Roam Portal is a search engine designed to help you explore your data visually.
To start using this extension, simply click on the Roam Portal icon located in the top right corner of the toolbar. For a video tutorial on how to use Roam Portal, click here.
With Roam Portal, you can take advantage of the following features:
- Filter blocks by user: Filter blocks modified by a particular user.
- View recently edited blocks: View your recently edited blocks.
- Search within block results: Search within all of your block results and embeds.
- Search for images: Search for images in your graph.
- Search for reactions: Search for reactions from users.
- 3D/2D view of your Roam Graph: Get a 3D/2D view of your Roam Graph.
- 3D globe view: Get a 3D globe view that shows cities, countries, and other locations mentioned in your graph.
- Search and visualize tweets: Search for and visualize tweets from your graph.
- Tweet individual blocks: Tweet individual blocks from Roam.
- Sort search results by date: View search results sorted by date.
- Filter search results by date/page: Filter search results by date or page.
- Visualize usage over time: Visualize and compare usage of your page and block references over time.
- Explore attributes: Explore attributes of your Roam Graph.
- Search using regular expressions: Search by using regular expressions.
- Visualize frequency: Visualize frequencies of similar pages and words.
- Create saved searches: Create saved searches for easy access.
- Search for exact phrases/matches: Search for only exact phrases or matches with similar spellings.
- Filter out code blocks: Filter out code blocks in your search.
... and more features to come!
At the top you'll see four search fields. Only one of these needs to be filled to do a search.
- Search: Enter a word or a phrase. The search returns blocks containing these strings.
- Linked Page: Enter a page. The search results will filter out blocks which are inside that page, or parent/children blocks wherever this page is mentioned in the Roam graph.
- From: Enter a date. The search returns blocks edited after this date.
- Till: Enter a date. The search returns blocks edited before this date.
Note about the date fields you can write using natural language, like "3 months ago" or "Yesterday at 9am", as well as numbers, like "2020-10-08"
- Home: View saved searches and tips
- Results: List of pages and blocks sorted by last edited
- Graph: Visualize your search in 2D/3D graphs
- Globe: Explore locations mentioned in your graph on a 3D globe
- Time: Analyze results over time
- References: Study frequent pages and blocks mentioned in your search
- Pages: Examine results by the most frequent 25 pages
- Words: Investigate results based on the most frequent 25 words related to the search
- Search inside a specific page
- Find mentions of a particular page
- Locate blocks containing specific block references
- Include all references and embeds of your search term
- Search with similar spellings
- Include or exclude code blocks in results
- Match the exact phrase
- Enable regular expression searches
If you face any issues, or have questions, reach out to me on Twitter, or by creating an issue on Github.