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One process I still can’t do well in available software is structuring talks & essays. Requires a spatial canvas that handles text well. Always still happens in a notebook, or a giant sheet of paper. Miro is decent, but unconnected to existing notes in Roam, links to refs, etc.

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The software adds some affordances over paper; I can rearrange, edit, expand in any direction. But it’s not emerging from existing notes, helping me spot logical flaws, enrich arguments. (And yeah there’s a “diagramming” feature in Roam, but lets be honest; it’s hot trash)

Final complaint; I can’t export this spatial map into anything other than a PDF or PNG. If directional arrows = logical flow I should be able to export as an ordered list of text, images, and links. An outline of the essay to fill out back in a text-focused app.

Maggie

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@Mappletons

Had a bunch of good ideas sent my way. Hacky solution for the moment is embedding Miro and

@tldraw

boards into Roam. Not really “integrated” but at least the content is side-by-side and gives you the ability to map and draw

3:29 PM · Apr 24, 2022Twitter for iPhone

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Nice. I saw your exchange with

@adactio

and tried something similar. Feels like a nice combination to have these kinds of tools together.

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Obsidian allows markdown and mermaid, an interesting combo but still awkward Graph views of notes also don’t give much in this regard Muse text stacks definitely interesting but not interoperable With plaintext note corpora Definitely unsolved problem. Needs a clearer framing

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