Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub.
You can use Foam for organising your research, keeping re-discoverable notes, writing long-form content and, optionally, publishing it to the web.
Foam is free, open source, and extremely extensible to suit your personal workflow. You own the information you create with Foam, and you're free to share it, and collaborate on it with anyone you want.
See how your notes are connected via a graph with the Foam: Show Graph command.
Foam helps you create the connections between your notes, and your placeholders as well.
Foam updates the links to renamed files, so your notes stay consistent.
Foam supports files with the same name in multiple directories. It will use the minimum identifier required, and even report and help you fix existing ambiguous wikilinks.
See where a note is being referenced in your knowledge base.
Navigate your rendered notes in the VS Code preview panel.
Embed the content from other notes.
Foam supports autocompletion, navigation, embedding and diagnostics for note sections.
Just use the standard wiki syntax of [[resource#Section Title]].
Foam supports link aliasing, so you can have a [[wikilink]], or a [[wikilink|alias]].
Use custom templates to have avoid repetitve work on your notes.
Quickly check which notes are referencing the currently active note. See for each occurrence the context in which it lives, as well as a preview of the note.
Tag your notes and navigate them with the Tag Explorer. Foam also supports hierarchical tags.
Orphans are notes that have no inbound nor outbound links. Placeholders are dangling links, or notes without content. Keep them under control, and your knowledge base in a better state, by using this panel.