# Queries

Operations that read rows and notes: select_rows, link targets, text and semantic search, the link graph.

## Operations

- [Read a note or another file of the vault: `{path, content, front_matter, tags, modified_at,](https://datanotes.dev/api/operations/read_note/): `POST /datanotes/operations/read_note/`
- [The direct children of a vault folder: `{folder, folders, files}`, each a vault path, sorted;](https://datanotes.dev/api/operations/list_folder/): `POST /datanotes/operations/list_folder/`
- [Plain-text search: every word of `query` must occur, case- and accent-insensitive, in the](https://datanotes.dev/api/operations/search_notes/): `POST /datanotes/operations/search_notes/`
- [Query rows: `{table, total, rows: [{path, ...}]}`. `table` may be a view,](https://datanotes.dev/api/operations/select_rows/): `POST /datanotes/operations/select_rows/`
- [The rows a link column may point to, for one row: what an agent or a picker offers before writing](https://datanotes.dev/api/operations/list_link_targets/): `POST /datanotes/operations/list_link_targets/`
- [Find notes by meaning, not exact words: `{query, results: [{path, score, heading, snippet,](https://datanotes.dev/api/operations/semantic_search/): `POST /datanotes/operations/semantic_search/`
- [Direct neighbours of notes: what they link to (`out`) and what links to them (`in`,](https://datanotes.dev/api/operations/graph_neighbors/): `POST /datanotes/operations/graph_neighbors/`
- [Breadth-first walk over links from `from_nodes` (`{"paths": [...]}` and/or `{"table", "where"}`).](https://datanotes.dev/api/operations/graph_traverse/): `POST /datanotes/operations/graph_traverse/`
- [Shortest chain of links between two sets of notes (each `{"paths": [...]}` and/or](https://datanotes.dev/api/operations/graph_path/): `POST /datanotes/operations/graph_path/`