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Re:Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown ... by latk on Sunday June 28, 2020 @04:31PM (#23671802)
> Even the simplest organizational schemes require a great deal of _discipline_ to be successful with

Which I think means: all that's needed is discipline. Which organizational scheme you use (if any) is almost irrelevant.

The useful question is then: which methods help building discipline?

Re:Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown ... by namuol on Monday June 29, 2020 @07:19PM (#23684594)
Perhaps, but you could say the same thing about something like an `if` statement in the era of branch assembly instructions. One requires more discipline (and knowledge) but that doesn't mean the problem is solely a lack of willpower/discipline.