title: Useful query expressions
role: manual
tags: #example #manual #search #zettelstore
syntax: zmk
backward: 00001007700000
box-number: 1
copyright: (c) 2020-present by Detlef Stern <ds@zettelstore.de>
created: 20220810144539
forward: 00001007700000
lang: en
license: EUPL-1.2-or-later
modified: 20240216003702
published: 20240216003702
visibility: public

|=Query Expression|=Meaning
|[[role:configuration|query:role:configuration]]|Zettel that contains some configuration data for the Zettelstore
|[[ORDER REVERSE created LIMIT 40|query:ORDER REVERSE created LIMIT 40]]|40 recently created zettel
|[[ORDER REVERSE published LIMIT 40|query:ORDER REVERSE published LIMIT 40]]|40 recently updated zettel
|[[PICK 40|query:PICK 40]]|40 random zettel, ordered by zettel identifier
|[[dead?|query:dead?]]|Zettel with invalid / dead links
|[[backward!? precursor!?|query:backward!? precursor!?]]|Zettel that are not referenced by other zettel
|[[tags!?|query:tags!?]]|Zettel without tags
|[[expire? ORDER expire|query:expire? ORDER expire]]|Zettel with an expire date, ordered from the nearest to the latest
|[[00001007700000 CONTEXT|query:00001007700000 CONTEXT]]|Zettel within the context of the [[given zettel|00001007700000]]
|[[PICK 1 | REDIRECT|query:PICK 1 | REDIRECT]]|Redirect to a random zettel