See title. When choosing what to show from each Object (in the case of Grid View, the columns, for example), I’d like one of the option to show the actual content of the Object (the blocks). With option to either show the full thing, or to crop it to a certain length. Should show anything that is part of the body of the object, be it paragraphs, images, embedded content etc.
HOW COULD IT BE DONE
Show this as an option when choosing what to show (excuse my horrible mockup).
I know we have the Description Relation that can help with that. But I’d rather just have the first few lines (in the body) of my Object to be used instead. Or, in some cases, I might want the full content of the objects to show in Set View.
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Maybe have an option to make the Description automatically pull from the Object’s content (though I have a feeling Description is limited to text).
What you mean is that simular to a page preview, like Obsidian has?
When you hover over a link in Obsidian you get to see a preview of the page, just a small bit and it shows whatever is on the first few lines be it icons, images, links, tags, text. It then just cuts off.
Now that preview, is what you would love to see in gallery or kanban view of sets, as an option?
When typing this, Notion does that! It’s called, show Card preview with options being None, Page Cover Image and Page content. Though not every blocktype is supported, just text types. See below where I added one page in the kanban board with some example content
In the team we are sharing your need for more robust previews, however I think it will get to the production not earlier then in the next year due to preparations for the public release.
The request is 100% acknowledged so it will stick on our roadmap till implemented
However I don’t think my request is about previews.
Unless in Anytype “preview” means something different than in other apps?
What I mean is that, in a Set in Grid view for example, I’d like the option to have one of the columns be the object’s full (or partial) content. (Yes, in some cases this might mean very vertically long Sets, if the object has a lot of content, as the whole object’s content would be shown within one single - potentially narrow - cell…However I see many use cases where this is useful).
Preview is more general term, about previewing content of underlying data. Like you suggested with special column or more robust preview in gallery or side by side list view alongside with content ob object like in a notes app. We are trying to approach the problem on a bigger scale to cover more use cases and provide more coherent experience. Your feature request covers a part of project.
I am looking for this exactly. It is too difficult to find the content I want when all I can see is the Title (and some other properties). I need to be able to see a “preview” of the contents of the note or page. I know people don’t like Evernote, but they do this perfectly. But I am trying to move off of Evernote.
I don’t know how others can find what they are searching for without this feature.
thanks
cynthia
This is an older thread, but the option for content preview on cards is still one of the features I’m badly missing since switching from Notion to Anytype.
I work a lot with queries in gallery layout and use a custom property of type ‘image’ to illustrate the cards. Creating custom images for this purpose is very time-consuming. It would be much easier if there was an option to automatically generate them from the content of the object (the page), as is possible in Notion.
Notion uses images or text from the content, depending on what appears first on the page.
I really hope this feature request hasn’t been completely forgotten.
. If people read the whole topic they should have a pretty good understanding of what you would like to see.
