David Wilson of the System Crafters Channel has a new video in his Build a Second Brain playlist. The serious is about Org-roam, and is, as I’ve said before, the best introduction to and guide for setting up Org-roam that I’ve seen. If you’re interested in integrating Org-roam into your workflow, you should definitely take a look at the play list. There’s just four videos in the series and the total play time is under 2 hours so it’s an easy investment to make.
The latest video is about 5 small hacks Wilson made to Org-roam to better fit his workflow. The video notes and all the code are available here. My understanding of Org-roam is that it’s an Emacs based implementation of Roam Research, which, in turn, is an implementation of the Zettelkasten method. The method was developed by Niklas Luhmann a German sociologist who used it to write over 500 papers and 70 books. The basic idea was to write a single thought, piece of knowledge, or idea on a slip of paper and link it to related ideas with a complicated indexing scheme. You can read all about the method in this book about it.
The idea of Zettelkasten described in the previous paragraph has been pushed by Wilson and others to be a way of keeping track of all their notes including things like TODOs, daily diaries, and other information not usually associated with the Zettelkasten method. All but the first of Wilson’s five hacks are ways to make this extended use of Org-roam easier and more transparent.
It’s a nice video with five really good ideas. If you’re interested in Org-roam, it’s definitely worth your time. The video is 29 minutes, 44 seconds long so you’ll need to set some time aside.