Roam Portal
A data visualization and analytics powered search engine in Roam. Built for exploration and discovery.
Manifest V2
- By:
- Dharam Kapila
- Users:
- 1,000+
- Rating:
- 4.93 (15)
- Version:
- 7.0.1 (Last updated: 2022-10-31)
- Creation date:
- 2020-10-08
- Permissions:
- contextMenus
- Size:
- 2.96M
- Email:
- dh*****@hey.com
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Chrome Web Store
- Updated:
- 17 hours ago
User reviews
Users praise Roam Portal for greatly enhancing the search and visualization capabilities of Roam Research, making it an indispensable tool for knowledge management. The extension offers improved graph views and surfaces valuable insights that the native tools miss. Users appreciate the developer's responsiveness and ongoing feature additions. Some users mention minor usability issues with the search box size and desire page-level search functionality, but overall, it is strongly recommended and considered a game-changer for Roam users.
Pros
- Significantly improves on Roam's native search functionality, making finding information easier and faster.
- Provides features and visualizations that Roam Research's native interface lacks, especially for complex graph views.
- Highly recommended and considered essential for serious users of Roam and knowledge management systems.
- The developer is responsive to feedback and actively adds new features, showing good support and continuous improvement.
- Helps surface insights from personal databases that were difficult or impossible to find using Roam's built-in tools.
Cons
- Some users find the search box size and positioning inconvenient, though this may be affected by browser zoom settings.
- A requested enhancement is to add page-level search alongside the current block-level search for more hierarchical searching capabilities.
Recent reviews
Such a handy tool that really trumps Roam's search functionality!
by 
Mark Ng, 2021-06-03
Mark Ng, 2021-06-03Thank Dharam for this wonderful plugin for Roam Research.
Roam is the second brain, and Roam Portal helps me immensely to location the information -- Remember the dawn of the internet age that you don't really get what you want until Google arrives?
I really hope the author could implement page-level search (search all the block in a same page) rather than just block-level search (only search in the same block).
Usually there are hierarchy in the outlier app, e.g., first level is "project A", and 2nd level is "feature A", and rest of the notes about "feature A" are nested in "feature A" block. If I want to search a note about "feature A", typing "feature A" and other keywords could quickly narrow down to a list of relevant blocks.
Once again thanks for the plugin and keep up the good work!
by 
mingk Chung, 2021-05-16
mingk Chung, 2021-05-16it was introduced in Roam Book Club (Beau Haan), and it is a must-have, essential tool for everyone who takes roam and knowledge management system seriously.
by 
John Lee, 2021-04-17
John Lee, 2021-04-17Extension safety
Risk impact
Roam Portal requires very minimum permissions.
Risk impact analysis details
- High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
Risk likelihood
Roam Portal has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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