What is Foam?
It is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub.
It allows you to own your data while being free, open source, and extensible to suit your personal workflow.
Foam is a tool in the Task Management category of a tech stack.
Foam is an open source tool with 15.5K GitHub stars and 665 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Foam's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Foam?
Developers
13 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Foam.
Foam's Features
- Open source
- Extremely extensible
- Collaborate on and share your content between devices
- To publish your content, you can set it up to publish to GitHub Pages with zero code and zero config, or to any website hosting platform like Netlify or Vercel
Foam Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Foam?
Postman
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Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Stack Overflow
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Google Maps
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Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).
