Around the time I discovered Roam, I fell down a rabbit hole after watching a video about the Simulation Hypothesis-which posits that all of reality is an artificial simulation, most likely a computer simulation. As Khe Hy explained in his Roam tutorial, “You basically have the potential to crawl an entire digital workspace at the most atomic level-the idea.” Instead of a limited mind map, you can craft an infinite mental atlas. It’s a giant knowledge web representing your notes and the connections between them. The map is fluid, with no hierarchy, no stacking, no linearity. In Roam, each note becomes a node, and there’s no central concept you have to start with. Mind mapping is a great thinking tool, but Roam takes it a step further. Most mind mapping tools only allow you to connect high level concepts together. For example, here is a simple mind map about the topic of metacognition. Mind mapping has been linked to better memory and recall, better creativity, and better connections between concepts. Starting from the centre, you use branches to connect new concepts together. It’s a visual diagram that helps you connect information around a central concept. Mind mapping is basically as visual way to make sense of the world. Okay, so what is Roam and how does it work? At the heart of Roam you have the concept of the graph, which will be familiar to everyone who knows what mind mapping is. To me, the strongest use case is to develop your metacognition, a fancy way of saying “thinking about thinking” or “knowing about knowing.” Instead of blindly cramming new information inside your head, Roam encourages you to literally connect the dots-to create your own links and metaknowledge, thus increasing both your memory and understanding of new information. It’s an incredibly flexible platform that’s fairly early but built on principles versatile enough to adapt to many use cases. Some use it for research, others for planning, and yet others for goal tracking. Many people in my corner of the Internet have started using Roam and shared their experience.
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That was until I discovered Roam, which brands itself as “a note taking tool for networked thought.” Let’s have a look at how to use Roam Research to achieve your goals. Instead, I have been using a combination of sheets, docs and notes all cobbled together to link my research process together. It always felt like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
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I never managed to get on the Evernote or Notion bandwagon. Too rigid, too complex, not adapted to the intricacies of the human mind. I’ve never been a huge fan of knowledge management tools.