Why I ditched Roam Research and logseq as Tools for Writing

Switching back to Scrivener was my only choice

Skyrocketing productivity thanks to Roam Research

Truth is: I was blown away when I first discovered Roam Research, and the infinite possibilities opening up through linking my notes, even the paragraphs became units of thoughts, of imagination. My productivity skyrocketed, there was not one idea which was not jotted down, [[bracketed]], interlinked with others. Webs of ideas formed, forgotten thoughts came back to surface because linked by the system to newer ones. An important point of the revolution was that texts and notes did not exist as files any more, they just existed, like the photographs on Instagram just exist or the tweets on Twitter, without having a physical location being bound to. They are not retrievable through a path, nobody has the slightest idea where the pictures and tweets and comments are stored — they just are. This, I imagine, will be the future of computing. For me, not bothering about files and their locations any more, was a revelation. It all started to be just about the thought itself, not its physical place.

A thinker’s paradise was growing in Roam — and a writer’s nightmare.

Second brain: Interlinked Notes and Paragraphs in my Roam Research Graph

Sidenote: After about a year in Roam, I started…