Why Keeping A Journal Makes You A Better Investor I keep a daily log of all my thoughts and decisions on Roam Research, and find it incredibly useful to do so. This includes my thoughts for stocks, commodities and other financial instruments that I’m analyzing. Each decision represents a bet about an uncertain future, and …
Why Should You Learn Logical Fallacies? This is a key skill to have in your thinking toolbox. It’s a lifelong skill that will enable you to have to determine whether arguments are true or false. Whether it’s a political commentator that’s trying to convince you of something or you’re reading a book for school and …
I wrote previously about how useful side bars are for writing books within Roam Research. Another useful habit is keeping the Daily Log (I’ll write a post later dedicated to this topic). An added benefit of using the Daily Log is that this feeling of “I need to remember something” goes away so I can …
I keep my Daily Log open within Roam Research whenever I’m working on my computer. If I come across any interesting advert or something that has elements that I think will be useful in the future, then I’ll take a screenshot and upload it to Roam Research. To keep it properly categorized, I’ll add the …
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I find checklists generally to be super helpful. When you’re uploading videos to YouTube for instance, you need to make sure that you’ve got a good thumbnail, keywords/tags, headline, body text etc. It’s better not to rely on your memory each time you’re doing these things. So it’s better to actually just have a list …
I started working on my Vision Board within Roam Research, which previously I was doing in Canva. I just use a tag and anything that looks interesting or appealing, I’ll add #[[Vision Board]]. The nice thing about using a Vision Board within Roam Research is that you can link it to another page which can …
I’ve noticed that having the place where you take notes in the same place where you write your articles/blog posts, newsletters and books can make things much easier. There’s some time that needs to be invested in learning the system and then getting use to the system, sure. In my case, that means learning the …
Updated Jan. 5, 2021 I’ve been using Roam Research for a while now and I love using the software. Why? It’s the best tool I’ve used so far for personal knowledge management. A surprising benefit has been the Roam community that’s filled with learning geeks like me 🤓 Why Roam Has Become So Popular Data, …
Otter Notes is a great application for note taking. It’s an automatic transcription software (available in desktop and for iPhone/Android) — it does the transcription in real time and while it’s not perfect, it’s pretty accurate and very useful. I use it for taking personal notes (which I’ll put into Roam Research) instead of having …