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Data operations
The commands for working with your data live in the Query menu — running a query, reaching for a ready-made or saved one, and taking the whole knowledge graph out as a file.
Asking questions
New Query
Query → New Query (⌘⇧Q) opens a fresh query in the Query panel, where you write SPARQL (for the knowledge graph) or SQL (for tables) and run it to see the results. See Query menu & panel for how the panel and cells work.
Stock Queries
Query → Stock Queries is a library of ready-made queries, grouped into SPARQL and SQL submenus. Pick one to open it in the panel — run it as-is, or use it as a starting point you adapt.
Saved Queries
Query → Saved Queries lists queries you've kept, so a query you'll want again is one click away. Saved queries can be scoped to this thoughtbase or shared across all of them, and Edit Saved Queries… at the bottom opens them for managing.
Exporting the graph
Export Knowledge Graph…
Query → Export Knowledge Graph… saves the entire knowledge graph — everything Minerva knows about your notes and how they connect — to a Turtle (
.ttl) file you can keep, share, or load into other tools. It lives in the Query menu because it's the graph you query, written out in full; it isn't a note export. (To get your notes out as documents, a website, or citations, see Export instead.)