Jul 23 2020 58 mins 21
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 garden and definitions of an evergreen note, growing from budding to seedlings to the Evergreen Discussions on the #roamcult itself, and her take on who Roam users are from an anthropological perspective And the tool itself, from workflows to predictions to the freedom in which one can find their own ways of using Roam. Enjoy! Timestamps 02:31 Life during the before times, how Maggie stumbled into Roam 04:53 "Most of Roam is resources" How PARA fits in Roam 07:31 Using Nat Eliason's system for task management, quick capture 09:38 Maggie Appleton's workflow for capturing information 14:30 From Kyle Harrison: Presentable notes in public vs. private 17:16 How Maggie's evergreen notes differs from other people 20:09 Building a digital garden on Gatsby 22:45 The fast pace of #roamcult and changes in Maggie's Roam setup 25:27 The rabbithole of hypertext, Project Xanadu 27:08 Maggie's current rabbithole: Anthropology and Digital Anthropology 30:00 Pattern languages and the influence of Roam Research on Digital Anthropology 32:48 Why the web doesn't have bi-directional links 34:48 Project Xanadu's specs: a communal payment system 37:32 Web 3.0: The semantic web 39:26 How would you describe Roam to someone who hasn't started using it? 42:32 The problem with Roam onboarding 43:59 "If there was an official onboarding, that would feel non-Roam" 46:54 A timeline overview, spaced repetition on Roam Toolkit 49:56 Building the Thoughtmine: Norman's digital garden 52:06 Differences between blocks and pages, and how Roam treats them for queries 53:41 Drafting things on paper 54:49 What does Roam mean to you? Links Maggie's Website Maggie's Twitter To see what she's doing now, you can check out this link! See this on the RoamFM Public Graph
