Join our AirrSpace to talk about how Roam could scale! You can find it here In this episode, we talk with Cato Minor , who is the Duck of Roam, quacking his way into fun, ridiculous experiments with physical controls, crazy CSS, and much more. But behind these experiments, is the intention to explore something deeper. Coming in from medieval Twitter, Cato Minor focuses on digital humanities studying medieval, Latin, as well as classic Latin. In the midst of trying out many note-taking apps throu...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Warning! This is an explicit episode! In this episode, we talk with Bardia Pourvakil, AKA @thepericulum. Bardia is a member of the Roam Research team, having started off as a technical writer and dove into the world of Roam. We talk about: Bardia's origin story as a technical writer to discovering Roam Research What are the key components for a tool autodidacts use to learn? How he joined the Roam team and built up his Clojure skills through contacting Conor Roam team's workflow, and Roam pairin...
Apr 24, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 27
WARNING: This is an explicit episode! This is for Lydia. In this episode, we talk with Beau Haan, a trained actor, model, and one of the key pillars of the Roaman community. Leading the Roam Book Club, he's built a space for many participants to share their thoughts with a Roam-specific Zettelkasten method. With up to 300 actives in RBC3, they found the chance to discover more of themselves and their thoughts at block-level. We talked about: Beau's origin stories, from running away from home to ...
Apr 10, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 2Ep. 26
In this episode, we talk with [[Abhay Prasanna]], Founder of Roam Bounties, and active Roaman in Slack as well as the Twitter Roaman community. Abhay is always up to date when it comes to everything related to CSS and adding in visualizations to one's roam graph to make it look prettier, more functional, and much more. As someone who has created one of the most, used Roam themes, Dracula Pro (adapted set of colors from another theme), Abhay has been on a long journey to explore himself through t...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 25
In this episode, we talk with Jeff Morris Jr. aka @jmj on Twitter, who is the Founder and General Partner of Chapter One VC. He was previously the VP of Product Revenue at Tinder, and in the role, Tinder became the number one top-grossing apps in the app store. He invests in early-stage startups who are passionate about the future of work developer tools and subscription businesses. So if you are interested in having a product person on your cap table, Jeff is the person to go to. As someone who...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 24
In this episode, we talk with Ryan Muller, the author of Fractal Inquiry. Focusing on learning and education at Google For Education, Ryan wrote Fractal Inquiry in pursuit of a system for building knowledge in Roam. It covers the tools you need, plus six tips and eight use cases in building your knowledge graph through one of my favorite methods of knowledge expansion: questions. How do you develop the right questions to dive further into a field/thought/idea? We talked about: How evergreen and ...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 23
Welcome to the final episode of Season 1! In this episode, we talk with Richard Meadows, a finance writer, investor, and journalist. After quitting his full-time job at age 25, he has been pursuing his own hobbies and research interests while traveling around the world. He is also the author of Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World. Optionality the book lays out the time tested strategy for not only becoming resilient to shocks, but also positioning yourself to profit from a...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In this episode, we talk with Sam Marfleet, who is a writer, a marketer, and currently writing a study guide to The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago. He discovered Roam in early 2020, Which had answers to a question he's had in a very long time: How can he remember all of these stacks of notebooks that he's had written and forgotten? As someone fascinated with storytelling, writing, and symbolism, Sam had embarked on this study guide to explore the meaning of a story....
