Foam
Personal knowledge management and sharing on VSCode & GitHub
Foam launched on June 28, 2020 with 256 votes, #74 of 4,317 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
Foam is a personal knowledge management system built within Visual Studio Code that stores data on GitHub. Designed for developers and knowledge workers, it lets users organize notes, create connections between ideas, and share information while maintaining full data ownership. The system is free and open source, allowing customization to fit individual workflows.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub. Foam allows you to own your data while being free, open source, and extensible to suit your personal workflow.
Exported from /home/runner/work/foam/foam/docs/user/index.md
Foam is a personal knowledge management system built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub . It helps you organize research, create discoverable notes, and publish your knowledge. Foam is like a bathtub: What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Recipes is a collection of user-contributed patterns that describe different ways you could utilize Foam or integrate it with other tools. You can publish your Foam notes for consumption in different formats. Examples: GitHub Pages , Generate a site using Gatsby , Publish tofrom docs.foam.md
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