What should I cover next in Roam? Hit reply to this comment 😊 Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:39 Why Roam? 04:10 How I Use Roam 07:08 Opening Roam 08:05 Daily Notes 11:05 Nesting Blocks 13:01 Collapse/Expand Blocks 14:47 The Left Sidebar 20:00 The Top Sidebar 20:35 The Right Sidebar 22:55 Formatting: Headers 25:24 Formatting: Bold, Italics, Highlight 28:33 Key Commands Shortcuts 30:13 The 3 Ways to Create a New Page 38:27 How Much Should You Tag Your Notes? 41:39 Linking Notes Using the Hash 43:08 The Difference Between Square Brackets vs Hash 45:30 TODO's in Roam 47:25 The TODO Page 48:45 The DONE Page 49:37 Reminders Using the Date Picker 52:55 How I Manage Tasks in Roam 53:44 How to Reference Blocks in Roam 56:59 Reference Blocks by Dragging 57:55 Apply Children to a Referenced Block 1:00:20 Using Roam for Output
Dan, I want to tell you what a life saver you are. I have watched quite a few tutorial videos on how to use Roam but ultimately, it's your step by step video that has shown me how to get started with Roam. I cannot thank you enough. I have subscribed to your channel and will watch more of your videos. Thank you for an excellent video. Kia ora from New Zealand.
Thanks very much for creating this video, Dan. I was one who missed your live webinar. And for all your fans reading this I want to say that I followed the link on the webinar page that said [Communicate with Presenter]. Dan responded within hours and gave me a heads up about plans to make this video. And here it is. I appreciate the quick response and follow-up. Great modeling of taking care of your tribe!
Thanks for the kind words, Bob. Had to record everything again (let's hope I don't forget to press record on the next one, ah!). But because it was the second time around I think it made the recording easier and much clear. Cheers
Thank you very much for your tutorial, Dan! It really gave me what I needed to get started. Your use cases were very helpful too. I decided to become a subscriber just because of this video.
I have started using remnote which is free and quite similar to roam. I mainly started using it for daily journaling but I ended up writing a lot of complex topics.
@@DanSilvestre7 I have a question about facts vs. claims. Are both facts and ideas(claims) to go into evergreen notes? Let's say your learning about cooking cause you love cooking. You learn that an apple is a red fruit (fact) and it makes you think 'people should eat more apples' (claim.) It seems that people are saving their everygreen/permanent notes through thoughts, but do people also save 'facts' as evergreen notes? Unlike the apple, other facts can be complex and dense enough that it seems they could earn there own space in an evergreen note like the 'standford prison experiment.' for example. If you wanted to explain the Stanford Prison Expremient to someone well in your own words, you are saying this even in history took place (fact) and you want to be able to describe it in detail, but do people save facts in evergreen notes as well?
@존쌤의 언어습득법 / John's Language Learning Great question! I do save them together but that's just personal preference. But because Roam doesn't really force a taxonomy on you, you can adjust as you prefer using tags. For example: If I come across a story/parable that I think I might need in the future to reference in a video or article, I'll just add a tag to the block that references the story (I literally use #Story). So, if you want, you can also add tags at the end depending on whether it's a fact or a claim. Makes sense?
How did you get your graph view to look like that? Mine is an absolute explosion of pages which doesn't make the connections obvious to see. Have to zoom out massively to see but then can't read headings....
Master is a question Did you use circulation, logseq? I examined the two applications a little. There are many people who share that there is a serious convenience to connect notes and write articles based on these integrity. What do you think about this topic? For the efficiency between the connections, are these two applications too advanced? Moreover, Is it easier to learn about the use of obsidian? Is it easier to learn about Roam and Logseq? (To learn its use) Craft, I easily solved Notion-like applications. Technically did not force. But navigation, logseq and so on. I've never used the applications before. I want to choose the easiest one. As you know, I will move my content to one of these applications. I want to go to a place where I can easily understand the use. I shouldn't waste time. On the other hand, MEM application. In this application, is it true that the idea of connection is very good? Is it possible to see ideas, notes, web pages as a whole? Which one do you think can be solved more easily? What do you recommend?
what do you recommend between opening a page for something, vs. writing the thoughts in the daily notes. eg. if you create a page called wisdom, should i also directly write into it about wisdom? or just what comes into it by the linking? thanks
Great video. Very interesting. Thanks Dan. PS - Evernote doesn't force you to use folders. E.g. I have 19,000+ notes accumulated over 11 years in there...in just one 'folder' / notebook. I use tags extensively and this way has worked well for me for years. It's easy to add new notes from a variety of sources and tag them as I go along. And this method allows me to find old notes quickly. However, I agree the new versions of EN are clunky and slower than how it used to be.