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this episode, we talk with Ramses Oudt, who is the Co-Founder of RoamStack, helping you find the tools, techniques, and workflows. You need to get the most out of Roam Research. Ramses is a teacher turned technical consultant, a move made possible becausehe is obsessed with knowledge management, having discovered Roam in February this year, after several people urged him to check it out. Roam cured his writer's block after just a few weeks of use and since then he's used it to think more prof...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In this episode, we talk with Mridula Duggal who is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the IDEA Graduate Programme, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Focusing on monetary policy, adaptive expectations, and fiscal policy, we are going to dive into the world of economics, I hope your Roam is open because we're going to take a lot of notes for this one. From reading research papers and taking notes in the margins, as well as handwriting her own personal n...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 19
In this episode, we talk with Lukas Kawerau, aka. Cortex Futura on Twitter! A known Roaman in the personal knowledge management space, Cortex is an educator through the Roam courses Galaxy Brain and Cite to Write, to help you build deeper knowledge and think better. In the middle of getting a Ph.D. in Political Science, he has done work on governance, cyber security, and data analysis throughout his career. With that comes the itch to make things, connect, to write notes down, and create his own...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In this episode, we talk with RJ Nestor, an executive coach, musician, and writer. With 20 years of experience helping people say what they mean to say and do what they mean to do, he does a variety of things: from coaching actors how to sing to teaching communication principles for business leaders and more. With Roam in his toolkit, R.J. provides the tools and guidance to execute your ideas and realize your potential. We talked about: RJ's origin story, from his background in musical theatre a...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this episode, we talk with Andy Narracott, Founder of Finding Impact, a practical resource for social entrepreneurs in the trenches, making things happen against all odds. This includes the Finding Impact Podcast, with weekly interviews on strategy, tactics, and practical advice on helping you build your social enterprise, as well as his newsletter. Andy, a consultant with a background in international development, focusing on sanitation has quite an interesting background. So reaching out to...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this episode we talk with Mike Schmitz, who is a productivity nerd (as written on his website), loves reading books and enjoys making things. He is currently the Executive Editor at The Sweet Setup , a website where you can discover the best apps and workflows for your iPhone, Mac and iPad, as well as Co-Host of the Focused Bookworm and Intentional Family podcasts. His website, faith based productivity talks about his intersections: the amazing tips, tricks and principles of productivity, and...
Nov 22, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this episode, we talk with Drew Coffman, who is an optimist interested in the connections between creativity, technology and true meaning. As someone who has been on Twitter for a very long time, Drew is in multiple circles from Tech Twitter, to Roam Twitter, and many other things that captures his attention. His YouTube channel (aptly named Drew Coffman), has videos about Roam Research from a beginner's point of view, trying to understand the different features that the tool has. We talked a...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this episode, we talk with Joel Chan, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. His involves the following quote: 'My research seeks to understand and create generalizable configurations of people, computing and information that augment human intelligence and creativity. I want to help create a future where any person or community can design the futures they want to live in.' In the pursuit of his research, he has stumbled into Roam and is dedicated to seeing its possibilities. Imple...
Nov 10, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Click here for the video version on YouTube! With Roam Fund, Roam Scholars Program, APIs and Multiplayer Roam coming up, there's still some things I'd like to figure out: How will Roam enable creators to maintain a sustainable career? What are the possibilities and models for monetization using a Roam graph? Are there example products out there that we can replicate in Roam as a source of income? Introducing the first (of many) RoamFM hangouts, this talk will be about monetization models, premiu...
Oct 27, 2020•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this episode, we talk with Matt McGann, who is the founder of Health Horizon. tracking upcoming health technologies as they develop in real time for companies, investors, and innovators as well. He is also the creator of Roam for Teamwork : covering multiplayer knowledge bases, where everything is connected and nothing is duplicated. How to set up Rome as a place where teamwork naturally builds a coherent repository of the organization's knowledge. So if you are interested in setting up a mul...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this episode, we talk with Brandon Toner, a pharmacist based in Nova Scotia, Canada. He's known from his goal to build a habit of expression through a reset on Twitter. This is a broad episode ranging from healthcare to school, note-taking philosophies and the search for powerful conversations. We talked about: Doing a hard reset on Twitter Information management in pharmacy, healthcare and possibilities with Roam Research Intricacies in healthcare and what information we must consider Brando...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this episode, we talk with Tracy Winchell, the Founder of Roaman Journals . A teacher of daily journaling practices to others, Tracy is a self introspective person when it comes to facing ourselves in writing. And when introduced to Roam, she has started implementing the tool into journaling. In this episode, we talked about: Life before Roam Research: her time as a journalist, within broadcasting and more Her workflow for journaling and introspection in Roam Our relationship with the creator...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 13
In this episode, we talk with Dalton Mabery, a YouTuber, video editor and tweet thread maker at 20 years old, trying to find the intersection between church and technology. His YouTube channel covers tech, productivity, and lifestyle with a lot of tutorials and guides on many networked thought thinking tools, including Roam. We talked about: His note-taking origin story, and stumbling into Roam Dalton's information capture workflow, and remixing past knowledge Overcoming traditional definitions ...
