five years of bullets

i've written in roam every single day for five years. not because i'm disciplined. because it works.

most note-taking apps are filing cabinets. folders inside folders. hierarchies that make sense when you create them and become prisons six months later.

roam is different. it's a web.

every thought connects to every other thought. not because you planned it. because that's how thinking actually works.

when i discovered bitcoin in 2011, it felt like seeing the internet for the first time. that "wait, you can do that?" moment. roam gave me that feeling again.

here's what five years taught me:

your brain doesn't think in folders. it thinks in connections. the note you write today about robotics suddenly links to something you wrote two years ago about bitcoin. you didn't plan that connection. roam revealed it.

expandable bullets change everything. you can collapse an entire project into one line, or expand a single thought into a universe. your notes breathe.

search isn't about finding files. it's about surfacing relationships you forgot existed.

most people quit note-taking apps because organizing becomes work. roam removed the work. just write. link what matters. the structure emerges.

i'm not here to sell you on roam specifically. i'm here to ask: where do you put the thoughts that matter?

if you don't have an answer, you're losing ideas every single day.

five years ago, i built a second brain. it remembers everything i forget. it connects dots i didn't know were related. it makes me smarter by making my past thinking accessible.

you don't need roam. you need something.

because the ideas you lose today are the breakthroughs you'll never have tomorrow.