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- [[Stian Håklev (侯爽)]]: Experimenting with a way of organizing linked references into useful content in Roam. This isn't quite Evergreen Notes, but useful to me. I start with a lot of incoming stuff, almost all from Daily Pages. Let's say I've been researching Wikidata. https://t.co/yHQ2lHoYwO - [[Twitter thread]] by [[Stian Håklev (侯爽)]], [link](https://twitter.com/houshuang/status/1250149174168993793)
- I open the page in the sidebar, expand the linked references, and begin thinking about how to organize them. I pull them in using mentions (for single blocks) or embeds (for grabbing children too), and begin organizing them in an outline. https://t.co/gRKzwAqduK
- ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVlqjIeXkAAAktn.jpg)
- As I go along, I add the tag whenever I've fully processed a note, and use a filter to remove these. When there are two important tags, and I might want to process the second tag, I instead change from [[Wikidata]] to [[[[Wikidata]]-p]].
- Thus I can still click on Wikidata to get to this page, but I can filter on [[Wikidata]]-p to remove it from the linked references of this page (it will still show up in the linked references for that other tag). Here I might also want to process it in the context of The Brain. https://t.co/keQjZGfp48
- ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVlrGI-WAAICYKS.png)
- When all is said and done, I've got an empty linked references inbox (waiting for me to tag new things in the future, which I can then go in and organize), and I have a really neat outline, with all the great stuff. https://t.co/iWqAWZctFy
- ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVlrdlBXYAAypVB.png)
- ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVlrk_JWsAIrlwy.png)
- One big downside is that I can't easily copy this content - it just looks like this (whether I copy and paste, or export as Markdown). Hopefully there will be an option to copy as text in the future, in the meantime I'll probably use this as input to my own writing anyway. https://t.co/iBfABDx2C5
- ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVlr6apWAAME6Sc.png)
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