Vlad's Roam Garden

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My exobrain setup

make-public Tools for thought

This is a summary of my knowledge management and thought augmentation workflows & tools

Originally published for CFAR Alumni rEUnion 2021

Updated December 14th, 2021

Workflows

Voice notes inbox process

How do I read things on the internet

Spaced Repetition

Spaced Repetition can be used to program attention

Spaced Repetition can be used for inbox maintenance

use general-purpose language to augment your command line experience

reading

prioritizing what to read

you should consider reading more in audio form

Readwise highlight collection workflow

highlights from everywhere go to Readwise (Instapaper, Google Books, Hypothes.is, etc)

And it has a SRS review mechanism to surface them over time

Also they get injected into Roam, where I can do a second order of processing on them (writing notes based on them, scheduling additional SRS review for them, etc)

use podcasts to get an overview of a topic

Beeminder goals to help me prioritize knowledge work

serious reading goal - pushing me to read challenging/deep things regularly

deliberate writing time - pushing me to spend more time in a "deliberate" thinking & writing mode

spontaneous thinking vs deliberate thinking

Data involving flows via iRoam

Visualizing exercise stats - HIT

Net worth tracking

Execution: Time pressure. How tracking a few key metrics can have… | by Vladyslav Sitalo | Medium

weekly review

Tools

tools I use

Roam Research

Roam Toolkit - srs, vim

iRoam - weave programmability into everyday experience of using computer

roam.garden

Alfred

otter.ai

Readwise.io

Instapaper

Zapier

programming as a superpower

Linus Lee on building tools for yourself

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vNcQQfeij4aBcFLtJ/reflecting-on-building-my-own-tools-from-scratch-and

Concepts

Spaced Repetition

zettelkasten

Misc

Using Spaced Repetition to master your tools

My exobrain setup