Yep, can resonate a lot with that myself. I fell in love with GTD 20y ago and spent years trying to work out the best solution for _organizing_ thought, rather than putting all that energy into actually acting on thought. It was my hoarding & librarian lizard nerd brain gone into overdrive.
It’s similar I think to what I did back in those same days when I switched briefly from Mac to PC (from the pain of MacOS 9 during the super early days of OS X), and spent so much time building my own PCs & installing configuring tearing my hear out re: CD-drivers et al plus just getting to a workable state over and over with Gentoo Linux or whatever flavor du jour — I did stuff FOR the computer instead of actually doing valuable stuff WITH/ON it.
Nowadays I use mostly Apple Notes for pretty much everything (even though the backup story still sucks). But I’ve always been a huge fan of ”outliners”, it seems that it’s the closest to how my mind works. Still use OmniFocus for some personal task management (and OmniOutliner before that), and have used Dave Winer’s very nice little outliner web app off and on for years, just to jot down complex thoughts quickly.
But Roam is definitely the thing I’m most excited about currently in this space. I find Notion.so and the others much too complex for most my needs (even though the inline database is a wicked cool idea!).
And the fact that Roam is a small ClojureScript shop as well is just... PERFECT :)
It’s similar I think to what I did back in those same days when I switched briefly from Mac to PC (from the pain of MacOS 9 during the super early days of OS X), and spent so much time building my own PCs & installing configuring tearing my hear out re: CD-drivers et al plus just getting to a workable state over and over with Gentoo Linux or whatever flavor du jour — I did stuff FOR the computer instead of actually doing valuable stuff WITH/ON it.
Nowadays I use mostly Apple Notes for pretty much everything (even though the backup story still sucks). But I’ve always been a huge fan of ”outliners”, it seems that it’s the closest to how my mind works. Still use OmniFocus for some personal task management (and OmniOutliner before that), and have used Dave Winer’s very nice little outliner web app off and on for years, just to jot down complex thoughts quickly.
But Roam is definitely the thing I’m most excited about currently in this space. I find Notion.so and the others much too complex for most my needs (even though the inline database is a wicked cool idea!).
And the fact that Roam is a small ClojureScript shop as well is just... PERFECT :)