title: Query: List of Zettel Identifier
role: manual
tags: #manual #search #zettelstore
syntax: zmk
back: 00001007700000 00001007770000
backward: 00001007700000 00001007770000
box-number: 1
copyright: (c) 2020-present by Detlef Stern <ds@zettelstore.de>
created: 20230707202652
forward: 00001006050000
lang: en
license: EUPL-1.2-or-later
published: 20230707202652
visibility: public

A query may start with a list of [[zettel identifier|00001006050000]], where the identifier are separated by one ore more space characters.

If you specify at least one query directive, this list acts as a input for the first query directive.
Otherwise, only the zettel of the given list are used to evaluated the search expression or the action list (if no search expression was given).

Some examples:
* [[00001007700000 CONTEXT|query:00001007700000 CONTEXT]] returns the context of this zettel.
* [[00001007700000 00001007031140 man|query:00001007700000 00001007031140 man]] searches the given two zettel for a string ""man"".
* [[00001007700000 00001007031140 | tags|query:00001007700000 00001007031140 | tags]] return a tag cloud with tags from those two zettel.
* [[00001007700000 00001007031140|query:00001007700000 00001007031140]] returns a list with the two zettel.