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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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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