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Zsolt's blog
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Zsolt's blog is a personal blog at zsolt.blog about productivity and writing. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Deep Dive into Roam's Data Structure”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zsolt's blog for its posts on Roam Research's internals, including a deep dive into Roam's data structure and its Datomic base, and for an Excalidraw plugin for Roam.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog on thinking tools, business analysis techniques, algorithms of thought, note taking, journaling, visual thinking, mind mapping, and productivity.
Most-linked posts?
- Deep Dive into Roam's Data Structure4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-02-24
What Hacker News says?
It notably powers Roam, a kind of interesting notes/mini Notion product. There's a reasonably interesting writeup of the tech details that helps show off Atomics value some, https://www.zsolt.blog/2021/01/Roam-Data-Structure-Query.htm... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295532
Comment linking /2021/01/Roam-Data-Structure-Query.html
on “Datomic Is Now Free”Submitted Deep Dive into Roam's Data Structure as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI'm really enjoying this Excalidraw plug-in for Roam Research by Zsolt Viczian: https://www.zsolt.blog/2021/03/roam-excalidraw-plugin-mvp-re... It let's you jump into diagramming within any block within Roam.
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on “Excalidraw+”Submitted Note-Taking Strategies and Their Practical Implementations as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"Deep Dive Into Roam's Data Structure"[1] really got me very thirsty for having good core underpinning concepts/ideas of what data is, how it's held in the system. I was unaware that Roam is built atop Datomic. Just hearing that set off a huge light bulb, that there's some very competent information-engineering underneath Roam, that it builds atop. I'd heard some very sunny statements about Roam from engineers I res…
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on “AppFlowy: an open-source alternative to Notion”Submitted Deep Dive into Roam's Data Structure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome very neat semantic-web looking ideas on the screens here. The word is a huge turn off for a lot people, but that's a pity. There were a lot of problems (a very isolated ivory-tower community high among them), but there's ideas about making data common & open that are very compelling. It's not really data... just a general systems ability to have things, in information spaces. I haven't spent much time with Noti…
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on “Anytype: A local, privacy-first Notion alternative”Submitted Deep Dive into Roam's Data Structure (2021) as a story · 1 points
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