@tracyplaces Journalling sensei on a Friday Roam hangouts. Live tweeting some of her insights sprinkled with southern wisdom and good story telling. #roamcult#roamos
She was inspired to transition from paper to "digital" journalling via Roam by @MamanLunettes kid's YouTube videos. Violeta was so impressed by how her kids adapted Roam to their specific styles, different approaches, but Roam being a common denominator.
Young Sofia doing live demo of her approach to addressing her feelings with prompts. Using block refs to link to questions & then writing out what happened. Sofia is so articulate. Her prompts help her to have a conversation with herself to resolve the problem.
@MamanLunettes mentioned that for her kids journalling with prompts has helped them to address the matter at the time it happens.Taking responsibility and results in an amazing response to dealing various emotions: Ex: jealousy, or anger. Sofia confirmed the value of this.
regarding journalling: Tracy keeps structure minimal (simple). Allows her journalling to tell the truth to herself.
She writes a "Line about today" in morning. Like morning coffee, capturing that first thought of the day brings her pleasure. Mental exercise to get warmed up.
Has a place for action items & meetings. Place to capture what needs to be done during the day. She uses the words "open loops" & "closed loops". She has a few open loops each day that guide her along & closed loops capture what was done, but also nicely tuck them out of the way.
creates a place to scream into the abyss, and can delete the entry if needed.
She doesn't need to be a Roam technonerd, she enjoys Roam and has the Roam community ready to help, not making her be something she doesn't need/want to be, but can be if so chooses.
Roam42 is for power users, but I agree with what she says. Focus on basics, go further when you want & need, but don't feel bad if you keep it simple. Focus on solving problems, don't get lost in all the possibilities.
Master the basics, before tackling the complex.
Tracy highlighted @DharamKapila Roam Portal Chrome Extension for the discovery process into your journal. He talked about how seeing visually content you are creating can help you in reflection. @MamanLunettes hangout need for @DharamKapila :-)
She has habit to write a "Note to Next days Self" (NTNDS) - writes to future self, to say something nice. Its about believing in future self.
She knows from previous experience how easy it is to be hard (even using words you wouldn't normally use) with yourself.
This helps her speak to herself with warmth.
Thanks @tracyplaces -- keep up the love for people.
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1/3 @Conaw the new CSS stuff is really great. The intentional surfacing of data elements and visual structure is going to be a big help as we move forward. I have one recommendation: Change the roam/css model to be like {{[[roam/js]]}}.
Recommendation: {{[[roam/css]]}}
2/3 The current one page model works very well, but gets difficult to manage as the number of customization grows since everything has to be on one page.
Second, it would be nice to prototype visual designs right in the context of what you are working on.
3/3 Additionally, it would give roam/js developers flexibility in providing UI customization.
So if we had {{[[roam/css]]}} that could be defined any where, this would be useful.
@RoamResearch Starting a thread that we can build on (@CatoMinor3@AbhayPrasanna@gottalead and others) with some early feedback. First enjoying the new things, But while you are messing with the code, a few ideas.
RECOMMENDATION
.rm-title-display is title page. If it is a Daily Notes Page, it would be nice if there was an attribute indicating its a DNP. Lots of us modify based on context: standard page or DNP. class="rm-title-display rm-title-dnp" otherwise no attrib. (In sidebar as well)
PRAISE
Loving the concept of these classes representing structuee:
.rm-block-main
.rm-block-children
So today @dvargas92495 brought up a really good question. Many are using SmartBlocks to not just build workflows for daily activities, but some are building very complex SmartBlocks with the JavaScript (connections to YouTube, GDrive, poetry and Shakespeare API's - wild stuff)
So while SmartBlocks has JS support, its not a primary goal. So his question was: why are people using it that way since you could just do roam/js. I have also wondered the same thing. I asked @shawnpmurphy8 (maker of famous attributes table extension) & he had strong opinions.
He said: Here is my thoughts on why folks are gravitating so heavily to SmartBlocks.
+ because it is simple
+ it is easy to develop/test as you go
+ it is easy to do hybrid... JS + SB COMMANDs + some general template stuff (indent / unindent etc.)
Live tweeting from the Roam impromptu zoom call with @Conaw. #roamcult
They want to make Roam very programmable. From easy to advanced, to simple extensions and more. Hope for lots of devs using Roam Depot in future.
Future of creators in Roam: very important that people can build off other peoples graphs. Multi-player, many contributing & sharing. Lower barrier to create very large content databases (even without a lot of tech knowledge). Want them to be build businesses of their work.
Coming to you Live from the Roam Hangouts with @cortexfutura Algorithm of Thought guru. Live tweeting his thoughts.
When @cortexfutura was asked about his background with note-taking software, he said “Been around the block” — no pun intended.
Demonstrating interfacing @zotero with Roam. I think this is a very popular concept for many researcher. He has designed a meta data export to make this happen. He will share his code. He has rolled his own solution to this problem.
Can't wait to try! Queries was one of those features when I started Roam I said to myself "this is not possible with notes, but it is!" Never thought anything other than search, but queries show a promise of a new dimension possibilities. I like new toys. #roamcult unite!
Man I am excited about this. Great work Team @RoamResearch. Query like tools are fundamental if the notes we write today will still be useful in 30 years. People often think the key feature of a note-taking app is full-text search. But that is only (small) part of the equation.
As your corpus of knowledge/information/writing/research grows to massive-multi-year database you need more advanced tools to get to what your looking for.