Note Taking
I continue to journal most days, and occasionally find myself working to refine one concept or another among those notes.
But the original promise of Roam — that it would improve my thinking by helping me to build a knowledge base and discover new ideas — fizzled completely.
But the original promise of Roam — that it would improve my thinking by helping me to build a knowledge base and discover new ideas — fizzled completely.
Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter
Over the last decade, we've seen "complex" design patterns evolve. The infinite canvas, chatbot interface, and even the command line have become omnipresent in today’s tools. Compared to bullet points, these patterns are more appealing: sleek, and playful to use. Interacting with an interface through the act of drawing, or chatting might be more... See more
Itay Dreyfus • #4 Roam Research — What Comes After a Renaissance?
Indeed Roam is very much inspired by a niche programming language called Clojure. Furthermore, it's built with it. It's a flexible, small syntax language imparting a plasticine feeling. One can achieve many things using a small amount of building blocks. Much like Roam.
Itay Dreyfus • #4 Roam Research — What Comes After a Renaissance?
Note taking is building a relationship with a future version of yourself.
Dan Shipper • The End of Organizing - Superorganizers - Every
Traditionally, modern software is designed in a linear structure. Notably known as the “workspace”— a popular file cabinet structure, that reminds the parent-child relationship. Working in this structure conveys a feeling of playing a “pass the parcel” game. Every time you open a folder, the next one is revealed.
All this makes sense, as linearity... See more
All this makes sense, as linearity... See more
Itay Dreyfus • #4 Roam Research — What Comes After a Renaissance?
I’ve been pondering this gap between one-shot and incremental information-finding interfaces in the context of knowledge tools recently. Text search boxes are easy to design and easy to add to apps. But I think their ease on developers may be leading us to ignore potential interface ideas that could let us discover better ideas, faster.
thesephist.com • Navigate, don't search
The most natural implementation of any feature request is additive, attempting to leave all other elements of the design in place and simply inserting one new component: a new button in a UI or a new parameter to a function. As this process is repeated, the simplicity of a system is lost and complexity takes its place. This pattern is often... See more