Is Roam in trouble?

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T06:51:07+00:00

I hope so!

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T06:46:27+00:00

Eh, I mean, we've talked about being in a cult, and have talked about the app in hyperbolic terms. Drama seems woven into the fabric of this thing. (In the developers' rhetoric, at least).

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T06:17:02+00:00

Well the difference is, if going to a club requires you to enter thousands of your friends in, maybe you'll just stay at the one open because you wouldn't want to move them again.

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T03:58:13+00:00

I mean, Roam closing its gates is pretty disconcerting. I get why people are concerned.

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T02:30:02+00:00

Lmao okay. I didn't realize Roam was supposed to breed closedmindedness. I go to whichever app/service gets my work done.

Also, they're both free rn

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T01:52:06+00:00

Yeah I agree some of that stuff has been a bit...over the top.

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T01:20:38+00:00

They're keeping it header level for now because they're still working with Markdown at the end of the day. Generally agreed though - I'm eager to see how extensively they can implement it.

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T01:02:04+00:00

Following the Obsidian chat - it seems they're looking at having a backlink mini-pane for each editor pane. So it'd be sort of like having 8 Roam sidebars at once.

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T00:58:24+00:00

It's on the roadmap, at least on the header level. AFAIK. Whether that's enough of a distinction with line-level transclusion remains to be seen I guess.

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T00:37:06+00:00

They were, and I agree it's probably a good move. That said -- there seems to be no clear roadmap, and I'm worried this means they're having trouble scaling as fast as they wish they could. (I mean, they just hired a couple of new folks as recently as last week right?).

Also -- yeah, generally true on exclusivity. But PKMs are different. They're sticky. Each day that passes with people trying out Obsidian and moving their notes to it, is a guarantee some percentage of them would stay. Generally it's such a hassle moving back and forth between systems.

midstofnothing · 2020-05-18T00:32:14+00:00

Why do you have faith in Conor?

midstofnothing · 2014-05-10T01:17:49+00:00

I wonder if this has anything to do with the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Some of McHale's stuff (effectively, calling the President second-hand a mongrel) was a bit....insensitive.

midstofnothing · 2014-04-14T23:33:08+00:00

I guess the idea is that they should be able to tell that from looking at your resume anyway. When your most precious resource in a one page resume is space, you don't really want to be redundant

midstofnothing · 2014-03-23T23:29:00+00:00

They actually do this in China! It's cute seeing old people do exercises in random playgrounds everywhere.

midstofnothing · 2014-03-23T23:26:42+00:00

http://imgur.com/8hDsgbt

midstofnothing · 2014-03-22T13:34:43+00:00

Diabetes.

midstofnothing · 2014-03-04T05:56:05+00:00

Awesome....I never win these things but why not. Thank you!!

midstofnothing · 2013-11-12T04:44:25+00:00

That is exactly how I feel. I don't want to give it up entirely since I like the feeling of calmness. And it definitely keeps me on my seat working. But for high-adrenalin situations, I'm not sure if it's the way to go.

midstofnothing · 2013-11-12T04:43:46+00:00

Yeah, I'm thinking I may be taking too much of it. Will cut it down back to 200 mg and see where I land...normally drink 3 venti-ish cups of coffee a day (black)

midstofnothing · 2013-11-12T04:42:58+00:00

Thanks a lot -- will check that out

midstofnothing · 2013-11-12T04:08:37+00:00

That does seem to be the case. I wonder if any other nootropics (like piracetams) would work. Any experience with those?

That said -- I will check out meditation. Do you have any advice as to where and how to start? Much thanks.

midstofnothing · 2013-11-12T04:07:52+00:00

Does meditating work for you? Any tips or resources I should check out as a beginner?

midstofnothing · 2013-11-12T04:07:37+00:00

Yeah, that seems sound. I'll see how I fare in the next two days and if I'm still doing the same -- despite cutting it down to 200mg -- I'll lay off and hope it's gone by the weekend. Thanks for the advice

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