Nathan Baschez is the cofounder and CEO of AI word processor Lex. He cofounded Every, was the first employee at Substack, and co-created Product Hunt.
Why Roam is Cool
Three Shorts: Roam, Notion, and “Time Preference”
Apr 10, 2020 · 4 min readUpdated Jan 26, 2026
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People in my corner of Twitter love to talk about Roam. It made me wonder: What makes it so cool?
If you haven’t heard of it, Roam is “a note-taking tool for networked thought.” In layman’s terms that means it’s a notes app that lets you create links between pages, except anytime you link to page A on page B, it also shows a link back to page B on page A. This is called “bi-directional linking,” and it’s a nice way to keep things organized.
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