Writing my digital garden (will share in coming weeks) in Bear is showing me I don't actually like nested pages in Roam anymore. Parent pages can serve as index pages for the pages that make more specific points. It's better to have a trail to follow than to collect everything.
For "evergreen" pages that are built on combining concepts, I can just have queries at some point in the page to bring those combined concepts in, separate from the linked references for the page that I'm on. This will result in something much neater and easier to explore.
Going forward in Roam, I'm going to think about what I'll call "keyword pages" (where you only tag a word) more as index pages, and fill them out as I go with a ToC of related evergreen pages.
For anybody who's been using Roam for a while, I'd recommend trying to work out of Bear with backlinks for at least a couple weeks. Roam does a lot of work for you beyond backlinks. Points where you can be more intentional in your linking become more clear
I realized I was a bit unclear as to what I meant by "nested pages." I usually say "complex pages" but I've been seeing nested pages more lately 🤷♂️️
