Hello everyone and welcome back to the Keep Productive youtube channel today's video where we'll be diving into Roam research
This is going to be a beginner's guide to Roam. So it hopefully will give you all that
You need to know about the application. Not only the key features
But all of the key facts and information and all of the best places to learn and resources that you need to know
So without further ado folks, let's roll into today's video
Okay, so let's start with a fact file
I think this is always a nice place to start gives you a bit of an outline
About this application. If you're brand new to it now room research started. Actually. I think it was around about november
2019 and it really became popular over the last couple of months as a lot of people started to discover it
many people like Roam due to the popularity around its
Bi-directional links essentially working a bit like the brain taking all of the things that you know and linking them together
within the application
so Roam have a
community already
It's a thriving community called the Roam cult that have really taken this application on
Building some beautiful graphs and developing the application using css and lots more
So Roam is actually going to be available very soon
Their wait list is going to come out and it will be priced standard pricing will be 15 per month
There are some other pricing that is a little bit cheaper in the long run
Now the founder of Roam is a fella called connor white sullivan
And again, he is an avid tweeter sharing all of the updates of the company there
So you're probably wondering how does Roam work and how to make it a little bit different?
So room is very simply a note taker but with a little bit of a twist inside of Roam you can connect up certain elements
And then build this sort of graph that connects up all of your notes together. So let's focus in on a couple of features
Let's focus first on the daily note. This is you basically your starting point
You can create a daily note every single day
Bringing together your tasks your notes your thoughts and inside of that you can link everything up
now Roam goes a lot further because you can add in tables you can add in boards and you can add in a variety of
Interactive content so daily notes is a perfect place for you to start pouring out some of your ideas
As you go and the great thing is it's all searchable and findable using these things called bi-directional links
so bi-directional links are probably the most exciting thing inside of Roam because it helps connect up existing notes to notes that are being
Created so for example if you had a note on say the tim ferriss podcast
You could connect up all of the notes that were together and you can even reference
elements of text that were inside a specific note
Which is really powerful for a lot of people who are trying to blend
in and keep a tally of all of their thoughts and research so you can find all of your links using
Linked references or unlinked references which brings together all of the insights
You need to know from your Roam account and anything you've added in the past now
There are some other experiences inside this the the third thing is the graphs the graphs are obviously a great way to overview the connections
the synapses that you've made inside of your rom account how say 6th of june connects with
a tim ferriss podcast or how a content calendar
On youtube can be connected to some of the other reviews that you're making. It is really expansive and you can interact with it
Very easily Roam has plenty more features
But one other that makes it quite exciting is the sidebar now the sidebar allows you to actively create notes
And bring up notes alongside your existing note you're writing on which makes it great for research
Studying and bringing together thoughts and ideas
Now there is something called
css
themes which they're working on at the moment and lots of people creating these themes and the css themes makes it really
Exciting to look at your rom account
there are so many different types of roam accounts now because loads of people
Are customizing that and making it even more attractive so folks as you know, i'm not exactly a roam user myself
It actually crept up on me. Um, i'm a notion user at heart but
I do respect the application as obviously lots of people using it
Lots of you guys are jumping in the deep end and of course, that's why we've got Roam week here
But I wanted to point you towards a couple of resources that I think will be quite useful in the Roam community
So the first of those resources is nat ilson's course all about learning Roam
It is a very interesting course and i'll link it below. It is something that i'm actually jumping into right now
I'm about 30 percent of the way through it but very much enjoying it
Next up is another youtube channel called shuomi he is a fantastic chap. Um he
Dives into Roam in a variety of ways not just talking about how to create podcast notes
But how to go about doing digital gardening which is an exciting way to keep your account
Regularly updated and fresh now i'm going to get the pronunciation of this channel wrong hari shibar
She is a college graduate and software engineer that talks all about Roam and shares some of the insights about how she uses it
She has a fantastic channel that overviews some of the ways that she uses Roam and actually guides you through the philosophies very well
Now we'll probably get her on to do a tour very soon
Next up is robert hayesfield now me and robert chatted this week in we'll be actually doing a feature with robert this week
But rob does these fantastic interviews with professionals about the way they use tools everything from the path right ceo to maggie appleton?
Who will mention in a minute?
Aesthetic usability like a key part of any system like it has to feel like lovely and joyful every time you open it up
And not just be like oh this is kind of gross
um
So i've added a lot of extra padding and I use um, a an extension called stylus
Now these interviews are available on youtube and they're really deep dives in with the Roam community that you'll thoroughly enjoy now, maggie
Appleton is not just a Roam user, but she's an illustrator as well
She has a fantastic blog where she posts occasionally about Roam and the top concept of Roam gardening as well, which is very interesting
but if you go on her twitter
She's very much a power user and will give you some
Really useful insights and rob actually has a great interview with her that i'll link below there is a channel called anomalous. Um, I
Will put the spelling here. It has a course all about Roam and dives into it
Very interesting and very useful notes would ren is another channel which dives into Roam vs. Obsidian versus notion
I think it's a fantastic video that overviews what you need to know about the two or three of them
And how you can make the most uh, or the best choice for you. All right, please watch the rest of the video
So here's a quick rundown of what I will be discussing in the rest of this video
Deciding on a note-taking app all depends on what works best for you
Fundamentally, all three of these apps were made for different purposes and are thus essentially extremely different?
And finally mickey mellon is another channel and he dives into Roam through a variety of tutorial videos that are here on youtube
So there are some official ways to learn about Roam as you may jump into Roam from this video
um, there is a slack channel that the Roam community have uh,
You can follow the hashtag roamcolt on on the old twitter and find out some uh, you know
useful ways of using it and deep conversations about how to utilize it and there is also
Um, the likes of connor's twitter page which dives into all of the conversations. He is endlessly tweeting users
So it's a great way to ask him questions if he's able to get to them and naturally
Uh dig a bit deeper into your room account
So there are some alternatives plenty of them cropping up one that we've reviewed here on the channel called obsidian
Which is a free markdown editor, um, but it does combine most of the rom features
not some of the more detailed features and it does lack some of the abilities but it is
The closest alternative right now now some other ones rem note is more of a flash card tool
We'll be checking that out in more detail a lot of people talking about that one
But most of the attention at the moment is on Roam research now the final to a dynalist
Which is actually the people who create obsidian very weirdly
But they've been around a lot longer and provide you with more of an outline application than say
What Roam does bringing together interconnected links but you can do some of that in the application now workflowy are also working hard
To develop more features and their found actually talks quite regularly on twitter about that
So they're looking to become more of a Roam alternative as well
So folks that was the beginner's guide to Roam hopefully give you all that. You need to know about the application
Um and you find some news from this video
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We've also got an article if you wanted to read it after and maybe even share it with a couple of friends
But if you want to share this video with anyone who is looking at Roam
Then feel free to and naturally it'd be great to have you here in the community one final thing folks
There is a road roam roam made simple facebook group, which we recently started
Um, and it's getting I think it's about 200 members now, uh, but it'd be great to have you in that community
Lots of people talking about Roam. Um, and naturally it'll be fun place to um, you know, discover this application further
So folks a big. Thank you
I'll talk to you all very soon and everyone make sure to have a great week keep productive and i'll see you guys very soon
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