Sep 27 2020 55 mins 11
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 of creativity Why he left #roamcult due to negative experiences and impressions: can we be elitist or too cultish? Future-proofing notes and why Obsidian caught his attention Note: This was recorded a while ago and ever since then, Dalton has made the decision to come back to Roam Research. Enjoy! For the full transcript, click here Timestamps 1:19 The fun in reading books: Dalton Mabery's note-taking origin story 3:06 Discovering Roam through Not Overthinking, and the Aha Moment 4:44 Small response from friends when demonstrating Roam 7:51 Dalton Mabery's workflow in Roam and use cases 9:09 How he reads and takes notes on articles 10:35 Creating tweet threads from his notes 11:32 The Master Page and researching for the next YouTube video to make 13:48 Filtering types of content through organization and tags 16:41 Remixing content into other formats and our different note-taking systems 19:09 "If anyone comes up with something completely new, it's probably heresy" 20:33 What new ideas are now, and distilling data into knowledge 22:04 How YouTubers interpret tools, and Austin Kleon says steal, don't copy 25:24 Why Dalton Mabery left Roam 27:06 The elitist vibe of #roamcult 28:52 The host is not happy against elitism 30:59 Comments of potential users being sick of Roam, and Keep Productive 31:56 Creators' responsibility to have a good impression of note-taking tools 33:09 Handling a YouTube channel about Roam 34:37 YouTube comments are can be really good or really bad 37:00 You don't need much to start creating content around Roam 38:34 If you want to start an interview show 40:31 Dalton's looking for guests for his new show 42:00 Future-proof notes, and the advantages of Obsidian 45:33 What happens the tool closes down? 48:23 [[How would you describe Roam to someone who hasn't started using it?]] 49:55 [[What does Roam mean to you?]] Links Dalton Mabery's Twitter Dalton's YouTube Channel Dalton Mabery's Website
