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org-roam

Plain-text personal knowledge management for Emacs

Notes & Knowledge Base ★ 6k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0

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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