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Playing with some of the no-code programmable features of (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 {{table}} model is revealing. At once reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the nested list as first-class citizen. You're reducing 2d to 1d, so you have to choose whether it will be row-dominant or column-dominant. At the moment they have row-dominant as a design choice.
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lol, roam manages to implement a janky little spreadsheet right within any page using block refs. This is brilliant you're making the world's best turing tarpit.
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This is going to be really powerful once you can pull from random data sources, and especially if you can use block references to point to live data ports, like say a pollable IoT temperature sensor
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Roam is evolving faster than I can keep up. I'd have to block time out every month to catch up on new features.
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What's keeping this manageable is that Conor has discovered a really powerful source of conceptual integrity here, the nested, referenceable block model. Without it, this would be a duct-taped set of features that would fall apart. With it, it's snowballing into a Real Paradigm™
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Full disclosure, I've recently started doing some consulting for Roam too, but this thread is with user-hat on (am on the believer plan). If I were 20 years younger, I'd probably be trying to get a job with them.
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