Outline feature and bulletpoints in Anytype

[Amir]

Is your feature request related to a problem?
Yes, i always go back and fourth between roam research and anytype. and anytype really lacks this outline feature, and i think once it added it will really power the anytype.

Describe the solution you’d like
I want to an outline feature(like Roam to be clear) added to anytype, like an switch to outline in a page or in a completely different object.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered
Just going back and forth between roam and anytype, its really frustrating.

and also big shout out and thanks to anytype team for the hard work

[qualquertipo]

Thanks @Amir for posting this.

Perhaps would be a good idea to add a few examples of the main features you miss, including images (can be from Roam).

[Amir]

Yes i did an Screenshot

[qualquertipo]

Related Feature Request:

Nesting Objects/Sets inside each other

@Oshyan I don’t seem to be able to edit the title of my post. Could you please do it to include the word “Outliner” there? Maybe: “Outliner features: such as nesting Object inside each other” I saw a mention about outlining in Telegram and thought would be good to have a main post here for it. Or I can create a new one if you prefer. I thought of using this one to avoid more clutter.

Although technically this is different from OP (as @Oshyan points out in the linked FR), to me ideally both should be one in the same - ie. the outliner feature should be coupled with the concept of nesting. Otherwise we’d have all these complex hierarchies within outlines, but they wouldn’t relate to, affect or connect in any way to the main data structure (if that makes sense).

[Amir]

yes, also it’s a matter of design. more beautiful in my opinion at least

[qualquertipo]

I’ll add here another outliner feature I’d like, from RemNote:

Nesting Objects/Sets inside each other

Just to add a visual example of how this is done in RemNote, for those who don’t use that software. I can create this structure: [image] And if I “go into” one of these Rems, it’s essentially the same as going into a new “Page” having that Rem as title (or Name, in Anytype terminology): [image]

[micklat]

It seems like you can write outlines inside a Page. Though perhaps that does not make the nested elements of the outline a separate object in the graph.

[Filip]

Blocks are not objects so they won’t appear in the graph.
You can technically indent any block inside another iirc, and with bullet points you can get something that looks similar to an outline app like Roam, but the proper functionality is not there.

[micklat]

I just saw that you can select part of your outline and turn it into an object, so it’s getting close for me.

[Filip]

You can turn any block into an object trough the menu, but it’s still a manual process. In outliers, every block is automatically an object (or an equivalent of an object in that software).

[micklat]

You are correct.

I’m trying to figure out whether or not this matters. I’m not sure. It depends, I think, on how much effort it is to turn blocks into objects. Maybe with the right keyboard shortcut the cost is negligible.

[jakub]

Outliner feature like in Obsidian would be great. Right now for me the only workaround is to put TOC on every page manually…

[cmdaltctr]

It’s not helping to be honest, because sometimes I know the topics I’m looking for in a document, but the scroll all the way up each time is taking away the focus. A simple toggle to showcase all the titles, headings, and subheadings in an outline way is much needed.

[AnyChris]

Hi @Amir

What does outline feature mean?

I am curious. What are the advantages of this FR? Could you please give some examples/used cases?

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You can turn any block into an object trough the menu, but it’s still a manual process. In outliers, every block is automatically an object (or an equivalent of an object in that software).
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@Filip What does this enable me to do faster/better? Because I tried Logseq, but I didn’t really get along with this.

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[quote="cmdaltctr, post:13, topic:5196, full:true“]
It’s not helping to be honest, because sometimes I know the topics I’m looking for in a document, but the scroll all the way up each time is taking away the focus. A simple toggle to showcase all the titles, headings, and subheadings in an outline way is much needed.
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@cmdaltctr there is already a feature request for this, which has received many votes:

Make "toggle" a feature of every block

In Anytype and Notion, “toggle” is currently implemented as a type of list. This means I can only ever have the default text size for a toggle and it creates a needlessly limited use case. In other words, the utility of the collapse function is not limited to list-based uses. The ability to collapse contents is extremely useful and would ideally be a feature of all (or most) block types, in my opinion. If you look at other systems that use blocks, such as Roam, every block can be collapsed. Thi…

[cmdaltctr]

One of my top wishes for Anytype is the outline toggle button on the right side bar (like Nimbus Note); refer to my post for more details:

Table of content / outline navigation on the side

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND I wish to use Anytype as my main source of notes. Often, the notes became quite lengthy. As the note becomes lengthier, I really like this specific feature that a note-taking app called NimbusNote has: an outline feature, which serves as a navbar for the note document. A click on the outline (h1, h2, h3) will scroll the page to the corresponding H tag on the document body. I attached a screenshot of my notes with the outline nav mentioned earlier. HOW COULD IT BE DONE A s…

[MarchCowboy55]

+1 for request as well, right now, logseq, obsidian plugin, workflowy and even SiYuan have this really powerful feature… perhaps one day we’ll all be blessed with integration into Anytype.