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.@obsdmd has the best "mental stack management" (term from @Mart1nSchneider) of any hypertext writing application I've worked with thus far. The information that occupies my attention and how much importance it is given is up to me.
Now if we could just get saved workspaces for picking up where we left off 🤔️
It would be like saving an arrangement of objects on my desk
Btw if you want to see the actual content of this writing, it goes into RobHaisfield.com/about 😁 Some content on the screen is still unpublished (realized recently that my site is currently just exploring my thoughts & I want to at least write a path for people to work w/ me)
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If you're using @obsdmd as though it's @RoamResearch, then you get what you pay for. I use both, and both have their strengths, but Obsidian has page level backlinks and no filtering. As soon as you get more than a few linked refs, their backlinks implementation is burdensome
Roam's data structure in conjunction w/ backlinks make the daily notes work. When you view the backlinks for a page, it drills down on the specific information on the page that is relevant. Have dozens of backlinks? That's okay, filter it down!
Backlinks in Obsidian are essentially a search that they put beside a note. They have less utility. I recommend thinking about your Daily Notes there as an inbox and moving notes out of the daily notes and onto specific pages. Roam's Daily Notes are both an inbox and outbox.
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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.
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I think a fundamental difference between my approach to product design through user involvement differs from Jobs to be Done is that JTBD wants the product to do the job and I recognize that the user's goal won't be accomplished without a teamwork between the user and the product
It's like the difference between going to the store to buy a coffee machine vs. hiring a trainer to get more fit. With the trainer, there's an expectation that you need to do the work to get fit, but the trainer is going to facilitate you in doing so
Thinking about things in terms of this partnership between the user and the app means we have to give the user more agency. Products are fundamentally voluntary, and the app can only do so much to make itself valuable. Value is created through teamwork.roamresearch.com/#/app/Rob-Hais…
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