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Roam Research — A note-taking tool for networked thought
A note-taking tool for networked thought.
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This product has so much potential I want to already call it product of the decade. It's the first digital product that actually makes me want to journal my daily life and habits and collect as much information as possible. Bi-directional links are absolutely a game changer.
I'm a huge fan of Roam since I started making the transition a couple weeks ago. As a base for personal knowledge management it has a much more pragmatic philosophy around how information should interlink.
I love it so much so that I wrote up a 3,000 word user guide on it: https://nateliason.com/blog/roam
@nateliason That post was excellent. I've shared it with a lot of folks in the past few days.
I started using Roam Research only a day or so ago. It's been absolutely incredible for my workflow and staying on top of notes, the bidirectional links is going to be such an integral part in how I am able to surface content as time goes on. Outstanding!
First time posting after long time lurking.
This is the best new digital product I’ve used in YEARS.
Once you take a few minutes to understand the philosophy behind it, their YouTube videos and help pages explain it simply.
Has totally changed the way i take notes and I feel more connected to my thinking than ever before.
@patricktrack Same! This is literally my first comment on Product Hunt, and I came here to say this. This app has been a fantastic change for me.
MIND F*CKING BLOWN!
I'm obsessed with it and it's only been 48 hours since i started!
Congrats to launch @gunar. I have few questions:
1) What tech stack did you use to build this app?
2) Do you have any plans for creating iOS and/or Andrioid app?
3) Do you have any plans for monetization?
@gunar @alexdevero As I understand it was built on Clojure. I've heard Conor mention online that mobile apps are on the radar. As for monetization it's in beta and I imagine they have plans to charge for it at some point.
I've been using Roam for a couple of months now and the bidirectional links and frictionless page creation alone make it an amazing product. There a many other UI touches that make Roam a much better second brain than any other product I've tried so far.
Roam is a tool designed to make your notes *actually useful* to your future self. If you're anything like me, 95% of the notes you take end up languishing in dark corners of your internet, never to be seen or used again. Roam uses easy bi-directional links and semi-automatic page creation to create a knowledge graph as you take notes, enabling easy access and meaning for later use.
Have been using this since November and it's been great so far!
Hey guys, I have been using roamresearch to help my grirlfriend frame her personal statement easier and I found the difference.
Have you ever had so many ideas that 1 page won't allow you to organise ?
I think the power of roamresearch to my particular use case was the ability
to dump ideas in a page and frame them further -> then embed them into another page
to create a high level overview and always fly high and low keeping me on the track.
I also learned to use the #tags for topic coverage.
@conaw -> great tool but needs better front-end. found quite some glitches.
@nastycrackr it might now. There's a very active community developing plugins and extensions, u should google it. I know there's a Google Sheets to Roam integration
The Workflowy on steroids you never knew you needed.
Watch the short explanatory videos by the Conor: http://rtlnk.com/36Ol83F
I admit at first glance I was skeptical for yet another online note taking/journaling app. But after watching the videos and a quick play, I can see value in this due to the ease of timeline automation.
I will be trying this for a while to see if it can replace a few tools, which is key to any new app/service.
@conaw and co. have built something truly astounding in Roam. no other tool allows for the kind of connected thought that Roam does, in ways that allows for seamless capture and synthesis.
Roam is a strange app, it feels more like a command-line interface OS than just a notes app. It seems fairly simple at the outset, but once you use it for sometime you start to understand it's true power and you end up wanting to do everything in it. It's super addictive and the possibilities seem endless.
It starts off looking like a Bullet Journal, dropping you into a 'daily log' page which is created automatically everyday. The note page itself looks more like Workflowy/Dynalist, with bullet points and indent to nest bullets, with children that can be collapsed under a parent bullet. You can scroll and see all your Daily Notes on one page.
The best thing about it is bi-directional links. You create new pages as you type, say [[Meditation]] or #FoodLog, and when you go to those pages, it lists all the bullets where you've mentioned the tag. This way you can create a network of notes that are interconnected and not linear or hierarchical.
You can mix and match and use filters to do a ton of things inside it like GTD, Morning Pages, Bullet Journaling, Project Management, Quantified Self Logging, Building a Second Brain, Progressive Summarization, 5 Minute Journal, Anki, etc. to name a few AND you can start to benefit from the cross-pollination of these frameworks.
Eg. You can free write like Morning Pages, put down some todos as they come up, list out some things you're grateful for AND then filter and view only what you want to see later, like say todos or all mentions of 'bananas'.
The best thing about it is that you don't have to 'set it up' with any of these systems to use it. Just start putting things in it. Watch some of the use case videos to get more ideas.
#RoamCult
Roam is redefining digital note taking. Want to offload things in your brain? Retrieve information when you need it? Recall what you've forgotten? Roam is the the tool to help you do this.
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