my year in review: i don’t remember most of what happened this year because 1) not that much happened, 2) time isn’t real anymore, and 3) when i started using roam i stopped maintaining my workflowy journal which it turns out was an important part of my memory
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this was a mistake, i restarted my workflowy journal this month, and not coincidentally my life appears to be moving again 🧐
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this is what my workflowy journal looks like, it’s nested by year, month, day and i have daily notes and monthly summaries and reflections. it’s really cool to get to quickly and easily zoom in and out of different timescales of what was going on in my life
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i didn’t realize this was happening but this journal was part of how i maintained a sense of like long-term temporal continuity and a sense of the arc of my life? like this is what i’ve been up to the past months, this is the direction my life is trending
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and i didn’t know how to make roam daily notes do the same thing and that turned out to kinda suck actually. so i restarted and i think it really did help anchor me in time a bit
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it’s not in the screenshots but i also take extensive notes when really significant things happen that i want to remember in more detail and i have gone back to those notes and been grateful for the detail and wished they were even more detailed
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i may go back and try refilling in the journal, i stopped almost exactly during the beginning of lockdown which is uh. very symbolic imguess
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oh also i spent a truly embarrassing amount of time this year just playing two specific mobile gacha games. may tweet a bit about that sometime i suppose 🤔
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Interesting! Would be curious to know which parts of it are most important to the system. Trying to get a Notion journal going for 2022 (sadly sorta abandoned my roam journal after over a year of writing this summer), and curious to know what other people find valuable in theirs.
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are you still intending on using roam for another purpose? or is this the main thing you’re looking for in online note taking apps?
i’ve been trying to get into roam without much success, but what you had in workflowy seems solid and useful—looking forward to trying it out