# A Beginner’s Guide to Roam Research - Wordpress Tutos ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[wptutos.weboptime.com]] - Full Title: A Beginner’s Guide to Roam Research - Wordpress Tutos - Category: #articles - URL: https://wptutos.weboptime.com/a-beginners-guide-to-roam-research/ ## Highlights - Roam Research is a friction-free note-taking and knowledge-management application. It’s getting a lot of attention, and the label “game changer” has been used. You’re likely reading this article because you’ve heard the hype and are wondering if it’s true, and whether its features are a good fit for your needs. - The ability to link separate notes also allows you to create structure from the bottom up as you notice relationships between your notes over time. This can lead to unexpected discoveries and is a central principle of the Zettelkasten method of note-taking, and one that Roam was built to encapsulate. The methodology was created by the sociologist Niklas Luhmann as he used analog index cards to explore the relationships between ideas. It worked and was directly responsible for his prolific creation of around 70 books and 400 academic articles. It’s built on the idea of anatomic notes written in your own words that contain just one idea. Structure is an afterthought and develops organically as you notice new relationships between your thoughts. You reference one note in another, and then create a backlink to the original note. - Start to intentionally use Roam and let your graph grow organically. The more you use it, the more useful it will become. - Roam also makes an excellent contact management or customer relations application. Viewing a person’s page will show you all other pages linked to that person. These could include appointments you’ve had with them, meetings they attended, tasks you assigned, bugs they reported, or projects you’ve done for them. Roam’s backlinks feature means that you’ll find all of the information you need exactly where you expect it to be. - utomatic backup is now possible in Chrome or via the Roam2Github script, and you can now encrypt sensitive notes in place. It has a steep learning curve, is expensive, and a freemium plan is not currently being offered.