Philosophy split
- Roam: every bullet is an atomic unit; everything is block-ref games
- Kition: docs as the unit, plus tables / wikilinks / embeds
- Roam makes "atomic thinking" feel great — but lock-in is high
- Kition is plain Markdown — leave any day, files still yours
Migration reality
We have seen users migrate off Roam — the main pain is block refs becoming "plain text + annotations." If your Roam use is page-centric with block refs as accents, migration is easy; the other way around, hard.