Choose default object type for sets / collections

[TTTZ]

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND

Let me set a default object type of a collection. When I click new object row in the collection, it will create a object of that type.

HOW COULD IT BE DONE

Add it under or next to collection in the image below. There should also be an option to keep it as it is now.

REAL WORLD USE CASES

For easier creation of collection objects.

RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

This has similar benefit but adding default type would allow me to tailor it for specific collections.

Star types for faster object creation

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND Let me choose which types will be shown here when creating object. [image] HOW COULD IT BE DONE There could be star icon for each type here and stared types would be shown when creating object. [image] REAL WORLD USE CASES If creating many objects of my custom type often, I need to search the type every time. With this, it would be much faster. RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES When creating all the objects at once, I guess I could go to the type page and create them there, bu…

ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

If you want to take this even further, it would be nice to even set default relations. Like for the To Read collection, it would set To Read tag. (let me know if I should make a new post for this if needed.

[TTTZ]

Just realized that default type combined with default relations could be taken even further with collection templates.
I don’t know if that wouldn’t be too much though…

[ignatovv]

For sure it is on track and will be implemented in a couple of product iterations

[Filip]

Will we get something like this for sets too?

[ignatovv]

Exactly the same, yes

[shahil]

Hey in this image, is that content preview or just description preview. Cause I would love to see content preview come to the app. Huge upgrade to dariy and notes collections and sets!

[ignatovv]

We are going to introduce some forms of content preview in a couple of next dev iterations

[jzaayman]

In which version will this be implemented? I’m on 0.34.3, but when I set the default type of a collection to Task and then set the global default back to Page, the collection reverts to creating Pages by default.

[Filip]

@jzaayman

I set the default type of a collection to Task

Where exactly are you setting this? Can you provide a screenshot? There shouldn’t be an option for this yet iirc.

[jzaayman]

Sure, here’s a recording. In Preferences, I set the global default to ‘Task’. In my collection, I choose ‘Task’ as the default and when I click ‘New’, it creates a ‘Task’. I go back to Preferences and set the global to ‘Page’. Back in my collection, the default has now changed to a Page. I want the collection to remember that its default is a ‘Task’. I want to create other collections of blogs, courses, etc and have their defaults be ‘Blog’, ‘Course’, etc. How do I do this?

[Filip]

Collections and sets are very different things. That’s why I got confused since collections don’t have this option yet at all.
Anyways, that behavior seems like a bug so please write a bug report for it.

[angusrw]

Hi, is this coming anytime soon? Very annoying to have setup my custom types but not be able to have collections which by default create new objects of those types

[Adda]

Hello. This is already implemented in Anytype 0.36.14-alpha, and has been for a few last versions, as far as I know. See the down arrow (Show Templates) and select which type and which template for that type you want to create by default when clicking the New button.

[angusrw]

Ah ok I can see thanks - I was expecting it to be in the same place as listed in the mockup earlier so I didn’t think to look there