Where am I? Highlighting the Scope in Roam
Pure CSS Way
One of the more confusing things in outliners is often to find where we are within the outline — in other words, the scope. There are different solutions for this, e.g., RemNote — one of the most interesting competitors of Roam — uses sticky headers.
We could imagine, of course, many different other solutions. E.g., breadcrumbs or simply highlighting the current active depth. Roam unfortunately lacks any of these features which makes it sometimes a little bit confusing to use.
There were multiple attempts to solve this problem. I definitely don’t know about all of them but I remember well attempts of Eran Boodnero. First, he created first a userscript called ScopeCue:
And later, he converted that into a fully-fledged browser extension called Roaman:
