[bloopernova]

I'm gently easing myself into the Roam knowledgebase management style by using Emacs+org-mode+org-roam.

It's definitely one of those topics where you could spend a huge amount of energy organizing but not much actually doing :)

Regarding roamresearch.com: How do you find yourself writing/organizing pages? Daily journal with a log of what you did first, then linking out from there?

(don't feel pressured to write a novel in response, I don't want to steal time from your day!)

[rollinDyno]

What I do is just annotate absolutely everything. I try not to think much about structure. What matters is that my thoughts are put down into text. Structure and organization comes later.

Once your second brain is searchable, you can quickly find those keywords and the context thanks to Roam bidirectional links. This is one way to approach your notes, when you know what you're looking for.

Another way to approach your notes is by browsing. You can create a page with the structure or outline that you come up with, and then fill them with links to blocks in other notes. In here, you can practice a step of progressive summarization and rephrase your notes.

[bloopernova]

Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to respond! :)

[bigbossman]

I'm actually trying to free myself from the habit of organizing/structuring/planning. It gets in the way. Still obviously experimenting.

I'll usually just start putting things into Daily Notes, but if a connected set of notes gets too long, I'll make a separate page and add a [[]] link in the Daily Note.