I’m still on Roam and using it every day. For me, it’s not “a lot of work”, it’s what’s necessary to keep track of my thoughts to the point that I feel like my mental workspace is clean. I’ve journaled a lot since I was a kid. I think better in writing.
This is my permanent diary. I will probably have it for the rest of my life, if they keep supporting it. Twenty years from now, I’ll want to know what I was doing today!
I also log literally all links of “general interest” in my browsing history in my public Roam. does anyone care? Probably not, but it matters to me.
Roam doesn’t make me smarter. To be honest, in my current life I don’t especially need to be smarter. But I do think it makes me more consistent and coherent. It helps me realize when I’ve had a thought before, and what thoughts I keep coming back to. It helps me “listen to my own voice”, which is an antidote to peer pressure. And it helps me see change over time—what things I’ve said in the past that seem foolish now, how long it takes me to emotionally process things (sometimes years!), etc.
as of now, i’m using a Claude Code-generated app for the same logging and diary functions as my private Roam. I had no compelling reason to switch to a different app, but a natural-language-queryable, endlessly reconfigurable interface? yes please. it can do everything I wanted out of Roam plus anything else I want!
I’m still on Roam and using it every day. For me, it’s not “a lot of work”, it’s what’s necessary to keep track of my thoughts to the point that I feel like my mental workspace is clean. I’ve journaled a lot since I was a kid. I think better in writing.
This is my permanent diary. I will probably have it for the rest of my life, if they keep supporting it. Twenty years from now, I’ll want to know what I was doing today!
I also log literally all links of “general interest” in my browsing history in my public Roam. does anyone care? Probably not, but it matters to me.
Roam doesn’t make me smarter. To be honest, in my current life I don’t especially need to be smarter. But I do think it makes me more consistent and coherent. It helps me realize when I’ve had a thought before, and what thoughts I keep coming back to. It helps me “listen to my own voice”, which is an antidote to peer pressure. And it helps me see change over time—what things I’ve said in the past that seem foolish now, how long it takes me to emotionally process things (sometimes years!), etc.
as of now, i’m using a Claude Code-generated app for the same logging and diary functions as my private Roam. I had no compelling reason to switch to a different app, but a natural-language-queryable, endlessly reconfigurable interface? yes please. it can do everything I wanted out of Roam plus anything else I want!