Playing with some of the no-code programmable features of @RoamResearch (pomodoro timer, kanban boards etc) strikes me that a) this has potential to be the first real no-code environment since Excel and b) it's a way to do Wolfram-style computational essays without Mathematica
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The thing about Roam is that it's the underlying conceptual model that determines what is easy and what is hard, so the opinionated design follows that. They could bolt on features which don't naturally fit the nested blockref model but that would probably add fragility/entropy
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I suspect some fairly minimal subset of the paradigm is turing complete, but that doesn't mean you should try to do everything with it. It may be better to think of Roam as a medium rather than a tool. A medium with a message. With literacy in the paradigm required to use it well
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I *think* I've explored all the main native features of roam... basic outlining, bidirectional linking, diagrams, tables, kanban, latex, calculator, transclusion, the graph... the only thing I haven't yet really tried using is daily notes. Maybe I should give it a shot.
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The only thing that I suspect isn't quite a clean paradigm fit is the diagram feature. It overloads the basic nested blocks structure in opaque ways and I'm not sure I trust it yet.
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One simmering tension I can see here is whether Roam naturally wants to be a visual tool or a textual tool that's like a beefed up command-line paradigm. I think it wants to be both, but that means really pulling 2d visuals into the nested blockref paradigm properly
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Possibly one way to do that is build native viewport control which should be straightforward with html5/svg. Something like canned viewpoints. * {{view}} * xcenter ycenter * xspan y span This is going to get into css like attributes and declarative nocode though :(
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Are you an investor in Roam? Thought I read that somewhere...
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lol, I'm not rich, I just sometimes talk like a vc
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