SMARTBLOCKS

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Overview

SmartBlocks makes it easy to reuse text in a dynamic way in Roam. It can be compared to other snippet/template insertion tools like TextExpander and Alfred. However, SmartBlocks completely lives in your Roam graph and can smartly interact with your graph. All SmartBlocks workflows are defined in the graph and are performed in your graph. SmartBlocks are made of the following key components:

Table of Contents

The following steps dive into all the features SmartBlocks has to offer in increasing complexity; from beginners to developer.

Migration

This extension was inspired by and acts as version 2 of the original smartblocks module in the Roam42 extension. Once this extension is live, it will replace the current smartblocks module in Roam42.

For a list of all the non-backward compatible changes from V1 to V2, check out out Migration Guide.

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