The recent block references update to @RoamResearch has some interesting use cases.
first is Templating, which Matt Brockwell pointed out in Slack, here he& #39;s just typing ((2 by 2 table)) to get a table.
I tried this with Article/Books metadata. type ((t/Books)) on any page then click on the reference > "Apply Children as Text". This way by Clicking on Author references under Books you& #39;ll get a list of all book authors only. Same can be done with other attributes.
Similarly, clicking on Author attribute under Articles will show only article author in sidebar. I have a feeling this is obviously already possible via Filters (i guess for that the metadata would have to be in a certain formathttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đŸ€”" title="Denkendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Denkendes Gesicht">), can someone confirm?
Though, I don& #39;t know how useful this is, in some cases it& #39;ll be def useful, in case of Article/Book/Project metadata it may be risky because if you change/delete the original block, it& #39;ll break Metadata on all pageshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😹" title="Angstvolles Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Angstvolles Gesicht">. examplehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="RĂŒckhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: RĂŒckhand Zeigefinger nach unten">
It& #39;s been just a few hours since I updated, will post any new use cases for these new block ref tools(aliases etc.) in this thread. For templating, I think using text expander apps for most used/daily snippets (articles,books, daily pages) is still better.
for the rest like say a complex Table structure or Query ( #roamcult might know more), the above might be better as remembering a lot of text expander shortcuts isn& #39;t ideal & in Roam auto-completing references reduces that cognitive load.
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