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Leo Vivier: I'm hoping to keep this
talk in

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15 minutes. I'll take five minutes of

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questions at the end.

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So, hello again! I suppose you're starting

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to get pretty familiar with me and my

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start(?) right now.

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We're getting into the nitty

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gritty. We started today,

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I told you about how I'd ventured from

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being a user

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to being a maintainer, and right now I'm

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going to get the chance to

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actually tell you more about the project

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that I'm maintaining,

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which is called org-roam.

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So even if I... It would have had a better

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impact if I

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didn't scroll the page, but you know,

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sadly, I'm out of tea,

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it's getting late in Europe and I'm

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starting to get tired.

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So what I'm gonna do during this talk

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is just to do, really, a survey for people who

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do not know what org-roam is about.

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Some of you might have,

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whilst browsing Reddit,

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found a topic about org-roam and thought

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to yourself, "Oh, that looks interesting,

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but you know, I have my own workflow

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and I kinda don't need to
change anything

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about it. I'm completely fine

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using my very very large file. Or I'm

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completely fine having my

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database of notes which I've been

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accruing for 10, 20, 30 years or so."

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So what I want to do during this talk

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is both to present to you what
org-roam is about,

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if you are in this group of people who

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do not know what org-roam is about
but would

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like to know more, but

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also for people who have close to no

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experience with Emacs and Org Mode and

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who have just found their way. They

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wanted to find the system to

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write their notes, basically, and

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they discovered this little tool which

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is called org-roam,

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and they'd like to know more about this.

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So I've got 13 minutes to convince you
to use org-roam.

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If we go in a very broad strokes,

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what is org-roam? org-roam

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is a way for you to manage backlinks

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inside Org Mode. The keyword

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in what I've just said is links.

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Now there is a principle behind org-roam

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which is called the Zettelkasten method,

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which you can see written right there.

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It's a German word

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which means a slip box. If you remember

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in old libraries,

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you had--actually, I believe if I scroll, I

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should have an example of this.

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Yes. So this is a slip box. Basically, in

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all libraries, you used to have all the

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references to the books that the library

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used to have

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inside those boxes. They're called

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slip boxes because you can

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insert stuff into the boxes and you can

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remove stuff out of the boxes.

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Now if I try

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to summarize as simply as I may what the

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Zettelkasten method

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is about, it's about having a way

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to work with your notes which considers

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elements of knowledge as atoms,

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as something that is individual, like

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a single file.

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You consider that in order to build
knowledge,

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you have to combine atoms together,
so that

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when you have one atom, another atom,

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if you link them together, you have a

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complex thought or a complex molecule.

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Don't quote me on the chemistry, by

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the way. I shall remind you I'm an

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English major I have no idea what I'm

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talking about.

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So, how does it work as far as a

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note-taking system is concerned?
To do so,

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I'm just going to switch really quickly

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to my Emacs, if I may.
So I'm just going to screenshare

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onto my Emacs. Just give me a second to get

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the windows all right.

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Okay, it's loading up. Oh no,

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I think Firefox has crashed again. Okay,

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so you're gonna have to give me a second.

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I need to figure this out.

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Okay. So everything is frozen right now.

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Just to tell you, so you're gonna have to

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deal with my lovely voice.

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Amin, can you confirm that if I

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switch to a new (tty?), you can
still hear me?

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So can you still hear me now?

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Okay. So I'm gonna have probably to kill

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firefox and log in again.

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I'm sorry. It's gonna cost us two

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minutes, but I'm gonna try to be as fast

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as I can. Okay

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(Amin: Okay. No problem, thanks.

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All right.

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I guess no event is a good one without

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one or two technical difficulties.

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I guess this is our share of

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technical difficulties this year.

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No problem.)

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Leo: All right. Guess who's back? It's not

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Britney. It's just me, sadly, so you're

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gonna have to make do with me.

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(Amin: Welcome back.)

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Leo: Well, thank you. I'm just

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gonna turn back on the camera, if I may.

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All righty.

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I'm going to make myself a presenter.

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I'm going to

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share my screen with you.

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So, if my calculations are correct,

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you should be able to see my
monitor right now.

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(Amin: Yep, but not your webcam feed.)

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Not my webcam feed. Okay. So I'm going to

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stop it.

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Sorry for the little delay, folks. You
know, it's...

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The show must go on. Can you see it now?

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(Amin: Not yet.) Leo: Still not?

