Topic
Roam
- Roam CSS System
For the last few months I've been using Alexander Rink's Roam CSS system, which he's recently released out of beta. The Quattro theme he's developed is excellent, a look that models the iA Writer app for macOS. This s…
- Weekend Reading: Liberal Science, Roam42, and JTBD Examples
🧠In Defense of Being Offensive Jonathan Rauch on pluralism and the necessity of disagreement in the search for truth. His book Kindly Inquisitors was first published in 1993, but is as relevant today as ever. The bo…
- 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…
- Roam is Excel
This is one of the best descriptions I've seen for why Roam is different than the peers it's often compared to: Today Roam is a powerful single-player tool that you can think of as a functional reactive coding environ…
- Weekend Reading: Options Over Roadmaps, Ghost, and Spaced Repetition
🛣 Options, Not Roadmaps An option is something you can do but don’t have to do. All our product ideas are exactly that: options we may exercise in some future cycle—or never. Without a roadmap, without a stated plan,…
- 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.…
- Tiago Learns Roam
Tiago Forte and Conor White-Sullivan call a truce in the Twitter knowledge management feud.
- 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."
- RoamThemes
Roam's custom theme tooling is neat, but so far a bit too complex to want to fiddle with much. This browser extension makes browsing for and managing themes so much simpler.
- 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…
- Weekend Reading: Quarantine Talks
🛠Attitudes, Aptitudes, and Progress Joel Mokyr’s talk on the most recent session of The Torch of Progress series. 🧠How to Be a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg A recent talk from Maggie Appleton on the "building a second brai…
- 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…
- 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…
- Roam: A Tool for Metacognition
I'm deeper these days into Roam for info storage and notes. It empowers a looser, free-form version of writing (or as Roam describes it "networked thought") that's hard to do in a linear note document. I've been worki…