Sep 28, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In this episode, we talk with Ali Abdaal, a Cambridge university medicine graduate, a former doctor in the UK National Health Service and a prolific YouTuber, making videos about life as a medical student, productivity tips, tech, Roam Research, Notion and more. We talked about: Ali's note-taking origin story: From storing notes on close-up magic to seduction, medicine and now book notes His information capture workflow, using Evernote, Notion and Roam for specific uses. Why Ali thinks he is not...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In this episode, we talk with Aravind Balla, a software developer working remotely from Hyderabad, India. He loves JS and CSS, and is the co-host of the Learning Curve podcast, sharing his findings, discoveries, and, his learning journey with fellow host Bretik. In the #roamcult community he is known for creating Gatsby-theme-Andy, a digital gardening theme inspired by the works of Andy Matuschak and is based on Gatsby-theme-brain. We talked about: Aravind's note-taking workflow How Notion and R...
Sep 05, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Today's guest is Kahlil Corazo, who is building Project Accessible Genomics, a playbook for deploying genomic pathogen surveillance in the global South. He is also creating training materials on using Roam for project management, as well as Fabricating Serendipity, connecting Roam individuals to each other, and see its results. The longest episode so far in RoamFM, we talked about: Project Management and how startups can use Roam The Idea-to-Reality production stack, and the Rider and the Stalli...
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this episode, we talk with Jessie Li, an independent consultant at Singapore Management University's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, and Founder of Fat Garage, an interesting website covering Chinese entrepreneurs in niche markets, such as asteroid mining, synthetic biology, and more. She founded the roam/cn Community, a collective of Roam users from all walks of life in Mandarin, filled with videos, articles, and other resources to learn together, and develop use cases for Roam Resea...
Aug 22, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In this episode, we talk with David Crandall, a software architect and fractional CTO. As someone involved in Data Architecture since the mid-nineties, he has been obsessive with note-taking, having done so for 25+ years(!). Roam fits the bill for writing all his thoughts! We talked about: The Dark times: how he found Roam, moving abroad with 26 luggage bags and more David's workflows: Meeting notes, habit tracking and anti-productivity Why he dislikes non-contextual metadata Predicting the futu...
Aug 14, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode, we're having a conversation with Mark Robertson, who is an instructor of history at several California community colleges, teaching American and World History. He focuses on historical memory, race and racism, US foreign policy, and critical pedagogy. His true joy in life is to assist and empowering the interested to better know themselves as learners and as a part of our larger human community. You can find him on Twitter @calhistorian . We talked about: Struggling to find the ...
Aug 06, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this episode, we're talking with a member of the #roamcult who uses Roam as a lab book. Cherry Sun is a second-year Ph.D. student based in Auckland, New Zealand. She's studying a stem cell population from the human placenta and its potential role in babies that are born dangerously small ([[Fetal Growth Restriction]]). As someone who is doing multiple experiments at the same time, Cherry has been finding ways to capture thoughts, record measurements, and results, and to collect all of them in...
Aug 03, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode, we talk with Maggie Appleton who is the Art Director, Metaphor Designer & Anthropological All-Rounder at egghead.io. Soon to start a Masters in Digital Anthropology, she is known for her contributions to digital gardens as well as illustrated notes. She is at the forefront of visual thinking and when it comes to Roam, she's done a lot as well. I'm using her theme right now for my private Roam! We talked about: The dark times pre-Roam and how she discovered it Her digital gar...
Jul 24, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode, we talk with Michael Ashcroft, a consultant, co-founder and Non-Executive Director of the Carbon Removal Centre, a UK-based non-profit organization whose purpose is to advance sustainable carbon removal. He is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, an awareness-based educational process that helps people live with greater ease and freedom, and a Co-Active coach, working with clients in his spare time. We talked about: How he stumbled into Roam Research from Buildin...
Jul 16, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 4
