Foam: A free Roam alternative for VSCode

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Summary

Foam 👀This is an early stage project under rapid development. For updates join the Foam community Discord! 💬 Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub. You can use Foam for organising your research, keeping re-discoverable notes, writing long-form content and, optionally, publishing it to the web. Foam is free, open source, and extremely extensible to suit your personal workflow. You own the information you create with Foam, and you're free to share it, and collaborate on it with anyone you want. Features Graph Visualization See how your notes are connected via a graph with the Foam: Show Graph command. Link Autocompletion Foam helps you create the connections between your notes, and your placeholders as well. Sync links on file rename Foam updates the links to renamed files, so your notes stay consistent. Unique identifiers across directories Foam supports files with the same name in multiple directories. It will use the minimum identifier required, and even report and help you fix existing ambiguous wikilinks. Link Preview and Navigation Go to definition, Peek References See where a note is being referenced in your knowledge base. Navigation in Preview Navigate your rendered notes in the VS Code preview panel. Note embed Embed the content from other notes. Support for sections Foam supports autocompletion, navigation, embedding and diagnostics for note sections. Just use the standard wiki syntax of [[resource#Section Title]] . Link Alias Foam supports link aliasing, so you can have a [[wikilink]] , or a [[wikilink|alias]] . Templates Use custom templates to have avoid repetitve work on your notes. Backlinks Panel Quickly check which notes are referencing the currently active note. See for each occurrence the context in which it lives, as well as a preview of the note. Tag Explorer Panel Tag your notes and navigate them with the Tag Explorer. Foam also supports hierarchical tags. Orp...

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