Hey Francesco... what are you doing? Yeah, you haven't even reviewed Roam research yet. It's been weeks
I know I'm working on it
Any people comparing it to notion the notion is taken. You haven't even tried it yet
No, honestly, I I will I will do it. I am extremely disappointed with you get to it
Okay guys, so first off I am sorry for being so slow on this one
I have been keeping an eye on Roam research and what I want to start this video
First impressions is with the sort of outline of what's happened so far
I'll give you a bit of a fact far to some extent in what this application is
Now I'm first off. This is more of an outliner application
it compares more to applications like Dinah list and bear wunst weaving in some of the experiences from
Applications like notion encoder now. We'll be going into the features
And I'll be talking near the end of first impressions sort of opinions on it from playing around with it
But also giving it a bit of it sort of, you know, toying around with in my spare time
Now I've been talking trying to talk a lot about notion competitors recently
And I think this is sort of encroaching on that sort of category this application is what's called a web outliner
It's currently only available web and it allows you to do very basic text abilities right now
But this sort of I guess this spotlight feature is the graph network
So let's just sort of skip buy a lot of this and just jump straight in fastings first
This is the home page and it sort of explains a little bit about how the network thought works
essentially you create
These notes or pages and you can link them to other notes that already built inside of your roam area
So here we go. I was playing around with it yesterday
I saw him back up in December, but I just have just been focusing on other videos so you can see here
Let's start with the left-hand panel in which you can actually move away
Which is quite nice of just a simple touch there. You've got daily notes
Which is basically your day-to-day typing's it could be a gender. It could be some of the notes you're taking during meetings
We'll come back to that in a moment
You've got this thing called graph overview
Which is actually like literally a visual network of how all of your notes are connected and you have this thing called all pages
Now if you did want a shortcut something you can naturally go here and it will be pinned to this left-hand side
So super simple right now
As you can see, it's very clean over in the top right corner
you do have search so you can go and find a specific page and you also have
This sort of like Association thing to a date so you can actually see what's on your list for tomorrow as well
so you can go in advance and you can skip through there and that's how you've sort cut up there and
You can also open the right sidebar
Which gives you additional notes?
You can also share export and import and import and roam data from other applications or accounts
So that's a basic navigation. Let's start with the daily notes. So the daily notes is very simple e you're
Sort of notes for the day and I started writing an example of yesterday so you can see here there
if I click into it comes up his his own page you can see that I was like
Okay plan mortgage finances and organize and continue Kaspar review so you can see I made two notes there
But what's cool is you can link up pages. So it's very similar to notion in this file people
A lot of people were sort of referencing it to that. So you could press a slash command and create these different elements and
What's cool is they're super simple
There's nothing to the glossy about this application. It's very basic
You can do anything from creator to do so a to-do would look like that. So
You know when you press ENTER it turns into a check box
A lot of it is sort of marked down E when you're typing it and that's something to note
You can also connect a page reference
So in this case, I might actually be like, okay
I actually didn't make some notes on the Kaspar global review
if I press that and I press ENTER you can see that I
Can actually go straight to the page or I'll demonstrate that in a minute. You can upload an image get block reference
so for example if I'm like
Say for example, I had a team statistics
Sheet that I had I could
Have like what's the latest?
Twitter follower number so here you go inside of the mortgage one
We have two hundred thousand left to pay on the mortgage and that naturally comes up in real time, which is quite cool
so it will change based on how the other page changes which does help with the networked thought a
Set up. So as you can see here. You can create elements like a slider
So for example, if you wanted to give yourself a specific number rating
That's pretty cool and you can also add a block embed in as well
so for example
If you wanted embed an image you could also do so also you have to do is embed a video link or a specific URL
Or specific HTML code now, you can also get the current time appear as well. So it's sort of coming back to these coder
approaches so you can have that like live documents that react to
Different experiences as well. Not just like, you know things you write down ready. You've got a date picker as well
So for example you could set that to
You know
Next two days time and then that allows you to see your daily pages and it connects up with the other application
So if I were to go to tomorrow
You could see that the linked referent comes up here
So you can here see here that you've got a few preset ones like today tomorrow and yesterday
You can embed a YouTube video external links and use some of the markdown
Abilities there as well as a word count and Page mentions, too
so that's
quite a handy one to have so you can actually just get a specific page mention and you can see it opens it up as
a
interactive
reference
So maybe I've demonstrated some of the sort of basics there of the daily notes
The daily notes are really to help you to start. I guess planning your agenda for the day
It helps you to connect up the network. So let's explain what the graph overview is the graph overview basically works as a
connector
So for example, you can see that this December 11th note doesn't have a thing attached to it
You can see that - febrile fourth does have stuff attached to it. And that is the mortgage
So if I were to click in I could actually see the mortgage notes
We've got that and you can see that it's got linked reference to mortgage
You can also see the unlinked references as well and you can help link everything up
So what's quite cool is you can see that it connects up our any keywords with mortgage
But the idea of this is that it connects up your notes in a very different way that allows you to organize them for later
So that you can take a full advantage of a graph based reference. So this is something that Ann law actually posted on
Snack your snack and she posted about at the pro tip that what you can do is have some what's called
Bi-directional thinking or linking so you can actually connect up certain topics and make this graph
Extremely advanced which might be useful for students
It could be useful for people planning their company and how it operates
So that's one of the things that many people are liking about this. So in essence the graph
Overview not very demonstrated very well could allow you to connect up all of your notes in this weave of branches in this network
So you're probably wondering how does this even connect up? So if you go to all pages you can see any page that you've created
so the to do pages
Automatically have their own page
So that's one thing to be aware of you can see that the linked reference comes in that you connected up with
the organize and continue
Kaspar glows so you can actually build on this and make it even bigger
And as you can see here, the slider also has a reference to so you do can and give slider references a name
so if I go to the mortgage you can see that linked references appear so it
organizes things based on whatever you've linked it to before so you can see that the 4th of February comes up as an option and
You can also open this up and see what mentions are featured as well
This application could potentially be used like dine list
now if you haven't seen our feature that herb coddle came on to do he talks about how he you dinah list in a very
structured way to outline
Application and his uses it to like be able to nest like a lot of stuff inside of this
But I think this takes nesting to a new level because the concept goes even further. You've got the ability to actually take
Graphs and at linked references which is something you can't do in dynast and it really takes it a snap further
So this was a super basic overview of some of the core features inside of Roam now if you want my opinion it
reminds me of
Evernote in its early days. It reminds me of doing the list in its function, but it reminds me of
Notion in it's linked abilities. And this is what a lot of people are starting to see so what problems do they have currently?
It's only available through web. It's in development
I've had a few people that I know who had a bit of a slow experience with it
and that's probably because of them the server time and it's growing a lot of attention and
At the moment. It's still very early days on how people were using it. They haven't got any template set up
They have a few guides on YouTube and how to take advantage of it, but it's still very early days
I do think this application has a space notion doesn't have any massive competitors in the personal space at the moment
You've sort of got notion. You've got some applications like fibery
I've seen a couple more that I'm gonna be doing reviews on but in the moment
This is the closest thing in terms of actually taking on notion and if add small features
I think it could be an exciting battle in
2020 so guys check out the link in description from Roam
Appreciate you stopping by today
Hope you enjoyed the little sketch as we started and I do apologize for not being so
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