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Damn it. Can I stop it? Okay, so I'm gonna...

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(Amin: yeah, maybe try like sharing a webcam
first.)

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Leo: All right, I'm back now. So I'm going to

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share my webcam first.

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(Amin: Okay.)

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Leo: All righty. So can you confirm whenever

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you've got my webcam working?

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(Amin: Let's see. I don't see it yet,

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unfortunately.) Leo: Is it loading up?
(Amin: yeah,

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it's coming up.

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Yep, I can see it.) Leo: Awesome. All right. Okay,

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we're back on track. I've got still eight

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minutes left to do, so I might have to

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have a couple of minutes to my talk, if

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you don't mind and shave off some

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questions.

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(Amin: Okay, do you want to share your
screen?) Leo: Okay, yeah,

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I'm on my way to. All right. So

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please forget

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whatever, whichever technical

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difficulties we might have had for

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the last

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three, four minutes, but we're back on

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track now.

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So org-roam: what is it and how does it

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work? I was telling you all about

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atoms and I was telling you about links,

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but how does it work concretely?

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Right now what you're seeing on your
screens

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is a slip box, which is what we... the fancy

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word that we use to designate your
folder

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where all your notes are going to be

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living. So you have here (and I hope you

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can see my

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cursor; yes you can)... So we have
a file

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which is called

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index.org and the good thing is,

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as you might have garnered by the fact

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that it finishes by

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.org is that it is just an Org Mode
file.

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I can create a heading.

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I can create another heading.

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everything works as you would expect it
to.

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It is completely... It's just an Org Mode

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file at the end of the day.

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Now, what can we do with this?

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I've told you about links.
You do know that

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Org Mode has links. What we're going

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to do

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is that we're going to create a new file.

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We're going to go back

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to our directory. What I'm going to

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do is that we have a special command...

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Actually, let me just

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show you my command. It might help you a

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little bit

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see what I'm doing. Wait, which is the

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buffer...

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Uh... log mode? Yes. exlog. So now on the

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right side of the monitor, you'll be able

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to see the command that I'm using.

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If you don't mind, in order to have as

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much realistic as possible, I'm going to

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make it a little bit shorter.

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Smaller, I should say. Is it not too small?

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Yeah, I believe it's good.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to

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run a command in org-roam which allows me

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to create a new note.

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I'm going to use my keybinding, which

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is not this one, definitely,

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and I'm going to create a new file which

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is, in a great tradition of examples in

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programming, I'm going to call "foo."

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Right. So at the bottom--

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in the bottom buffer, I should say, you

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are seeing the file "foo," which is, as
you can see here,

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a capture buffer

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just like you would have in Org Mode.

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Now what I'm going to do

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is that I'm going to validate this file

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and now you see that we are in the
file "foo."

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The good thing is that I can start

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writing without having to worry

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about anything else.

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I was going to say that I'm

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showing off about my typing skills, but I

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did make mistakes, so

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well, nobody's perfect, right? So now we do

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have this "foo" file. We're going to

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go back to the index. Let's go back to

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the directory.

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We're going to refresh the file. As you

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can see, we have a file which is called
"foo,"

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and we have the index. So now what I'm

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going to do

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is that I'm going to insert a link to

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this file.

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So we're going to run another org-roam

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command which you can see here,

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org-roam-insert, and I'm going to insert a

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link to the file

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"foo." As you can see, it has now

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appeared. Now what I'm going to do,

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I'm going to save the file, and now I'm

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going to show you

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the little thing I told you about--

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backlinks--before. I'm afraid I'm going

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to have to hide

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the commands for now, but don't worry

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they'll be back.

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I'm going to show you the side
buffer.

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It is the buffer that you see on the

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right side of your screen.

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Right now, it's telling you that

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index does not have any backlinks,

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which is normal. But if we follow
the link

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"foo," now you see something different on

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the right side. As you can see on the

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left side, we're back inside the

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file "foo,"

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but on the right side, we have something

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showing up:

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one backlink in the file "index."

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And under the heading, you have

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the file--

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sorry, the link "foo." You can just
open the link,

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and you will be brought exactly where it is.

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So that was one thing. Now just

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to make sure that you've understood

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properly, I'm going to go back to the
index.

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I'm going to create a second file.

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Now I'm going to use a command that

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is slightly different. Let me just

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show you the commands on the right.

