9/ I find myself wanting to automate this process somehow, but at the same time I recognise that engaging with all of this manually is valuable. It feels a little like I'm 'tending' to my ideas.
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10/ Interestingly I'm finding myself removing external links in favour of internal ones, at least in line. I'm happy to include a link to an external source somewhere close to my thoughts, but it looks like I'd prefer to strengthen internal connections in the flow itself.
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11/ Okay I now have enough content in for it to be worth playing with. Now struggling to understand how to interact with my the knowledge contained within it.
Each day is a daily page – I feel like I need 'ways in' to then start following links, Zettelkasten style
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12/ I'm now in a 'just enjoying tinkering around my ideas' in phase. I should probably go to bed, but it's compelling to play in here.
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13/ One killer feature I am looking forward to though is the ability to share at just the page or block level. That's something I really value about Evernote and Notion: just a couple of clicks and I can share a clearly-defined chunk with someone.
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14/ This graph view at the node level is sensational. These are all the relationships and concepts I have mapped from one newsletter article. Very exciting to see what I might discover if I keep playing with this.
(This one thinkingoutloud.substack.com/p/thinking-out)
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15/ I'm also seeing what means when he likens to Excel.
Roam seems extremely powerful as a tool, but you can use it for very superficial things. It's taken me decades to get this good at Excel, but I'm not sure how to chart a similar course with Roam.
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16/ Starting to bring across my Twitter bookmarks into Roam. I like that I can just dump them into the daily log page and they'll show up where they need to.
Also finally a place to put Twitter bookmarks that isn't Twitter bookmarks.
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17/ The keyboard shortcuts are really helpful. I particularly like toggling the brackets around pages so that I can read the text more easily.
But , I really have no idea how to use 'C-c C-c C-s' as a keyboard shortcut. What am I typing here? What does it do? Mysteries.
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18/ I'm now entering a phase of Roam I'm calling "have Roam open while I'm doing other things". It takes very little effort to put anything into Roam because I don't need to worry about classification. That makes it easy to drop seemingly random thoughts ito it.
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I just joined the #roamcult this week. Agree navigating the system coming from hierarchical thinking is an awkward adjustment. I’ve ended up building ToC type pages for projects and areas to keep in the sidebar. Which is a terribly hedgehogy, anti-roam move. But it works for now
I use this approach in Notion and Roam sidebars for whatever Im currently working on and things I want always handy.
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I’ve been constraining my tags for now and also considering the TOC. But maybe , the magic is just letting go.... (not sure I have that in me, it’s a total mindset change)
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Yeah I get the sense that there's a letting go of old structural and organisational paradigms for Roam to really shine.
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