Had a _blast_ hanging out with @RobertHaisfield and 10 other great #roamcult-ists for a good hour, geeking out over how to use @RoamResearch. Some take-aways:
"How would my note-taking change with queries in mind?" - one of the key differentiators between @RoamResearch and other note-taking apps. Learning the essential building blocks of links/tags, complex page names and queries and then re-combining them => magic
For me, Roam is in a way learning to program your own external brain. Your biological algorithms are all over the place - what you remember, associate...hard to influence. But as soon as you solidify a thought into Roam: programmatic access and combination power.
Biggest missing feature we agreed on: aliases. @RobertHaisfield shared a great example of how he thinks about unidirectional and bidirectional aliases. And - he does manual lemmatization for like [[altruis]] so the page links together mentions of altruism, altruist etc. That's...
too much to ask of a user. But we'll get there, I'm sure.
Also interesting thought: repeatable "upvotes" for your own thoughts so you can track your thinking about your thinking over time.
Also interesting thought: repeatable "upvotes" for your own thoughts so you can track your thinking about your thinking over time.
All in all - I had a blast and will definitely do this in the future! Both with @RobertHaisfield and others in the #roamcult, if they are up to it.
