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The Roam Way

Tips & tricks, detailed tutorials, product comparisons and other content to help you get the most out of Roam Research.

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For now, enjoy these blog posts:

Sorry Tana, Roam can do that too: Auto-initialize random block content

In this post, I’ll explain how to pull random blocks instances from your Roam Research graph, and output them automatically every day on your daily notes page (DNP). Why we’re building this I created this blog to highlight some of the cool things I’ve done with Roam and wanted to share with others in the community. I promise it will not just be a Tana feature comparison. That said, when you see something, say something:…

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Sorry Tana, Roam can do that too: Supertags

In this post, I’ll explain exactly what supertags are, how they work in Tana, and how you can easily replicate most of the functionality in Roam Research. TLDR; The features most associated with supertags are fields with forced structure and default content We can recreate the functionality of supertags in Roam using the Smartblocks + Query Builder plugins Tana’s implementation is ahead in some areas, most noticeably the highly polished views Sneak peak of what we’re building…

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