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Experimenting with a way of organizing linked references into useful content in @RoamResearch. This isn& #39;t quite Evergreen Notes, but useful to me. I start with a lot of incoming stuff, almost all from Daily Pages. Let& #39;s say I& #39;ve been researching @wikidata.
I open the page in the sidebar, expand the linked references, and begin thinking about how to organize them. I pull them in using mentions (for single blocks) or embeds (for grabbing children too), and begin organizing them in an outline.
As I go along, I add the tag #p whenever I& #39;ve fully processed a note, and use a filter to remove these. When there are two important tags, and I might want to process the second tag, I instead change from [[Wikidata]] to [[[[Wikidata]]-p]].
Thus I can still click on Wikidata to get to this page, but I can filter on [[Wikidata]]-p to remove it from the linked references of this page (it will still show up in the linked references for that other tag). Here I might also want to process it in the context of The Brain.
![Thus I can still click on Wikidata to get to this page, but I can filter on [[Wikidata]]-p to remove it from the linked references of this page (it will still show up in the linked references for that other tag). Here I might also want to process it in the context of The Brain.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVlrGI-WAAICYKS.png "Thus I can still click on Wikidata to get to this page, but I can filter on [[Wikidata]]-p to remove it from the linked references of this page (it will still show up in the linked references for that other tag). Here I might also want to process it in the context of The Brain.")
When all is said and done, I& #39;ve got an empty linked references inbox (waiting for me to tag new things in the future, which I can then go in and organize), and I have a really neat outline, with all the great stuff.
One big downside is that I can& #39;t easily copy this content - it just looks like this (whether I copy and paste, or export as Markdown). Hopefully there will be an option to copy as text in the future, in the meantime I& #39;ll probably use this as input to my own writing anyway.
Thinking more about this, I think in the future I will default to moving text from Daily Notes if I think they belong somewhere - easier to drag a bullet+children than {{embed + tag #p, and I shouldn& #39;t worry so much about the integrity of my daily #Inbox.
Also easier to edit/move/combine the contents of multiple blocks. However, for content in context (Instapaper, Twitter threads, Kindle clippings etc), or content that already live on another content page, I& #39;ll still use embeds/block-embeds.
I sat down to sort out all of my Zettelkasten linked references today, and did a little video with think aloud. 35 minutes, including 20 minutes of actual "knowledge work". I got a lot less done than I had thought (useful insight), but still made progress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osJR3XQDd14">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Would love your thoughts on this process, and how you would do it differently - I& #39;m still experimenting. I also put all of my Zettelkasten notes with linked references (using roam-export) here https://roamresearch.com/#/app/stian-research/page/T6_xWjuVP">https://roamresearch.com/... https://twitter.com/houshuang/status/1251943341660520449">https://twitter.com/houshuang... @ctietze
