#Notion vs evernote vs roam full#

Anything goes from a fleeting thought, a small insight, to a full blown book summarization.

I don't have to become ready for writing a zettel. Or to scale-up the zettel I can extract it to its own page. But if I like I can add more paragraphs (blocks in Roam), create a hierarchy of text in the zettel. Sometimes a zettel thus is just one line with the hashtag. That's all possible, but no prerequisite for creating a zettel. No need to come up with an ID or use a template. No need to navigate to some zettelkasten. In its simplest form a zettel is nothing more than a new paragraph in the daily page in Roam with '#zettel' attached to it. That way the 'price' for a new zettel has dropped to zero. No thought is too small to not be logged. Roam's focus on the daily note has led to me dumping my stream of consciousness into it. I'm starting from Roam: first I make a note, then I do my work. I'm not starting my work from my calendar or todo list (which are kept separate). It has become my 'dashboard' app for the day. Roam is making note taking in general and verzetteln in particular so much easier for me. My explanation for that is not that Roam just is the new shiny tool. The number of zettels I write each day has exploded, from maybe 1or2/day to around 10/day. It started as an experiment - but over the course of just a few days has led to a fundamental change in my note taking, no even in my daily habits. I recently switched from Notion to RoamResearch for verzetteln. :-)ĮDIT (by ): Changed title for less confusion with other (similar) title. A lot can be discovered and learnt, I guess. But no need for that right now.īuild second brains using digital tools to me still seems in its infancy. And I could even import my Notion zettels into Roam, if I wanted. After some 2000 zettels in Notion it's perfectly fine for me to move on. It might sounds like a contradiction to keep moving while 'building a second brain'. Sure, how I will organize my zettels will go through some evolution as it has done in The Archive, then switching to Notion, in Notion, and now moving on yet once more. And than I actually feel 'in my fingertips' :-D

This interconnectedness finds a naturally expression in Roam, I'd say. And why should it be? Aren't ideas, concepts, what I read - in short: whatever goes on a zettel - naturally connected to other aspects of my life? It's ok to dump anything into the daily note - and then maybe re-organize the content.Ī zettelkasten in Roam to me does not seem that much of a separate and different thing than with other tools. With other tools I first though about structure for different types of notes. A basic order is created - from which I can deviate at any moment. Also the writing process feels more focused on content and much less on form.Īt first it felt strange to have the calendar imposed on me with daily notes being the default. Not only the automatic explicit and (!) implicit backlinking is great. I'm still finding my way around but already now the feeling is very positively different compared to working with Bear Writer or Notion. Thanks, (cc ), for your recommendation of I've been working the past days with it an my impression is that's a very promising tool (or at least approach to dealing with notes).