After you have a bunch of notes, you can strategically use queries to help you see your notes in a special way.
A query is a ==request for special results (or actions).==
For the scope of this workshop, we will call “queries that provide auto-updating lists” either “data views” or “data scopes 🔬”.
Data views are specific views created to slice, dice, filter, review, and analyze the information you are accreting.
Data views are not for active, generative thinking (that’s where MOCs thrive). The value of data views come from ==how they passively provide you with updated views of information that you can analyze or act on; but they are worthless without putting meaningful context around them.==
Use MOCs to generate insights
Use data views to analyze information
Using queries to build data scopes is an advanced action. But many people want to learn because—in sage hands—queries are crazy-powerful.