org-roam
Plain-text personal knowledge management for Emacs
Org-roam is a plain-text personal knowledge management system for Emacs that brings Zettelkasten-style note-taking on top of Org-mode files. It maintains a database of links between notes for backlinks and graph views.
Key features
- Zettelkasten workflow
- Backlinks panel
- Org-mode based
- Link graph
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- Mature project with 6k GitHub stars
- Written in Emacs Lisp
- Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM
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