Book Notes Roam Research

How to take smart notes for an article about it.

Book notes roam research. Some roam research users use page title prefixes in order to quickly differentiate between different types of content. It s probably not a huge surprise. I did it because i enjoy exploring new ideas non linearly on the internet and i wanted to do the same with books.

Its key distinguishing feature is the ability to bidirectionally link notes to each other. I m starting to buckle down in my research hopefully publishing a couple of papers this summer before culminating in a final thesis. Collaborate with others in real time or store all your data locally.

I ve been taking book notes for years and i ve tried everything from evernote to a private wiki to notion. So the best time to change things up in roam would be now both as a new user and research that desperately needs to be put to paper. I have just published the first roam native book or rbook for short.

Roam is a note taking tool for networked thought. Updated october 30 2020. I ve been using roam research for a while now and i love using the software.

Roam research is a rapidly growing way to take notes using networked thought a radically new way to take notes using bi directional links roam is the talking point for the whole productivity industry right now. For example if you link to note b from note a then you can go to b from a and when you re on b you ll see that a linked to b. Currently i rely on the daily notes to plan out my day.

As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list and as powerful for finding collecting and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Roam research has a feature built in with similar advantages and additional features. By structuring information in this way roam makes it super easy to move laterally across your information while retaining vertical references.