After a quick preview of “Obsidian Publish” by @obsdmd I snap-purchased a year’s subscription.

Here’s my plan...

Roam = messy, rough, explorative thought

Obsidian = polish & publish

As ideas and thoughts “mature” in @RoamResearch, I formalize them by writing about them in Obsidian — and use that as my public digital garden.

By removing the noise & simplifying the presentation, the notes become more “permanent”.

While I *could* do this in Roam, using @obsdmd has a few advantages in this use-case.

1) The creative psychology context switching.

Different tools = different thought-spaces.

Roam = expansive divergence
Obsidian = critical convergence https://twitter.com/brandontoner/status/1304620186394333184

2) Longevity & idea-insurance

Obsidian uses basic markdown, and local file-structure.

I see this as insurance for my best ideas.

Within Roam, there is a lotttt of Roam-specific markdown, making the eventual export less universally compatible.

This mitigates risk.

3) Enhanced graph-view

This works well with polished ideas.

Adding a malleable graph perspective for exploring my network of ideas allows me to think differently.

New angles = new ideas

The @obsdmd graph-view is moving in the direction I hope @RoamResearch eventually goes.

4) Publish.

This was the clincher.

I’ve been “on the hunt” for an easy way to make a site similar in style to @andy_matuschak, @azlenelza, and @RobertHaisfield.

Obsidian seems to have done it with “Obsidian Publish”. It’s beautiful.

Some related thoughts & desires here https://twitter.com/brandontoner/status/1295453568795893763

Here’s a beautiful sample.

such polish — such functionality

https://publish.obsidian.md/lyt-kit/_START+HERE