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# Designing with Lists

Lists are the way we organize data. On your computer's operating system, you have files and folders. In Dynamo, we can regard these as items and lists, respectively. Like your operating system, there are many ways to create, modify, and query data. In this chapter, we'll break down how lists are managed in Dynamo.

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