Or possibly every tool has a foxy or hedgehoggy bias and this is the key stylistic difference between and 🤔
Roam as hedgehog second brain for natural foxes, Evernote as foxy second brain for natural hedgehogs
You two should do a podcast conversation together
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That whole idea of the power of centralization in a decentralizing world has 2 solutions: internal and external locus. Either your first brain centralized or your second brain is.
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2x2: x = first brain, y = second brain both from centralized to decentralized
CFB/DSB: Hedgehog
DFB/CSB: Fox
CFB/CSB: Cactus
DFB/DSB: Weasel
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This probably also explains why and I beef over 2x2s and why I don’t really use wardley mapping myself despite recommending it enthusiastically to other people
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Alright one week in, I've settled into some steady habits using roam, so there's a habit attractor here. Progress has slowed to more day-to-day but it still feels like winning the war on entropy as opposed to losing it in scrivener, email, or twitter.
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Gonna start documenting subtle features here. First up: Roam is probably the most efficient prosthetic memory I’ve used, as in, creating efficient recall of thoughts I’ve already thunk and written up. A killer feature when you’ve written as much as I have (good or bad).
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On a scale of 1 to 10, ranking media I’ve used
Paper: 1 (no recall aids unless you create ToCs or indices yourself)
Email newsletters: 2 (weak searchability, weak theme/thread continuity, weak gestalt, though substack is better than mailchimp)
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Twitter: 4 (strong searchability, strong threadability, weak gestalt)
Wiki: 5 (strong searchability, medium threadability, strong gestalt)
Blog: 6 (strong searchability, strong threadability, strong gestalt)
Roam: 8 (all of the above plus low friction update/create/rename)
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I've never had a consistent system for > 2-3 years. I wrote this based on the setup I had during my postdoc which was 100% paper. Most recently, pre-Roam, it's been a mix of scrivener, scapple, email, workflowy, iPad notebooks, paper notebooks 😫
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