Conor has a big vision for collective intelligence but to get there Roam first has to focus on individual intelligence until they hit critical mass

“You couldn’t easily remix these notes, especially if they were originally organized by book…you can’t see all of the questions from all of the authors or all of the quotes that relate to one particular topic” – Conor White-Sullivan

However, no one of the note-taking application on the market allowed Conor to remix and connect his notes from different authors and books

“If you don’t have systems that allow you to draw new connections, it’s hard for those ideas to come into existence” – Conor White-Sullivan

How do you incentivize users to contribute to other people’s work?

“The mark of a good knowledge management system is it’s able to surprise you and it’s able to be a good conversational partner…it’s reminding you things you thought before” – Conor White-Sullivan

“It’s easy for you to roam or wander through your old notes to find nuggets that you want to reuse…you should be able to get compound interest from your past writings” – Conor White-Sullivan

Two things Conor has been thinking about:

Roam makes it easy to sort through multiple indexes and pulling up related documents