#RoamGames submission: Announcing the *Roam For Teamwork graph*, a resource for anyone who shares my dream of having an organisation's knowledge base emerge naturally out of everyday teamwork.
The thing that excited me immediately about Roam was how atomic blocks would allow different systems to always reference the same source of truth, potentially eliminating duplication and knowledge loss across different parts of a company.
So I took the steps to move my whole company over to Roam. CRM, tech dev, specifications, discussions, meeting minutes, call agendas, service delivery, customer support, etc. The only thing not on there are icky legal and financial details.
(Saved quite a bit of cash because we were able to turn off multiple SaaS subscriptions different parts of the company were using)
As I started implementing it I realised that there was something bigger that could be accomplished. What I call "The Dream":
Could an organisation's knowledge base emerge naturally while everyone in the team goes about their day to day work?
Full disclosure I am considering turning this into a freemium product.
Here is the graph's sidebar
The course itself is a set of lessons (25% complete) that work from nothing toward The Dream
Here is an example lesson about notifications with a note on how it helps work toward The Dream
Outside of these lessons are common use cases and workflows (I have workflows and templates for all of these but only 5% are on the graph at time of writing)
It also contains a list of the plugins I've found most useful for a team Roam (100% complete)
Finally it contains a list of external articles, tweets and podcasts (only stuff I've done so far, it was originally meant as a companion to the newsletter), and it uses css and js that you can take for yourself.
It also contains Easter Eggs, but backlinks kind of ruin the fun...
My definitive #RoamGames submission:
I've drip-fed submissions to the team/task mgmt RoamGames so this thread brings them together into one mega-submission. @Conaw, @RoamResearch
First, the thread that triggered the topic of this very RoamGame. I assume I can submit this? A fun live-tweet creating a new workflow in Roam in < 15 mins (it would have taken < 5 mins if I didn't have to live tweet it)
Second, the big one, my newly released work-in-progress Roam for Teamwork graph building all the lessons, templates and plugins you need to realise The Dream (also contains a definition of The Dream if you need that too)
Benefits
✅ Improves adherence to Roam across the team
✅ Works with any nomenclature for tagging people
✅ Works with any task management system
✅ Slack notification provides customisable context
✅ Easy to set up
One of the biggest challenges of using Roam in a team is getting everyone on the same [[page]] and ((block)) when they need to be. You need to inform people of questions, changes and new responsibilities.
Full disclosure we've been having some performance issues on the platform. Team member made a suggestion that appeared on my Attention page.
So I responded in-place and created the page as I typed with [[Website issues]]
(note notification back and date so it appears as something new on Daily Notes)