CreativeLive - Ben Willmore - Organize Your Life with Roam Research

Discussion in 'CreativeLive' started by curiousdude, 12 Apr 2024.

  1. bitbyte

    bitbyte New Member

    Gold Member
    Joined:
    18 Sep 2025
    Messages:
    44
    Likes Received:
    7
    Trophy Points:
    3
    Yeah I've been using Obsidian, but it's interesting to see how a photographer or another creative use these note taking tools because I for one am just dumping all my ideas on notebooks lol. Obsidian stays as somewhat a collection of urls on inspirations
     
  2. Nikon4life

    Nikon4life Elite

    Lifetime Gold Trusted Gold Member No Limit
    Joined:
    26 Jan 2020
    Messages:
    6,589
    Likes Received:
    60,771
    Trophy Points:
    6,032
    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 . . . wave.gif
     
  3. curiousdude

    curiousdude Grand Master

    Lifetime Gold Trusted Gold Member No Limit
    Joined:
    8 Jan 2024
    Messages:
    2,595
    Likes Received:
    13,291
    Trophy Points:
    1,335
    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
     
    Nikon4life likes this.
  4. curiousdude

    curiousdude Grand Master

    Lifetime Gold Trusted Gold Member No Limit
    Joined:
    8 Jan 2024
    Messages:
    2,595
    Likes Received:
    13,291
    Trophy Points:
    1,335
    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.
     
    Nikon4life likes this.
Top