4/15/2024 0 Comments Nate newton wiki![]() ![]() ![]() In Roam, say you create an “Apple Watch” and an “apple watch” page on accident. The worst thing about Tags in most systems is that you have to memorize the exact syntax, including capitalization, and if you mess it up you break your tag structure. That problem is particularly bad in Notion, and this is one of the many reasons I like Roam so much better. This is incredibly useful for jumping around between different notes without having to open tons of tabs or go back and forth constantly. Here are some other little things I love. Maybe I’ll find something better or a better system in the future, but for now, this is pretty damn exciting. Roam has made me the most excited about information capture and synthesis out of any of my past iterations on knowledge management. I link articles to people, people to places, places to ideas, it keeps growing, and it keeps spitting out new relationships I hadn’t thought of or had forgotten about.Īnd that’s been the biggest benefit. The more I do this, the more I want to find connections between everything in my life. You don’t even need a reason to do it, you just add more links and if it’s useful later, great, if not, it doesn’t matter since it took no effort to add it. By putting so much data into the second bullet, I create relationships between Running Shoes, Knee Pain, my different shoes, and my hometown.Īlmost everything you type naturally lends itself to be linked to other topics in your database, and you constantly discover new opportunities to interlink your information. I assign to-dos to myself for January 6th, which will resurface as Linked References when I get to that day. I reference 12 other pages, three other dates, and one other person. Let’s say I’m looking at my page on the book “ Waking Up” by Sam Harris: Which takes us to the third big benefit, and where Roam really shines: the automatic bidirectional reference you get when you create one of these links. In Roam it’s so seamless that you can do it without interrupting your typing flow. Have you tried to link to another page in either of them? It’s a nightmare of right clicks or slash commands, it takes way too long. ![]() This is another area where Roam really stands out from Evernote and Notion. It’s not cluttering anything up, it’s just floating in space. And if you never use it again, it doesn’t matter. The best part about this is you don’t have to go create this page, it just gets created the first time you reference it with a Page or Hashtag link. And if I do want to go in and start coordinating my thoughts on it, I’ll already have a great and widely referenced place to do so. It takes two seconds to type #Modern Religion and add new data to it, and doesn’t require updating the actual page at all. So right now, it functions as a sort of tag where I can quickly link other pages or topics that are relevant to it: You can make new pages constantly, and since you don’t need to file or do anything with them there’s nothing stopping you from making pages as placeholders to tie information together.įor example, I have a page on “Modern Religion.” It’s a topic I’m very interested in and might write about sometime but I don’t have any condensed thoughts on it yet. In most note taking apps, you need a reason to make a page. Which brings us to big benefit number 2: how easy it is to add links and spin up new pages. When everything can be everywhere, you don’t have to worry about the filing structure. This removes all the decision making about where to put things that you frequently run into with Evernote, Notion, etc. The book Emergency by Neil Strauss can live in my Book Notes page, my Prepping page, and my Neil Strauss page, without having to be moved. I use ] when it’s inline, and #Hashtag Links when they’re out of context, but you can use them however you want.īy structuring information in this way, Roam makes it super easy to move laterally across your information, while retaining vertical references. ![]() Whether you do a ] or a #Hashtag Link is purely a stylistic choice. Every page is a tag, and every tag is a page. This also highlights a big difference between Roam and other note taking tools: tags are both everything and nothing. ![]()
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