Queries in Roam (1st Part): Plentiful and a Little Bit Confusing

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Roam Research is famous for many things! To name just a few:

• It was arguably the first outliner or note taking app that brought bidirectional links into mainstream
• It provides amazing unity of elements: page titles are the same as hashtags, and blocks within pages are almost the same thing as pages themselves (except the missing title)
• It is a great little programming environement
• And one can use amazing querying possibilities in their graphs! However, querying in Roam might be a little bit confusing.

In this article, I would like to address queries in Roam — well at least some of them this time! I will try to explain them both for you and myself because I am also confused by them as well! And what is a better way to learn something than to try to teach somebody else?

Basic and Advanced Search Bars

The basic query in Roam happens all the time we open its search bar and write a couple of characters.