Hello folks today I wanted to introduce Roam week now
This is going to be this whole week dedicated to talking about Roam research
I guess it's a way to catch up with all of the Roam insights that have been bleating around the internet right now
today's video will just begin with what videos we have planned shared thoughts on Roam's new pricing and weightless removal and
Also share some additional thoughts about the future of this space
Now, let's give you a little bit of an idea of the lineup
Now the first video which we have planned is a beginner's guide to Roam should give you all you need to know
About Roam and how to get started with it
then we're going to be getting an opportunity to get a
Really big deep dive about a 40 minute deep dive with the likes of john taylor
Who is part of this community and has provided a fantastic tour of his account and the variety of ways that he uses his notion
Then we have the opportunity of chaning with rob house field. Who is a
researcher
specifically in the gamification
Department and he talks through his Roam account a very interesting conversation
Then i'm actually going to be taking a bit of time out
I'm going to dedicate a couple of hours in an afternoon this week to building my Roam as if I was building
My notion account up and and guiding me through it this also
Was sort of inspired by a conversation I had with the founder Connor
white Sullivan and we talked a lot about the sort of concepts and he thinks that I could
But I'm just gonna give it a try. I'm not gonna commit to anything as you guys know, I'm a pretty
you know tough cookie to break when it comes to apps especially reviewing so many of them and
then we're gonna have the fantastic August Bradley who's gonna dive into how he uses most
notion and roam together and what his thoughts are on Roam research and
Hopefully we should finish the week with a tour from NAT who is very much a Roam expert
he has a fantastic course dive into how he uses Roam, but we'll see because you know,
You guys already been treated this week will should be so far
So let's start by talking about that waitlist
So for those who don't know Roam apply to waitlist a couple of weeks ago and basically now
They're very close to opening the waitlist for those ready to put a card down
that was a tweet that was mentioned by Konnor and
They're also announced their pricing. Will they firmed up their pricing? We've sort of already knew it
But here it is. So the pricing is a little bit steep
I'm gonna talk to her in it at the end or give you the details for so it's 15 pound per month
And that's for the standard pricing the standard plan
That includes up to three private graphs
which is something that you can say, you can all public Romo graphs that's unlimited collaborators and
API access and apps which is pretty good. So they're obviously working on that because it's coming soon
They may even be notion to it which would be pretty exciting and that would total off at
180 pound per year, which seems a little it's T. Where is it? It's quite steep
It's it's about a half the price of superhuman and people already talked about that
so we'll talk about that through the end, but they do have a yearly pricing for the standard plan and that is
165 pound which does bring it down
$1 25 per month cheaper basically gives you a free month
Essentially and they both both of those plans include a 14-day free trial
So if you are
You know looking to get started you can use the 14-day free trial
Now they do have this mad thing good to believe a plan
And this is something that stand and notes actually has a node VPN has a three year plan standard has a five year plan
But standards five year plan is 149 and they have a five year plan, which is five hundred dollars
Which is mad like it's just mad because there's a conceptual amount they have to put forward to an app
So you'll be charged on the day. No trial, obviously
but you will get everything this understand a plan plus first access to features like the offline only they'll be coming the priority support and
Community calls within the team with the team members and that does work out a little bit cheaper
I believe if you were to go with when that $8 33 a month
So about half price of what you'd be paying for the standard plan monthly if that makes sense
So they also have an additional area called Roam scholars
Now this is really for those suit lower than twenty two years old
I passed that unluckily, but you have to be a full-time researcher. I think you have to have proved that somehow
Or have some financial stresses or difficulties, but it seems like a really nice program to introduce
now in a tweet
Connor did mention about a free plan. Well somebody asks will Roam have a free plan
Junior ro and and the dimension from the official account was eventually yes, but not for at least a couple more months. So
Now a couple of you've asked about like if they already have say fourteen graphs
Will they lose access to that and apparently there will be no loss of access
There wasn't much more clarity on that. But still that seems
You know good today won't delete any of that data
So that has a course I've mentioned it before but you can check it out below. It's learning Roman
I'm out fully weigh percent through it and it's very very interesting. He actually has some
Credits apparently if you're with the course you get credits
That can apply to the believer plan
So should make it a little bit cheaper, but I'll where I will find out a little bit more and add that below
Now I it's amazing to see the comments because it's a real blend between people saying bloody Henry
That's a lot of money to be put up front
But then also
You know a lot of you actually going take my money and I actually saw a couple of the old
Futurama gifts of
throwing money shut up and take my money, which is absolutely
You know, like you've got fans if if they're sending those gifts, which is good. I remember the other day. Actually somebody emailed me
Would they like to buy my Roam account?
And I was like wow
This is mad the fact that somebody would email an ass at that exclusivity that they've somehow created with
This roan colt is pretty amazing. Now before I jump jump in some of my thoughts on the pricing
There is an alternative that we've been talking about we did a video
And a lot of people like that video which I appreciate - thank you called obsidian
So we will be doing some more comparison videos between the two
Just back from paternity leave and just working out, you know, this all could sprung up on us
But we're going to be interviewing some more users as things calmed down over the next couple of weeks
I believe just in two rows who has a fantastic YouTube channel here actually starting to use himself
So I'll be jumping on a call with him. I'm sure very soon
But there's one channel called notes by rend as a fantastic. I believe it's notes my rent
I'll clue to below there's a great overview about how
obsidian, Roam and
and the likes of notion to sort of compare I
Want to say notion I would say is I initially started comparing it to notion. But as time has gone on time and look today
Roam is much more of a competitor Evernote and I'd say notion is not as much a competitor to ever know anymore
Just because of the way that it's positioned but very interesting at the moment my thoughts on the pricing
now I always think it's great to
Have pricing or a premium model because it's the sustainability of an application. But if you compare it to say
What was notions pricing at five dollars per month is?
triple that
Notion is now gone free, which seems scary. I'm only comparing it to notion in the context that I
Would say it does a similar capacity job in the sense that it's a life organizer
I'm not comparing
I'm just comparing the pricing here. Not necessarily the full set because I think there as I said a little bit different but
The pricing wise it's a lot to pay but I think people will be happy to pay for it
I think they did such an advanced tool for a lot of people
That they've almost made it and worked out that this is a tool they can't live without
I've seen a lot of people create these very advanced setups and once you've created these advanced setups once you've built in
This understanding of the tool and also once you've built in
The fact that you can use it in such a it zwei
it's a tool that you can't get rid of and that's something that they obviously
Have you know been able to capitalize on but in a sustainable way I think because 15 pound a month $15 a month
Obviously, we'll take them
Much further than they expected and hopefully it shows and helps them build a profitable company straight away
And I'm sooo mean that's what they would be doing
Which is good and the $500 up front
I mean
If you're someone that is mad about Roam and you know that you feel comfortable with the company you feel comfortable with
using it, then that's a investment that
Seems a lot but actually probably will save you money in the long run
Give an example if you used it as aggressively as a personal product project manager or a team project manager
You know, for example
Let's pick one like say you use like Trello Pro that's gonna be the same price as Tralee pro
But it won't change over time with inflation
So at the same time, it's a good investment a long-term
If you know that that's a tool you want Roam's adding a bunch of features all the time
We should have Suomi on here on the channel soon to give us overviews on those exact features that have been updated
But it's very interesting space in the moment
Anyway, you probably fed up on my rant not rat overview
But hope you enjoyed today's video and I hope you enjoy this week hear all about Roam research folks
I'll see you this week. Thank you very much
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