Streams
Mar 11
  • Doing more thinking about how to share more content. Did a big brain dump but ultimately all roads led back to Streams. It is by far the best way to ensure I both create and share content, but there are a few points of friction at the minute:

    • Several of the existing streams on my timeline are already out of date

    • Several of them are not relevant for public consumption.

    • I don't like the overall feel - design aesthetic, formatting etc.

    • It feels disjointed/disconnected from 1. My website (which has "articles"), and 2. Atlas, which I'd like to highlight much more

    • I haven't developed a good intuition for what I should be sharing - reading back over previous posts and a lot of the stuff feels uninteresting.

  • Feels like the above could be solved with the combination of

    • Moving "articles" from Roam static site into streams app, and having a layout that allow them to be listed as a plain old List of articles (without the timeline)

    • Finding a way to bring some form of chronological grouping/ordering into Atlas (because it feels more "alive" to show content saved recently over all content)

    • Incorporating customization into the streams design - allow creation of a custom top bar and adding "pages" and links to it - this could become the de-facto personal site, with

    • Streams - making a distinction between Public, Private, and Hidden streams

  • Release: Upgraded top section (timeline, period selector & stream menu)