Roam Research

First time posting after long time lurking. This is the best new digital product I’ve used in YEARS. Once you take a few minutes to understand the philosophy behind it, their YouTube videos and help pages explain it simply. Has totally changed the way i take notes and I feel more connected to my thinking than ever before.

I'm a huge fan of Roam since I started making the transition a couple weeks ago. As a base for personal knowledge management it has a much more pragmatic philosophy around how information should interlink. I love it so much so that I wrote up a 3,000 word user guide on it: https://nateliason.com/blog/roam

Really like the idea so far, but can't commit yet without seeing what the monthly price ends up being (sounds like $30 /mo https://twitter.com/Conaw/status...)

The Workflowy on steroids you never knew you needed. Watch the short explanatory videos by the Conor: http://rtlnk.com/36Ol83F

This looks nice. Wondering how would it be used in comparison to - Notion

Roam is a game changer. I highly recommend giving it a try. I've moved all of Notion content over to Roam and haven't looked back.

Roam is a strange app, it feels more like a command-line interface OS than just a notes app. It seems fairly simple at the outset, but once you use it for sometime you start to understand it's true power and you end up wanting to do everything in it. It's super addictive and the possibilities seem endless. It starts off looking like a Bullet Journal, dropping you into a 'daily log' page which is created automatically everyday. The note page itself looks more like Workflowy/Dynalist, with bullet points and indent to nest bullets, with children that can be collapsed under a parent bullet. You can scroll and see all your Daily Notes on one page. The best thing about it is bi-directional links. You create new pages as you type, say [[Meditation]] or #FoodLog, and when you go to those pages, it lists all the bullets where you've mentioned the tag. This way you can create a network of notes that are interconnected and not linear or hierarchical. You can mix and match and use filters to do a ton of things inside it like GTD, Morning Pages, Bullet Journaling, Project Management, Quantified Self Logging, Building a Second Brain, Progressive Summarization, 5 Minute Journal, Anki, etc. to name a few AND you can start to benefit from the cross-pollination of these frameworks. Eg. You can free write like Morning Pages, put down some todos as they come up, list out some things you're grateful for AND then filter and view only what you want to see later, like say todos or all mentions of 'bananas'. The best thing about it is that you don't have to 'set it up' with any of these systems to use it. Just start putting things in it. Watch some of the use case videos to get more ideas. #RoamCult