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2 surprising ways how to add icons in 3 formats to Roam
Destroy the anonymous wall of bullets!
Roam is great, yet often it lacks colours, formatting options and it really has a tendency to become this unpalatable, never-ending wall of anonymous bullets. Not great for the memory or perception, if you ask me! There are different ways how to deal with it. One of the ways is to format #tags with special colours, another is to add colours to highlights, and finally, you can even use LaTeX to bring life to your page titles.
We can also use emojis as some type of icons: they can be part of your [[page title]] or a hashtag and they are really great!
However, what if you want to use real icons and not just emojis? In this short story, we will look at 3 ways how to add icons to Roam using standard images, SVG, and images encoded in base64.
Get the icons
Before we start, get the icons! Of course, for your private database, you can use any image you want. However, perhaps (probably?), you want them to be as legal as possible. And why not if there are great resources out there!
Just to name a few:
