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Love the topic. Spaced repetition was a revelation for me. Wondered how Anki might be used to memorize something visual, say the segment architecture. Also do tools for memory go down in value as fast access to our "memory" through tools like Roam go up? LT recall aside, love how they are forcing functions for deeper inquiry and synthesis

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I've been using screenshots to help with visualizations, but it's still early days admittedly. I'd agree that the tools should be much better.

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Dec 22, 2020Liked by Calvin French-Owen

I started using Roam about three months ago, and their user community (reddit, Medium & youtube) coupled with the release notes has been a big help to navigating a steep learning curve. Curious to hear more about how you're using it and what you think of it, seems like it's a tool that gets more and more powerful the deeper you go.

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Agreed. I've basically committed to using for 3mo to build the habit. Hoping the payoff starts getting higher and higher by then.

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Dec 22, 2020Liked by Calvin French-Owen

I just started poking around on a note taking and personal knowledge management tool as well and was going to try out Roam Research but decided to start with Obsidian.md first since it keep s everything in markup form locally which I can then back up however I'd like. I'll let you know how that experiment goes!

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Awesome, I'm curious to know how it goes. I checked it out a little bit, the local first approach definitely seems nice for portability and long-term support. I'm hoping whatever happens with Roam, that it will have an export feature that could eventually be imported into a system like Obsidian, and that it will just continue to get better in the meantime.

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