Topic
notes
- Daily Journaling with Morning Pages
About a year ago I started experimenting with the idea of a daily journal. From someone within the Roam community, I heard about the concept of Morning Pages, which is a tool for creative writers to build a muscle for…
- Concept-based Notes and Composable Ideas
If a note is an idea, we want to make the idea as atomic as possible, so we can find and stitch them together into an interconnected web of ideas. We want composable building blocks. Composability helps us stack, mix,…
- How I Plan My Week with Roam
For years Todoist was my tool of choice for task management. When Roam came on the scene for me earlier this year, I'd seen pretty compelling methods from the #roamcult for how to manage todos inside of Roam with its…
- Notes on Inspired
I just finished publishing my summary and takeaways from Marty Cagan's Inspired, his collection of ideas on building product teams. A lot of solid fundamentals there for startups, more meat on the bone in this one tha…
- Readwise and Roam Research
If I tracked my time spent in software tools, I'm pretty sure over the last 8 months Roam and Readwise would be top of the list. All of my writing, note-taking, idea logs, and (increasingly) to-dos happen now in Roam.…
- Weekend Reading: Notes Meta Layer, PG, and the Trump Era
📝 A Meta-Layer for Notes Julian Lehr raises an interesting idea on taking notes: the importance of spatial context. 💬 PR Interviews Paul Graham Antonio Garcia-Martinez's newsletter kicks off with an interview with P…
- Tiago Learns Roam
Tiago Forte and Conor White-Sullivan call a truce in the Twitter knowledge management feud.
- Talk Notes: Spolsky on Pluralism
One of my favorite evening activities is watching talks, interviews, and presentations on YouTube. I often take notes on these for myself, so this is an experiment in brushing up those notes and sharing them publicly.…
- Effortless Output in Roam
Today Nat Eliason launched version 2 of his Effortless Output course for learning Roam. This time around he's doing an interesting thing with live courses and students selecting a capstone project. Adding something th…
- The Idea-to-Reality Production Stack
A great overview of mental models, thinking approaches, and techniques to, as the piece says, go from "idea to reality."
- RoamStack
The Roam ecosystem is rapidly expanding these days. It's on its way to becoming platform beyond personal knowledge management — an operating system for ideas, thinking, knowledge synthesis, and writing. Ramses Oudt an…
- Digital Organization with Roam Research
YouTube creator Ali Abdaal put together a great extended overview video on Roam. Good examples of the core features of the product, and interesting techniques for how to organize notes.
- Roam's Future
Roam Research already has a deep community of users coalescing around it, building extensions, custom styles, and poking at the edges of how it could be extended. In this post, David Crandall outlines some possibiliti…
- Library Notes
Jumping off from my Friday post on literature notes, I’ve taken the first step here in what will hopefully become something more meaningful over time. I just finished up filtering back through all my highlights and no…
- Literature Notes for the Library
With the last several books I've read, I've been trying to force myself to work through and document literature notes for my highlights, key ideas, and takeaways from books. Using a process (that perhaps I'll one day…
- Digital Gardeners
The "digital garden" concept is gaining in popularity. I've seen a dozen of them recently, with groups like the Roam community taking to publishing their own open notebooks. Maggie Appleton (an awesome, prolific membe…
- The Zettelkasten Method
Lately I've been pouring time into Roam, finding ways to improve my long-term memory, and reading about taking notes, all in service of getting better at synthesizing new ideas. Central to all of these is the Zettelka…
- A System for Publishing Evergreen Notes
In Sönke Ahrens's book How to Take Smart Notes he describes the "zettelkasten" system (the "slip box") developed by German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. Luhmann created the system to help himself organize notes and thou…
- Sönke Ahrens on How to Take Smart Notes
{% include video-vimeo.html id="275530205" %} I'm currently reading his book How to Take Smart Notes, which is based on, and talks a lot about sociologist Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten system.
- Roam I and Roam E
A neat concept demo from Dhrumil Shah showing possible enhancements for Roam Research. He calls them "Roam-I" and "Roam-E": Roam-I — for reusing old knowledge Roam-E — collaboration Most of this is user interface on t…
- Getting Comfortable with Roam
Roam Research has been making the rounds on the internet in the last couple months. I've written a little bit here about it, but promised this longer overview of how it's working for me so far. What is it? Roam is a t…
- awesome-roam
A sign your tool, library, community, or science has made it is when it gets the awesome lists treatment. I've got an upcoming post in the works on my experiences with Roam so far. Lots of the resources listed here ar…
- Weekend Reading: Readwise with Roam, WWI Naval Intelligence, and Interaction Density
📖 Readwise2Roam I'm liking so far the process of manually typing notes in Roam from highlights in my books. Something about it feels more efficient and leaves me with more meaningful, succinct notes. This could come…
- Weekend Reading: Chess, COVID Tracking, and Note Types
♟ Chess Tom MacWright on chess. Reduce distraction, increase concentration Once you have concentration, you realize that there’s another layer: rigor. It’s checking the timer, checking for threats, checking for any of…