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6 Feb, 5 tweets, 3 min read
1/5 If you use LIVE PREVIEW or DAILY NOTES POPUP feature of Roam42, you will want to read this thread. I am making an important change to the Roam42 behavior. These features will be DISABLED by default. So if you want to use them, you just need to turn them on. #roamcult #roam42
2/5 To enable DAILY NOTES POPUP, simply add the following text to a block anywhere in your graph database and refresh the browser:

#42Setting DailyNotePopup on

3/5 If you use LIVE PREVIEW feature of Roam42, just add the following text to any block in your graph database to enable the feature and refresh your browser:

#42Setting LivePreview on

4/5 Live Preview contains many customizable settings which are documented on this page:

roamresearch.com/#/app/roamhack…
5/5 These changes optimize performance of Roam42 & help with some of the sync issues @conaw mentioned a few days back. Finally I just want to thank @filipematossilv & the rest of the support @RoamResearch team for their help to Roam42. RR has great support engineers

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1/ Roam backup terminologies & strategies. Recently in the Slack channels a discussion was started about backup. When you do an Export you have 3 options. Markdown, JSON and EDN. These terms can be confusing.

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Recommendation: {{[[roam/css]]}}
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