“The mark of a good knowledge management system is it’s able to surprise you and it’s able to be a good conversational partner…it’s reminding you things you thought before” – Conor White-Sullivan

Roam makes it easy to sort through multiple indexes and pulling up related documents

Two things Conor has been thinking about:

How do you incentivize users to contribute to other people’s work?

Conor has a big vision for collective intelligence but to get there Roam first has to focus on individual intelligence until they hit critical mass

How do you help people to make a living doing knowledge work and creating elegant explanations of complex ideas?

“I’m very bullish on just general intelligence augmentation and ways for people to think about patterns of thought and unique UIs for running algorithms where you are the compiler” – Conor White-Sullivan

However, no one of the note-taking application on the market allowed Conor to remix and connect his notes from different authors and books

“You couldn’t easily remix these notes, especially if they were originally organized by book…you can’t see all of the questions from all of the authors or all of the quotes that relate to one particular topic” – Conor White-Sullivan