Yaacov Lozowick's Roam Research

Background : This is the first time I’ve ever tried to present a new software tool to a general-(ish) public. In my managerial positions I promoted new large-scale work environments, but thankfully I’ve put my managerial career behind me and am back to historical research. Although there was that one time, between managerial positions, when I spent a year or so with a start-up working on a way for researchers to organize their data and ideas. I dropped out when I went to run Israel’s National Archives in 2011. When I left in 2018 I briefly toyed with the idea of re-starting the start-up, since no-one had yet offered what we’d been intending, but didn’t. Recently I stumbled across a new piece of software, Roam Research . It took about 30 seconds to see that their basic idea was pretty close to ours. So I started using it. A month later, I’m here to report. In 1991 Geoffrey A Moore published Crossing the Chasm . He explained that selling a new product to the small market of folks