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The Article That Inspired Roam to Implement Blockquotes: 5 Now Luckily Unnecessary Solutions and How to Do Them Properly

This article is completely unnecessary — but still funny!

Cato Minor
8 min readDec 4, 2020
Logo of Roam in the quotation marks
Blockquote — where are you?

Update: It took just a couple of hours after publishing this article and Cortex Futura to get native blockquotes in Roam!

Simply write> at the beginning of your block, write anything you want and here it is!

But if you want to experiment and maybe find an alternative way for blockquotes, read further :). It is still a fun journey!

Original story:

Blockquotes! There is probably no other feature in Roam that would be so much missed by all users: newbies, skilled and even experts. There were multiple attempts to solve this and in this article, I would like to show you a couple of them. We will use both Vanilla Roam with…

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