Sahil Das

Look, it s not even the same category.

Roam and Obsidian graphs are mostly for that wow I have so much knowledge dopamine hit. You zoom out, see the giant hairy ball, and feel profound for 5 seconds. Then you close it. Because in reality, those graphs don t do much.

Hey legends,
I was a Roam user. Then Obsidian. Logseq. Notion.

Beautiful graphs. Lots of [[backlinks]].

And I still forgot what I read last week.

Why? Because linking isn't learning. Encoding is.

You read. You highlight. You close the tab. Two days later, you remember nothing.

You have 2,400 notes scattered across three different apps. You buy the books, you bookmark the threads, and you save the long-form articles to a "read later" pile that grows every single day.

You feel productive. You are not.

You are currently trapped in the shame cycle of passive consumption. You ve accepted this as normal, but here is the hard truth: most reading is wasted time unless you pay the toll of a thought.