In this post I will present my final solution for getting the Bible imported into Roam Research . I have finally found a way to drastically decrease the size of the imported Roam graph, but still have a reasonable solution for accessing multiple translations and cross references. I will share my thoughts on performance and potential next steps for making the Bible work even better in Roam. If you are interested in the topic, I have two other posts on the subject. Links are at the end. You can download the Roam .EDN archive for the Bible from here: ASV.edn For a real time demonstration of the full import process within 3 minutes check out this video . WARNING: by restoring the ASV.edn into your graph, all other data in your graph will be lost! The source code for the converter is here:  Roam.json Bible importer with BUTTON for verse numbers v1.ipynb Use this if the primary translation you'd like to use in Roam is ...

I don't give up easy. After some mixed results the first time around (see my previous post:  My Adventres with Roam.JSON ) I have now successfully created a full featured Study Bible in Roam by importing the Bible and cross references. I have also created an ePub importer and loaded War and Peace into Roam as a pilot. This may be helpful to those of you who want to integrate your reading experience fully into Roam. This post will be a mix of technical details and a demonstration of the Study Bible I have created. I'll start with the introduction of the end result - you can bail out after that if you are not interested in the gory details. I decided to publish this post even though I am still not 100% satisfied with my solution. I have lots of further ideas to explore, which I will share in Part 3 on Roam JSON. There are still many open questions and I have lots of additional ideas to explore. I'll provide a list of some of these at the end.  My P...

This post is a bit more technical in nature, though I think the first half may be interesting even to those who are not into Python and the inner workings of Roam data import. What is Roam? Roam is a bit like a personal Wiki. It is a note-taking application that supports networked thought. At its core, Roam is extremely simple to understand. A Roam database simply consists of pages and paragraphs. The paragraphs are displayed as bullet point lists which can be nested much like in an outliner. In Roam lingo paragraphs are called "blocks" When writing, you can simply reference other pages using double square brackets. For example to reference my page in Roam for Zsolt's Blog I just write [[Zsolt's Blog]]. Now if I click on the reference between the brackets, Roam will take me to the other page. What makes Roam unique is how you can reference not only pages, but also blocks by entering the block's unique identifier in ((round bracket...