Foam: A free Roam alternative for VSCode
Published on: 2025-06-09 07:57:08
Foam
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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 multip
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