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Twitter is the fucking coolest note-taking app. Itβs like Evernote with a slot machine attached. Sometimes you get incredible feedback or a response that gives you 10x more value than you expected, and sometimes you get people discussing your genitalia! So exciting
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Got permission / encouragement to share an anecdote that one of our earliest users shared with me that was a generator for a bunch of ideas in this thread.
Sub-thread about what can happen when you use Roam for journaling - and create backlinks for emotional states and people.
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One of the first 20 power users of was (is) a good friend of our company - who initially started using Roam for mapping out ideas for a chapter she was writing for a medical textbook.
Almost immediately, she started using the Daily Notes for journaling as well.
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Her father had been an abusive alcoholic, and soon after he passed away, she started going through the 12 step program designed for families of alcoholics: Al-Anon.
She'd been through the steps program many times before - but this time she used Roam.
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For the most part, she used it the same way I did - nesting journal entries under [[Journal]] or [[Morning Pages]] on a daily note.
What she did differently, that I had never seen before, was to make pages for emotionally charged words that kept coming up, and hitting "link all"
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A few weeks after she started doing this - she told me that she had started seeing patterns coming up over and over that she hadn't expected.
[[Shame]] kept appearing in backlinks with [[Powerless]].
These patterns started to change her beliefs about what was going on her mind.
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This user was the person I kept thinking of when I wrote this tweet - and the whole note on 's "Good Explanations"
Yes - she was already a scientist and medical professional - but I don't think her approach is something only SCIENTISTS do
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There is a way in which the whole point of @RoamResearch is to allow everyone in the world to "DO SCIENCE" in every part of their lives.
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Personally - I think taking a step back - taking an aggregate view of our thoughts, our beliefs, our actions, and our relationships over time and their effects - that's really where the rubber hits the road for the scientific method
Good Explanations > RCTs
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To connect an EXTREMELY different thread - this relates to an idea I once sent to
How science is so often viewed as some inherited collection of truths that is the realm of professionals- rather than as a way of life and a daily practice
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1. To give you a taste test of my worldview -- the first piece of writing I ever did in the neighborhood of this topic was an epistle to @KevinSimler I wrote in 2017, trying to convert him to my learning cult.
Published to github with his encouragement
gist.github.com/Conaws/c603893
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ooh yes the Epistle To The Simler, classic text, a fav
Epistles seem to be my most generative format.
Definitely the most fun format to write.
This was basically "First Letter to the "
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A brief rant on note-taking apps and the structure of thought. Or "Why Evernote is a terrible second brain."
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