Roam Mobile 4+

Problem with share sheet usability

Hello team, I love your tool but the share sheet Roam Research uses fails to be reliable as I can’t tell whether I saved something or if it even opened because a “post” does not prompt long enough for input before vanishing, or leaving me with a perceptibly dimmed screen. Sometimes I can get the share function of a website or photo to work but hardly. Please look into this. Also there is some ancestry with the api or a linking in the backend with an app on iOS called “Hints”. If someone has this app downloaded the share sheet function or any usability it added is gone as it for some reason opens this app instead of Roam. Super odd but to replicate:

1. Have ios 15 or 16, iphone or iPad and have “Roam Research” app and “Hints” app both installed on the device

2. Attempt a share sheet prompt to Roam Research for something

3. Get prompt to open in “Hints”

4. Deleted “Hints” app and this issue goes away =/

Lots of improvements since earlier versions!

External keyboard now works as expected; this is now a reasonable facsimile of the browser app and completely useable. A few more things of note: * it seems as though the editor uses Ctrl+↔️ to navigate to End- or Start-of-line - Mac convention is that Cmd+↔️ serves that function, so this is a little non-idiomatic * I couldn’t get Quick Capture to work on the iPad * On the i__Phone__, Quick Capture was frustrating since it would load a time-and-date-stamped note placeholder when you sent a note, but when you come back later to add a note, it still has the time you sent the last one as it’s timestamp with no clear way to fix it. * maybe this is just me? A feature request: * please add some shortcut integration points so we can write our own automations

Developer Response ,

Sorry to hear you're disappointed -
re: external keyboards - we've fixed this issue in recent updates, if you give it another try it should work now

Great as a supplement on a mobile device

I use Roam primarily on my iPad Pro in Safari but I use this app as my portable task list and notepad on my iphone i.e. when I’m mobile. Sure you lose some functionality but the app is mostly a convenience tool in it’s present state, and it does a good job of that. It was very inconvenient to access and use the web version on an iphone.

Roam is not a perfect solution, but it’s what you make of it — you are the designer of your own system. People seem to *love* complaining about Roam, but you just need to find a way to make it work for you. Roam hasn’t let me down yet.