In collections and queries, when in gallery mode, the “Name” property for items can manually be hidden by an active switch.
Open a query or a collection
Set it to gallery mode
Click on button View settings - Properities
The switch for the “Name” property to hide it is active, you can hide that property
It should not be possible to hide the Name property; the switch should be inactive, as with the other layouts.
iMac
Sequoia 15.6.1
0.49.2-alpha
AnySync
OS version: darwin x64 15.6.1#f6a52252cfb9373a9191f92745bd70587934ea24
siousu
August 23, 2025, 6:04am
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If you want a gallery only this could actually be a feature. Then you could show the pictures without any name. Maybe it’s intended?
For images, maybe. But in all other cases, hiding the key property doesn’t make any sense.
Razor
August 23, 2025, 7:09am
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It’s intended for the reason above and it was like this for like 5 or 6 versions.
Ok, I didn’t know it was intended when I came across it. But as said, it’s understandable for images, but for other object types it doesn’t make sense for me. What’s the intended use case for it?
But it actually would make sense, if you intend to implement a content preview as card title image - as it works in Notion and Affine - I would love to see this in Anytype.
C.c
August 23, 2025, 7:39am
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You might want to check the following posts to find out why.
For situations like the one I describe here:
https://community.anytype.io/t/-/2342
In general, would be good to not have Name be a mandatory Relation. Possible solutions on how to make this work with current implementation are mentioned in the link above in the comment by @thiago_nascimentodf .
I was referring to gallery layout. In grid layout the name property is still locked.
But ok, I can understand, that someone wants to have displayed other properties than the name property.