The Power of Writing in Blocks

Or how to be a phrase-thinker

I believe in a kind of writing that is rhizomatic, fractal, or in modern terms, antifragile. Writing as the doing of thinking. I believe that Roam is an ideal app for this kind of writing.

I want to talk about my experience in both — the antifragile writing and the app.

I’m not planning to get too technical or instructional. There are other sources for that. In the end, this is about writing and thinking.

But the thing is that these ideas and their final delivery are written mostly on Roam per se so I can’t promise rigid linear writing or flowing of thoughts. But if you use Roam, I think you will like that.

In the first two installments, I talked about the graph database behind Roam. They were a little bit technical but it was important to get rid of preconceived ideas.

We have to let go of some preconceptions when arriving to Roam. These preconceptions are different for each person depending on the previous personal history of writing and note-taking apps (not all roads lead to Roam). See the above list as a table of content to deliver in the following installments.

• there are no documents or files but text blocks;
• there is no structure to build relationships but simple rules for relationships (we’ll see one by one of these rules);
• there are no forms or tables to fill out but an open space to write;