August 14th, 2019

• 01:05
  • Added to What People Are Saying
• 02:21 - 02:40
  • Going Meta
    • We're used to moving down in bulleted lists
      • but sometimes you want to talk ABOUT a thing
        • and the most logical place for that discussion isn't nested under the thing
    • Try clicking the number at the right of this block to see where I've talked about this elsewhere
    • Related Questions about Roam
      • When to create a new page, versus linking to a specific block/bulletpoint
        • Bullet points have a context
          • So for example if I'm talking about this tree
            • Problems with the US Healthcare System
              • Cost
              • Poorly Aligned Incentives
          • and I want to say something like
            • The 2891 is really an outcome of 2892
          • It makes more sense to use bullet-mentions than to reference a page for Cost or [Poorly aligned incentives], because I'm actually talking about those things with respect to their position in the list of 2890 not as a global phenomenon
            • This is even more relevant if I'm doing this in the context of notes I'm taking about a particular book -- since then I have the added context of knowing where this idea is coming from.
  • What's the best way to describe 2428?
    • Its a way of talking ABOUT a bullet point without zooming into it
    • It makes it easier to talk about two or more bullet points that might be in different parts of your tree
      • For example
  • What is even the context in which I'm asking 2427
    • https://twitter.com/KimStacks/status/1161568087738503169
    • Really though, the full context is this
      • https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1161559517454327808
      • Point I'm making is that you want to be able to have a discussion about the things you've written -- in the place, in roughy the same way, as you have other kinds of discussions
        • All about use - mention distinction
  • How does Roam help with 2428?
    • If you type in ((between these)) you can get a mention of other {{or: blocks | paragraphs | bullets}} in your database
    • When you see that block, there is a counter of how many times that block has been mentioned
      • Which is basically -- how many times has someone said something ABOUT this block
  • What could Roam do better to handle the use case of 2428?
  • Why would you try 2428 using Roam's reference feature, rather than just using regular language?
    • Mostly because of 2445
      • This means that -- when you're thinking about that thing again, or when someone else is reading it, you can get a lot more context of the full scope of your thinking on the thing by just clicking that little number
• 14:50
  • As We May Think
  • Tiago Forte was spouting some nonsense last night
    • https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1161515095463256066
    • https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1161748903789600768
      • Rebuttal is this 2568
• 19:00
  • Disambiguations in Roam
• 22:43
  • Eat That Frog
    • Best thing I've read on Productivity -- will be using for a number of upcoming Features for Roam
      • Probably a lot of habits people can implement using our existing software now