I know that Roam is the perfect tool for this, but I'm a bit overwhelmed with how to get started.

The medical school application process involves one central application (several essays and numerous short writing blocks) with secondary applications for each school (numerous short essays & writing blocks). There are several recurrent themes that I'll be prompted to write on but will obviously need to rewrite to answer the specific prompt from a given school. The prompts will have overlap, but also the experiences, ideas, and general fodder for writing the essays... you can see how a bidirectional linking setup has incredible potential! I'm just totally overwhelmed trying to both learn how to use Roam (totally noobie) and how to build out an organization that will work as the project grows. Any advice or resources/examples would be SO appreciated!

For context - u/kuriboh1234 wrote up a great post about the essay portion of applications - they tabulated ~35,000 words between all of their medical school applications!!!