![]() Roam research embeds the process within the text. Filters & Queriesįiltering and searching for ideas are distinctly different experiences between the programs. Verdict: Maybe Roam Research has customizable key commands in its roadmap, but until then, DEVONthink wins this one, hands down. This way I have a familiar method to get to new ideas while, I continue working on what I had been. It has in the same key binding that I have with OmniFocus. Commands related to searching, changing windows, going to various pages, merging or splitting documents, view changes, workspace arrangements, window adjustments, and more are all easily called.įor example, one simple workflow is opening a new window to the Inbox with Command-1. Not only can I choose a single key command to change, I can create a whole series of steps for it to go through. Its interactions with Keyboard Maestro are nothing but friendly. Meanwhile, DEVONthink is super-customizable. Likely this had something to do with where I had the computer’s focus, but this was one of those fingernails on chalkboard moments for me. Sometimes, it would instead open preferences. So sometimes I’d want to zoom into a block. Being embedded in a browser means I do not have access to those menu items in a way that I can reach or change.įurther, some of the commands are overlaps with some pretty major ones like (Command-,), which is a nearly universal key command for accessing preferences. Unless I’m missing something, there is no current means of customizing key commands in Roam Research. So, when it comes to key commands in Roam, I am at a loss. If you’ve heard me shout the praises of Keyboard Maestro, you’ll know that key commands are the chords and sinews of my symbiotic relationship with technology. If I am clear in my thinking, in my tagging, and in understanding the key commands as well as the general structure of how it organizes by block, then I imagine I would do well in it. Verdict: DEVONthink feels like information tends to come to me while Roam feels like I need to go to it. If I also had a closer number of notes, (DEVONthink has about 1200, and I had about 300 in Roam when I stopped), then maybe Roam would have had a better chance to present such opportunities. If I had all the key commands of Roam well memorized and practiced, maybe things would be different. Now this may be because of the flow I have developed with DEVONthink over a longer period of time. Many simply come from comparing old and new ideas or ideas that span specialties or fields of knowledge.īut however they happen I encounter those exciting moments of knowledge with a much greater frequency when using DEVONthink. This is not to say that those moments all come from DEVONthink’s AI. This is where you find odd connections and interesting concepts that spark those… I don’t know, ”knowledge orgasms”? Those moments of excitement with figuring something out, finding something interesting, something that has potential-whatever that sense is-that’s what I’m looking for. There is also the importance of finding those moments of inspiration. In this way, discovery is more than about resurfacing ideas. Several are not, but some are spot on, and others yet, are ones I wouldn’t have thought of or had forgotten about. Somehow, when I’m writing a note, DEVONthink suggests a group of notes that it thinks might be related. There is, however, the massive difference of DEVONthink’s AI which is just magic. At that point though, I export the notes to Scrivener, play around with the note cards in corkboard mode, come up with my outline that way, and start writing. Later, when writing, I do various searches based on connected pages and the like. In my notes, I am certain to link to relevant pages. I completely agree with his notion of resurfacing ideas when useful. When he is later writing, he systematically moves through tags and pages related to his idea, creates a solid list from which to work, makes an outline, and starts to add and improvise on ideas. He adds a series of tags and attributes to each page. Nat would describe his purpose of working with the system as being about “resurfacing” ideas when it is useful. Part 5 of 5 – Discovery, Filters, and Queries.Part 2 of 5 – Local, Online, and Blocks.Part 1 of 5 – Heavyweight Contenders of Note-taking.
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