Working on a super thread of 100 Roam Tips for #roamcult that I'll start posting incrementally soon.
In the meantime, I'm going to start adding to a thread where I share daily adjustments or learnings in @RoamResearch as an exercise in building in public. 📜
1/ How to improve my writing hub? This is the factory where ideas = raw inputs, then are processed into future content.
Right now, it's an ungainly list of topics and ideation. Will probably look totally different in 30+ days.
tags+queries by intent be important
Potential intent ideas:
- project name
- channel (twitter, blog, newsletter, youtube)
- status (in progress, future, etc.)
- done/not-dones
Would be cool to translate into a kanban and editorial calendar. I'm not sure how robust these functions are in Roam tbh
2/ Working on my Daily Note template.
I'm iterating my way to something that I want to fill out nearly every morning at the start of my day.
It's a design challenge to figure out what's lightweight (so you do it), useful (so it benefits), and scalable (copy+paste, complete).
Current process (see gifs next tweets)
- Morning Pages (if time)
- Create my Daily Plan (pull from TODOs, Traction page, Scheduled Reminders)
- Embed the Daily Plan at top of daily note
- Current Time to track current tags (pull from Daily Plan)
- Rocks embed from Traction page
Morning Pages - grab templates from page.
Will link to all responses to prompts over time, even if prompts are updated. Don't need to respond to all, just the ones that feel relevant.
Haven't fully bought in to doing these regularly, we'll see.
Grab TODOs from pre-set queries based on intended urgency, if you want to complete today, pull them into a spot in your daily note.
More or less modeled after @wirtzdan Magic List (modeled after Notion's task default management)
Embed Daily Plan to top, then pull tasks down to specific timestamps as you complete them throughout the day.
Upcoming + Traction goals.
Upcoming will be a query of due dates and one-time reminders from the next 3 or so weeks for quick visibility at the beginning of a day. Need to figure out this query and add.
Traction is an embed of quarterly goals ("rocks") for daily visibility.
Looks like I’ll have to produce the gifs a bit for them to be useful, a lil small right now!
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Today is my first day starting @AliAbdaal ’s Part-time YouTuber Academy course. (1st cohort, exec edition!)
Here’s my insights from day 0 - intro material and his recent YT vid reflecting on journey to 1M subs. Psychology, benchmarks, hedonic adaptation
👇👇👇
Ali grew to 1 million subscribers (from 47) in ~2 years. At first, he vlog'd advice to medical students, then pivoted into productivity, tech, books, and more.
4,000 was his "unachievable" number sub target. He had a friend with 50K he considered god tier.
Little did he know...
1. SLOW BUILD + EXPONENTIAL GROWTH
Ali's now at 302 videos. In his first 6 months he churned out 52 videos (~2/week) before he got TO 1K subscribers.
In other words, it took him 25% of his -entire- YT career to achieve the first 0.0008% of his current subscriber base. 🤯