Ability to add different Object Types within a Set

[BlablaTalker]

Issue

Currently each Set is limited to a single Type. Anytype does not allow the freedom of data organization that Notion.so offers with its databases, neither in terms of data diversity nor data rearrangement e.g. Ability to freely reorder objects within sets

Solution

Allow the ability to add multiple and various Object Types within a Set.
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Alternative

I don’t see any alternative, but feel free to let me know if you know of one.

Rumor

There is hearsay…

@michaellw

Quote Roman (CTO@Anytype)'s reply in telegram:
"We have plan to create collections that stores ID’s of objects instead of just aggregating them(like a set does). For that reason we have created “Collection of”.

But we don’t see much of official voices around here.

Additional context

To give credit where credit is due, It seems to me that @qualquertipo was the first one to raise the topic and he summarized it in a very precise way:

@qualquertipo

I like the fact that a Set is just a “view” (that it doesn’t really contain anything). I’d just want it to not be limited to one Type.

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Sets from relation is in the pipeline but won’t solve this problem as it will remain constraining to have to add relations each and everytime just to be able to display different Object Types in a Set.

Anytype has chosen a meaningful name and doing so it would seem consistent to accept any type of Object within Set, don’t you think?

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This request is related to: Ability to add different Object Types for each Set Views

[Jason_Eleazar]

This is excatly what i was thinking! - I hope this is in the works of being changed!

[sambouwer]

Linking to a more generic discussion on this topic in the General Discussion category:

On the Present Single-Type Set Paradigm

Sets don’t make sense (to me). Why do I have to assign my Set one specific type to draw objects from? I don’t understand this at all. There’s no requirement for me to specify any one tag I want the objects of which to be listed in the Set, before I even create it, so why the inconsistency? Types, as with object icons and titles (now manifest with the new Note layout, simply an object without the Title relation), should be treated like any other relation. Each of them merely represents a selectio…

[Albcasahu]

This is important for me too. The way I use Notion is by keeping one big database that then I can access through different pages with linked databases (filtered, sorted, and grouped views of the same database). So if I want to see all my pages on “art”, I would create a filtered view of my database for all the pages that contain the tag “art”. I usually add different kinds of filters to the view depending on my needs. I believe that in Anytype everything is in one big database, so good for that. However, I think the sets are like filtered views, is that correct, or is there another way to do this? If that is the case, then restricting sets to one type of object doesn’t make sense to me. If I want to see all my ''art" stuff, I should be able to see my notes, articles that I saved, books, etc. As well as filter them and group them too. Is this possible already? If not, are you planning to add it?

[kira]

I need this as well. Would like to make e.g. a “reading list” that include articles, books, bookmarks, papers, etc. Could also be solved by allowing an object to have two types. I could e.g. create a “readable” type and give that to all books, articles, papers, blog posts, etc. as well as their primary type.

Right now I can make manual dashboards that include links to all of my reading materials, but it would be better if these could be grouped in a set so they could be filterable/sortable etc.

[u74a8]

+1. We already have Filters in Views. I think better make a Type Filter for a View rather than a Type Limit for a Set. Sets can be more flexible.

[u74a8]

Maybe a new feature that allows adding Set-wide Filters?

EDIT: Someone has already considered this:

Separate Set-level and Set View-level filters

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When you create a set with many views with complex filters, it can become quite some work to setup those filters for all views (and update all views if your setup changes slightly). Describe the solution you’d like I think it would be great if it is possible to setup filters on a Set level and then add additional filters on View level where all Set level filters are added with the AND operator to the filters applied to the View le…

[ignatovv]

Hello everyone We are going to supercharge sets. And ability to select multiple object types as well as relations and even relations value is already in development.