More widget customization

[Jeroen]

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND?

The widgets in the sidebar offer very limited customization. You can choose a source and the way it looks (compact list, list, tree).

I believe offering more customization options will give Widgets more functionality and the user more freedom. It would also make the sidebar a lot more powerful as it is!

REAL WORLD USE CASES

The real world usecases are more flexibel, powerful widgets and sidebar! With the new source option to be the currently open object in combination with new widget views like the table of content and local graph.

This will tackle a lot of feature requests into a simple customization menu all at ones (like local graph, table of content in the sidebar, show object icon and more).

Additional, if we get a right sidebar in the future, you can expand on these widget settings with things like word count, backlinks and more.

Hope you like this mock-up and feature request.

HOW COULD IT BE DONE?

The mockup has been quickly done in a simple photo editor. Don’t judge on poor alignment or other style errors.

I suggest improving the (right click) customization menu, as shown in my example mockup below:

As you can see the following new features have been added:

• Number of Objects
• NEW: Sort
• NEW: Filter
• NEW: Show icon
• Widget Source
• NEW: Settings

Number of Objects

Allow more objects in sidebar widgets

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND Allow us to display more objects than the maximum 14 allowed now [image] HOW COULD IT BE DONE Add options for 20 and 50 objects and / or a custom option. REAL WORLD USE CASES I have a “navigation” set which is essentially a list of high level objects where all of my Anytype is organized. This set is displayed on my homepage, but I want it on my sidebar as well to avoid having to go to my homepage any time I want to access that navigation. My set includes 25 objects and i…

NEW: Custom number
Input custom number between 1 and 25 (for example, max could be limited by performance)

NEW: Sort

Sort option for objects in widgets

The new sidebar is great but I would love to see the following feature: Under Appearance I would love to see a sorting option. [image] Sort options could be: Alphabetical, A-Z / Z-A Time/Date Modified, Newest first / Oldest first Time/Date Created, Newest first / Oldest first Custom, allowing custom sorting for the objects in the widget Side effect is that this may make the Recent Widget a bit obsolete. Optional: Group Sorting This would add groups (headings/dividers) based on the sorti…

Sorts the objects in the widget. Can choose the following sorting settings:

• Sort as in object (shows the order as it is seen in that object)
• Custom (manual sort)
• Object name
• Last opened
• Last edited
• Creation date

All options can be flipped (A-Z too Z-A or Old-New too New-Old). This way you can create different recent object widgets or show the oldest ones.

NEW: Filter

Filters the objects in the widget based on simular parameters currently availible in set views.

This way you don’t have to make a new set or set view just for a widget. For example, you can simply make an Open Task widget based on your task set or make a movie widget with only movies you haven’t seen yet.

NEW: Show Title

This option shows/hides the title of the widget in the sidebar.
Optional you could add an option to change the widget title (without changing the object title).

NEW: Show Icon

Show icons in sidebar widgets

WHAT IS THE BUG I was seeing the guides at Anytype docs and when seeing my app I observed that the sets I added as widgets to the sidebar doesn’t show the icon of the set , but it shows in the guide. HOW TO REPRODUCE IT Add any of your set or object as a widget Check whether Icon is present THE EXPECTED BEHAVIOR Icon present with the title of the set in the widget ADDITIONAL CONTEXT I’m new to reporting … Idk if it’s a bug or it’s not added to this version.

I think this speaks for itself. Turns the objects icon on/off in the widget. For some more customization (which has been requested often).

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Widget Source

NEW: Current Open object
-Choosing this option makes this widget dynamic showing the content of the the currently open object. This can have many new usecases with new widget settings as seen below.

Settings (Currently Appearance)

Here you can choose how the widget looks, there are three options already available but I would suggest these two new ones:

NEW: Local graph
Shows the local graph as a widget. Can be used with the new source setting: Currently Open Object.

NEW: Table of content
Shows the table of content as a widget. Can be used with the new source setting: Currently Open Object.

NEW: Show File (preview)
If a file like an image, PDF, audio or other file is added as a widget the option becomes availible to show this file. Meaning you can now add images to the sidebar.

[Filip]

Some of these should be written as separate FRs.

For instance:

NEW: Local graph
Shows the local graph as a widget. Can be used with the new source setting: Currently Open Object.

This isn’t just widget customization. Same issue with ToC, for instance.

[Jeroen]

I understand that those two features can (and already are) seperate feature requests, though in my post they are part of the widget customization working with other features for widgets.

Why did the title get edited btw?

[Filip]

@Jeroen

Why did the title get edited btw?

It was edited so that the FR can be as concise and easy to understand as possible.

The same reasoning can be applied to the ToC, local graph etc. These are not implemented at the moment, so there is nothing that can be done with that part of the FR.
Having that part in the middle of the How could it be done? section just makes it hard to navigate, and read through. It would’ve been better if you had split the suggestions part into two sections (one for things that can be done now, and one for later).

@Jeroen I’ve adjusted some stuff (mostly headings), and moved the features that could be considered separate to the bottom. These would require a lot more development time and probably warrant a separate discussion. Feel free to add / edit anything you still want to.

[GuipeL]

I am not going to add a FR that will get lost and not attract attention so commenting here :

YES TO COMPACT LIST IN WIDGETS !
First layer of content is just fine and enough !

I want to see more than just a link, but not a tree structure that goes deep to the bottom of it !

Details shouldn’t appear in the navigation bar, but WITHIN the notes (like explained here by @Alejandro Allow sticky table of contents block (for quickly navigating between page sections) - #2 by Angelo, showcasing the way Dropbox does it)