If anyone is looking for a free alternative to Roam for personal use, checkout Obsidian.md. It supports importing from Roam, has backlinks, graph view, custom themes and most importantly is super fast since it's a desktop application. It's built by the makers of Dynalist.
Was on Dynalist, moved to Roam, and jumped to Obsidian without knowing it was the Dynalist team. Still on the transition; Obisdian's focus on document vs outline means I have to shape my notes more towards paragraphs instead of pointers and bullet points. Liking it so far, but still wishing I can have it on web instead of an app; I don't really care about offline capability, I need the backlink capability, and I like having multiple note views. That's most of it.
I was curious about your call-out about personal use, so I checked out the license. It reads as though 'personal use at work' might not be permitted without purchasing a license.
> If you use OBSIDIAN for work-related activities in a company with two (2) or more employees, you must obtain a commercial license.
https://obsidian.md/