hey in this video I want to show you how I use Roam as my bullet journal so
if you don't know about Roam, it's a note-taking app just like Ever
Note and Notion. I've been using Notion for quite a while in the past few months
to keep my Youtube ideas, blog ideas and keep my journal and to study as well, but
I've recently discovered Roam and I've been using for my journaling and
I'm very impressed and I've been loving it so far and but if you want to know
more about the basic of Roam, you should check out the youtube channel by the founder I
think his name is Conor white Sullivan. He has a YouTube channel and I'll put a
link to his channel in the description below anyways let me just show you how I
being using Roam as my digital bullet journal. so Roam doesn't really have a rigid
structure like in Evernote andl Notion. It only has these three sections daily notes,
graph overview and all the pages and what I'd like to do each morning is my
morning journaling routine. So in order to do that I just type morning routine
and shift-click this and this brings my template for morning routine and you can
just copy and paste and then you can start writing. So the first question is what am
i grateful for this is a typical mindfulness exercise it really helps you
to stop taking things for granted and it makes you happy as well so it can be
anything it can be your, I don't know, partner for something and your family
and then the next question is what I wanted today's highlight to be. This
helps you identify the one thing that makes you content
at the end of the day even if you failed to finish other tasks. So for me it is you
know publish a video about Roam. and the third question, well this is not really a
question but it's a daily information so, I sometimes write like, I focus on
what I can control because it's pointless to worry about what you can't
control and this works as kind of like a reminder for myself to focus on I
can control what truly matters and the final question is what am I thinking of
this is based on the idea of brain dump so brain dump is kind of like a
technique to clear mind by dumping all the contents in your mind so you can
write about what you are worried about so it can be like I don't know exam or
meeting or your essay assignment anything that you're worried about or
you can write about why you are excited about
so can be like you're meeting up with your friends anything so it's
not really limited to do things but you get the idea just have to write on
everything your mind. Usually like what you're stressing or what you're worrying
about so that's my morning routine so let me
just close this template. And as I go about my daily activities I sometimes
get ideas and inspirations and thought. And when that
happens I just write thoughts and write my idea below like that and then
this will create a page called a thought and in this page you can see all the
thought you had in the past so yesterday I thought well like I
should think of master tasks base should use filter more. So another thing I do
is to record what kind of books or articles I read say for example I read
how to take smart nodes it's a fantastic book I've been reading and you know
again you can write what you thought about the book. great! Well obviously this
is a bad example but you get the point and finally at the end of each
day what I want to do is to do my evening reflection so to do that type Evening
reflection and shift-click and you see this template I made so I'm just copying
and paste.
they go. So usually I have five questions I would like to ask myself
before going to bed and the first question is daily logs. it's exactly what it
sounds like and just record what you did what happened in the day so you can
write about you know what time you woke up, what you had for lunch or who you talk to, what
you talked about, and what books you read, how you felt until how you reacted to
each event
it just feels really nice to record and write down and sort of helps
you remember what you did in your day and the second question is what are the
amazing things that happen today another typical question from gratitude exercise
so for example you can write about you met old friend and I don't know discovered
amazing book... something like that and a side question is what did I learn today
this is based on the idea of active recall method which is a very
powerful memorization technique so the idea is that it's it's basically a
process of remembering information without looking up in your notes or online
and by recalling, you can move information from short-term to long-term
memories so I don't know I can for example I can write about econometrics
because I love it and I don't know, omitted variable bias.
something like that. and then I write about blog and that I should use more email list
to build what is or whatever so it just you get the idea you just
write down things you learned without looking up and articles online and if
you click this page of what I've learned you can see all the things you
learned in the past so yesterday I learned about gratitude
and it's much more than something makes you happier
I also learned about mindset. Fixed versus growth mindset and yeah it's really
useful that you can see all these things in one page and so I usually take like
one hour every weekend to review these things and the next one is positivity
score, which is a silly thing I've been keeping
for the past few months. it's basically about you know it's a score about how
well I followed my principles so was I positive enough? was I cheerful, was I
patient was I self disciplined enough? those principles of mine and I can just
make slider for that and then I can be like eight or nine depends on how well I
sort of behaved in that day and the last question is what could I have done
better and pretty standard question so I can write I can smile more. that's terrible and
I can write I don't know use time blocking more to be more productive yeah something like that
so that's how I do my journaling. and I have a bunch of a template
like this and you know you can change these questions depending on your
preferences and I think you can do so much more than
just journaling for example I made a to-do list yesterday which I like to
cover in the future video anyways thank you so much for watching and I'll see in