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Commentarii Roamani: Pages/Systems Worth Building, Reading Flows - Part 1
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Commentarii Roamani In this issue we’re sharing a simple flow for taking reading notes: it's our favorite routine for using Roam in order to make effective use of our readings. Systems Worth Building: Reading Flows Roam has many features that can elevate your reading by producing searchable and composable insights, which can serve as building input blocks for analysis, synthesis or creative work. Here's one we'll cover today: using Roam with Matter. Create a powerful flow for memorizing, surfacing favorite highlights, saving memorable sentences, and building a system for active recall! 🧰 The ToolsQuick reminder: install extensions by going to the left sidebar into Roam Depot. Search for the extension and click Install. Each extension comes with a description from its creator. For this workflow we used:
The [[Reading Flow 🐠]]The SetupMatter is a read-later app that lets you save, highlight, and export content from across the web including Kindle, Spotify, X (ex-Twitter), Substack, etc. Here’s how to connect it to Roam:
✅ You’re all set! The WorkflowAs you read or listen, highlight quotes you love, passages that resonate, or ideas you want to remember. Your highlights sync into Roam automatically: each article or book gets its own page, and the highlights also appear in your Daily Notes. In Roam, tag a highlight with Over time, you’ll create a reading stream that feeds your memory, connects your thoughts, and supports your creative work. 🌱 Quality of Life Improvements
by Mark Lavercombe
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Commentarii Roamani
Product updates, power-user tricks, and workflow ideas — in your inbox every two weeks.
Commentarii Roamani Hello Roamans! This week we are looking at CAPTURR by Paul Giffiths, a native iOS app that sends notes, todos, voice memos, and scanned documents to your Roam graph from your phone. CAPTURR CAPTURR is a smooth native iOS app that sends notes, todos, voice memos, and scanned documents to your Roam graph. It is built for speed and works offline, which means you can capture something on the subway or in a room with bad signal and it will sync when you are back online. write...
Commentarii Roamani Hello Roamans! The community has been building a lot lately and we have several new extensions to cover in the coming weeks. We are starting today with Chief of Staff by Mark Lavercombe. Roam Depot Gems: Chief of Staff Chief of Staff is an AI assistant that lives inside your Roam graph. You talk to it through a chat panel in the corner of your screen, and it reads your notes, manages your tasks, and connects to outside tools like Gmail and Google Calendar. Keep reading to...
Commentarii Roamani Hello Roamans! In this issue, we’re introducing Callouts: styled blocks with their own icons and colors for marking up tips, warnings, questions, and anything else that shouldn't get lost in the page. Plus a few quality of life fixes. Callouts‼️ Callouts are built on [[Blockquote]]s, but with a type-specific icon and color that sets them apart visually. To create one, start a block with [[>]] [[!NOTE]] (or the shorthand > [!NOTE]). The first line becomes the title, and you...