# Records

Signed JSON that syncs. Write a record and everyone in the space has it; query it and your screen stays live.

## What it enables

- Collaborative, real-time apps with no sockets or sync code of your own
- Offline first: write now, sync when back online
- Who wrote what, and every version of it, on every record
- Messages sealed for a few members of a space

## In this section

- [Records and queries](https://minca.dev/records/records-and-queries.md): A record is one piece of your app's data: a to-do, a vote, a message. This page shows how to write records, change them, delete them, and find them again with a query that stays live as they change.
- [The query format](https://minca.dev/records/query-format.md): This is the full reference for the query JSON that node.records.query, watch and useQuery take. For a gentler start, see Records and queries.
- [Direct messages](https://minca.dev/records/direct-messages.md): A direct message is text in a space that only some of its members can read: the people it is for, and whoever wrote it. Use it for a private word inside a shared space. Today it needs a private space.