roamblog

Roam

• (although there is sort of a funny way in which daily notes could also function as a blog feed! but this is the hypertext book section, not the roamblog section)

• this public roamblog you're viewing right now. hi! (also located at intertwingled.blog)

• (Basically all of the roamblog stuff is relevant here too)

• roamblog - collection of related articles published periodically

• roamblog stuff
  • a memorable page url
    • something like roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmocean/pageName/Roam such that it would redirect to this page
    • that way, for pages with short names, I could literally type them in, rather than having to find the link
  • a shortcut to a search results page
    • roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmocean/search?q=mcgilchrist
  • actually, a memorable page url and a shortcut to a search results page could be the same! it could be like... whether the page exists or not, going to a particular url would go to as-if-that-page, and would show references below
    • and if I did this while logged in, it would create the page as an actual entity like the Find or Create Page thing does
    • but if a guest user did it, then it would only exist while they were on it, to view the unlinked references (which functions as a kind of search)
      • probably would want to auto-show the unlinked references in that case
  • some shareable page url that actually previews with an appropriate page title
    • (I'm not sure if this can be done with the current hash (# ) based urls, so it might have to use special share-links or something)
  • commenting features
    • At minimum, this would need some sort of mode where people have write access but no ability to overwrite each other's nodes
      • (which, combined with ability to reorganize each other's nodes, could actually be a cool permset for a private shared DB too, so that it's always clear who's saying what)
    • But it could be implemented either as:
      • a comments "section" that functions in this way, where I would do something like and that node would allow comments
      • users can leave comments as subbullets on any other bullet, but things stay collapsed unless I open them
      • supposedly this exists as {​{comment-button}}
        • ...as of August 2nd, 2020, this... needs work.
    • I think that even with these caveats I might still want to have people need to request access to comment.
  • custom header / theme
    • this is also helpful for distinguishing private roams, similar to how slack workspaces have different themes
  • custom per-roam CSS more generally
    • that would allow me to share custom tag styles for instance (see Give tags a CSS selector based on their name, so that I can custom-style them (workflowy's is actually just title="Filter # tag", not intended for hax))
    • this is useful for shared private roams too, not just publishing
  • custom domain
  • maybe having a specific page operate as the homepage would be nice, instead of the daily notes

Fractal Pomodoros

• maybe you want to write an essay on a particular topic, or maybe you just want to open up your roamblog and write for an hour on whatever comes to mind

July 29th, 2020

• roamblog

roam/css

• custom database theme for the malcolmocean roamblog:
  • originally I was using the header from malcolmocean.com
    • then I played with some that were that but hue-rotated
      • -117
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      • +27
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      • -32
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  • now, this other similar-style piece:
    • 

  • roam-sidebar-container noselect.roam-sidebar-content > .flex-h-box:first-child:after {
        color: white;
        padding-left: 10px;
    }
    .roam-topbar .flex-h-box > div:nth-child(2),
    .rm-topbar .flex-h-box > div:nth-child(2) {
        padding-left: 30px;
    }
    
    /*
    .rm-db-title-container {
      display: none !important;
    }*/
    
    .roam-sidebar-content > .flex-h-box:first-child:after,
    .roam-topbar .flex-h-box > div:nth-child(2):after,
    .rm-topbar .flex-h-box > div:nth-child(2):after {
    /*    content: "malcolmocean";*/
        content: "";
        display: inline-block;
        position: relative;
        
        width: 100px;
      
        height: 30px;
        background: url(https://malcolmocean.com/wp-content/themes/minx/img/logo.png) center no-repeat;
        background-size: 100px auto;
        padding-left: 10px;
        margin-left: 10px;
    }
    
    .roam-topbar .flex-h-box > div:nth-child(2):after,
    .rm-topbar .flex-h-box > div:nth-child(2):after {
      top: 3px;
      left: 200px;
      /*
      filter: invert(1); /**/
    }
    
    .roam-sidebar-content {background: #591420;}
    .roam-topbar {background: #f2c6ce}
    
    .roam-sidebar-content {
        background: url(https://malcolmocean.com/wp-content/themes/minx/img/footer.png);
        background-position: center bottom;
    }
    .roam-topbar, .rm-topbar {
      background: url(https://malcolmocean.com/wp-content/themes/minx/img/header.png);
      background: url(https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fmalcolmocean%2FLCO36r0wcC.png?alt=media&token=93bb11a6-2b9d-4b3a-9c70-5bc5d37bdde5);
      background: url(https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fmalcolmocean%2F15iaOO59Zh.png?alt=media&token=42331bf0-6637-4d73-8404-3a0d8f87dd7a);
      background: url(https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fmalcolmocean%2FE5GVdfdrxA.png?alt=media&token=80393338-3c4e-45d5-92fb-72de2d12e6e1);
      background: url(https://malcolmocean.com/wp-content/themes/minx/img/header.png);
      background-size: 710px;
      background-position: 0 -30px;
      /**/
      box-shadow: 0 1.5px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
      border-bottom: none;
      z-index: 1000;
    }
    
    .roam-topbar, .rm-topbar {
      background: url(https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fmalcolmocean%2FHGraRev_Et.png?alt=media&token=167916fe-5b8c-41a2-8c40-2afcc1d5e684);  
      background-size: 1920px;
      background-position: 0;
    }
    
    
    .bp3-button .bp3-icon, .bp3-button .bp3-icon-standard, .bp3-button .bp3-icon-large,
    .bp3-button[class*="bp3-icon-"]::before {
      color: white;
    }
      
    .roam-topbar .bp3-button:not([class*="bp3-intent-"])::before {
        color: black;
    }
    

May 30th, 2020

• Great quote about the need for an intertwingled blog like a roamblog, both for writing and for reading. source
  • Fully unpacking the various issues at play here is difficult because it requires what I call '3D thinking', which does not lend itself to simple narrative exposition. This is because understanding why A leads to B requires you understand C, but understanding C requires that you already understand how A leads to B, etc. This article was written and re-written, and in the end I gave up and decided to just focus on a few pieces of the puzzle (sorry!).

November 29th, 2019

• Wrote a tweetstorm about roamblog: 2019-11-29 - Tweetstorm about Roamblogs, inspired by vgr

Table of Contents

• Roam (includes thoughts about roamblogs, feature requests, & more)