Org Roam Setup · Emacs Doomcasts 25

Org Roam is a tool for organizing notes in Emacs built on top of Org Mode. It’s a replica of Roam Research, a web based tool that popularized this approach of organizing notes not in a hierarchical way, but as set of documents connected with links. Somehow similar to how the Web is organized. You write a note, then another and maybe you connected them with links if they are related. The key idea in Roam and in Org Roam is that for each note you can see on the side other notes that mention or reference the note you are currently viewing. By seeing the relations between your notes, you have more context about the information you are storing in them. It’s very simple, yet powerful. Finally, contrary to Roam Research, by using Emacs, you write notes as plain text. You can store them anywhere. And you are not locked-in to a particular vendor.
Capture a new note: `SPC n r c`
Add a link to a note: `SPC n r I`
See the backlinks: `SPC n r r`
In this series I will go over most of the packages included in Emacs Doom by default. As this Emacs distribution is oriented towards Vim people, most of the keybindings differ significantly from the vanilla Emacs. Also, the packages discussed are not unique to Emacs Doom, they can be installed separately; Emacs Doom provides only some sane defaults.
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[@zenmonke]

really great videos. I just found it after i manually added org-roam, not knowing that it was part of doom emacs :D you really deserve more views. please keep up the good work!

[@SimpleLogin-fe4vk]

This is the only guide that helped me tysm!

[@divest6527]

Thanks for this. I’ve been using org roam for a few months now and I really like it. My favourite feature is its compatibility with gpg!

[@vaisakh_km]

I think in SPC n r c, (to capture new note), option changed to SPC n r n

[@wesgould1]

you glossed over the sqlite3 setup and that causes a failure so I can't move beyond that step. I've made sure its installed but it keeps giving me an error: Cannot find executable "sqlite3"!

[@DiegoHernandez-eh1iv]

I’ve noticed some problems regarding this version of roam. After using de “+roam” loading times get to long for emacs when excecuting code of the package org-roam. Turns out using +roam2 instead of +roam fix all this issues. In case someone was having the same problem as me.

[@re1konn]

You're the man, brother! I was starting to give up

[@ChrisBarfod]

How do you insert the variable at 1:33 after going into SPC h v?

[@foobars3816]

A million times this! 8 months ago and still no answer. So sad!

[@foobars3816]

Ok I've search for over two hours now though the bowels of various google results and Emacs help systems. I've come to the conclusion that this was likely just a misleading jump cut. I suspect that @Zaiste_Programming just typed this in.

[@321Aishwarya]

Waiting for the next video!!

[@pauljamesharper]

Thank you so much!

[@teeI0ck]

brilliant

[@vladigr1]

can you make a video about configuration for python in doom emacs?

[@Ezxziose4]

I can reload doom after adding (org +roam) successfully but I do not see any options under org-roam... @ 1:33

[@rahx1t]

Each time you modify your init.el, make sure to run ~/.emacs.d/bin/doom sync (github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/develop/docs/getting_started.org#the-bindoom-utility)

[@threm5587]

Followed all your steps, but when I try to run SPC n r c, I don't have the "r" option ?

[@pointerish]

You have to add +roam to the org plugin on your init.el

[@threm5587]

@@pointerish yep did that and reloaded emacs

[@jenniferdarline]

Seems it is `n r n` now?

[@KevinKentor]

How did you insert the text: `(setq org-roam-directory "")` into the buffer? I wish you had something showing the keys you're pressing. I'm sure you explain this in a previous tutorial.

[@vaisakh_km]

yes it need to know it

[@wackender9542]

In your video you also had some configuration from org brain. Do you use org-roam with brain. I used Mind-maps before to organize myself and can't decide between org-brain (which seem quite compelling for me) and org-roam (where it's still a bit difficult for me to understand how exactly you should use it). Can you sort your topics with Org-roam in a hierachy efficiently, or are the references just referencing between the topics.

[@LinuxForLife]

May I know the theme you are using?

[@GabrielSantos-th7ww]

It would be nice to know how he changes the size of the titles and sections fonts too.

[@divest6527]

I’d also love to know more about his shell prompt!

[@LinuxForLife]

@ricardo u r right! Thanks.

[@Jdonovanford]

What theme do you use? Love the colors of syntax!

[@Grazfather]

Looks like he made his own theme: github.com/zaiste/zaiste-emacs-theme

[@Алексей-й4з6ш]

Without explaining what keys you are pressing, tutorial has nthing to do with newbies