Capture for Roam Research

Capture text, speech to text, voice memos, PDFs, drawing and handwriting, images and OCR images to text to your Roam Research graph.

Capturing data into your Roam Research graph shouldn't be a chore.

With Capture for Roam Research, you can send a text note, speech-to-text note or image OCR-to-text note to Roam in the blink of an eye. Share PDFs or images, or even record a voice memo for upload to your graph.

Use Quick Actions to make it even faster to launch your preferred capture method.

Setup is easy:

1. Install this app!
2. Enter your Roam Research graph name and API key in More > Settings > Graph and API Settings. Click to confirm your access.
3. Install the companion extension from within Roam Depot to unlock full functionality. Click the Authenticate with Roam Depot companion extension to authenticate.

If you wish to upload images to your Roam Research graph, there is no way to do this with the Roam Research API. As a workaround, you can use Dropbox to host images and see them in your graph. You will need to authorise with Dropbox in the application Settings.