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Coming soon: follow-up tour with @JoelChan86, where he showed me his tested workflow for using Roam for synthesis. Highly impactful on my own workflow.The purpose of his workflow is clear, it works in @RoamResearch or other PKM apps, & has room for stylistic differences
Basically: organize around your questions. Read sources (context) in support of those questions, note down your observations, combine observations into claims, and combine claims to work through your answers to the questions. Everything is connected logically to its precedents.
So it's actually quite simple to implement. Connect your questions to your answers. Connect your answers to how you came to those answers. It's not rocket science, and requires only knowledge of linked page and block references.
This allows you to question your decisions. For example, with GuidedTrack's onboarding, we've pivoted a few times. His approach would allow me to find the initial reasoning for the decision and what supported it to see how I would update my beliefs in response to new evidence.
I actually ended up finding that I implicitly follow many of the principles of his approach (albeit with a different implementation). After the tour, we talked for 20ish minutes and I showed him my ~equivalent approaches. I'll upload footage of that as well as a separate vid.
I'll be formalizing and adjusting my own approach in response to his brilliant workflow.While you're waiting: our first tour together (and my first Roam tour!) linked below. We were in the same cohort of initial Roam users, right about a year ago. https://t.co/iXQQwCfq0H
Best executed Zettelkasten I've seen in Roam 🤯 In this vid, @JoelChan86 takes me on a tour through his database. More tours in the pipeline with wonderful people I've met in the #roamcult, who else do you wanna see? Nominate in the replies! Takeaways 👇: https://t.co/czUoZhqjqb