Nvivo alternatives install#
Great community and fairly simple to install (if you have ever installed WordPress it’s a similar process). This is a modular wiki which supports backlinks by default. If you’re okay with being a bit more of an early adopter and have your install fail because of some incompatibilities, Org-roam is almost an exact replica of Roam. It looks great but unstable, so I haven’t installed it. After watching this amazing video by Matt Williams I was both excited about the software and defeated by the idea of going through all these hoops just to get to try it. You can also install TiddlyMap separately. Want the knowledge graph? TiddlyRoam combines TiddlyWiki, TiddlyBlink, and TiddlyMap so you have most of the pure text-based functionalities of Roam as well as a live map of all the nodes in your knowledge graph. It’s better to have a basic understanding of how the command line works to set it up, but then you’re good to go. Because it’s just one HTML + JS file, you also have many options to host it in the cloud or sync it with Dropbox. It’s completely open source, private, offline, and customisable. Some people even use it as a static site generator.
You can keep on using ] to link to pages or create new pages, so you won’t be lost. Linking to an inexisting page will create a new one, backlinks are shown as references below each note, you can open notes side by side, easily search through pages, and more. Based on TiddlyWiki, this is a solid alternative.