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I'm going to run the command org-roam-insert

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and I'm going to

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enter a file which is called "bar."

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Again, at the bottom, you can see that

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I have a new file "bar."

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I'm going to validate this file.

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I'm going to save index.org.

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Now, if we go in bar, and if I show

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you the links on the side, you can
see that

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exactly the same, we have a link.

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Now just to make the pictures complete,

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inside the file "bar," I'm going to insert

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a link to "foo." I'm going to save. I'm

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going to go to the file "foo." Now on

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the right side,

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you can see that we have two backlinks.

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Now you're gonna tell me, yeah, thank
you, Leo, but

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what's the point? Well the thing is

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it might sound... it might seem very simple,

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what I've just shown you,

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but programmatically, it's a little hard

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to do. We have to

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look into your files to make sure that

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every time you link your file

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somewhere else, we need to track

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everything down.

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Now as simple as org-roam might be

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looking to you,

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thee thing is what we try to do
with org-roam

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is to make sure that your collection
of notes

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remains consistent whatever we do.

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An example, for instance, right now

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I've told you about a file named "foo" and

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the file named "bar." Let's say that for
whatever reason,

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you decide to rename your file "foo" to

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something very original. Let's just
say "bar."

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So we actually have a way in Emacs--in

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org-roam, I should say--

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when you modify the title at the top of

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the file...

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So we get "foo..." I've modified it
with "baz."

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You can see at the bottom that right now

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we haven't saved and we are still in the

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file "foo.org." I'm going to save.

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Now what you see is

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a new name for the file. But you may ask,

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"Wait a second, in the other file, we had a

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link to this file.

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Does it mean that it's broken? Does
it mean

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that we cannot access the file anymore?"

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But when we go there, beginning to go
in the
index,

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so obviously the actual description of

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the link hasn't been updated,

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but if I show you what goes on under the

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hood by showing you

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what is fontified, what is behind the

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content of the link...

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Actually, it didn't work! that's why

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you never present live, folks, because

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otherwise you're

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just going to show problems with the

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software and that's not good.

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Something must have gone on, obviously.

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But generally speaking, the file should

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have been updated.

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Damn. I'm showing you bugging my software.

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That's not very professional, now is it?

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Basically, to come back to the main idea,

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what we try to do with org-roam is to make

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sure that

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everything remains consistent.

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We really much love the system of

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organization that is behind the
Zettelkasten method.

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Now I was going, at this point of the

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presentation, basically, I wanted to go

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back to Firefox

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and show you more stuff, but it's likely

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that it's going to crash again.

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I'm not going to tempt the devil.

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I'm just going to continue talking to

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you like that.

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So the Zettelkasten method

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is a very organic way

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to write notes. If you think...

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I believe as Org Mode users,

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we share quite a lot of features. I'm

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out of time. I'm just going to take one

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more minute to answer this question

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that I'm asking myself anyway. But if

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you're anything like me,

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you've been through many

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iterations of your workflow inside

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Org Mode.

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Do I keep all my professional stuff

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under one heading, or do I create a

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separate file for this?

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You know, those types of questions on

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which you could ponder for

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many, many hours at night, generally when

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you have a

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tight deadline to be following. But

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what I've discovered by using org-roam for

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taking notes about

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my academic projects or by
taking notes on

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anything worth writing about

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is that not having to worry about the

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structure of you files,

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just having to worry about atoms

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and links, it does wonders

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for the way you think about problems. It

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does wonders about your creativity.

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And it does wonders about your ability to

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take your thoughts, put them on a paper,

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and generally, during this

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process you realize, "Oh, maybe I do not

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know this concept as well as I should."

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But I've never had a system which

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brought me

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as much serendipity as this system.

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And for those who don't know, serendipity

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the ability to come up with novel ideas

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on the spot, contextually.

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So this was just a little primer on what

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org-roam and the Zettelkasten is about.

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In about 20 minutes, I'll be giving you
a talk

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about the technical aspects of org-roam,

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which I'm certain

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some of you will be very interested in.

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Otherwise, I do have a YouTube channel

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where I try to record videos where I
explain to you

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what org-roam is about, what the
method is
about.

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I'll just finish on this. I'm two

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minutes extra time, sorry.

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We do know that a lot of people

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are interested into org-roam.
I mentioned

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at the very beginning of the
presentation

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that a lot of people discovered Emacs

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and org-roam

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and Org Mode even through org-roam.

