# org-roam > A plain-text personal knowledge management system. I use org-roam for my [[PKM]] (note-taking, digital garden, etc). Pretty much all of my digital garden is made using org-roam in fact. I started using it in March 2020. I love it. ## Whut > It is a note-taking tool for [[networked thought]]. The tool encourages a non-hierarchical [[note-taking]] workflow. With Org-roam, note-taking becomes effortless and fun: write notes wherever you want, and link them up however you want. > > – [Introducing Org Roam ยท Jethro Kuan](https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/introducing_org_roam/) Some of my customisations of org-roam are [[here]]. One downside, or at least something to mull upon - org-roam doesn't make much use of org's heading structure. It's all file-based, each note is a file. No problem with that right now, just it goes a little against how org mode tends to work? ## Using roam-refs - [Do you find Roam-Refs useful? - Meta - Org-roam](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/do-you-find-roam-refs-useful/1965) ## Resources - https://www.orgroam.com/ - https://org-roam.discourse.group