Fair point. What I meant was how Evernote forces you to think of the taxonomy first (folders or tags) vs how roam does that automatically for you with bi-directional links. And saving that time thinking what should go where can be applied into more note-taking and output. 😊
Excellent video!!! Dan, will you please tell me how to use bibliographic references effectively in Roam. For example, a single pdf reference (of a journal article) I need to link to different pages in different contexts and later want to get it. Will you please guide me. Thanks in advance!
Thank you. The easiest way would be to put a tag at the top of the document and link to that tag from different pages. If you need to link to specific parts of the pdf, I don't think roam can do that (yet).
Great intro video, Dan! I particularly liked the way you described opening Roam for the first time and wondering, "Now what?" I think that describes all of us, me for sure! I'm very very new to Roam and trying to figure it out. Your video is a great help. One of the questions I still have concerns making a reference to something that could have a number of ways that thing is written about. For example, I live in America, but America could be called the "US" or the "U.S." or the "United States" or the "United States of America." How do you link all of those to one page called "America"? The other question I have deals with how to export my writing in Roam to MS Word? If you haven't already touched on those things, I'd be very interested in a video where you do. Thanks so much!
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. For referencing, you can either do inline e.g. [[USA]] if it makes sense in the text. If not, you can add it at the end just as a link. But yes, you have to remember what the keyword is. But this is is quite easy because every time you're trying to make a reference Roam will open the search bar. As for exporting: I'm not entirely sure you can export to roam. You can however left click the title and change to show as document. This will show the text without bullets and you can simply copy that 😊
If I drag a reference block from the right sidebar into the main area and I decide I don't want to use it and I start deleting it, I. noticed that I'm actually deleting the block completely from the original page, which is not my intention. How do I remove the block without permanently removing it from the original page?
Excellent. Appreciate the straight forward instruction. Thanks for taking the time to (re)record and share. You have a like and sub from me. Keep it up!
An intro to Roam needs to focus on how it's different and why that's such a "powerful" thing to move from say free /cheap Workflowy. I still don't know after watching half the video.
What should I cover next in Roam? Hit reply to this comment 😊
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:39 Why Roam?
04:10 How I Use Roam
07:08 Opening Roam
08:05 Daily Notes
11:05 Nesting Blocks
13:01 Collapse/Expand Blocks
14:47 The Left Sidebar
20:00 The Top Sidebar
20:35 The Right Sidebar
22:55 Formatting: Headers
25:24 Formatting: Bold, Italics, Highlight
28:33 Key Commands Shortcuts
30:13 The 3 Ways to Create a New Page
38:27 How Much Should You Tag Your Notes?
41:39 Linking Notes Using the Hash
43:08 The Difference Between Square Brackets vs Hash
45:30 TODO's in Roam
47:25 The TODO Page
48:45 The DONE Page
49:37 Reminders Using the Date Picker
52:55 How I Manage Tasks in Roam
53:44 How to Reference Blocks in Roam
56:59 Reference Blocks by Dragging
57:55 Apply Children to a Referenced Block
1:00:20 Using Roam for Output
Dan, I want to tell you what a life saver you are. I have watched quite a few tutorial videos on how to use Roam but ultimately, it's your step by step video that has shown me how to get started with Roam. I cannot thank you enough. I have subscribed to your channel and will watch more of your videos. Thank you for an excellent video. Kia ora from New Zealand.
Thanks very much for creating this video, Dan. I was one who missed your live webinar. And for all your fans reading this I want to say that I followed the link on the webinar page that said [Communicate with Presenter]. Dan responded within hours and gave me a heads up about plans to make this video. And here it is. I appreciate the quick response and follow-up. Great modeling of taking care of your tribe!
Thanks for the kind words, Bob.
Had to record everything again (let's hope I don't forget to press record on the next one, ah!).
But because it was the second time around I think it made the recording easier and much clear.
Cheers
P.s. link for this week's free workshop going to your inbox in a few hours (it's a good one)
Great intro video. Thanks for creating great long content
Great tutorial 👍
Great video Dan 👍👍 the first roam intro video that I actually understood !! Super work and a big thank you 😊
You're welcome and thanks for the kind words 😊
Same here! All the other ones I've watched have left me more confused, this is epic and simple. I feel like I can use Roam now, thanks Dan!
Thank you very much for your tutorial, Dan! It really gave me what I needed to get started. Your use cases were very helpful too. I decided to become a subscriber just because of this video.
You're welcome and thanks for the kind words! 😊
I have started using remnote which is free and quite similar to roam. I mainly started using it for daily journaling but I ended up writing a lot of complex topics.
Very helpful. Thanks.
You're welcome 😊
Thank you!
You're welcome 😊
@@DanSilvestre7 I have a question about facts vs. claims. Are both facts and ideas(claims) to go into evergreen notes? Let's say your learning about cooking cause you love cooking. You learn that an apple is a red fruit (fact) and it makes you think 'people should eat more apples' (claim.) It seems that people are saving their everygreen/permanent notes through thoughts, but do people also save 'facts' as evergreen notes? Unlike the apple, other facts can be complex and dense enough that it seems they could earn there own space in an evergreen note like the 'standford prison experiment.' for example. If you wanted to explain the Stanford Prison Expremient to someone well in your own words, you are saying this even in history took place (fact) and you want to be able to describe it in detail, but do people save facts in evergreen notes as well?
