Ability to select object as cover/icon

Feature Requests
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Hello!

The Problem
When a user uploads a file to Anytype, an object is created.
If a user has previously uploaded a file to Anytype, and would like to use the same file/object as a cover or icon, they (currently) must reupload the file. If the user has deleted the original file from their device, they must download the Anytype object, and then reupload that file as a cover/icon (which just links back to the original object).

The Solution
An “Objects” option when selecting an icon or cover, with the ability to search for and select already-existing [image] objects:
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Thank you for reading, hope you have a great day!

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Great request! Definitely a +1!

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Related

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Thank you! :grin:
This request is a bit different though: rather than having a new Icon type created, I’d prefer for all image objects to be visible — this way, GIFs can be selected as well.

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Exactly, I agree with you. We should be able to chose any existing image that is already uploaded in Anytype.

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I was thinking the same and added this last week =) I think this would be available in 0.28.0

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Any existing image is not very useful as there are a lot of small images created automatically, so now it suggests only images >= 1000px width and after playing around it works pretty well from my point of view.

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Is this filter or limitation somewhere mentioned? Otherwise I know for sure that is going to be submitted as a bug :wink:

I do like the feature because I don’t like pixellated covers

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Does the minimum 1000px rule, also apply to Icons? Most Icons that are uploaded (from my experience, at least :sweat_smile:) are seldom that large.

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I guess icons are also rarely used as cover images? :wink:

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In the request by @sahilstudio it’s also about setting custom images as icons

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I’ll add this tab to icons as well

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This was implemented for covers.
It isn’t implemented for icons, yet.

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