More robust Templates (for more streamlined Object creation)

[lynxlove]

@qualquertipo

For example, for my Book template, I’d like to add a sample image with the desired proportion and/or width, and then set it as “dummy”. That way when I create a new Book object, I just need to click on that image and get the dialog asking me to pick an image or take a picture (instead of needing to delete the existing one, and add a new one in place).

Image block already works as such. Adding an image block in a template without adding any images will work in the same way you’ve described.

@qualquertipo

For the title, instead of “Untitled” i’d like it to show “Book title” (or whatever I define). Again, as dummy text

This would be super useful. I prefer a placeholder text as well. So when the template is opened, it would display the placeholder text but when an object is created from it, it should be empty / Untitled

@qualquertipo

Perhaps I’m completely misunderstanding what Templates are, and what I’m talking about is actually something else… Please correct me if I’m wrong! I haven’t been able to experiment with Anytype as much as I’d like, but I still want to try to bring up a few of my ideas and requests. So I apologize if I’m too far off here!

Templates are currently blueprints for new objects of a type to be created. As such, they are only used when a new object is created. This discussion has links to several different feature requests including template sync which would make templates work in the way you envisioned

Difficult to create/modify types and properties (~Notion database properties)

Am I missing something or is there a lot of extra steps?.. I’m creating a type, adding properties. Then if I create an object from the type the properties do not show up. I then have to manually create a template where I add the properties again. This seems like quite the hassle. Also, if I wanna add an extra property I have to go back to the type and then go through all these things again.