Roam Patrol!

Posted by MenAgerie
Nov 23, 2020 at 01:53 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
bartb wrote:
>>Sascha over at Zettelkasten has a different take on backlinks
>>https://zettelkasten.de/posts/backlinks-are-bad-links/
> >I don’t think this is valid for all implementations or use cases,
>certainly not for task management.
> >I’m finding automatic backlinking in Roam extremely useful, especially
>when it comes to ‘date notes’, the ones associated with a date.
> >E.g. if I drop a task associated with a future date (and add that as a
>date note, such as [[December 20th, 2020]]), to the item, when that day
>comes and the [[December 20th, 2020]] note is the current daily note, it
>will display links to all past notes (within their context) that have
>tasks associated with this date (e.g. something expires on this day or
>needs to be followed up etc.), serving as a reminder.
> >I often hear people on the Roam Reddit complain that Roam is not good
>for task management. In fact that’s the only thing I use it for and
>thanks to the above feature, it’s the best task manager I’ve ever used.
> >I realise that the manual aspect of needing to maintain a calendar may
>not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for people like me who like to build
>their systems from scratch Roam is excellent for task management, and
>automatic backlinking is what makes it so.

I am using Obsidian like this too. There is a growing catalogue of plugins. One enables the in-line display of backlinks, almost as smoothly as Roam. I have a calendar doc pinned to the side where I have pre-prepared links to future and past dates. Together with an AHK I blagged from the ConnectedText forum for creating future date-links I have a system that does me fine (for now).