If you're in the #roamcult and have been considering learning queries, now is the time. I'll show you how they work & we'll find you some immediate use cases. If you want to become a power user, queries are how you learn to communicate with @RoamResearch https://www.eventbrite.com/e/path-to-power-user-leveraging-queries-in-roam-research-tickets-122643675535

I've written and published videos before about how queries work in this thread. Part of what is so incredible about them is how they teach you the advanced fundamentals about how blocks relate to each other. https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1247205939112886272

It's like formulas in excel - you start off writing things into each cell individually, but eventually you realize, "I could use a formula here and everything will fall into place." As you get more comfortable, you start seeing formulas as an effort-saving function.

Queries make your database more malleable. I've used them to track and operationalize my open questions, form writing pipelines, organize projects, pick up where I left off on multiday projects, save filters, make faux-notifications in multiplayer... https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1272907037186244608