He's going to roam from Roam

Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 1, 2022 at 03:12 PM

Having just been playing with LogSeq, I wouldn’t disagree. Embedding blocks (or even entire pages) has all sorts of possibilities – and, as you imply, is also bloody good fun!

nathanb wrote:

>
>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.