Vim-roam is a plugin for networked note management in Vim. The name "vim-roam" takes from the popular note taking tool Roam research, and our goal is to implement core features present in Roam (along with other growing note tools like Obsidian.md, Notion, etc) in a vanilla Vim environment.
This plugin builds on the fantastic wiki.vim plugin,
which implements a lightweight core for managing a personal wiki in Vim. A separate
wiki.vim development fork is maintained for
managing low-level changes needed for vim-roam functionality. This is purposefully
separated from the main vim-roam repo to clearly distinguish the extended features and
configuration that fall outside the scope of the original wiki.vim project.
vim-roam makes it easy to maintain a personal wiki on a set of local Markdown files.
Most of this is enabled by the core wiki.vim functionality (see their
documentation for more), but vim-roam extends this
by improving the underlying note graph system and backlink exploration.
More broadly, the vim-roam initiative encompasses a set of
ideals and compatible external tools that create a
better overall wiki experience. These include the direct vim-roam extensions
vim-roam-task (for task management) and
vim-roam-md (for syntax highlighting), as
well as more general tools like fzf.vim,
ultisnips,
tabular, and
bullets.vim
Compared to vim-roam and wiki.vim, vimwiki is a
slightly bulkier plugin with a larger feature scope that may introduce conflicts or hinder
customization. vim-roam and wiki.vim are likely more suitable for those interested in
greater low-level control over their Vim environment and wish to use external Markdown
filetype plugins without conflicts. That said, you should absolutely give vimwiki a look
if you haven't already; it does a lot of things well, has an active community, and could
satisfy all of your needs.