The Complete Guide to Effective Note-Making in Roam Research

How to craft your Zettlekasten of atomic notes, actually master books and write essays

Maarten van Doorn
The Understanding Project
35 min readAug 1, 2021

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I see many people taking notes in an ineffective way.

If you collect information by highlighting and importing, copying interesting source material into your graph, putting [[]] around concepts, and tagging each page and block, this article is for you. (If this doesn’t mean a lot to you, check out https://roambrain.com/ for Roam Research 101.)

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Maarten van Doorn
The Understanding Project

Essays about why we believe what we do, how societies come to a public understanding about truth, and how we might do better (crazy times)