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OtiumFM is an upcoming show deep-diving into the world of Tools for Thought, or TFTs! Featuring insights on note-taking, making connections between thoughts, and serendipity, host Norman Chella brings you conversations with individuals in this space so you can better your note-taking experience. Expect guests from various TFT apps, independent researchers, and varying professions who bring with them note-taking insights, from analog to digital and even hypergraphic! Coming out soon. In the first two seasons, this show was called RoamFM, the podcast all about Roam Research, for members of the Roaman community. In these two seasons, join us as we dive into the minds of amazing Roam users, taking a peek into how they use Roam to create wonderful connections.

Location:

Malaysia

Description:

OtiumFM is an upcoming show deep-diving into the world of Tools for Thought, or TFTs! Featuring insights on note-taking, making connections between thoughts, and serendipity, host Norman Chella brings you conversations with individuals in this space so you can better your note-taking experience. Expect guests from various TFT apps, independent researchers, and varying professions who bring with them note-taking insights, from analog to digital and even hypergraphic! Coming out soon. In the first two seasons, this show was called RoamFM, the podcast all about Roam Research, for members of the Roaman community. In these two seasons, join us as we dive into the minds of amazing Roam users, taking a peek into how they use Roam to create wonderful connections.

Twitter:

@RoamFm

Language:

English


Episodes
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Cato Minor: Roam Experiments, Medieval Knowledge Work, Memory

6/18/2021
Join our AirrSpace to talk about how Roam could scale! You can find it here In this episode, we talk with Cato Minor, who is the Duck of Roam, quacking his way into fun, ridiculous experiments with physical controls, crazy CSS, and much more. But behind these experiments, is the intention to explore something deeper. Coming in from medieval Twitter, Cato Minor focuses on digital humanities studying medieval, Latin, as well as classic Latin. In the midst of trying out many note-taking apps throughout the years, he had stumbled into Roam. We talked about: Enjoy! Timestamps Links Cato Minor's TwitterSupport the show

Duration:01:27:33

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Bardia Pourvakil: Autodidact, Roam Team, and Fulfillment

4/24/2021
Warning! This is an explicit episode! In this episode, we talk with Bardia Pourvakil, AKA @thepericulum. Bardia is a member of the Roam Research team, having started off as a technical writer and dove into the world of Roam. We talk about: Enjoy! Timestamps Links Bardia's Twitterdstroyd.albms Instagram Support the show

Duration:01:19:18

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Beau Haan: Roam Book Club, Block-level Zettelkasten, Roaman Community

4/10/2021
WARNING: This is an explicit episode! This is for Lydia. In this episode, we talk with Beau Haan, a trained actor, model, and one of the key pillars of the Roaman community. Leading the Roam Book Club, he's built a space for many participants to share their thoughts with a Roam-specific Zettelkasten method. With up to 300 actives in RBC3, they found the chance to discover more of themselves and their thoughts at block-level. We talked about: Enjoy the episode! Timestamps Links Beau Haan's TwitterRoam Book Club's TwitterBookclub 4 Waiting ListSupport the show

Duration:01:37:59

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Abhay Prasanna: Aesthetics, Personal Salience and Sovereignty

3/29/2021
In this episode, we talk with [[Abhay Prasanna]], Founder of Roam Bounties, and active Roaman in Slack as well as the Twitter Roaman community. Abhay is always up to date when it comes to everything related to CSS and adding in visualizations to one's roam graph to make it look prettier, more functional, and much more. As someone who has created one of the most, used Roam themes, Dracula Pro (adapted set of colors from another theme), Abhay has been on a long journey to explore himself through the usage of Roam. We talked about: Enjoy! Timestamps Links Abhay's TwitterDracula Pro Roam ThemeMasonry Vanilla CSSSupport the show

Duration:01:27:59

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Jeff Morris Jr.: Investing Frameworks, Product Management

3/29/2021
In this episode, we talk with Jeff Morris Jr. aka @jmj on Twitter, who is the Founder and General Partner of Chapter One VC. He was previously the VP of Product Revenue at Tinder, and in the role, Tinder became the number one top-grossing apps in the app store. He invests in early-stage startups who are passionate about the future of work developer tools and subscription businesses. So if you are interested in having a product person on your cap table, Jeff is the person to go to. As someone who I've been following for quite a while on Twitter @JMJ, he is quite the enthusiastic person when it comes to Roam Research and tweeting about it quite a number of times. I've brought him onto the show to talk about: Enjoy! Timestamps Links Jeff's Twitter (@jmj)Chapter OneSupport the show

Duration:01:06:20

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Ryan Muller: Fractal Inquiry, Spaced Repetition, Education

3/29/2021
In this episode, we talk with Ryan Muller, the author of Fractal Inquiry. Focusing on learning and education at Google For Education, Ryan wrote Fractal Inquiry in pursuit of a system for building knowledge in Roam. It covers the tools you need, plus six tips and eight use cases in building your knowledge graph through one of my favorite methods of knowledge expansion: questions. How do you develop the right questions to dive further into a field/thought/idea? We talked about: If you're on the journey to cultivate a quality knowledge graph, Look no further. Let's dive into my chat with Ryan Muller, the author of [[Fractal Inquiry]]. Timestamps Links Ryan's TwitterFractal Inquiry Support the show

