What comes after Roam's renaissance? — LessWrong
These days, we get so much of our content in bite-sized, isolated bits — links in an email, tweets, Slack messages, blog posts. We consume information because it’s in front of us, rather than because it’s relevant for us. This continually present dynamic discourages reflection and thought. The future of content is about interfaces that can help us... See more
Sari Azout • Check Your Pulse #43
A year ago, the idea of networking our notes with bi-directional links became the biggest thing in the tools for thought space since Vannevar Bush described the memex. Top-down hierarchies and tag systems became the pet explanation du jour for everything that was wrong with note-taking. So we all hustled on to the Double-Bracket Express determined... See more
Dan Shipper • The Fall of Roam
If you take a bong rip and close your eyes, you can imagine a world where Roam is a new sort of internet. Where people can publish ideas and reference each other’s ideas in deep, interlinked ways. It’d be like a giant public brain, instead of a private second brain.
That certainly would be a network effect.
The only problem is, I’ve seen a lot of... See more
That certainly would be a network effect.
The only problem is, I’ve seen a lot of... See more