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https://roamresearch.com/ https://roamresearch.com/ blowing up on twitter - 2/3 notebook, 1/3 database

seltzered_ 7y ago
Seconding this, though I'm not sure if it's what the OP is asking for as he mentions automation. I've been using roam and while I wasn't planning to use it for daily logging I'm realizing the daily log can serve as an 'inbox' for random thoughts and things I read that aren't quite worthy of writing a separate page for. I haven't quite figured out if I'll make it my todo-list/gtd solution yet, for that I'm fairly entrenched in kanban/issue-tracker apps like trello. Also wondering how to use it alongside bookmarking tools like pinboard (or if the longer goal is to have better bookmark features). --- From the OP: "download a csv of transactions from my bank and integrate purchases into the log" - Depending on how much time you have, you may want to check out the beancount community / https://plaintextaccounting.org/ https://plaintextaccounting.org/ . I don't recommend it to people short on time to go through the learning curve, in those cases just use an existing financial app (moneydance, quicken, gnucash, etc.). "entries for emails sent, phone calls made" Roam could work for these use cases, see Conor's recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcNW-eidDJk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcNW-eidDJk
- jborichevskiy 7y ago
  +1 for Roam Research, as far as a daily log goes it's wonderful. > I haven't quite figured out if I'll make it my todo-list/gtd solution yet, for that I'm fairly entrenched in kanban/issue-tracker apps like trello. I believe both will have to tackled sufficiently before Roam really takes off. For example, I'd love to be able to: * Filter for TODO items between $start_date and $end_date * Filter for TODO items ranked by number of connections (further arbitrary weighting would be really interesting here) * Filter for TODO items at the intersection of two terms (haven't found an elegant way to do this yet) > Also wondering how to use it alongside bookmarking tools like pinboard (or if the longer goal is to have better bookmark features). I'd love to be able to see all the stuff I want to read for #term - this might include books, articles, etc. Which brings us to content: I really want to read all of this stuff inside of Roam, but there are two approaches right now, neither of which are super comfortable: 1. Copy the whole thing into Roam and process it chunk by chunk. Nice but formatting is a gigantic pain, front-loads a lot of work. Benefit is it saves the content in case it disappears. No easy way to see only the highlights from a certain article as they're all mixed in. 2. Copy metadata and highlights/annotations/quotes into Roam after reading it and creating them elsewhere. More compact but annoying to access original content. Requires yet another tool.

Seconding this, though I'm not sure if it's what the OP is asking for as he mentions automation. I've been using roam and while I wasn't planning to use it for daily logging I'm realizing the daily log can serve as an 'inbox' for random thoughts and things I read that aren't quite worthy of writing a separate page for. I haven't quite figured out if I'll make it my todo-list/gtd solution yet, for that I'm fairly entrenched in kanban/issue-tracker apps like trello. Also wondering how to use it alongside bookmarking tools like pinboard (or if the longer goal is to have better bookmark features). --- From the OP: "download a csv of transactions from my bank and integrate purchases into the log" - Depending on how much time you have, you may want to check out the beancount community / https://plaintextaccounting.org/ https://plaintextaccounting.org/ . I don't recommend it to people short on time to go through the learning curve, in those cases just use an existing financial app (moneydance, quicken, gnucash, etc.). "entries for emails sent, phone calls made" Roam could work for these use cases, see Conor's recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcNW-eidDJk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcNW-eidDJk

jborichevskiy 7y ago
+1 for Roam Research, as far as a daily log goes it's wonderful. > I haven't quite figured out if I'll make it my todo-list/gtd solution yet, for that I'm fairly entrenched in kanban/issue-tracker apps like trello. I believe both will have to tackled sufficiently before Roam really takes off. For example, I'd love to be able to: * Filter for TODO items between $start_date and $end_date * Filter for TODO items ranked by number of connections (further arbitrary weighting would be really interesting here) * Filter for TODO items at the intersection of two terms (haven't found an elegant way to do this yet) > Also wondering how to use it alongside bookmarking tools like pinboard (or if the longer goal is to have better bookmark features). I'd love to be able to see all the stuff I want to read for #term - this might include books, articles, etc. Which brings us to content: I really want to read all of this stuff inside of Roam, but there are two approaches right now, neither of which are super comfortable: 1. Copy the whole thing into Roam and process it chunk by chunk. Nice but formatting is a gigantic pain, front-loads a lot of work. Benefit is it saves the content in case it disappears. No easy way to see only the highlights from a certain article as they're all mixed in. 2. Copy metadata and highlights/annotations/quotes into Roam after reading it and creating them elsewhere. More compact but annoying to access original content. Requires yet another tool.