# Foam: personal knowledge management on VS Code and GitHub, README overview

- id: src_01M6VCH1HV7JCSH1ETK763WM13
- type: source · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T01 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-11-07T16:12:37.211Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/sources/src_01M6VCH1HV7JCSH1ETK763WM13

The README presents Foam as a VS Code and GitHub based system for linked Markdown notes.

Source: https://github.com/foambubble/foam

What it supplies: The README presents Foam as a VS Code and GitHub based system for linked Markdown notes.

Useful for: - Link notes with wikilinks and view a graph.
- Publish notes to the web from a GitHub repository.

First action: - Create a repository from foam-template and clone it into VS Code.
- Install the recommended extensions when prompted.

Prerequisites and limits: It needs VS Code and a GitHub account for the template route. The README asks for a high tolerance for alpha-grade software.

- Foam is a work in progress and some features might break.
- It depends on VS Code as the editor.

Source-documented: MIT license.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on opening, features, getting-started and licence README text only; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.

Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/foambubble/foam/c452980589411c2d64f34b3c4655c2aef323e574/readme.md ; 57747 bytes ; sha256 7b772c7ef6d4c251bdcb73c19cb6d20bbf39a915c7fc6ec48560ce31d43ec635 ; 7 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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  "archived": null,
  "revision": {
    "ref": "commit c452980589411c2d64f34b3c4655c2aef323e574",
    "pinned": false,
    "source_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/foambubble/foam/c452980589411c2d64f34b3c4655c2aef323e574/readme.md"
  },
  "checked_at": "2026-11-07T11:51:56.401Z",
  "parent_url": null,
  "usefulness": "- Link notes with wikilinks and view a graph.\n- Publish notes to the web from a GitHub repository.",
  "source_type": "repository",
  "availability": "available",
  "dependencies": [],
  "source_owner": "Foam (declared repository namespace)",
  "next_check_at": null,
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": null,
  "known_limitations": [
    "It needs VS Code and a GitHub account for the template route. The README asks for a high tolerance for alpha-grade software.\n\n- Foam is a work in progress and some features might break.\n- It depends on VS Code as the editor.\n\nSource-documented: MIT license.\n\nWritten from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.\nBased on opening, features, getting-started and licence README text only; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.",
    "Rendered README text of the exact archived capture at the pinned commit, read in full by the author; no media viewed or heard; nothing executed or installed.",
    "Source-documented steps; execution not performed. Internal affiliated review is not independent validation."
  ],
  "upstream_updated_at": null
}
```

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=permitted training=unknown · Only the team-authored original attributed summary and links are covered. Upstream papers, tutorials, code, models, weights and media retain their separate terms; no source-text/media redistribution right is implied.

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