Roam Research is a note taking and knowledge development application. Roam uses bi-directional links to connect and reveal relationships between your notes. Its flexibility and list of innovative features mean that it has many other uses within the personal productivity ecosystem as well, on its own or in combination with other apps. These other uses include goal and project management, task management, information management and writing.
Roam’s power comes from its ability to connect and organize your notes and information, act as a central repository for your information and knowledge which can then be utilized in many different areas.
AI chat x Roam
New iteration on AI chat x @RoamResearch
– official ChatGPT API, optimized for chat
– 1/10th the cost
– more natural chat UX pic.twitter.com/0CwjoqVxuP— John "LayBacc" (@Lay_Bacc) March 12, 2023
DESKTOP APP UPDATE
The latest version (0.0.17) of our Desktop App is here! Adding support for cmd-f / ctrl-f find in page search functionality. pic.twitter.com/cs4KAGARmv
— Roam Research (@RoamResearch) March 2, 2023
"STREAK" FEATURE
New 'Streak' feature of @RoamResearch is so cool,
I've added a way to see it at a glance for any page in 'Block & Page Info' extension (v.4 under review) pic.twitter.com/20EeYCuy2d
— Fabrice Gallet (@fbgallet) February 21, 2023
ROAM QUESTION-ANSWER CHATBOT
?? Quick demo for @RoamResearch Question-Answering ChatBot
? Ask questions to your Roam Research graph in natural language ?
? Try yourself: https://t.co/x3V8XM0zXw
? Inspired by @hwchase17 #roamcult #openai #gpt3https://t.co/tREPlG4gvU pic.twitter.com/ov5IEPTmRv
— jimmylv.eth (?, ?) ??? 2?22 ?? (@Jimmy_JingLv) February 7, 2023
ROAM & READWISE FOR TWEETS
If you have @readwise, you can send tweets/threads to your @RoamResearch.
But the tweets are not searchable. The handy Tweet Extract plug-in solves for this in a few quick steps – pic.twitter.com/G77A28shW2
— Caroline ? (@SpaceXponential) February 1, 2023
ROAM DEPOT: YOUTUBE TRANSCRIPTS
?? new roam plugin announcement!! ??
_Youtube Transcripts_ is available in roam depot
as the name implies, you can use it to grab transcripts from youtube videos.
please install and help me spread the word to all of #roamdepot @RoamBrain @RoamResearch @Conaw pic.twitter.com/lJDuQLT1UR
— scott (rethinking statistics) (@scottonote) January 11, 2023
ROAM STUDIO
Currently working on a new theme for Roam Studio.
It is a reminiscence of the original @RoamResearch theme with a slightly updated color scheme for better readability and hundreds of small enhancements.
Comes with dark mode and is fully customizable as all my other themes. pic.twitter.com/jUOqXDnwsA
— Alexander Rink ?? (@rcvd_io) January 2, 2023
ROAM DEPOT: ALIASES
um @RoamResearch users – y'all are sleeping on the Aliases extension on the Roam Depot. seems like it has 50 downloads thus far, and combined with Autotag, it totally solves aliasing. still v1 so some nits with performance, but this is so powerful. pic.twitter.com/R2Pu9IsmlC
— Abhay (@abhayance) January 3, 2023
NOTES ARE MEMORY POINTERS
Most notes ARE pointers to memory
Expanding them out to point that they can transmit to others is extremely labor intensive, but maybe exactly the kind of thing LLM can facilitate
Here’s expanded articulation of observation @sbelak is referring to https://t.co/mTdgEQyw08 https://t.co/q9A199tKUf
— Conor White-Sullivan ???? (@Conaw) March 20, 2023
Multiplayer Improvements
Roam multiplayer just got a little better, you can now filter queries by author of blocks with the clause `{by: [[user's display name page]]}` pic.twitter.com/4fLinEo6hY
— Roam Research (@RoamResearch) March 2, 2023
CHATGPT FOR ROAM
Bringing "ChatGPT" to @RoamResearch
Introducing ChatRoam ?
Chat with AI directly from your knowledge base.
The convo history is editable, and auto saved. pic.twitter.com/heprAqB1gP— John "LayBacc" (@Lay_Bacc) February 25, 2023
CONOR'S TWEET THREAD UPDATE...
Have been working with the door closed for the past few years. @nikitonsky and I agreed yesterday that it's about time we kick it down.
Goal for the next 6 weeks:
30 tweet sized demos of small improvements and experiments shipped to @RoamResearch
Threaded here.
Wish us luck!
— Conor White-Sullivan ???? (@Conaw) February 8, 2023
ROAMJS QUERY BUILDER
Thread Alert! ? We've got some exciting updates for Query Builder users that went live this weekhttps://t.co/xXkPjyKuTs
— RoamJS (@roam_js) January 14, 2023
Daily Notes Page
99.9% of all @RoamResearch users have probably encountered this little pop-up.
Much to the chagrin of its users, Roam insists on the sanctity of the Daily Note Page
2 years into daily driving Roam, I think I figured out why! pic.twitter.com/oHkMN2uK24
— William Njau (@not_njau) December 25, 2022
ROAM WITH YOUR FAMILY
My 10yo daughter loves writing stories. We find her journals all over the house with character sketches & chapter drafts.
So when she said she wanted to write a book *for real*, I naturally set her up with a Roam graph.
Last week, we completed her first two writing sessions. pic.twitter.com/lQMjJknU1L
— Luke Miller ? (@lukeallenmiller) November 28, 2022
ROAM STUDIO UPDATE
A huge update for #roamstudio for @RoamResearch is coming (waiting for approval).
You can customize headings (including spacings), tags, links, dates, and references.
You can also hide sidebar icons and line numbers in code blocks and add calendar icons to dates.
Have fun ? pic.twitter.com/D7MCFhtiPb
— Alexander Rink ?? (@rcvd_io) November 8, 2022
HOW TO WATCH AND TAKE NOTES ON YOUTUBE VIDEOS
DAILY NOTES PAGE
Tip on @RoamResearch: The DNP
How to use the Daily Notes Page:
1. Always work inside the DNP
2. Create a SIMPLE design for the DNP:
• Goals (up to 3)
• Journal
• Log (Where you'll work)
• Daily Inbox (Random stuff)3. Tag everything:
• People
• Projects
• Broad Topics— Fis Fraga (@FisFraga) October 23, 2022
The Personal productivity diagram at the top of the page is a development of an idea that I came across in a tweet from Jakob Schwichtenberg.