Masonry Grid

[lLivin]

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND

To have a masonry grid option for images or as an option within gallery view

HOW COULD IT BE DONE

This could be a option within gallery view, especially when using the inline sets/collections
OR
Could be implemented into simple tables. For example: if you paste an image into a slot of the table, along with other images in other slots, it automatically creates a masonry grid of the images (or maybe even a normal grid, or other types of grids, let the user chose)

REAL WORLD USE CASES

To be used as mood/vision boards for projects, similar to pintrest but built into the program. I feel a lot of people use Anytype for projects and a mood/vision board is a super useful tool for thinking through ideas, products, etc.
So to able to have a mood board within Anytype along with all the other parts of a project would be very helpful.

RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

Allow us to hide the title for pages in the gallery view, so the cover image fills the entire block.

ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

I understand this is properly a very niche feature but thought was worth mentioning, never know.
Loving Anytype very much (moved for Notion), the offline first is a game changer, look forward to seeing this project grow and hope to be using this as my life manager for a long long time. Thanks for everything you guys do

[Kerstie]

I like this idea. We could really use more display options for images.

Related post:

Gallery View Customization

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND As we’re getting ready for releasing Anytype to the public and start competing with other rivals, I was thinking that the addition of some features can elevate the user experience even further. So, 1st I’m going to start with sets; to be specific the gallery view customization of sets. As you know, the inline sets are around the corner and more and more people whom are using the anytype as their PKM, would want to have the ability to fully realize and customize their person…

[Razor]

Lol, it was masonry from the beginning and then masonry was removed and replaced with a normal grid that caused a bit of headache to rework. Masonry that comes with react-virtualised works pretty good but unfortunately the algorithm of sorting works in such manner that sorting does not work correctly because it tries to occupy empty space with cards, so this is why we got rid of it. Idk if it will come back as we have a lot of other stuff to do.

[lLivin]

Oh wow didn’t realise this feature use to exist and yeah do understand that they’re properly alot higher priorities, even I admit this is a pretty niche request.

Even so still thing its worth leaving this post open so maybe sometime in the future (even far far future) this request can be seen and added during a quality of live update or something.

Appreciate the explanation and the fast response @Razor

[Kerstie]

I hope it comes back. I can see why it’s problematic for sorting objects with names, but for images used as mood board, it’s really not that necessary to have a definite order because it’s about looking at the images as a whole. (Filling the gaps to fit works)

Maybe in the future when the core features are done and things like albums and gallery options are considered.

[yzd]

I imported a bunch of notes from Google Keep to my Anytype workspace and my workflow went from this:

To a flat gallery (even when using the “Large” card size).

I suppose masonry layouts can be used for Pinterest-like moodboards with tons of images, etc., however I’d love to make a simple case for “pinboard-style” note-taking. I feel like I miss Keep even more than Notion just for the beautiful simplicity of its layout (on both mobile and desktop).

[mobile]

[Razor]

We can add masonry I suppose and bring it back later a bit with a different view or as a setting of gallery.

[Elias]

As someone dealing with lots of images that would be pretty awesome, I was about to make a feature request about it

[Kerstie]

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[yzd]

@yzd

I suppose masonry layouts can be used for Pinterest-like moodboards with tons of images, etc., however I’d love to make a simple case for “pinboard-style” note-taking. I feel like I miss Keep even more than Notion just for the beautiful simplicity of its layout (on both mobile and desktop).

I think these requests are related to widgets/the sidebar? My request is more about how Sets could be customised to support more use cases like note-taking (kinda like how Keep does it.)

I suppose we don’t even need masonry for this, but a more generous length for the cards when you’re using the ‘Gallery’ view. Masonry would simply help optimising the space between cards better.

[Kerstie]

Yes, just thought I’d share because it mentions customizations that could also be useful to you. On mobile, it could look more similar because the sidebar acts as Home page, the 1st link in particular wanted to use the FR as replacement for Google Keep.

[C.c]

An interesting discussion on the coding to implement this grid style

This awesome CSS feature is blocked by drama (Google and Apple can't agree)