Sets listing objects with common properties or sub-types

[sambouwer]

Hi @Krzysztof, thanks for sharing your ideas on how to improve Anytype! Could you check whether these topics cover the four key improvements you mention in your TL;DR? I got your message that you prefer to have a “main” topic for this combination of requests, but it is still useful to link to those requests .

@Krzysztof

Set can show/list objects not only from one object but multiple object types/relations

Ability to add different Object Types within a Set

Issue Currently each Set is limited to a single Type. Anytype does not allow the freedom of data organization that Notion.so offers with its databases, neither in terms of data diversity nor data rearrangement e.g. Ability to freely reorder objects within sets Solution Allow the ability to add multiple and various Object Types within a Set. ­ Alternative I don’t see any alternative, but feel free to let me know if you know of one. Rumor There is hearsay… But we don’t see much of official v…

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@Krzysztof

Set can show/list objects that have common property/properties (eg. “from Anna”, “Work”, “tag: art” “date range from-to” or so…

I was quite sure I’ve seen this request before, but I cannot find it anymore, so I might be wrong

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@Krzysztof

Set can show items from nested/child sets eg: set that lists all goals+ideas+files, so then I have the ability to filter out these items with the common date “2020” or type “Q1” or “for my wedding”.

This might become possible when the Grouping feature is released for Set Views. There is already a button for this in the Android app, but if you click it, a message is shown that this feature will “come soon”. See related request:

Grouping in Sets

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I would like to be able to group lines in a set view by a certain relation. For tasks, for example, it would be useful to see the tasks grouped by project or tag. Describe the solution you’d like Add a grouping option to views.

I think the following request is also related, although the source information to base the nesting or grouping on is different (Object hierarchy instead of your idea for common properties).

Option to have rows in Sets be nested (and foldable) based on page hierarchy

I will use as an example History notes, but this would apply to any content type that requires (or could benefit from) nesting. Note this would require some sort of tree structure (where parents-children relations are explicit), which I don’t think we have. Say I have a page for “Conflict A”, and four pages linked to it for specific events within that conflict (for example, “Battle 1”, “Battle 2” and “Battle 3”). I’d like to be able to have a Set view in which the hierarchy between these entri…

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@Krzysztof

extending parameters of base types

The file Object type is indeed locked and very limited. See also

Add and remove relations for files, such as images, PDF, etc

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. This feature request is not strictly related to a problem, but it does seem to violate the basic principles on which Anytype is built on. Describe the solution you’d like Anytype is built on the fundamental concept that everything - including files - are an object. And each object is connected with relations. However, as of this moment, it is not possible to add or edit relations for files (images, PDFs, audio, etc), only the defa…

Also default Objects and Relations are locked:
https://community.anytype.io/t/override-the-default-object-or-relation/5166