org-roam
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 25, 2025first mention
Oct 10, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Org-roam helps this problem for me in two levels.”
“I've been using org-roam for a while without too much trouble”
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“I have a few thousand notes in my Org-Roam note taking system”
“Org roam is unbeatable”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good 3 mentions
- I have officially retired from Emacs 2 mentions
- I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again 1 mention
- Grove.el – An Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs 1 mention
- Agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP 1 mention
- Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? 1 mention
Also written as Org-roam, Org Roam, Org-Roam. Data: org-roam.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“Org-roam helps this problem for me in two levels.”
“I've been using org-roam for a while without too much trouble”
“vanilla Org-Roam indexing became a bottleneck”
“I have a few thousand notes in my Org-Roam note taking system”
“Every day I use org-roam-dailies-goto-today to make a new file”
“Mine is a forever ongoing experiment on Emacs + Orgmode + org-roam + Nix”
“Can I use an org-roam database?”
“Org roam is unbeatable”
“the fdroid build of emacs doesn't really work very well with my org-roam”