@존쌤의 언어습득법 / John's Language Learning Great question!
I do save them together but that's just personal preference. But because Roam doesn't really force a taxonomy on you, you can adjust as you prefer using tags.
For example: If I come across a story/parable that I think I might need in the future to reference in a video or article, I'll just add a tag to the block that references the story (I literally use #Story).
So, if you want, you can also add tags at the end depending on whether it's a fact or a claim.
Makes sense?
@@DanSilvestre7 Thanks for the super quick and easily understood example! I really appreciate the help!
You're welcome 😊
How did you get your graph view to look like that? Mine is an absolute explosion of pages which doesn't make the connections obvious to see. Have to zoom out massively to see but then can't read headings....
Master is a question
Did you use circulation, logseq?
I examined the two applications a little.
There are many people who share that there is a serious convenience to connect notes and write articles based on these integrity.
What do you think about this topic?
For the efficiency between the connections, are these two applications too advanced?
Moreover,
Is it easier to learn about the use of obsidian?
Is it easier to learn about Roam and Logseq? (To learn its use)
Craft, I easily solved Notion-like applications.
Technically did not force.
But navigation, logseq and so on. I've never used the applications before.
I want to choose the easiest one.
As you know, I will move my content to one of these applications.
I want to go to a place where I can easily understand the use.
I shouldn't waste time.
On the other hand, MEM application.
In this application, is it true that the idea of connection is very good?
Is it possible to see ideas, notes, web pages as a whole?
Which one do you think can be solved more easily?
What do you recommend?
what do you recommend between opening a page for something, vs. writing the thoughts in the daily notes. eg. if you create a page called wisdom, should i also directly write into it about wisdom? or just what comes into it by the linking? thanks
Great video. Very interesting. Thanks Dan. PS - Evernote doesn't force you to use folders. E.g. I have 19,000+ notes accumulated over 11 years in there...in just one 'folder' / notebook. I use tags extensively and this way has worked well for me for years. It's easy to add new notes from a variety of sources and tag them as I go along. And this method allows me to find old notes quickly. However, I agree the new versions of EN are clunky and slower than how it used to be.
Fair point. What I meant was how Evernote forces you to think of the taxonomy first (folders or tags) vs how roam does that automatically for you with bi-directional links. And saving that time thinking what should go where can be applied into more note-taking and output. 😊
@@DanSilvestre7 You get 10 bonus points for using the word 'taxonomy'! 😄 I can definitely tell you're a productivity pro!
Ahah legend
Excellent video!!! Dan, will you please tell me how to use bibliographic references effectively in Roam. For example, a single pdf reference (of a journal article) I need to link to different pages in different contexts and later want to get it. Will you please guide me. Thanks in advance!
Thank you. The easiest way would be to put a tag at the top of the document and link to that tag from different pages. If you need to link to specific parts of the pdf, I don't think roam can do that (yet).
Great intro video, Dan! I particularly liked the way you described opening Roam for the first time and wondering, "Now what?" I think that describes all of us, me for sure! I'm very very new to Roam and trying to figure it out. Your video is a great help. One of the questions I still have concerns making a reference to something that could have a number of ways that thing is written about. For example, I live in America, but America could be called the "US" or the "U.S." or the "United States" or the "United States of America." How do you link all of those to one page called "America"? The other question I have deals with how to export my writing in Roam to MS Word? If you haven't already touched on those things, I'd be very interested in a video where you do. Thanks so much!
Hey! Thanks for the kind words.
For referencing, you can either do inline e.g. [[USA]] if it makes sense in the text. If not, you can add it at the end just as a link. But yes, you have to remember what the keyword is. But this is is quite easy because every time you're trying to make a reference Roam will open the search bar.
As for exporting: I'm not entirely sure you can export to roam. You can however left click the title and change to show as document. This will show the text without bullets and you can simply copy that 😊
If I drag a reference block from the right sidebar into the main area and I decide I don't want to use it and I start deleting it, I. noticed that I'm actually deleting the block completely from the original page, which is not my intention. How do I remove the block without permanently removing it from the original page?
Thanks Dan! Just wondering: how to I get my work from roam into a word doc? Most writers need to supply a manuscript of some sort....
Export note in Markdown and then copy to Google docs?
When I try to move around my graph overview to my liking, it always resets to default… how do I save my own layout?
Excellent. Appreciate the straight forward instruction. Thanks for taking the time to (re)record and share. You have a like and sub from me. Keep it up!
Thanks so much, Gary 😊
👍👍👏👏👏
Thank you 😊
An intro to Roam needs to focus on how it's different and why that's such a "powerful" thing to move from say free /cheap Workflowy. I still don't know after watching half the video.