He's going to roam from Roam

Posted by nathanb
Apr 1, 2022 at 05:30 AM

MadaboutDana wrote:

>Getting back to @Alan’s original point about backlinks
>– this is an interesting issue, I must say. Are they really
>as useful as people have been led to believe? And I’d have to say,
>as others in various forums have already said, that this depends on how
>you prefer to work. Clearly the original inventor of Zettelkasten,
>Luhmann, found them useful. But they aren’t some kind of ultimate
>cure-all – you have to read through backlinks just as you have to
>read through the citations or footnotes in an academic article.
> >

I have a hard time going back to anything without backlinks after using roam. The other core organizing feature is the block references though and these two things are amazing together.

Or for use old school note software nerds, Block References are transclusion at the paragraph level. Previous attempts at transclusion that have been at the page level (ultra recall etc).

This is the first app I’ve used where it is fun to have conversations with myself throughout my stuff.