Most of the folks who sign up for Roam right now don’t discover the workflows in it that let you actually implement a Zettelkasten practice.
This is one reason why we send a youcanbook.me link to every new user and try to schedule an onboarding call.
Unfortunately only a small % take us up on that—they try the tool, figure they have the hang of it, then go about using it like they’ve used other notes tools.
I will say most of the real great stuff that happens with Zettelkasten is not happening because of the tool you’re using—it is happening because you’re explicitly thinking about relationships between ideas, and you’re then able to explore linked ideas when you come back to them in the future. We try to make that process really seamless, but still have a long way to go if we’re going to nudge users who don’t have a Zettelkasten process already in that direction.
Hell, we have a long way to go in helping people who do have a ZKT process discover the features in Roam that support it.
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110672251102416896
Regarding Transparent Risks and “Do the Math”, reminded of this tweet
Something I wish existed: a mobile app that dynamically calculates the probability you’re about to crash your car, based on your speed, the history of the piece of road you’re on, the weather, the time of day, accelerometer data, etc.
The math isn’t that easy to do when you’re in the bar—and the sort of person who on the margin might take the bet—exactly the sort of thing that should be automated.