Duration:01:00:24

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Richard Meadows: The First Roaman, Optionality

12/21/2020
Welcome to the final episode of Season 1! In this episode, we talk with Richard Meadows, a finance writer, investor, and journalist. After quitting his full-time job at age 25, he has been pursuing his own hobbies and research interests while traveling around the world. He is also the author of Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World. Optionality the book lays out the time tested strategy for not only becoming resilient to shocks, but also positioning yourself to profit from an unpredictable world, especially in the world that we are living in right now. I reached out to Richard because I found out something very fascinating about him: he is the first user of Roam Research! We talked about: Enjoy! Links Richard's Website: The Deep DishRichard Meadows' Twitter Support the show

Duration:01:32:59

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Sam Marfleet: Stories, Study Guides, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

12/21/2020
In this episode, we talk with Sam Marfleet, who is a writer, a marketer, and currently writing a study guide to The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago. He discovered Roam in early 2020, Which had answers to a question he's had in a very long time: How can he remember all of these stacks of notebooks that he's had written and forgotten? As someone fascinated with storytelling, writing, and symbolism, Sam had embarked on this study guide to explore the meaning of a story. So in this episode, we talked about: Enjoy! Links Sam's WebsiteSam's TwitterSupport the show

Duration:01:19:21

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Mridula Duggal: PhD Research, Macroeconomics, Inflation Expectations

12/16/2020
In this episode, we talk with Mridula Duggal who is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the IDEA Graduate Programme, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Focusing on monetary policy, adaptive expectations, and fiscal policy, we are going to dive into the world of economics, I hope your Roam is open because we're going to take a lot of notes for this one. From reading research papers and taking notes in the margins, as well as handwriting her own personal notes on paper Mridula found a solution to her problem when it came to resurfacing up previous notes when she found Roam research this year. We talked about: Enjoy! Links Mridula's WebsiteMridula's Twitter Support the show

Duration:01:11:46

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Ramses Oudt: RoamStack, Online Courses, Knowledge Management

12/16/2020
In this episode, we talk with Ramses Oudt, who is the Co-Founder of RoamStack, helping you find the tools, techniques, and workflows. You need to get the most out of Roam Research. Ramses is a teacher turned technical consultant, a move made possible becausehe is obsessed with knowledge management, having discovered Roam in February this year, after several people urged him to check it out. Roam cured his writer's block after just a few weeks of use and since then he's used it to think more profoundly about work challenges than ever before through RoamStack. We talked about: Enjoy! Links Ramses' WebsiteRamses' TwitterRoamStack WebsiteSupport the show

Duration:01:13:46

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Cortex Futura: Algorithms of Thought, Political Science and Context-Dependent Insight

12/4/2020
In this episode, we talk with Lukas Kawerau, aka. Cortex Futura on Twitter! A known Roaman in the personal knowledge management space, Cortex is an educator through the Roam courses Galaxy Brain and Cite to Write, to help you build deeper knowledge and think better. In the middle of getting a Ph.D. in Political Science, he has done work on governance, cyber security, and data analysis throughout his career. With that comes the itch to make things, connect, to write notes down, and create his own personal workflows until stumbling into Roam. In this episode we talk about: Enjoy! Links Cortex Futura's TwitterCortex Futura's WebsiteGalaxy Brain Online CourseCite to Write Online CourseSupport the show

Duration:01:28:18

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R.J. Nestor: Your Road to Roam, Getting Things Done, Non-singing (V1)

12/2/2020
In this episode, we talk with RJ Nestor, an executive coach, musician, and writer. With 20 years of experience helping people say what they mean to say and do what they mean to do, he does a variety of things: from coaching actors how to sing to teaching communication principles for business leaders and more. With Roam in his toolkit, R.J. provides the tools and guidance to execute your ideas and realize your potential. We talked about: Enjoy! Links R.J. Nestor's TwitterR.J. Nestor's WebsiteYour Road to Roam Online CoursePowerful Task Management in Roam Research Online Course Support the show

Duration:01:30:43

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Andy Narracott: Finding Impact, Social Entrepeneurship and Philanthropy (V1)

11/25/2020
In this episode, we talk with Andy Narracott, Founder of Finding Impact, a practical resource for social entrepreneurs in the trenches, making things happen against all odds. This includes the Finding Impact Podcast, with weekly interviews on strategy, tactics, and practical advice on helping you build your social enterprise, as well as his newsletter. Andy, a consultant with a background in international development, focusing on sanitation has quite an interesting background. So reaching out to him, I wanted to ask about his workflows. His fields of interest and everything in between. We talked about: Enjoy! Links Andy Narracott's WebsiteAndy Narracott's TwitterFinding Impact NewsletterFinding ImpactFinding Impact PodcastSupport the show

Duration:01:07:10

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Mike Schmitz: Faith-Based Productivity and Sketch Notes (V1)

