WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND
There are a couple of small QoL improvements that would make tables a lot more helpful: If required, Id be happy to split these into separate FRs
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Ability to paste from spreadsheet or rich text document. Currently this pastes as an image. This FR covers that - I just mention it here to get it of my chest!
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Ability to multi-select row and columns. I’ve been copy/pasting travel information from emails/websites and Anytype creates many empty rows when the data pastes as a table. Currently, I have to delete each row individually (or copy/paste into a new table and delete the original table).
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Ability to set the size of the table at creation - currently it’s 3x3 only.Not a massive issue, but very much a nice to have
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Better documentation of tables generally - they’re mentioned in the Help, but I do’t see anything substantive
HOW COULD IT BE DONE
There may be obstacles to multi-select that make this much harder than I think. I assume it could only be done well on desktop
REAL WORLD USE CASES
Transferring booking info from emails or websites.
RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES
Apart from a lot of manual formatting, the only option I’ve found is to insert the data as PDF - which doesn’t allow editing or formatting.
A possible alternative would be to be able to paste data into a pre-existing Set (i.e. similar to a Notion database. This doesn’t seem feasible to me, but …