I get it, Doc. I admit that the daily pages feature in Roam is very attractive. I've been working in Hypernotes, which has a very similar feature.



Dr Andus wrote:

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I'm not trying to convince you to go back to Workflowy, but there is an
>easy way to pre-ad all the days of the year in a hierarchy in Workflowy
>and Dynalist.

I appreciate the suggestion, Steve. I think the problem is, apart from
just laziness, that when the going gets tough, and I have 4-5 (or even
more) extremely busy days, if the system is fragile (such as needing me
to do too much manual input), it falls apart, and it's unlikely that I
go back to fix it. Somehow inertia sets in, or I don't know what it is.

The way Roam automatically generates a blank new page every day and
pushes the other days down somehow encourages me to maintain the
discipline and even to go back and reconstruct missed days.

There is also something calming and optimistic about how each new day
just offers a new hope of getting things under control or having another
go at trying to get organised.

This Reddit post captures the feeling well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RoamResearch/comments/gnrxsx/it_doesnt_matter_what_happened_yesterday_because/