Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base system

Re:Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base sy... by soraminazuki on Friday July 03, 2020 @01:39PM (#23725881)

org-roam is great for personal use, but it’s not quite yet ready for team use. It kind of breaks when synced across multiple computers likely because it stores absolute paths in a sqlite database.

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Re:Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base sy... by jethroksy on Friday July 03, 2020 @01:42PM (#23725906)

Author here. You can move the sqlite database to a separate location by setting a variable, and that should resolve the syncing issues. I do this and have the files synced via Dropbox across my different machines.

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Re:Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base sy... by lvh on Friday July 03, 2020 @01:59PM (#23726053)

IIUC, the SQLite database is just an index, and can be rebuilt from the underlying data which makes this approach possible. Is that right?

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Re:Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base sy... by jethroksy on Friday July 03, 2020 @02:09PM (#23726132)

Yep, that's right!

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Re:Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base sy... by drewr on Friday July 03, 2020 @01:48PM (#23725952)

I tried storing the db in a shared Syncthing directory, but I had to make sure I only had one copy of Emacs running on any given machine. I of course couldn't do that so I would get conflicts with the db file and have to manually clean it up. Did I miss something?

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Re:Org-roam: Emacs org file based personal knowledge base sy... by soraminazuki on Friday July 03, 2020 @02:36PM (#23726329)

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed.

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