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Notes on a year using Roam Research
Casey newton zettelkasten - creates a note for each atomic idea and adds to it/etc. eg “google is getting worse.” Maybe I should do that with my ideas as well, and maybe this would make it easier to come back to?
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Externalizing Thought
I’ve been all over the map where it comes to PKM. I have information, as I write this, living in 5 or 6 different apps. “Temporarily” storing “this” there, trying to create systems in the more complicated ones and trying to organize information with a variety of methodology in outliners. I’ve even gone to Bullet Journaling look
... See moreMy old belief was that storing all these links in a souped-up database would lead me to magically generate new insights about the topics I write about. After several years of banging my head into a wall, I realized that to generate new insights from these links I would need a new approach.
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs o... See more
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs o... See more
Casey Newton • Three apps that made me more productive this year
So in order for Roam to truly solve my ‘Where should I put this?’ question, it would need to both be able to find the right note for me at the right time (difficult) but also be able to show me the right portion of it in the right way so that I can instantly feel a *click* and know why it’s relevant (much harder).