I vastly prefer keeping it separate from my coding, even for coding-related notes.

Though, once in a while I'll open the notes in VS Code just to make use of things like better find/replace, regex etc... - especially globally.

metayrnc · 1d ago
After reading the README, the only missing thing seems to be the equivalent of Dataview from Obsidian. Will wait for something like it before considering switching.
pivic · 1d ago
Speaking of which, have you seen the new Bases feature in Obsidian? https://help.obsidian.md/bases

Reminiscent of Dataview.

alessandroberna · 4h ago
That looks awesome!
fouc · 1d ago
> Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code
senkora · 20h ago
See also org-roam which is similar but for emacs using org: https://www.orgroam.com/
schonfinkel · 2h ago
This is what made explore orgmode altogether and got me addicted to Emacs.
mtzaldo · 16h ago
Is vscode the new electron?