Roam Research Intro Tutorial | The Beginner's Guide to Roam

The beginner's guide to Roam Research, a workshop that serves as an intro to Roam.

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How to create your first notes in Roam, the Daily Note, formatting, creating new pages, and linking your notes.

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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:39 Why Roam?
04:10 How I Use Roam
07:08 Opening Roam
08:05 Daily Notes
11:05 Nesting Blocks
13:01 Collapse/Expand Blocks
14:47 The Left Sidebar
20:00 The Top Sidebar
20:35 The Right Sidebar
22:55 Formatting: Headers
25:24 Formatting: Bold, Italics, Highlight
28:33 Key Commands Shortcuts
30:13 The 3 Ways to Create a New Page
38:27 How Much Should You Tag Your Notes?
41:39 Linking Notes Using the Hash
43:08 The Difference Between Square Brackets vs Hash
45:30 TODO's in Roam
47:25 The TODO Page
48:45 The DONE Page
49:37 Reminders Using the Date Picker
52:55 How I Manage Tasks in Roam
53:44 How to Reference Blocks in Roam
56:59 Reference Blocks by Dragging
57:55 Apply Children to a Referenced Block
1:00:20 Using Roam for Output

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