# Roam Research: a new note-taking tool

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Depending on the kind of notes you have in mind, there are some much more solid and transparent projects around.

- [Observable HQ](https://observablehq.com) is excellent, with very distinguished figures like Mike Bostock and Jeremy Ashkenas working on it.
- For more general working notes [Notion](https://www.notion.so) is solid and I know people who swear by it and live in it.

Personally, though, I have learned to prefer local storage and desktop applications. (I haven’t forgotten losing a rather large amount of work in the 90s, when someone had an unfortunate accident with their server, and seemed to have kept imperfect backups 🙂 )

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