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2020

2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali might one day replace Evernote with a new note-taking app and will try apps like Roam Research, but suspects Evernote will be a big part of his second brain for a long time. (hedged) — 00:03:55
2020-04-09 · I WAS WRONG - iPad Pro 11 vs. 12.9 inch — Ali: On the iPad Pro Ali takes notes in Roam Research on one side of the screen from a book about how to take smart notes, open in the Kindle app on the other. — 00:03:35
2020-04-19 · Productive Day in the Life in Lockdown // Behind the Scenes of my iPad Pro Videos — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked for a video about Roam Research, the channel says Ali has made six so far, on Nebula. — creator comment
2020-04-19 · Productive Day in the Life in Lockdown // Behind the Scenes of my iPad Pro Videos — Ali: Morning pages are meant to be written longhand on paper, but Ali got annoyed at how slow his handwriting is next to his typing, so he is trying them in Roam Research instead. — 00:02:06
2020-04-19 · Productive Day in the Life in Lockdown // Behind the Scenes of my iPad Pro Videos — Ali: After a few weeks with Roam Research Ali feels he has reached interesting insights about its connected way of dealing with thoughts, and he is working on a more detailed video about it. — 00:02:20
2020-04-19 · Productive Day in the Life in Lockdown // Behind the Scenes of my iPad Pro Videos — announcement: Ali says a video of how he uses Roam Research and learns the ropes of it is part of his Workflow series on Nebula. — 00:02:26
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali started using Roam Research about six weeks before this video, in late March 2020. — 00:05:23
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali: Roam Research is the app Ali uses for thinking: he writes daily notes and links them with double square brackets into a graph, since Roam tries to replicate how the brain links knowledge. — 00:05:52
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — announcement: Ali: For a detailed look at how he uses Roam Research, Ali points to about six videos in his Workflow series on Nebula. — 00:06:40
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali still uses Evernote: no app handles everything you throw at it as well, and it is the long-term memory of his second brain. — 00:08:08
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali uses Drafts for notes in the moment because Notion is slow to load on iOS, Roam Research has no real iOS app yet and Evernote is slow and bloated. — 00:09:02
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — recommendation: Ali: Drafts is Ali's quick-capture tool: he dictates notes into it from his Apple Watch, say while listening to a podcast in the car, and later moves them to Evernote, Notion or Roam Research. — 00:09:27
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali: Drafts has replaced Bear for Ali, and since starting Roam Research he has mostly stopped using Ulysses, which cannot easily link notes; he rarely uses either now. — 00:10:54
2020-05-12 · I Tried Making a Viral Video - Day in the Life VLOG — Ali: On Slack with his team, which he calls the A-team, Ali plans more videos for his Workflow series on Nebula about Evernote, Notion, Roam Research, Drafts and his other note-taking apps. — 00:02:46
2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali: Around 11 a.m., once the morning's jobs on the ward are done, Ali opens his iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard and starts his daily note in Roam Research, on some days writing morning pages there. — 00:01:56
2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali has set himself a challenge to write a thousand words every day and usually starts the day's writing in Roam Research. — 00:02:26
2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali writes in Roam Research while a piece of writing, an idea or a video plan is at an early stage, then moves it to Notion to write the final video script or the final version of an article or blog post. — 00:03:24
2020-06-21 · A HUGE Unboxing Day — Ali: On this day off Ali sits down at 10.55 with coffee and his iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard and has Siri on the HomePod play the Pure Country Radio playlist on Apple Music, which is how he likes to start his mornings; he does his daily check-in questions in Notion, then plans the day in Roam Research. — 00:00:58
2020-06-21 · A HUGE Unboxing Day — announcement: Ali says he is working on some videos about Roam Research, the other note-taking app he uses heavily. — 00:01:56
2020-06-21 · A HUGE Unboxing Day — Ali already has about six videos on Roam Research in his Workflow series on Nebula. — 00:01:56
2020-06-23 · My Favourite Productivity Book of All Time — Ali says he pays energy less attention than he should: simply sleeping on time, eating well, drinking lots of water and exercising would probably boost his productivity more than discovering Roam Research, Notion or the latest app. (hedged) — 00:09:11
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali discovered the note-taking app Roam Research a few months ago, was sceptical at first, and has used it almost every day for four months; it has transformed his workflow in certain ways. — 00:00:00
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — announcement: Ali's video on Roam Research is the first episode of Appy Hour, his new series reviewing apps. — 00:00:00
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali calls Roam Research basically a glorified note-taking app; its website calls it a tool for thought. — 00:00:29
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Two key features set Roam Research apart from Evernote and Notion; the first is the daily note: each day the app opens on a new blank page, with no folders or notebooks. — 00:00:58
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Roam Research's second key feature is bi-directional linking: a phrase put in square brackets becomes its own page, and that page lists every note linking to it as linked references. — 00:02:17
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali usually records in each book page of his Roam Research notes who recommended the book, linked to that person's page; The Elephant in the Brain links to Nat Eliason. — 00:03:10
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — recommendation: Ali: Nat Eliason is one of Ali's favourite bloggers; Ali took his course on how to use Roam Research. — 00:03:10
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Nat Eliason's page in Ali's Roam Research shows 11 linked references, so when Ali invites him onto a Deep Dive he will have a list of every time he mentioned him. — 00:03:39
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali writes his book notes in Roam Research as bullet points, summarising each chapter in his own words along with some quotes. — 00:04:15
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali tags books he wants to read with the hashtag TBR, so the TBR page in Roam Research lists his to-be-read books. — 00:04:15
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: While taking notes on a book, Ali turns interesting ideas such as the Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis into their own pages, evergreen notes, so that if the idea comes up years later he sees where he first met it. — 00:05:31
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: On a Roam Research page called Trees of Knowledge Ali is slowly building up his bank of evergreen notes, tagged with hashtags such as evergreen, life, meaning and happiness. — 00:06:14
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: A quote in Roam Research can reference its original block, so a change to it updates every reference, where other note-taking apps need a lot of copying and pasting. — 00:08:02
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Handwriting is slower than typing for Ali, so on a day off work he often types his morning pages as bullet points in his Roam Research daily note, creating links as he writes; he keeps them private. — 00:08:31
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali has recently started using a daily notes template in Roam Research, inserted by an Alfred snippet when he types "Roam Daily". — 00:09:14
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali's daily Roam Research template gives him six categories of things to focus on each day: create, connect, consume, celebrate, coordinate and consolidate. — 00:10:21
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Under "create" Ali logs what he made that day, linked to the project's own page, such as the page for this video. — 00:10:43
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — announcement: Ali says there is so much to Roam Research that it is hard to cover in one video, and he will definitely make more videos about it. — 00:12:25
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Roam Research has a web app that works on the hospital's work computers, so Ali keeps it open at work for moments of downtime. — 00:13:07
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: The daily Roam Research note gives Ali a cross-platform reminder of everything he is doing that day and encourages him to take more notes on what he consumes. — 00:13:37
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: In his Nibble Framework Ali tags everything he reads, watches or listens to as a "nibble": in effect a content inbox of nibbles awaiting digestion. — 00:14:06
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Roam Research costs $15 a month, one of Ali's most expensive subscriptions, with a 31-day free trial. — 00:16:58
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Roam Research's scholars programme, for full-time students, people in financial hardship, those earning under $25,000 a year, teachers and researchers, gives half-price and sometimes free subscriptions. — 00:17:41
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali thinks $15 a month for Roam Research is completely worth it: any app that improves his thinking, life or productivity or helps him make more videos is worth the money. — 00:17:41
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali says that even at $50 a month he would probably still think Roam Research worth it, since he uses it every day. (hedged) — 00:18:11
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali is on Roam Research's Believer plan: $500 upfront for five years, about $100 a year or $8 a month; he chose it because he believes in the app, and Roam does not sponsor the video. — 00:18:11
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali asks Roam's Connor (as heard) to make an affiliate programme for Roam Research, since he would love to recommend it to more people. — 00:18:54
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — announcement: Ali: Roam Research released desktop, iOS and Android apps the day before (19 July 2020); they are progressive web apps rather than full native apps, which its small team is still developing. — 00:19:32
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Roam Research occasionally takes ages to reload, maybe 30 seconds; Ali recalls two or three such times in the last two months, fewer than in its early days. (hedged) — 00:20:02
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Roam Research has quite a learning curve, as it opens on a blank page; courses such as Ali's Nebula videos or Nat Eliason's Roam course help. — 00:20:02
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — recommendation: Ali advises against copying someone else's Roam Research setup exactly: look at what others do, play around with it and build it into your own workflow. — 00:20:31
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — announcement: Ali adds new videos to his Workflow series on Nebula each month; it has many videos on Roam Research and Notion and a few on how he consumes podcasts and articles and moves them into his second brain. — 00:21:00
2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) · How I Organise My Life — Ali: Nebula is where Ali can put videos that would not work on YouTube, such as a run of 10 videos on how he uses Roam Research, which the algorithm would not support. — 00:21:29
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — recommendation: Ali: For gardener personalities Ali points to less structured, open-ended apps such as Roam Research, Obsidian and RemNote; he uses Roam himself because some of his thinking is in gardener mode. — 00:02:58
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: For gardeners, who want to start from a blank slate and build their garden from the ground up, Ali says Evernote is way too rigid and Roam Research is really useful. — 00:03:27
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — recommendation: Ali: Architect personalities, who want to build their own structured system without a rigid hierarchy or pure freedom, suit Notion, Ali says; he fits this type most. — 00:03:56
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali uses Notion most of all because it gels with his architect side: he can be rigid with notes and notebooks or use databases and linked databases, without Roam's free-flowing network. — 00:04:25
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — recommendation: Ali advises against switching note-taking apps just because a new one appears: switch when the benefit of Notion or Roam outweighs the value you have built up in an app like Evernote. — 00:05:57
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: Hopping from app to app out of shiny new toy syndrome, from Evernote to Notion, Roam Research and Obsidian, is probably unfulfilling, Ali says: you only go round in circles. (hedged) — 00:06:55
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali uses a combination of four apps for his note-taking: Notion, Roam Research, Evernote and Drafts. — 00:07:56
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: Evernote forms the base long-term memory layer of Ali's note-taking system. — 00:07:56
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali: Evernote is the easiest place to save research resources, Ali says, because it handles images, scans, PDFs, web pages and snippets, while Roam Research and Notion need some hacking to accept everything. — 00:08:55
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali uses Roam Research for personal notes: its daily notes feature for notes on his day, and notes on books, podcasts and videos he has watched. — 00:08:55
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali finds Roam Research's bi-directional linking really nice but uses Roam only about 10% of the time and Notion over about 80%, as an architect type and for its team collaboration features. (hedged) — 00:09:24
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali's team built its own pipelines in Notion for videos, the email newsletter and Skillshare classes; Roam Research is hard to use as a team, and Evernote lacks the flexibility for kanban boards and to-do lists. — 00:09:53
2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali says Roam Research and Notion take ages to load, and Evernote is really slow and bloated. — 00:10:22
2020-09-18 · The 5 Magical Apps That Changed My Life — Ali: For a second brain, Readwise exports to Notion, Roam Research and Evernote, so you are not tied to any one app. — 00:10:15
2020-12-20 · 20 Lessons that Improved My Life — recommendation: Ali: Following Paul Graham's essay The Top of My Todo List, based on The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Ali writes five commandments atop his to-do list: don't ignore your dreams, don't work too much, say what you think, cultivate friendships, be happy. — 00:00:58