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Because of this, there’s no worrying about breaking past thoughts as they update right along with your thinking.Įach page in Roam takes the form of a bulleted list, with each line break creating a new block. If you decide to change a page’s name later, any reference to it in the past will be changed instantly. In this way, the notes you create in Roam should provide you with “compound interest” instead of falling away, forgotten - and because the links are bi-directional, they’re also highly modifiable. What would have otherwise been two disparate quotes in separate notes instead becomes a clear connection. In the few months that I’ve been using Roam, I’ve been shocked at the amount of times that I’ve done that only to find that I’ve already created a page for that person, which means that I immediately go out of my way to find more material by them. When the author comes across a quote that resonates with me, I write the quote down and put brackets around the person who the quote is attributed to, immediately giving them a page. This small difference in the way that note-taking works completely changed the way that I take notes while reading a book. Wrapping the name ] in brackets means that a new page has immediately been created for the renowned 15th-century painter, and instead of this page being blank it will automatically reference the page about Da Vinci that is ‘linked’ to it. Let’s say you’re taking notes on a book about Leonardo Da Vinci and the author references Michelangelo.
Here’s a quick explanation: Roam lets you create a new page within a page by wrapping any word (or set of words) in a set of double square brackets. Roam is the rare tool that is so good it forced me to change the way that I worked, so that I could best take advantage of its features even in this nascent stage.īi-directional links are the first feature that any new Roam user should get acquainted with.
Though Roam is currently relegated to being a tab within your browser (or an ‘app’ using a third-party tool like Flotato), other digital tools like Notion have proved that a solid web foundation can be the basis for something special. As of today, the platform is in a state of constant change, and some features - like native apps – are nowhere to be found. This linking structure is derived from the concept of hypertext (dating back to the 1960s) that inspired the ‘world wide web’ that we use every day - but where the internet uses hyperlinks to interconnect the world’s websites, Roam uses links to connect your thoughts, and there’s a particular power to collecting your ideas in this way.Īn important note: Roam Research is still very much a beta product.
This is because Roam employs ‘bi-directional links’ which allow you to create new pages on the fly and move from thought to thought with ease. Doing away with the traditional file and folder structure that most note-taking tools have stuck with since the dawn of the PC, Roam has more in common with Wikipedia than it does with a traditional notes app. Roam Research is a new note-taking tool that’s re-imagining the way that we capture information, and it takes many of its cues from the pre-internet era.
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