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
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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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Constraining tags definitely sounds necessary - gotta sort that out next. Or at least building a finite index of consistent labels and tag categories.
Keeping on the hierarchy training wheels before adjusting to full blown graphical node mode 🛴
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The joy is that you can globally rename and merge tags everywhere by making a single change to the title of the tag's page... Which is amazing.
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Very true - realising how forgiving roam is with any structural decisions. May be one if it’s best qualities.
Build up and break down temporary hierarchical systems as needed within the sprawling mess. No need to build the fortress before moving in.