February 9th, 2020

• This is an "Orphan" page. Its core content has not been shared: what you see below is a loose collection of pages and page snippets that mention this page, as well as snippets of this page that were quoted elsewhere.

• Encrypted blocks are now live on Roam
  • To use them type {{``encrypt}}
  • Example:: {{encrypt:U2FsdGVkX19IGq42nYT82SQysswn/KYSMDPTJFTe/OV3lmF0BBO1MRb54tBZFZAr}}
    • Then choose a hint and passphrase for that block
      • The passphrase for this block is test
    • clicking the lock - or the text area will show you what the sting looks like when sent to us
    • only the hint is stored with Roam - the passphrase never goes to our servers

    • WARNING

      • if you edit the text of the encrypted string - you will likely lose all of the data (only edit it when it is decrypted)
• Markdown links can be used as aliases for Block References and Bidirectional Links New Features
  • All Men are Mortal
  • Socrates is Mortal
  • If x then y
    • refresh your page if you don't see this
  • Example with aliases for pages
    • I have a page for Writers
    • and I want to talk about how
      • [Paul Graham] The Age of the Essay
      • or germans
    • Examples of multi-word
      • ISAs
      • test whether this appears x

• New Features - Query component

  • How it works

    • {{query: {and: [[TODO]] 
                {not: 
                 {or: [[Example]] [[Demo]]}}}}
      
      will return all TODOs 
       that are not also tagged with Example or Demo
      
      

    • TODOs which are not Demos or Examples {{query: {and: TODO {not: {or: Demo Example}}}}}

    • How to write Queries in Roam

      • There are three logical operators
        • and
        • or
        • not
      • A query can look for block or page references
      • Queries look like this
      • { {{or: or: | not: | and:}} {{or: 65J8uNv6D} | Example]}} }
      • but they can compose
        • so you can have

          • {{query: {and: [[Questions]] {not: [[important]]}}}}
            

            • gets you Questions that are not important

          • • gets you blocks that are tagged with backlinks OR precise links