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Commentarii Roamani: Live AI in practice - Part 1
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Commentarii Roamani This is the second issue focusing on the Live AI extension, which integrates advanced language models directly into your graph, enabling you to harness the power of AI without ever leaving Roam 🔮 See our previous issue for more if you haven't already! 🧚 Live AI in practice Today we're looking at how to use the extension (created by Fabrice Gallet) as a writing assistant. As we go through the process of writing a research paper with Roam, we'll look at some of the amazing tools it can help us with. This week is Part 1: choosing your topic and gathering sources. 🎃 Step 1: Topic SelectionFirst, you need to find the question you’ll ask for your research paper. If you’re writing a research paper just for fun and have no idea where to start, try the Ask Your Graph tool and use prompts like:
to surface the topics you revisit a lot, the ones you’re still curious about or used to be. From there, you can dig deeper 🧟♂️ If you have some ideas but you're not sure how to shape them in a clear research question, use the Ask AI tool to talk it out. You can also record yourself with the Voice Transcription tool and let it reply in text (see our previous issue to learn how). Let's say we want to write a paper about...WITCHES 🧙♀️ 🎃 Step 2: ResearchNow that we have a theme, it’s time to gather sources. Just converse with the AI model of your choice. And use it to find both primary and secondary materials related to your topic:
Once you’ve found a few, you can ask for short summaries to quickly grasp each author’s main argument before diving in. Don't forget, this extension supports all your favourite AI models 👻 In Part 2, we’ll move from research to writing and see how to turn those ideas into a polished essay using Roam’s creative tools.
So, over the next two weeks, read through your research and jot down every idea that comes to mind so when the next issue comes out, you can follow along and write your paper in Roam.
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