Roam

History:

• 2020-10-09 - Started free trial month
• 2020-10-12 - looking into ToDos
• 2020-10-13:
  • moved graph ‘dub’ into ‘dub-private’
  • finished moving Google Tasks
  • moved Google Notes
• 2020-10-14:
  • moved PinBoard links (some of the #jewish-calendar, opentorah and typesetting links date from 2010!); something seems to have been lost in the process…
  • moved graph ‘dub-private’ back into ‘dub’: it is possible to make individual pages public!
• 2020-10-26 - Enrolled Nina in roam and went over the roam > introduction outline
• 2020-11-04 - Imported (somewhat garbled) text of how to take smart notes from the roam BookClub
• 2020-11-09 - roam billed me for a year
• 2022-11-06 - Installed zotero and zotero-roam

• 2024-05 - migrated to obsidian

• figure out how to make pages public in a way that allows navigation (and shows linked pages?)
• add DNS URL redirect for roam.dub.podval.org
• PDF Highliting!
• Tutorials
  • 100 Tips: video; thread. overview
  • Video tutorial by anonym.s
    • watch again
  • Back to the basics by @RoamHacker
  • Zettelkasten in Roam

• Change Log

• Ted Nelson’s Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart
• Mother of All Demos
• zotero
• reading workflow: Onyx Boox to Roam/Obsidian/Logseq

Introduction

• UI components:
  • Daily notes: Ctrl-Shift-d?
  • Find or Create Page: Ctrl-u
  • Left sidebar toggle: Ctrl-\
  • Right sidebar toggle: Ctrl-Shift-\
  • Shortcuts
  • Graph overview
  • Undo: Ctrl-z
  • Redo: Ctrl-y
  • Command help: click the question mark in the lower right
  • slash autocomplete: /
• blocks:
  • new block: Enter
  • new line in block: Shift-Enter
  • block indent: Tab
  • block unindent: Shift-Tab
  • move block: Alt-Shift-arrow (or drag the block’s dot)
  • expand: Ctrl-Down (or click arrow to the left of the block’s dot)
  • collapse: Ctrl-Up (or click arrow to the left of the block’s dot)
  • zoom in: Alt-Right (or click on the block’s dot)
  • zoom out: Alt-Left
  • select block above: Shift-Up
  • select block below: Shift-Down
  • select all blocks: Ctrl-Shift-a
  • to start of block: Ctrl-Home
  • to end of block: Ctrl-End
  • select to the end of block: Ctrl-Shift-End
• formatting:
  • bold: Ctrl-b or **bold**
  • italics: Ctrl-i or *italics*
  • ==highlight==: Ctrl-h or ==highlight==
  • strikethrough: ~~strikethrough~~

  • heading: Ctrl-Alt-1,2,3,0

  • attribute: attribute::
  • latex: \(E = mc^2\) - $$E = mc^2$$
  • code: if (2*2==4); also code blocks in different languages
• links:
  • external link: Ctrl-k or [text](url)
  • image link: ![](url)
  • follow link under cursor: Shift-click – and what about Ctrl-o?
  • open link in sidebar: Ctrl-Shift-o
  • internal links: #oneword or <span class="invalid-wiki-link">[[many words]]</span>: select and type [[
  • todo: [] or Ctrl-Enter to toggle
  • ==backlinks!==
  • block reference: (())
  • block transclusion - ???
• ==write everything in the daily note and connect with internal links!==

Alternatives

• Roam Research Clones
• LogSeq
  • docs
  • code
  • todo look into it!
  • data is local; sync (currently only to GitHub) needs to be triggered manually
• obsidian
• Zettler
  • done look into it - but not too hard ;)
    • not online… well, it’s not Roam :)