I’m not entirely sure that anytype is fundamentally designed in such a way that would support this… but it would be nice to be able to show a directory path (type of thing) at the top of a page.
For example, if I’m within a note that is located: School > Senior Year > Semester 1 > Class X > Date Y Notes, it would be great to see where I am at the top of the page.
WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND
Allow the ability to see a file/note/page location at the top of the page.
HOW COULD IT BE DONE
Notion implements this at the top of the page when applicable. Apple or Windows also show where a file is located within the file finder window as an option.
Just useful to know where you are immediately, without having to click the navigation view.
ADDITIONAL CONTEXT
This is obviously possible on windows or apple because of the folder and file structure, so I’m not sure if this kind of thing can be done within Anytype? It seems like it could at least be done sometimes.
Anytype does not work with a hierarchical/folder structure so a breadcrumb path won’t reflect the actual location of an Object (all Objects “live” at the same level/in the same bucket). It could be useful as a history/navigation path to go back the way you came with such a path instead of using the back (and forward) arrow.
I’ve adjusted the title of your FR to reflect this. Let me know if you want to have it changed back!
Hello @Mccbrennan we are aware of issues with navigation. However breadcrumbs is not suitable for our needs as @sambouwer mentioned. We are looking forward to backlinks way to visualise navigation. We already working on it in our R&D
Maybe I’m missing something, but what is the Anytype team’s vision for app navigation? I use Collections to organize information on several levels, and it’s a pain to constantly switch between them with Back and Forward. There are currently over 20 Collections and it is not possible to pin them all to the sidebar.
The closest thing to a convenient solution when I want to go into one collection and check some information and copy it to part of another collection is to open two Anytype windows. But even in this scenario, it takes a lot of clicking to navigate these two windows…
Example: I started a project to write a Sci-Fi novel. The entire process is organized into one collection, which in turn contains several other collections. I have a collection for research and information gathering; Character collection (AI-generated pictures, names, biographies, relationships between them, etc.)
Collection about the places where the action takes place (names, pictures, descriptions of the places, connections between them, etc.); the very text of the novel…
I consider navigating through the described two Anytype windows as a workaround.
(in principle, an Obsidian-style canvas with a link to all pages/sets/collections would work perfectly for me, but that’s another topic)
Hey @kayovas, this post doesn’t really seem relevant for this topic (Show Navigation History as Breadcrumb)? Please create a separate topic or post this in a relevant topic (For instance, tabs).
Tabs are another thing. The best solution for me are breadcrumbs, but, as I found out, it is not possible. So, my question is:
What will breadcrumbs be replaced with?
Anytype does not work with a hierarchical/folder structure so a breadcrumb path won’t reflect the actual location of an Object (all Objects “live” at the same level/in the same bucket). It could be useful as a history/navigation path to go back the way you came with such a path instead of using the back (and forward) arrow.
I’ve adjusted the title of your FR to reflect this. Let me know if you want to have it changed back!
Well yeah, there is no hierarchy technically, but it could still work in other ways. For instance, as a history path. Also, there are ways to create hierarchies in AT, so maybe it could work in the future.
There is no directory shown where we are at when working with Anytype.
Currently, we always need to go back left tab and restart from there.
It would be easier if there is navigation directory shown on top where we can click to go back and forth via directory levels as needed.
HOW COULD IT BE DONE
Either taking similar approach of Notion or any File Explorer framework where the directory is always shown on top with back and forth is possible with simple click of desired level.
REAL WORLD USE CASES
Considering we have pages inside pages. The level of depths could be confusing without seeing the directory.
This feature is basically like a linux command “pwd”. With visible directory of where we are at all time, navigation with Anytype UI/UX would be a tremendous gain for benefits of everyone.
RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES
Alternative to this may be search function with the ability to jump straight to the search result.
ADDITIONAL CONTEXT
The screenshot below is our current UI/UX in Anytype regardless of where we at:
Hi @HafeezCAE there are no such thing as directory at anytype. Your object can be linked to many different places all at once. But we want to enrich navigation UI with backlinks this quarter.
Make sense, we can replace the directory with backlinks then. Is multiple selection for drag and drop as well as “paste as plain text” option already in cooking? Right now there is no option to right click for paste option.
Maybe instead of a hierarchical breadcrumb path, a historical breadcrumb path makes sense in Anytype’s context? For example, allow the user to show around 5 previously opened objects, like a quickly accessible history. See this request for a similar idea:
