Have you got the auto-generation going on Browser links yet? Those are my faves.
You can use the %FrontBrowserTitle% and %FrontBrowserURL% variables + a bit of variable rearranging to auto-generate Roam-friendly links and add custom tags based on what hotkeys you hit.
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Oh yup noticed you just posted the video above. But the images I just posted about take it up a level. No need to highlight + copy the article title and URL. Those built-in variables do it for you :)
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Other handy ones are putting in a basic "open roam in a new right-hand window" hotkey, and a starter query syntax snippet (because I can never remember that formatting)
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Great examples. At this point I use KM for page templates, my daily notes (including queries), and common links to local documents. Did you notice the PDF viewer that got activated yesterday?
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Ooh no. What the PDF viewer? Do tell.
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Oh gosh... That's a lot
Do I want a whole PDF in my Roam?
Unless it's got highlighting + copy/paste text features, I think I'm sticking with the native mac Preview app.
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I have lots of PDF's in Roam, but it's for 1 reason only - so I can open the side-window and break them down into small atomic-size notes, without too much fiddling and going back-and-forth.
Added bonus:
If, later, I need full context to understand my own notes, there it is.
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Other key point: No PDF's longer than a single chapter or excerpt, the smaller the better
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That makes a lot of sense. Actually I can see the value in that for shorter academic papers.
I just read all my books as PDFs and was imagining an attempt to scroll my way through a 300 pager while trapped in a hacky roam embed π°
Haha, believe me I spent a lot of time trapped in that "hackey Roam embed", before the mists started to rise up, and my current workable system emerged. π
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