(2019-12-24) Hy How I Use Roam To Take Notes

Khe Hy: How I use Roam to take notes. The game-changer: Bi-directional links

When I saw this, I immediately said to myself, “Holy crap. You basically have the potential to crawl my entire digital workspace at the most atomic level – the idea.“

Imagine you could tag every. Single. Block.

I’ve argued in the past that a personal CRM is a solution looking for a problem. But I like have quick little notes on my contacts, mostly to jot down how I can be helpful to them. In Roam, each contact becomes a tag and I can seamlessly attach text and ideas to each contact

Since every paragraph can be tagged, you now can tie ideas together quite seamlessly. In my case, I write often about topics like FIRE, mortality, and solopreneurship — so I’d have corresponding tags in Roam each pointing to paragraphs, bullets, or even individual sentences that match.

Roam’s command-line approach makes it quite tempting to go tag crazy.