Aug 14 2020 65 mins 14
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 future of Roam from a software architect's perspective, and #roamcult Enjoy! Timestamps 2:28 25 Years of Note-taking and discovering Roam 5:40 What caught his attention, and the Daily Notes page 8:52 Transferring all his analog notes in 9:40 Moving a family of six to Cozumel, Mexico 13:12 David's workflow, and learning Roam in quarantine 17:02 Meeting notes: David's process for turning nouns into pages 20:20 Non-contextual tagging and why David hates it 24:12 Finding value from graph overview + suggestions 26:37 How David uses Roam to track his habits 32:02 Being anti-productive 34:06 David's main Twitter account and Minecraft 36:18 Future Roaman Jrs. 38:21 The future of Roam and David's accurate prediction 42:09 The way we interact with Roam will change 46:14 The potential of #roamcult in this future 51:29 Networked social media, Visa and threaded conversation 54:30 What scares David about the hive mind concept 55:29 Describing Roam as a Jarvis [[How would you describe Roam to someone who hasn't started using it?]] 57:28 [[What does Roam mean to you?]], Roam's use in counseling, therapy, and vulnerability Links David's Twitter David's Website Predicting the Future of Roam
