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Commentarii Roamani: Updates, a Simple Workflow, and Community Spotlight
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Commentarii Roamani 📣 What’s New 📣Roam is faster: Pages with complex queries, large sidebars, or long chains of linked references open with less friction, making the entire graph feel lighter and more responsive even when you’re working across several contexts at once. Small improvement to the Append API: It supports nested blocks with preserved structure, so indented content flows into your graph exactly as written. This makes tools like Speak to Roam more useful, and works just as well with Zapier, Shortcuts, or any custom setup. 🧠 Workflow: Lightweight CRM in Roam 🧠CRM (Customer Relationship Management) sounds like something you need a whole system for. You meet people at events, shows, on calls, or through shared projects, and you want a simple way to remember who they are, what you talked about, and when to follow up. This little setup lives in your graph, slips into your notes without fuss, and just makes that part of life a bit easier to keep up with. The idea is simple:
A few examples of attributes you can add to your Here's what it looks like populated: With this system, you can use queries to track meetings, walks, work sessions, etc., across your graph: 🌟 Community Spotlight: new Roam Depot extensions! 🌟Card Theme: This sleek extension styles your notes by type: fleeting, literature, permanent (and more) using block tags like Ask Perplexity: It pulls in answers from Perplexity’s search engine directly into your graph. You type a question, get a clean answer with sources, and follow up right inside Roam. It’s especially useful for quick research, filling in gaps, or exploring unfamiliar topics without switching tabs. 🐣 Keep on Roaming 🐇 |
Commentarii Roamani
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Commentarii Roamani We continue our series Pages/Systems Worth Building, shifting focus from isolated pages to full systems that help your Roam graph grow more powerful day to day. This issue is useful for students, but also for any learners who are serious about mastering what they study. We’ll show you how to combine a couple of Roam Depot extensions into a study workflow that uses AI to leverage spaced repetition for learning. 🌀 Systems Worth Building: [[Learnloop]] Studying with AI lets...
Commentarii Roamani 🌱 Quality of Life Improvements Search now supports accented characters automatically. You no longer need to include the accent when searching – "etude" will find "étude" You can now use /embed-children and /embed-path to quickly insert embedded content Inline autocomplete (for things like (( )) and [[ ]] ) now scrolls more smoothly to keep the selected item visible while typing 🐞 Fixes Empty page cleanup now delayed by 48h to avoid orphan blocks Fixed duplicate page...
Commentarii Roamani In today's newsletter, we're starting a series: Pages Worth Building. We'll present you with ideas and flows for Roam structures that can work as more permanent scaffolding for your thinking. Think pages that track patterns, hold shape-shifting ideas over time, or train a skill – which don't fit into tasks or outlines. For now, we have in mind: [[Experiments]], [[Momentum Log]], [[Reading Index]], [[Mission Control]], and more. If you’ve built something similar, or...