The outlining newcomers

Posted by Dr Andus
May 17, 2021 at 10:51 PM

Simon wrote:
Of course it does depend on what you mean by “silo”. Text can be
>extracted from any app. I don’t use Roam or Obsidian, but from what I’ve
>read, everyone loves the linkage between the notes and the tagging. You
>may be able to export all your md files, but if all those connections no
>longer work you have a problem. I had this when I used to use Ulysses
>and they had their bespoke version of markdown. Yes I could export all
>my text, but lot’s of functionality was lost.

You have a point.

But your post made me look into my Roam export file and I was quite happy with what I saw.

As each link is denoted by the [[double brackets]] and the content within the double brackets is the name of the md file, it is not too hard to follow manually the links, as one just needs to look through the alphabetical list to find the target of the given link.

It would be usable even as a paper-based Zettelkasten, if it was printed out. It’s essentially a simple library reference system.

I was also happy to see that the outline hierarchy of the individual ‘blocks’ as they’re called (within a page) was also preserved.

Granted, I’m a very simple Roam user, I don’t use aliases often or build any fancy query pages. Those automatically rendered pages might get lost.