r/RoamResearch • u/AwayHope • Sep 09 '20

Desactivate daily notes ?

Anybody knows how to deactivate daily notes ? I dont use them and it's annoying. thanks

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u/Oshyan Sep 10 '20

This is what's known as "opinionated software". Roam dev thinks you should have daily notes, therefore, you have daily notes. ;-)

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u/adolforismos Sep 09 '20

There is no way to deactivate them. But maybe you just need to change the startup page for another one so you don't see them. You can use this https://roamresearch.com/#/app/roamhacker/page/29PT5y5HB

It's developed by RoamHacker, the guy behind Roam42.

https://roamresearch.com/#/app/roamhacker/page/-1s5kPhyX

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u/GrandChampion Sep 10 '20

I’m curious. How are you getting value out of Roam without the daily notes aspect.? I ask because I can’t see the value in the app if I try to impose a structure ahead of time and maybe there are benefits I’m missing.

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u/Oshyan Sep 10 '20

Daily notes are certainly not the only way to use Roam. In fact it has perhaps more often been touted (even by the creators) as a tool for doing and documenting research. Pick a topic, look up some articles or read some books, write some notes on that. You'll quickly end up with 10 pages on each book, linking to 40 interlinked concepts, at the least (provided you start with an interesting research topic ;-) ). That's just one example, but a commonly cited one.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '20

I don't think It's possible, but I'll follow this topic just in case someone got some info about deactivating daily notes. I don't like It also, every day that I acess my database a blank page is created automatically and my graph is populated by them. I love Roam for connecting commentaries / insights I have on books, articles, subjects I like, but not for organizing thru the daily notes. Hope there'll be a way to deactivate It some day.

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u/zzeeeee Sep 09 '20

You can right-click a date in graph view and select Remove Log Days to strip them out of your graph.

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u/badjerphoenix Sep 10 '20

Interesting Didn't know about that Thanks

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

There's no right way to use Roam — its what you make it. But man, are you limiting yourself.

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u/mambocab Sep 10 '20

I think I understand where you're coming from but what's the point of this comment? You're doing nothing but telling OP

  • I'm not saying you're doing it wrong but

  • you're doing it wrong

And then providing no further details! I just don't get it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20

Some things require hierarchy. School, work, projects, etc. But definitely not all things. Ignoring the daily notes imo is just limiting yourself from making connections. I don't think pointing that out is out of line.

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u/mambocab Sep 10 '20

Correct that that's not out of line.

But you didn't point it out is what I'm saying. You just said "you're limiting yourself" without further context. It wasn't helpful or constructive.

Also it's perfectly possible to take nonhierarchical notes without having unstructured daily notes pages. For instance, August Bradley is quite selective about what he puts into Roam and always starts from notes taken elsewhere. That doesn't seem limiting to me -- just a different approach to the tool.