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Roam Research Integration

The short answer: open any Roam page, click where you want text, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux), speak your thought for 30-60 seconds, and AICHE inserts formatted text with your connections intact.

Typing bidirectional notes during research sessions forces choosing between capturing thoughts and maintaining flow. You lose connections while hunting for double brackets or trying to remember page names.

1. Open Roam Research in your browser.
2. Navigate to any page or your Daily Notes.
3. Click into a block where you want to add content.
4. Press your AICHE hotkey to start recording.
5. Speak your thought naturally, including page references (example: "Reading Atomic Habits chapter on implementation intentions. Key insight: habit stacking works because context cues trigger behavior automatically. This connects to the GTD methodology where context lists serve a similar function. Note for later: explore how environmental design in Nudge relates to both frameworks").
6. Press the hotkey again-AICHE transcribes and inserts the text.
7. Add double brackets [[like this]] manually around page references if needed, or let Roam's autocomplete handle it as you edit.

Workflows for Roam Users

Daily Notes Capture

Start your day by opening today's Daily Notes page. Press your hotkey and brain dump everything you're thinking about projects, ideas, and tasks. AICHE's Content Organization feature will structure rambling thoughts into coherent paragraphs, which you can then break into blocks.

The advantage: your morning pages take 3 minutes of speaking instead of 15 minutes of typing, and you capture more detail because talking is effortless.

Literature Notes

When reading articles or books, open a new page for the source. Press your hotkey and explain the main arguments, your reactions, and connections to other ideas in your graph. Speak continuously for 2-3 minutes without worrying about structure.

Example dictation: "Author argues that expertise requires deliberate practice with immediate feedback. This challenges the 10,000 hour rule because hours alone don't guarantee improvement. Connects to Peak by Ericsson and the concept of mental representations. Practical application: my coding practice needs more immediate feedback loops, not just more hours."

After dictating, add [[page references]] to connect the note to your existing graph.

Fleeting Thoughts

Throughout the day, capture random insights immediately. Open Roam, press your hotkey, speak for 10-20 seconds, done. The thought is preserved before it evaporates.

These fleeting notes accumulate in Daily Notes. During weekly review, you'll find connections you missed in the moment because all the raw material is already captured.

Why Voice Matches Roam's Philosophy

Roam Research is built for non-linear thinking. You don't outline first, then fill in details. You capture atomic thoughts, and structure emerges through connections.

Voice input aligns perfectly with this workflow. When you speak, thoughts flow in their natural sequence. You mention connections as they occur to you. The transcript becomes source material for building your graph, not a finished artifact.

Typing forces premature structure. You organize while capturing, losing the organic flow of associated ideas. Voice captures the stream, and Roam helps you find the patterns later.

Result: literature notes that took 20 minutes to type while reading now take 5 minutes to dictate, and you capture more connections because speaking doesn't interrupt your reading flow.

Do this now: open your Daily Notes in Roam, press your hotkey, and spend 2 minutes speaking about everything on your mind right now. Don't organize, just capture.