coll .find({"field1": "v1", ...}, {f1: 1, f2: 0}) // 2-nd - projection .pretty() .sort({keyfield: 1/-1, ...}) https://www.studytonight.com/mongodb/sorting-in-mongodb skip(N).limit(M) https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/mongodb/cursor !!! cursor operators {$gt: 75} { $gte: new ISODate( "2020-01-30" ), $lt: new ISODate( "2022-01-30" ) } field: {"$exists": false} ??? cur = db.world.find();x=cur.next();print(x["speech"]);