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All members of the #roamcult should learn queries and learn them well. Queries are Roam's language for letting you ask questions. The more fluently you can express your questions in queries, the better Roam will be able to resurface what you need when you need it. @RoamResearch
Roam is a beautiful mess that invites you to put everything into it. Queries are how you wrangle that mess.
Becoming fluent in queries changes the whole way you look at your database. Where you place notes specifically becomes even less important as you gain the ability to organize each block of text in terms of the questions that you have.
A thread attempting to clear up some confusion about what AND, OR, and NOT mean in queries: https://twitter.com/marktraphagen/status/1255129573261553664?s=20
At this point, whenever I start off a project, I load its page with a bunch of queries to start automatically bringing in things from the daily notes that will be relevant. Makes DN a space where I can just do ambient thinking and have it work out
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Queries allow me to essentially have a conversation with myself in a workflow I describe in this article to work on long-term projects where some of the work relevant to the project didn't even come to mind until I start compiling my efforts https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1285540958273036288?s=20
To get started with using queries, I recommend just trying to notice when you use a certain set of filters more than once and then just solidify it into a query. Then you can start https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1259944196896468992?s=20
I recommend always indenting your queries under a line where you describe in your own language what your query is. Gets you in the habit of translating your questions into Roam's language. Start placing them in line with your writing & it's a conversation. https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1259944198075068422?s=20
