C - Effortless Output in Roam (Tiago)
Summary
Notes
Metadata
- Predefined attributes of a certain type
Examples
- Books
- Author
- Reading Status
- Recommended By
- Tags: Books
- Articles
- Author
- URL
- Recommended By
- Tags: Articles
- Podcasts
- Host
- URL
- Recommended By
- Tags: Podcasts
- Videos
- Author
- URL
- Recommended By
- Tags: Videos
- Blog Posts
- Target Date
- Tags
- Status
- Google Doc
- Projects
- Completed Date
- Status
- Due Date
- Related Goals
- Success Criteria
- Tags: Projects
- Goals
- Projects
- Goal Status
- Success Criteria
- Completed Date
- Tags: Goals
- People
- Phone Number
- Company
- Role
- Location
- How We Met
- Birthday
- Tags: People
- Recipes
- Ingredients
- Tools
- URL
- Tags: Recipes
Adding Content
Article Notes
- Create new page with title of article
- Add metadata
- Save to Instapaper
- Highlight as you read
- Copy and Paste Highlights onto page created
Books
- https://read.amazon.com/notebook
- Run Bookcision to extract highlights
- Sync Kindle Highlights Community Plugin
Videos
<iframe src="INSERT YOUR URL HERE"></iframe>- put the time of the video alongside the note for future reference
Synthesis
The Inbox
- Saving items to daily notes for date context
- Value in having separate inbox tag
- Items added with inbox tag have a backlink from inbox page
Using Tags
- What other tags do I need to add so it shows up in the right context in the future
- Go through the contents to find what else needs to be linked
- First stage of interlinking information
- When it's time for content creation all the relevant information is already at hand
Progressive Summarization
- Notes become more useful over time as you add more detail
- Layers
- Tagging
- taking advantage of backlinks to see how the information is connected
- helps with rediscovery
- Bolding
- bolding information on the page to make sure it stands out in the future
- Highlighting
- adding highlighting within what you've bolded for what is extra important to call out
- Bolding and Highlighting make it easier to skim the page in the future
- Summarizing
- Taking everything you've highlighted and making an executive summary at the top of the page
- Tagging
- After all these steps you are good to remove it from the inbox
Creating Head Pages
- After collecting, and adding value to notes we need to extract the important parts and bringing it together into concepts
- Creating the head pages will show you where you may need more information
- Under the head page do block embeds to pull in summaries or pieces of information
- Split content into relevant subcategories and link information within it
- Depending on the content you can either add the information or just add a link to the page
Content Creation
Outlining
- Start by creating some Heading ideas
- Next do high level outlining, what are the major sections
- intro, outro, supporting sections
- Add ideas to sections and start pulling in information for head pages
- using block embeds
Writing
C - Effortless Output in Roam (Tiago)
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Summary
Notes
Metadata
Examples
Adding Content
Article Notes
Books
Videos
Synthesis
The Inbox
Using Tags
Progressive Summarization
Creating Head Pages
Content Creation
Outlining
Writing