CreativeLive - Ben Willmore - Organize Your Life with Roam Research

I hear ya man - I have a pile of notes in moleskines and somehow remember where all most of my potentially correlating material may yield a synergistic "find" - but if there's something more robust in light of the eventuality of slowing mind . . . sometimes I let go of my muse's hand at the park . . .

 

What do you know... I had another copy of this course in a data recovery folder from a backup drive. So I've refreshed the link.

but...

that copy is now deleted so this'll be the last time I can refresh... for real this time lol

 

And I, too have abandoned Roam research. I migrated to Notion for stuff that needed the linking/database ability, and moved everything else to Microsoft OneNote, which is still the best note taking app there is.

My problem with Roam was that you needed to use it how the developers intended to get the most out of it. Low friction when getting notes into an app is what makes a note taking app powerful. Stopping to tag everything and link it properly makes for a system that gets unwieldy quickly unless you're committed to the effort it takes to maintain it.