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We feel that we have a duty to

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introduce those people, this new pool of

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people, most of whom are

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academic,s into the world of Emacs and

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into the world of free software.

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Right now the thing is we're not

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doing a particularly good job at writing

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manuals. I'm just going to try

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to stop sharing my screen, because I'm

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nearly to the end,

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and just try sharing my Firefox windows

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if it allows me. No, it doesn't allow me,

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which is very good. That's why I won't
have to

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to screw things up.

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We know that our manual is not fully

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up to date,

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but believe me, one of the key focus

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right now

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is making sure that within two to three
months,

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we have a good tutorial for people to

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join, and we have good videos for people

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to get introduced to the topics we're
covering.

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And that's me done. So, thank you so much

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for listening and now I'll be taking

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some questions.

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(Amin: Thank you very much, Leo.

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Cheers! We have, I think, about two minutes

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four questions, I see a lot of them

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on the pad.

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Would you take them?) Leo: Sure. So... Yep I'm

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scrolling, I'm scrolling...

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Getting Things Done, that's Aldric.

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Still scrolling. Okay. org-roam. Oh, wow. Okay.

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So we do have quite a lot of questions.

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Please excuse me if I'm answering

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your questions really fast, but I just

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want to make sure that I cover

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as much ground as possible. "What is

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the functionality of org-roam-unlinked-references?"

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So basically when you have a file that

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is not linked anywhere,

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this function allows you to see...

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Let's say we have a file "Emacs"

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and we've talked about "Emacs" in another

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note, but we haven't created a link.

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What this command do is that it

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looks into your folder for every mention

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of "Emacs" that is not

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linked to the note "Emacs," and it prints

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all the results in the buffer so that

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you know, "okay, I've talked about Emacs

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here, but I didn't create a link.

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Do I want to create a link?" That's it.

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"Is it possible to use the backlinks

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features in regular Org buffers?" Right
now, no. It is not possible. We are

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having a very controlled environment

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which is... I told you about this slip box

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folder before.

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This is where we keep all the notes.

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The reason why we do this will be more

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evident when I go through the technical
presentation,

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but it's because of optimization.

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I'll get back to you on that

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afterwards.

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"Do you make org-roam database

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accessible across computers?"

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No, I do not, because I'm only using my

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laptop, but plenty of people have had

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a lot of success doing so either by

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sharing the files via syncthing or by

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any other method. We have a section in
a manual

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specifying how to do this.

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"How do you discover tags' links to add
to your new org-roam note?"

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There is something that I didn't tell

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you about which is called org-roam server,

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which is a magnificent way to access

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visually the notes that you have in your

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in your system.

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You'll have to go to the orgroam.com
website.

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Please go on our Github page. We

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show everything.

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I hope what I've told you has excited

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you, so please go.

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Maybe one more question, two more

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questions, just to make sure?

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"Is it possible to seamlessly link
to other

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notes with syntax instead of a

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keybinding?"

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Yes, we are working on this. This is a

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huge project that we're doing with

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org-roam which is called

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link-ux. We're trying to do something

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which is very close to Roam Research,

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which is the software we're using for

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inspiration for org-roam.

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Yes, there are going to be

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ways to do this in the future. I'm going

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to give you a window of

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maybe three to four months.
One last question.

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Uh, good on you, thank you, well, thank you

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for this.

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"Is there an easy way to export several

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selected nodes to, say, a LaTeX file?"

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LaTeX. Yes. I mean, it's Org Mode.

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At the very core, it is Org Mode, so you

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know you don't...

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If you want to export to a LaTeX file, you

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can... you just use the

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ox-latex library,  which you can access

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by pressing C-c C-e

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for export. All right. Is it...

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I believe I'm...

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It's all the time I had. Amin, can you

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confirm this?

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Okay. So if you have more questions,

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don't worry, I'll be in chat.

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I'll be answering them. I'm also on on

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all the platforms we advertise on

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org-roam. If you want to reach me, I'm

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really easy to reach.

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Our Github page is always open. So thank

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you all for

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all your questions and all your energy

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about org-roam. It is very exciting for me

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to see all this.

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but right now, I'll be handing off the

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microphone, I should say, to Noorah, who is

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going to talk to you about the

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academic way to use org-roam. I'll be

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back afterwards with the technical talk.

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Thank you. (Amin: Thank you very much, Leo)

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Leo: See you later, guys.