Org Roam v2: Build Your Personal Knowledge Base 🧠

In this video, we'll learn the basics of how to use the Org Roam v2 package to build a personal knowledgebase! If you've ever struggled to figure out where to put information in your Org files, Org Roam provides a very efficient solution while bringing along all of the other amazing features of Org Mode.

Check out the show notes here: https://systemcrafters.cc/build-a-second-brain-in-emacs/getting-started-with-org-roam/

Check out the later videos in this series:
- Capture Notes Efficiently in Emacs with Org Roam: https://youtu.be/YxgA5z2R08I
- Keep a Journal in Emacs with Org Roam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-sLBaJAtew

We cover the following topics:

- 00:00 Intro

- 00:28 What is Org Roam?
- 03:17 Prerequisites
- 05:10 Installation
- 07:56 Basic configuration
- 10:23 Dealing with migration warnings
- 11:12 Creating your first node
- 14:40 They're just .org files!
- 15:29 Inserting links to other nodes
- 17:03 Inserting links to nodes that don't exist yet
- 18:43 Inserting node links using completions
- 22:17 Creating a heading node
- 23:46 Creating aliases for nodes
- 27:08 Viewing backlinks for the current file
- 31:29 What's next?

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Check out my other video series!

- Emacs Essentials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48JlgiBpw_I&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPZvSdewHG8uApD7THlLLCV
- Emacs From Scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74zOY-vgkyw&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPH1au7H6B7bBJ4ZO7BXjSZ
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- Emacs Desktop Environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7xB2fFk1tQ&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oNPbEMYEtswOVTvq7CVddCS
- Emacs IDE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-NAM9U5JYE&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oNvsrtk_iZSb94krGRofFjN
- Emacs Mail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZRyEhi4y44&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oM-kA19xOQc8s0gr0PpFGJQ
- Learning Emacs Lisp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQK_DaaX34Q&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPQtn7FQEF3D7sroZbXuPZ7
- Craft Your System with GNU Guix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBaqOK75cho&list=PLEoMzSkcN8oNxnj7jm5V2ZcGc52002pQU

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