![]() Readwise will import the highlights from Kindle (as well as iBooks and Instapaper) and you can export your highlights to Roam. Readwise is useful if you highlight on your Kindle. It’s not super accurate but it’s good enough to be valuable. There’s no iPhone app for Roam Research (yet) and if you like to record audio when you’re out and about but don’t want to listen to yourself and then type everything up into Notes or Roam, then Otter is handy to have. The tagging feature means that you can stumble upon ideas and information that you weren’t looking for but relevant and useful. The strength of Roam is that adding more information can improve the system when used in conjunction with the Zettelkasten method by taking advantage of its bi-directional linking feature. You know that the information is most likely stored there somewhere - you just don’t remember what or how to retrieve it. It becomes a mission to find the data that you’re looking for. When you use a system like Evernote, the exploding library of information actually becomes detrimental to the system. Using the Zettelkasten system means that you can focus on playing to your brain’s strength and find ways to let your ideas have sex. ![]() Your brain is great for creativity, coming up with ideas, getting the gist of things and seeing the big picture but generally not the best for storage of details. It’s kind of like building yourself a second brain or supplementing your brain. This means that you can focus your brain on thinking and coming up with new ideas instead of trying to remember what you’ve forgotten. Roam allows us to use the Zettelkasten system where notes are stored in such a way that you can find them again under the context that you would like to stumble upon them. I’m a fan of using the Zettelkasten method described in Sonke’s book, How To Take Smart Notes (summary available on Audible). Whenever I’m learning (reading, lectures, audio books, YouTube videos and so on) generally, I’ll try to take notes with Roam. It’s an excellent tool generally for note taking, learning, organizing and synthesizing ideas and writing. When you’re deluged with so much information, being able to remember, make sense of it, and then use that information effectively becomes problematic. ![]() We get exposed to a ton of information through many mediums - podcasts, YouTube videos, Masterclass, TED talks, university lectures, physical books, audio books, useful Facebooks posts, blog posts (like this one!), professional journals, newspaper reports, industry reports, emails with information we need to remember… I think you get the idea. ![]()
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