Preface This will be a rant about my opinion on the use of models of anytype for the past few months. I am aware that many people will probably disagree with my viewpoint, and they are welcome to do so. I’m not saying my opinion is correct, it’s just my opinion. The problem. Modals != navigation. …

I do like modals but there really should be an “open as” default that we can control. For a lot of my sets it’s very useful to be able to pop a page open, edit it, click to the next page etc but in some cases I’d like to be able to tell a set to open as object. Notion example: [image] I would als…

[image] Erindale: there really should be an “open as” default that we can control. agreed. honestly feel like a side peek would be a great addition. maybe just window splitting in general. (probably a replacement for the Vim UI suggestion)

I agree with most of your points. For the editor itself a modal just takes away space for me. It makes a lot of sense for me in parts where have something that is “on top” of another part which I only want to open for a limited time, like showing the enlarged image when I click on it.

[image] Flip: where have something that is “on top” of another part which I only want to open for a limited time, like showing the enlarged image when I click on it. Yeah I get that, but the problem is, that there is no “preview” state. we arent opening a modal to a preview state, we are open…

@LiteLotus thanks for the rant! I agree with most you mention/list. You might have already seen this topic, but your input would be valuable there: [image] Larger proposal for discussion: multitasking / navigation Feature Requests Is your feature request related to a prob…

made a post on there. its WIP. need to find examples for my suggestions

I think Notion may have started the “editor in modal” disease, or at least heavily contributed to it. We can see that they too are now moving away from it, and I agree it was never a great idea, at least as-implemented. Obsidian now has tabs too btw, and they are very nice indeed, especially in comb…

I really thought that I would use multiple windows more, but they are for me basically just modules that don’t go away until you manually close them so there’s limited usage for me. Hopefully tabs and panes, and navigation in general with get some love after the release.

Hey, same for me. I use multiple windows when reordering stuff between multiple pages. There it is very useful. But for daily use I also think, that tabs would be used me a lot more.

Modals. why?

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sambouwer October 19, 2022, 3:55pm 6

@LiteLotus thanks for the rant! I agree with most you mention/list. You might have already seen this topic, but your input would be valuable there: