Ali promises a much more detailed video about Roam Research (2020)
promise · status: kept · last event: progress update (2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied)) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Workflow, Ali's series on Nebula of deep dives into how he uses his apps · Ali prepares for the MRCOG exam in obstetrics and gynaecology, documented in study-with-me videos (2018)
About: Roam Research
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-20 | promised | Ali will make a much more detailed video about Roam Research in the future. · also in: I WAS WRONG - iPad Pro 11 vs. 12.9 inch | My Favourite iPad Pro Apps 00:03:18 |
| 2020-04-19 | progress update | 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. | Productive Day in the Life in Lockdown // Behind the Scenes of my iPad Pro Videos 00:02:20 |
| 2020-05-05 | kept | For a detailed look at how he uses Roam Research, Ali points to about six videos in his Workflow series on Nebula. | My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? 00:06:40 |
| 2020-05-12 | progress update | 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. | I Tried Making a Viral Video - Day in the Life VLOG 00:02:46 |
| 2020-06-21 | promised | Ali says he is working on some videos about Roam Research, the other note-taking app he uses heavily. | A HUGE Unboxing Day 00:01:56 |
| 2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) | kept | Ali publishes a YouTube video breaking down how and why he uses Roam Research. | How I Organise My Life 00:00:00 |
| 2020-07-21 (said on 2020-07-20, implied) | progress update | 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. | How I Organise My Life 00:12:25 |
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What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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
- 2020-05-05 · 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
- 2020-06-21 · 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
- 2020-07-21 (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: 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 — 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