(2019-12-24) Hy Roam Research A Fresh Powerfuland Buzzy Take On Notetaking

Khe Hy on Roam Research: A fresh, powerful (and buzzy) take on note-taking. In 2018, Evernote users began migrating to the “all purpose tool” Notion. However, barely a year later there’s a new kid on the block: RoamResearch creating a productivity geek’s own version of East Coast vs West Coast.

It’s a battle of ideologies, not tools

Is your knowledge organized associatively or hierarchically? Do your notes hold their own in isolation or mandate inter-connectivity? Are you more of a hedgehog or a fox?

this ideas’s been around for along time. It’s got a crazy name that I can’t even pronounce: Zettelkasten (German for “slip box” or “card index.”) And like GTD, the PARA method and Bullet Journaling, it’s a system

The core idea behind Roam is bi-directional links. Imagine if you could tag any paragraph (or image, or bullet) within a note and then string together all the graph of relationships through these links. Effectively, you’re creating a mini-web of every idea fragment you’ve ever had.