Foam pieces together a bunch of different plugins to create a markdown based note taking experience. It's highly flexible and provides a "Roam like" way of taking notes. It is otherwise un-opinionated about note taking methodologies and is a [testing ground](https://github.com/svsool/vscode-memo/issues/9#issuecomment-658381111) for note taking ideas. Dendron is a highly opinionated note taking tool that focuses on what I'm calling "structured note taking". It provides the freedom of Roam's "every note exists everywhere philosophy" while offering structure through flexible hierarchies. To that end, we've introduced some Dendron specific ways of doing things - eg. path based lookup and schemas.