Been thinking about the architecture behind @RoamResearch, where it's going, and how it fits into a larger toolbox. Broke it out into the following layers: ∙ Database ∙ Service ∙ Presentation Easier for me to think about it this way.

When you are a power user, you cannot afford to lose all the relationships between your ideas that you have spent months to build. Conor talks about having compounding interests on your notes. Roam smoothes the relationships between your past, present and future ideas as well as the relationships between ideas about very different topics.

A year ago, the idea of networking our notes with bi-directional links became the biggest thing in the tools for thought space since Vannevar Bush described the memex. Top-down hierarchies and tag systems became the pet explanation du jour for everything that was wrong with note-taking. So we all hustled on to the Double-Bracket Express determined ... See more

On the surface, I realize, that looks a lot like adding a hashtag to a document. In practice, though, I found myself using bidirectional links much differently than tags. In Roam, I created bidirectional links to concepts that I wanted to explore, like “the internet is too fast” or “social networks have been a boon to the conservative movement.” Wh... See more