How I use Roam Research to track & write Atomic Essay ideas — Ship 30 for 30

In January, I joined Ship 30 for 30 — publishing daily for a month. This is how I use Roam to track, draft, and write my ideas.

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Writing an article every day (or every week) is very hard, but the right process can help make it less stressful and more fun.

Roam Research is my go-to note-taking app and the place where I do project management, time tracking, research, and now writing articles. Why? Because being able to link ideas and process makes writing easier.

Here’s how I’ve been using Roam Research to brainstorm, collect, outline, and write articles to succeed in Ship 30 for 30 with a full-time job:

I write ideas in Daily Notes as they come & tag them.

Ideas are fleeting.

Your Daily Notes page is where to capture them quickly. In order to be sure that they are indexed, I simply add ideas in my Daily Notes page wherever they occur. Tagging them with #[[Atomic Essay Ideas]] enables me to find them later if I want.