![]() The number of keystrokes (not counting the actual detailed notes) and mouse To give you a measure of efficiency, I will count I will walk you through this scenario first showing my workflow in Roam, then The next time I meet Peter, I can easily access those notes. My notes with Joe are also accessible in the meeting minutes The topic I wanted to discuss with him, and I take notes on the result of ourĬonversation. We talk about Project A and I agree to discuss something My proof-of-concept demonstration involves a simple scenario. My GTD - How I Organize Meetings and TODOs in Roam If you are interested in my existing Roam workflow, here are two blog posts Get a better feel for Obsidian, I experimented with porting my established One of my key use-cases is taking notes in meetings and tracking actions. Moving your workflow from Roam to Obsidian. Robert Haisfield’s post, Using Daily Notes as a convert from Roam provides a very helpful perspective on the paradigm shift required when Plugins such as Note Refactor offer an efficient way to break monolith documents into more atomic Need to adopt a more atomic approach to note-taking. Since the unit of information in Obsidian is the document, you Mentions of a block requires a bit of manual work, while these come out of theīox in Roam. Obsidian also recognizes the concept ofīlock references, though some of the functionality, such as listing all the Heading levels 1.6 (sections) offer similar contextual There are many tools in Obsidian to help you search and Obsidian is a very sophisticated markdown file editor. ![]() Very important ingredient of the low friction experience in Roam. This zero barrier approach to taking notes is a On the daily notes page and use search and references later to find the You don’t have to deal with the mental burden ofĭeciding where to place a certain note. Make your notes searchable and filterable. Structure, plus the page links, attributes, and tags within the blocks, to Roam uses the contextual information inherent to the outline You can reference blocks, you can move them,īlock have versions, you can embed them, transclude them, filter them, search To each other and the page via parent/child references. Worksheet is a matrix of cells, in Roam a document is a chain of blocks linked Where a block is a single paragraph of text. Even as I was writing this article in Obsidian, I felt the painful lack Those is light-years from the efficiency and power of block references in and before you jump in to say, “But Obsidian hasīlock references!”, let me assure you, I am aware, but the process around Sure I can solve this eventually, but for now, this seems to be a gap. Wasn’t able to get Grammarly and/or ProWritingAid working in the editor. Switching, you end up looking at everything in markdown most of the time. “raw” markdown and preview is very inefficient because things jump around as Next to all the good, there are also a few things that I found frustrating. ![]() Since my phone is under enterprise mobile device management, IĬannot install apps from unknown sources. To try the mobile app as it is still in beta and not yet available through the Playstore. It even has aįull-blown mobile app, which I hear is excellent. The development environment, the licensing model, the community. The install experience, the UI, the settings, the themes, the plugins, Every aspect I looked at had depth and refinement The video above is a timelaps of Obsidian loading the markdown archive of my Roam graph. I can only offer first impressionsĪnd early thoughts on how I have attempted to set up an efficient, frictionįree process, mimicking my workflows in Roam. Understanding of Obsidian is superficial. Spent the past few days diving deep into its features, my experience and This post will walk you through my second first-impressions comparing Obsidian to Roam.Įven though I have used Obsidian for about a month a year ago, and I have now Its product vision and the vibrant community which I was sure will drive significant innovation - and it has! After one year, I was curious to see how I chose Roam because of its friction-free, browser-based user interface, After carefulĬonsideration trying out Tiddly Wiki, Obsidian, Roam and TheBrain, I opted for It has been roughly a year since I first came across Obsidian.
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