Collection Nesting

[FaethUnholy]

What do you need help with?

Am i missing something or is there no means to create an individual new collection inside of another collection without creating a separate collection first?

This is such a simple function i figured i must just be missing it which is why i haven’t made a feature request yet.
The only alternative I’ve found is changing the default type for the entire collection every time i want to make a new collection which is equally cumbersome.

OS

Windows 10

Anytype Version

0.54.9

Network Mode

AnySync

Technical Information

OS version: win32 x64 10.0.19045
App version: 0.54.9
Build number: build on 2026-03-16 09:56:43 +0000 UTC at #47b3c6f4a1892048da6687d3f655b332e19f5a9d
Library version: v0.48.5
Analytics ID: bf90aa48-e9be-47f3-8fa2-8d5590a5ab5f
Device ID: 12D3KooWA5xJTFTBtSPPw1hbYSnL1nxv7dP5XJi9Hq59UVon4dMd

[AnyFriends]

Thank you for reaching out. Our team will follow up shortly.

[Ronsox]

Hi, I am not sure if I understand 100% what you are trying to do but you can do the following:

1. Create a Collection
2. Change the default type for this view when creating new items to “Collection”
3. Create a new item in this view and you will get a new item of type “Collection”

[Shampra]

But I agree, it’s not exactly simple…
There really isn’t an option to choose the type of object to create (if you want to create an object other than the default one)

Like this :

[FaethUnholy]

this would be ideal, well thank you for clarifying that this option is not implemented.

to feature requests i go.

[Shampra]

Collection : Select the type when adding an object

Following that message, he pointed out a UX issue involving a missing option in the collections interface. When working with a collection, it is very tedious to add an item other than the default one. It isn’t possible to do this directly; you have to work around it each time by “breaking” the collection’s settings. WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND? Allow the user to choose the type of object they are adding. The direct creation button should not be changed so as not to slow down the most common workf…

[Filip]

Right now there isn’t a direct way to choose Collection when creating a new object inside another collection unless you change the view’s default type first. So the workaround you found is currently the only option.

We agree this is not very convenient. The feature request shared by Shampra in this thread has been passed to our tracker and will be reviewed by the team.