I have a page which collected many URLs. After I imported it through notion format (zipped markdown), the page was transformed into an Anytype format, in which the hyperlinks get into bookmarks automatically. That is interesting! What follows is that the page has a great number of linked objects (here, they are bookmark objects) as children.
It looks like
Now I want to delete this page and all the children at the same time, and the children are only relative with their father and have no other links.
If I just delete the page, all the children would be orphan nodes, and the number is huge. I have to remove them to bin one by one.
If I create a set to filter all these children, there is no filter for “links from object” to find all objects that have the same father.
So I wonder how to deal with this, and I’d appreciate it if anyone could give some advices.
Otherwise feel free to create a specific feature request if you have an idea on how to solve your specific needs.
Keep in mind that the dev team is already aware that object navigation/handling needs to be improved, any feedback is useful but we’ll probably get some improvements soon anyways.
Yeah, the method you mentioned above needs lots of manual operations like selecting and clicking if the number of objects is huge. So, I’d like to open a new feature request for this one.
I found a neat way of selecting multiple children node using the graph view by double clicking on a note while holding SHIFT. It’s useful and allow to delete multiple nodes at a time. It’s still a bit of a pain since double-clicking zooms in as well…
Is there a way to drag select nodes in the graph view?
I’m still wondering though, is there a way to delete a node and ALL children and their children’s children, etc.?
I’ve had a few very bad Notion imports that I need to get rid of and needing to be surgical about it is a real pain right now since I always am stressed of doing something wrong.
And most of my imports are pages with links to other nodes so they’re not sets or collections. They’re just linked between each other.
It’s much easier to use sets instead if you need to delete multiple objects. This is a very old thread, and you weren’t able to delete multiple objects from sets back then.
