Exploring Aesthetics in Roam and Digital Note-taking

Exploring Aesthetics in Roam and Digital Note-taking

I wanted to record a video to showcase my journey in creating my own CSS combination for Roam as well as exploring my relationship with aesthetics. This will include links to extensions, my CSS and more. There's something useful about having aesthetics taken into consideration when writing about something, or personalising an observation.

Let me know what you think by sharing your relationship with colors, aesthetics, etc. below!

00:00 Intro
2:02 The role of colour in physical note-taking
5:27 Different forms of digital note-taking formats
08:42 What each format informs us
10:46 Relationship with colours and CSS
12:22 Don't depend on your graphs for everything
17:15 Deciding on what colours for your theme
19:38 All Paths Lead to Roam
21:08 Disappearing tag CSS
22:41 Masonry CSS
26:10 Side effects of having a unique theme

Links:
- Blogpost with CSS for my theme included: https://thatsthenorm.com/roam-research-aesthetics
- All Paths Lead to Roam: https://gist.github.com/azlen/cc8d543f0e46e17d978e705650df0e9e
- Dracula Pro by Abhay Prasanna: https://github.com/abhayprasanna/abhayprasanna.github.io
- Masonry CSS by Murf: https://gitmurf.github.io/masonry-vanilla/

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