This learning sprint took place in August 2022. As it’s a self-paced course, we invite you to go through the materials and participate in the #queries subforum. Post your answers to the challenges in the designated threads, search the forum if you have questions, and create a new thread if you can’t find an answer.
Hi Logseqers! 
Are you ready to rediscover your graph? In the coming weeks, you’ll learn everything you need to know to ask your notes questions and power your personal workflows. We’ll start on Monday, August 22nd.
In July, over 150 people signed up to participate in the three-week learning sprint. We first dove into how to design personal learning projects, then we wrestled with query logic, and finally, we wrote our first queries. We never got to advanced queries as the simple queries stumped enough people.
The July sprint was a valuable learning experience and many shared their insights in the forum. But with the lessons from July, I want to make the chances of succeeding much higher in August.
What changes this sprint
In the August learning sprint, we’ll only cover simple queries. If you were looking forward to learning about Datalog, I’m sorry. There are some great resources about advanced queries available, but they deserve their own sprint/course. For now. we’ll stick to the basic query logic that will help power 95% of people’s use cases.
This learning sprint will also be much more structured. How? By making it a email-based course. This means you’ll get one lesson in your mailbox, Monday through Friday. As the learning sprint will be two weeks, you’ll get a total of 10 lessons. And because learning is social, we’ll post every lesson to the forum and ask you to share all of your questions and insights.
Here’s what’s ahead between Monday, August 22nd, and Friday, September 2nd:
Week 1: Learn
In the first week, we’ll dive deep into Logseq’s basic data structure (outlines and links) and how to use this structure to search our notes.
You’ll start by doing simple exercises to apply what you learn. And to make sure we’re all on the same page, we’ll provide you with a practice graph.
As you learn more about the basic building blocks of Logseq, you’ll start to dream about what’s possible. Through writing prompts that we’ll provide, you’ll solidify what you learn and start building a personal knowledge base about Logseq queries.
Week 2: Build
After a weekend’s rest, we’ll return to our notes from the first week and build something useful.
What are you dreaming of building? On the first day of this second week, you’ll share what you want to build and form co-learning groups.
Don’t know what you want to build with your newfound query knowledge? During the second week, you’ll get a daily build challenge in your email inbox.
Introduce yourself!
To get things started and connect with people who have similar learning goals, introduce yourself by replying to this post.
Here are some writing prompts that will help you to introduce yourself:
- How long have you been using Logseq, and how often (daily, weekly, selfdom)?
- What do you use Logseq for at this moment?
- What’s your current knowledge about Logseq queries?
- What do you want to build with Logseq queries? (workflows, indexes, just search your graph)?
These are just some guiding questions. Have a look at the Learn Logs from the July participants for inspiration for your introduction and your learning goals.