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1/. Twenty-seven years ago, I was in Soweto, having driven up from Cape Town for Mandela's inauguration with ANC colleagues, Leroy Jones Hemmings & Shaffee & Mira Hussein

We were watching the news - still high from the day before - when it was announced that #JohnSmith was dead
2/. Over the decades, the loss of #JohnSmith has grown more poignant

Had #JohnSmith - dead at 55 - lived, he would have swept to in 1997 power rather than Blair & perhaps won another term or two

He would not have gone into #Iraq & the Britain would be a very different place.
3/. “The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask”

Like Blair, #JohnSmith was a lawyer

Unlike Blair - who'd modeled himself on Mick Jagger & had no interest in politics until he met Cherie - Smith was a dyed-in-the-wool socialist & a rarity: "a conviction politician"
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One tweet summary of @RoamResearch.

Type a sentence like:
- Had #meeting with #JohnSmith about #defi

You get:
- a page with all meetings (#meeting)
- a page with all mentions of a person (#JohnSmith)
- a page with all mentions of a concept (#defi)

It indexes your text.
Some common questions:

- You can use either #foo or [[foo]] to designate a page
- You can collapse #john and #JohnSmith into one page
- You can autodetect old mentions of #foo
- You can build up tags for people, places, ideas
- You can, in theory, link these tags across repos
People often name "bidirectional links" as the core concept behind @roamresearch, but it's more like semantic annotation of text.

Next step would be to make this even more automatic. Ideally: paste in text, get automatic tag recommendations, and then manually approve.
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