IMO "easy" linking to other pages should be doable, but part of Roam's power is creating those pages by just making the link.
The linked references block I think could be extremely powerful in Notion. Bidirectional linking helps to associate data better than anything else I know, and if that can be handled semi-automatically it would blow people's minds.
Also, yeah, opening other pages in a sidebar would be amazing for being able to reference data without context switching and literally losing sight of what you're working on.
Personally, I'm using Notion for structured data, and Roam for unstructured, freely associated data. They're both pretty awesome in their own ways.
Not exactly. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in MediaWiki (and others), you need to click the link, (optionally) type some text, and hit "Save" or the page doesn't actually exist yet.
With Roam, the page is automatically just there when it's mentioned. A subtle difference but I'm finding it quite useful.
> Also, yeah, opening other pages in a sidebar would be amazing for being able to reference data without context switching and literally losing sight of what you're working on.
Can't you already do this? For example, if you right click on a title of a page, you get an option for "open in side bar." Then if you navigate to another page in the main pane, the sidebar still stays at the page you opened there.
If space is a form of matter that does not interact with any known mechanism, then it may as well as not exist.
Of course, future generations will find some sort of new matter, or some form of new interaction, but what you're saying doesn't mean anything for our world today.
So as I see it is that they ban it temporarily until they can regulate it as now it can be used wrongly. I don't think it will ever get banned for good.
Is this just a marketing move? Why is Google doing this? I also wonder how will this affect Chrome's market share. I think a lot of people appreciated the apps, especially the adblockers.
The linked references block I think could be extremely powerful in Notion. Bidirectional linking helps to associate data better than anything else I know, and if that can be handled semi-automatically it would blow people's minds.
Also, yeah, opening other pages in a sidebar would be amazing for being able to reference data without context switching and literally losing sight of what you're working on.
Personally, I'm using Notion for structured data, and Roam for unstructured, freely associated data. They're both pretty awesome in their own ways.