To say Roam Research is a note-taking device is like saying Bitcoin is currency: yes, it IS that, but also so much more. In GTD everything starts at the inbox as part of the Capture process. Bi-Directional Linking "Creativity is just connecting things. I've been using it as my personal knowledge management system where I keep all my notes from my books, articles, podcast, youtube videos, etc. I use it for creating notes, journaling, research, taking notes on podcasts and books, weekly planning, and more. The most powerful feature of Roam is its use of bi-directional links. Roam Research made that time mostly worth it. Academia: Wess Daniels has written on using Roam in academia and Lukas Kawerau has explained how Roam can be used for academic research. It isn’t hyperbole when I say that Roam Research has changed my life. This workflow is adapted from the video The Canonical Roam Demo video by Roam Research founder Conor White-Sullivan. It’s ostensibly a note-taking app with an obtuse UI, but its product mechanics – bi-directional linking, easy page creation, embedding – allow for “networked thought” in a way that isn’t easy in other apps. It’s a record of what I know and what I want to know, and sometimes even things I don’t know yet. It’s the first note-taking app that has worked for me, and I used it daily. Use the TODO page as an inbox of uncategorized things. How to use Roam Research for Interstitial Journaling Simultaneous invention is a term that describes when the same thing is invented by multiple people basically at the same time. Science: Cherry Sun has written about how she uses Roam to become more organized in her medical research. I then discuss recording my research notes and how Roam helps with serendipitous ideas. —Steve Jobs. I start of with a bit of background about how I used to research. Management: Scott Block has written about how to use Roam in software engineering management. {{query}} works by checking each block (not each page) for the words you specify, and it returns the blocks that match the query. But now having used Evernote, Notion, and Roam, I can pretty confidently say Roam is the best way to record your ideas and things you’ve read, and use that knowledge to form new connections and creative output. This article is a brief overview of how I use Roam Research to research for my dissertation. My "Knowledge Graph" from Roam Research. A GTD Inbox Workflow with Roam Research. Gives you the ability to search your Roam database for [[Pages]], using a variety of search logical operators: and, not, or, between. In my case, with the five-year believer-plan, Roam costs $8.33 per month, compared to the average monthly cost of my Brain subscription, which was $13.25. Roam's pricing has received some criticism, it is expensive. I began using Roam Research about three months ago and although the learning curve was a bit high once I got the hang of things it completely changed the game for me. Roam is unintuitive if you’re coming from any other note taking app, so it takes a bit to get used to it. TODO any action you need to take from any page in Roam. Roam is what you make of it. Roam has brought a structure to unstructured thoughts and life. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something." See How to query in Roam … To me, it’s my second brain. Once / if Roam Research opens up the underlying Datomic database to custom data entities, the opportunities will be even broader. One example is when Louis Ducos du Hauron and Charles Cros presented their independent work on color photography on the same day in 1869.