# Org-roam as filesystem **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Created:** [November 14, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-as-filesystem/3666 "2024-11-14T23:31:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-as-filesystem/3666/2 "2024-11-15T09:29:36Z")
Just taking a short break off work. Excuse the brevity. It is possible, but it’s not built-in and I haven’t seen done for all extensions in your file system (under `org-roam-directory`). I have done it with my `md-roam` for Markdown file: [GitHub - nobiot/md-roam: Use Org-roam with markdown files by adding Md-roam as a plug-in. Mix org and markdown files in a single Org-roam database.](https://github.com/nobiot/md-roam). From this experience, here are some points: 1. Use `org-roam-db.el` as a reference only. Do not use any of the functions directly, because the underlying `org-element` will output warning if it is used in non-Org buffers. 2. This would mean you’d need to create your custom functions to update database (the same database that you specify `org-roam-db-location`. This then should let `org-roam-ui` to take the data entries as they are with no changes 3. See variable `org-roam-db--table-schemata` for the tables and their schema. 4. You’d likely need to update 3 tables `files`, `nodes`, and `links`. 5. For non-Org files, you will need to decide what constitute an ID for them. Consider file name prefix, for instance (like Denote does), for binary flles, including PDF documents, images, etc. For plain text files, such as Markdown, etc. you could read the file content, but it may be easier to have a consistent way. Good luck. I need to go now… --- _[View the full topic](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-as-filesystem/3666)._