Question mark feature / Questions gathering tool with Logseq

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1

I was wondering if there is a way to gather questions with Logseq. Because quite often I find myself posting questions to myself and/or my colleagues, that I would research before posting somewhere.
In a similar manner like a TODO, but instead a QUESTION for example. Ideally with some nice rendering.
Also with query support, like TODO has. For example: {{query (and (todo todo) (between -21d today))}} but instead one would write {{query (and (question question) (between -21d today))}}

I can imagine this would be also useful in combination with page references. Something like this
QUESTION [[Nick]] why do you like Logseq so much?

then a query to get all of the question to Nick would be
{{query (and (question question) [[Nick]])}}

I bet there is another way to collect people/project related questions with Logseq, I would love to hear your way of doing it, please share.

2

You can just use a tag, I use #q and if I have an answer I add #a as a child-block

Then you can search {{query (and [[q]] (between -7d today))}}

You can use CSS to make a question look different:

[data-refs-self='["q"]'] > .flex-row {
  font-weight: bold;
}
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3

@Alex_QWxleA thanks for the idea! It actually what I am looking for.
Unfortunately, custom css you have posted does not change any appearance of the blocks with #q tags. I’ve tried also experimenting with it, changing color an so on, but no effect also after restarting logseq. Any ideas what might be missing there?

[data-refs-self='["q"]']>.flex-row {
  font-weight: bold;
  color: red;
}
4

Copied it straight from my setup, but this should be the “correct” way:

[data-refs-self*='"q"']>.flex-row {
  font-weight: bold;
  color: red;
}

See: [attribute] | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks

You can use the inspector to see what is being used. It is a bit finicky, but possible :+1:

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5

@Alex_QWxleA thanks! It works!
How would you implement css to color it in green only if a block has #q and #a reference in it?

6

Something like this should work:

[data-refs-self*='"q"']>.flex-row {
  font-weight: bold;
}
[data-refs-self*='"a"'] > .flex-row {
  font-style: italic;
}
[data-refs-self*='"q"'][data-refs*='"a"']  {
  background-color: rgb(243, 240, 230);
}
7

unfortunately that does not work. For some reason it’s not picking up that line:

[data-refs-self*='"q"'][data-refs*='"a"'] {...}

any idea what might be wrong?

8

No idea, maybe a typo somewhere?

This is an empty graph, custom.css (copied from my previous message):

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image1866Ă—714 118 KB

This is the result:

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image600Ă—530 26 KB

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9

that works! Needed just some minor adjustments. Final css:

[data-refs-self*='"q"']>.flex-row {
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #e67a00;
}
[data-refs-self*='"a"']>.flex-row {
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #6a994e;
}
[data-refs-self*='"q"'][data-refs*='"a"'] {
  background-color: rgba(243, 240, 230, 0.2);
}
10

Any idea how would I query for all unanswered questions? Writing something like this:

{{query (and [[q]] (not [[a]]))}}

unfortunately returns all blocks marked #q even if one of the children blocks contains #a reference. How would you fix it?

11

This was a tricky one to figure out, but thanks to Darvis at the forum:

#+BEGIN_QUERY
 {:query [:find (pull ?b [*])
    :where
    [?b :block/refs [:block/name "q"]]
    (not-join [?b] 
             [?child :block/parent ?b]
             [?child :block/refs [:block/name "a"]] 
     )
    ]
 }
#+END_QUERY
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12

Thank you!!! Can you recommend some tutorials about queries? Everything I’ve watched on Youtube was about {{query}} syntax, but it looks like there is way more… your solution looks more like SQL

13

This is my own page, sorry about that :grin:: https://qwxlea.github.io/#/page/datalog%2Fintro%20to%20datalog

If you have questions or comments you can do that here or on twitter (or Discord)

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14

Hey Alex, can you please help me figure out how to add another reference to the initial query? All unanswered questions with a reference to a person

#+BEGIN_QUERY
 {:query [:find (pull ?b [*])
    :where
    [?b :block/refs [:block/name "q"]]
	[?b :block/refs [:block/refs ?"Nick"]]
	(not-join [?b] 
             [?child :block/parent ?b]
             [?child :block/refs [:block/name "a"]] 
     )
    ]
 }
#+END_QUERY

I’ve tried the one above, but somehow it doesn’t seem to work…

15

This also doesn’t work for me. Perhaps @Alex_QWxleA has an updated version?

16

I’ve found out that there is a bug in queries. It looks like in the future version, we will be able to accomplish this with a simple “AND/NOT” Query. Here is a video on YouTUbe with timestamp, where this bug is discussed: [Queries Learning Sprint] Week 2: Simple queries — Understanding Logseq’s outline logic and searchin - YouTube

17

:block/refs contains the ID of other blocks, so you can’t do something like [:block/refs ?"Nick"]. You can try this query instead.

#+BEGIN_QUERY
{:query [:find (pull ?b [*])
         :where
         [?b :block/refs [:block/name "q"]]
         [?b :block/refs [:block/name "nick"]]
         (not-join [?b] 
                   [?child :block/parent ?b]
                   [?child :block/refs [:block/name "a"]] 
                   )
         ]
 }
#+END_QUERY

Also remember that :block/name will only accept lowercase characters. So pass “Nick” as “nick”.

18

Works great! Is there also a way to only color it when there is no answer/#a in it?
And is this also somehow possible for the tag itself instead of the entire block/row?