11/21/2020
In this episode we talk with Mike Schmitz, who is a productivity nerd (as written on his website), loves reading books and enjoys making things. He is currently the Executive Editor at The Sweet Setup, a website where you can discover the best apps and workflows for your iPhone, Mac and iPad, as well as Co-Host of the Focused Bookworm and Intentional Family podcasts. His website, faith based productivity talks about his intersections: the amazing tips, tricks and principles of productivity, and his faith from his sermon sketch notes, as well as his Bible study notes. Mike combines all of this in Roam. We talked about: Enjoy! Links Mike's TwitterFaith Based ProductivityIntentional Family PodcastBookworm.fm PodcastSupport the show

Duration:01:23:03

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Drew Coffman: Leonardo Da Vinci, Roam Community, Nostalgia (V1)

11/20/2020
In this episode, we talk with Drew Coffman, who is an optimist interested in the connections between creativity, technology and true meaning. As someone who has been on Twitter for a very long time, Drew is in multiple circles from Tech Twitter, to Roam Twitter, and many other things that captures his attention. His YouTube channel (aptly named Drew Coffman), has videos about Roam Research from a beginner's point of view, trying to understand the different features that the tool has. We talked about: Enjoy! Links Drew's TwitterDrew's YouTube ChannelSupport the show

Duration:01:42:19

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Joel Chan: Knowledge Synthesis, Analog Media and Zettel Questions

11/10/2020
In this episode, we talk with Joel Chan, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. His involves the following quote: 'My research seeks to understand and create generalizable configurations of people, computing and information that augment human intelligence and creativity. I want to help create a future where any person or community can design the futures they want to live in.' In the pursuit of his research, he has stumbled into Roam and is dedicated to seeing its possibilities. Implementing a hybrid Zettelkasten and Zettel Question system, he has designed a system to achieve knowledge synthesis which is what we will be talking about in this episode. We covered: Enjoy! Timestamps Links Joel Chan's WebsiteVideo: Roam Tour #1: Professor Joel Chan- Zettelkasten and Evergreen Notes for Generative ThoughtStian Håklev (侯爽)'s VideoTinderboxSupport the show

Duration:00:42:10

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Roam Creators x Monetization (Audio Version)

10/27/2020
Click here for the video version on YouTube! With Roam Fund, Roam Scholars Program, APIs and Multiplayer Roam coming up, there's still some things I'd like to figure out: How will Roam enable creators to maintain a sustainable career?What are the possibilities and models for monetization using a Roam graph?Are there example products out there that we can replicate in Roam as a source of income?Introducing the first (of many) RoamFM hangouts, this talk will be about monetization models, premium graphs and defining the 'Roam Creator'. This hangout is simple: canI've set this event for 2 hours just in case, but if we end earlier/later, will leave the room up accordingly. The objectives are: I'll be exploring different models, where future of Roam might go for money-making, and how creators can fit in there. Will share my own findings and predictions, and I want to have it open up for discussion. Support the show

Duration:02:12:26

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Mat McGann: Roam for Teamwork, Health Horizon

10/26/2020
In this episode, we talk with Matt McGann, who is the founder of Health Horizon. tracking upcoming health technologies as they develop in real time for companies, investors, and innovators as well. He is also the creator of Roam for Teamwork: covering multiplayer knowledge bases, where everything is connected and nothing is duplicated. How to set up Rome as a place where teamwork naturally builds a coherent repository of the organization's knowledge. So if you are interested in setting up a multi-player Roam for your team, this is a great resource for you. You can find this roamforteamwork.com. Starting off with a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University and getting into entrepreneurship, Mat is now working on Health Horizon, managing a team of four on a shared Roam Graph. So this episode will be all about processes, methods, product management and more, all on detailed Roam-specific processes. We are going to get technical In this episode. We talked about: And more. Enjoy! Timestamps Links Mat McGann's TwitterHealth HorizonRoam for TeamworkUnlamed: The blog of Jamie Freestone and Mathew McGannSupport the show

Duration:01:13:36

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Brandon Toner: Healthcare, Note-taking Philosophy, Schooling with Roam

10/14/2020
In this episode, we talk with Brandon Toner, a pharmacist based in Nova Scotia, Canada. He's known from his goal to build a habit of expression through a reset on Twitter. This is a broad episode ranging from healthcare to school, note-taking philosophies and the search for powerful conversations. We talked about: Enjoy! Timestamps Links Brandon's TwitterExpanding Thoughts (Brandon's Newsletter)Brandon's WebsiteSupport the show

Duration:01:33:04

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Tracy Winchell: Roaman Journal, Three Selves, Next Note to Myself

10/7/2020
In this episode, we talk with Tracy Winchell, the Founder of Roaman Journals. A teacher of daily journaling practices to others, Tracy is a self introspective person when it comes to facing ourselves in writing. And when introduced to Roam, she has started implementing the tool into journaling. In this episode, we talked about: There is a part one and part two to this episode, so you might hear a disconnect in the middle of the episode due to technical difficulties. Enjoy! Timestamps Links Tracy's TwitterRoaman JournalsRoaman Journaling for Self-Awareness & Growth CourseReboots PodcastSupport the show

Duration:01:16:41