IMO "easy" linking to other pages should be doable, but part of Roam's power is creating those pages by just making the link.
The linked references block I think could be extremely powerful in Notion. Bidirectional linking helps to associate data better than anything else I know, and if that can be handled semi-automatically it would blow people's minds.
Also, yeah, opening other pages in a sidebar would be amazing for being able to reference data without context switching and literally losing sight of what you're working on.
Personally, I'm using Notion for structured data, and Roam for unstructured, freely associated data. They're both pretty awesome in their own ways.
So as I see it is that they ban it temporarily until they can regulate it as now it can be used wrongly. I don't think it will ever get banned for good.
Is this just a marketing move? Why is Google doing this? I also wonder how will this affect Chrome's market share. I think a lot of people appreciated the apps, especially the adblockers.
The linked references block I think could be extremely powerful in Notion. Bidirectional linking helps to associate data better than anything else I know, and if that can be handled semi-automatically it would blow people's minds.
Also, yeah, opening other pages in a sidebar would be amazing for being able to reference data without context switching and literally losing sight of what you're working on.
Personally, I'm using Notion for structured data, and Roam for unstructured, freely associated data. They're both pretty awesome in their own ways.