Or possibly every tool has a foxy or hedgehoggy bias and this is the key stylistic difference between @fortelabs and @Conaw
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: Weaselhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/02/20/the-cactus-and-the-weasel/ …
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This probably also explains why
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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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Replying to @cigardubey @vgr
Actually have you written anywhere about your general workflow at all?
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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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Ooh thanks. After enrolling in BASB I've been meaning to riff on knowledge work from an ops perspective for a bit and this looks like a good starting point. i understand its all over the place but for research right now, you're googling reading and then what's the rough flow?
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I email myself a link and forget about it is the default
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