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At *minimum*, one needs accessible quick reminders of what terms mean. Roam's contextual backlink approach is even more valuable as it means you see not just the definitions but also references to what else you've said ABOUT and WITH those concepts
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One model I've found myself dancing with over the past few years is called More than Cool Reason: "Withness-thinking or "systemic thinking" and "thinking *about* systems" Withness and aboutness are two very different modes of thinking! PDF: lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Mail/xmcam
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This is critical for allowing writers to write deep thoughts using new concepts without having to re-explain themselves every time, but also not having to manually pull up a reference link for each use of a term... & ofc some people don't even try 😂
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The internet version of the illusion of transparency (false perception that everyone knows what you’re thinking and feeling) is the mistaken belief that your followers/subscribers/readers have memorized everything you’ve tweeted/blogged/newslettered.
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And we haven't even gotten to some of the more epic features of roam, including the ability to embed-quote nodes or entire subtrees, and to see where a given piece is quoted. This allows for remixing old pieces or drafts, producing meta-commentary, & stuff I haven't even dreamed!
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Previously the best thing for this was twitter & QTs (and it's still better along some dimensions) See 's answer to 's original question
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Basically my twitter thread webs, but editable, and without character limits. (Or 1000chars or something.) A bunch of long threads would get condensed into shorter ones twitter.com/visakanv/statu
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There are challenges though. People find meaningness.com daunting to read because they don't know where to start. In order to ensure I read the whole thing, I chose to just go in ToC order anyway. I guess the main value is being able to publish a half-written book at all.
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Here's what I'd like to see for roam to make it better for graph-based-blogs: 😍 1. Basic usability stuff: shareable page url with previews, custom header/theme/css, private drafts, commenting (block-level!)
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Related thoughts (though I still haven’t made the switch). I really would love to have Roam as a better publishing platform though.
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I *really* wanted @RoamResearch to be my digital garden/pseudoblog, but it's not built for it. Will do something resembling @anthilemoon's digital garden. Instructions linked. Thread explains limitations of Roam/why I wish it worked for this 👇nesslabs.com/digital-garden
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Yuppppp all of these are vital. I didn't appreciate the speed thing when I first wrote that thread because I had almost nothing on my roam and it was faster then.
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-Slow load time. Casual readers aren't so patient. -Not indexed by google searches. The only way people are going to see what I write is if they are linked to it. -Can't pick a starting point for users. Sidebar helps, but doesn't fix the problem of people seeing a blank DN page.
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