Views consistency across devices for inline sets

Feature Requests
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WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND

An inline set in a page should provide the same views on mobile. Actually the inline set displayed on mobile link to the master set, not the one customized for a particular embedding in a specific page

HOW COULD IT BE DONE

Consistency across devices.

REAL WORLD USE CASES

The inline task set on my dashboard shows only tasks with specific relations because I don’t need to see all my task set content in the same time.

RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

I duplicate the same views on the master set

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Hi @Elias. We are going to fix it via real inline sets capabilities on mobile devices. For now it leads to the source set for the sake of simplicity because inline sets is already complicated concept.

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Ok, thanks for your feedback.

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@ignatovv is there an ETA for this? It’s hard to use sets and collections on mobile without this

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Hi @raph, this update in the product backlog at the moment. Could not give exact time of fix, but it will come in par with updates for inline sets. Roughly Q4 23 - Q1 24

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WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND

Currently, you can create an inline set on desktop and use it to filter a set. This is useful, because you can show a subset of the set on a page, according to some filters based on its relations. However, if you then navigate to this set on your android device, you are shown the ‘original set’ without any of the filters. This is not ideal.

At the moment, sets are superior than collections for many use cases in this context becauseː

  1. You can edit relations and have them be propagated still.
  2. It is still possible to display multiple types, by having a set of the type object types and filtered for the object types you want. Honestly, because collections require so much manual work, this makes sets like this just ‘collections but actually useful’ for basically all my own use-cases. (Mine aren’t the be all end all, of course.)

The only other way around this is to create a set for every page - this is maybe ideal for some use cases, but for my own this would just create annoying clutter - and more work, it for sure takes more time than just having a templated inline set. I do wonder which way would be more performant, though…

HOW COULD IT BE DONE

Basically you tap on the set and it shows you the set with the correct filtering as expected given the inline set. If you then want to go to the ‘original set’ which presumably represents the original ‘unfiltered’ set in the sense of it being the superset of the subset, just give a context menu or icon to do so. (Of course, that set itself may have been filtered if you use the object-type filter to show multiple object types in the set, but it’s ‘unfiltered’ in the sense that that is the set of things you want.)

REAL WORLD USE CASES

Pretty much everywhere and any use case I can imagine for inline sets. My practical example is this howeverː I’m currently doing a trip planner and some things for the trips are not the same type, so I need sets to show multiple types. Additionally to that, I like to filter that set by area, so I can pull up relevant stuff quickly; for this I am using inline sets. This works fine on desktop, but it just doesn’t work on Android.

RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

As I said, you can just create an individual set for each page. This creates a lot of work and clutter - the former being the main objection.

ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

There is a previous FR for this feature for desktop. People had opened bug reports, but I see no FR for this feature on android indepedent of the original (now closed) desktop FR.

Thanks for your time, and for the appǃ

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Ah - I didn’t find this FR when I wrote the above. Thanks for merging into this one - good to know it’s on the radar. :slight_smile:

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This is much needed

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Really looking forward to having this abailable - makes the mobile app feel like quite inferior if you rely on sets

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Yes, this is very much needed! please add to Roadmap.

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PLEASE this is a very major thing. Making most pages built on desktop not useable on mobile

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Hi @ignatovv @Angelo

Is there any update on this feature for inline collections/sets on iPhone and iPad? Because I see the post is in 2023 and also that this could be expected in Q4 23 but it is already Q3 24. Recently I mentioned about this in my feedbacks. Is there an expected release time for this? I love to see this.

Thank You,
Srinivas

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Honestly, the fact that there is still no progress on this is a bit ridiculous. This should no longer be considered a feature request, but a necessary bug fix.

@ignatovv himself said “we will fix this”… and that was almost 1.5 years ago.

There is no way a “gallery view widget”, as introduced in the latest iOS version, is more important than finally working on feature parity and finally bringing some basic, already known features to mobile platforms as well.

Sorry for the possibly harsh tone.

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could the team share a new ETA?
my space relies heavily on inline sets and re-doing all the filters on mobile every time I want to view an inline set makes it very much unusable. I can just do basic things, like adding a quick new note, on mobile.

If at least the inline set filters could get applied on the viewed set on mobile, that would be a workaround that would work for me.

I guess it’s in the backlog because it’s complicated and other things would fall behind if the this would see major dev affords.

But this would help so many people out.

When I show others Anytype and they try to switch to it - this is one of the first questions: why isn’t this working on my phone.

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@lph I understand what you mean. I personally know absolutely nothing about app development, so I’m trying to be cautious about expressing what I think should be prioritized. However, I share the same feeling as you; we’ve received many updates and new features in iOS, but it sometimes feels like the most important ones are missing. Since the roadmap seems to be focused on the desktop app, it’s difficult to see what’s actually being worked on.

Maybe mobile development could an interesting topic to address at the next town hall?

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I’m new to Anytype, I have used Tana and Capacities and Anytype is the best when it comes to using on IOS, except THIS, being able to view inline collections and sets are important for mobile users! Please prioritize!

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I was about to make a post on this until I came across this one in the community.

So its good to see this has already been acknowledged and is in progress.

I personally want to see this feature more than any other one listed, everything else is a added bonus that is worth the patence.

I really believe this is the one that helps anytype take off.

The mobile experience, at the end of the day, is going to be the one that people have their first and use mostly with many applications.

This should stay true years later, and a desktop experience will always be secondary to most people.

So with that being said, I agree visually that the mobile experience needs to be highly prioritized, and just as good if not better than the desktop experience.

Right Now, I believe this is the biggest issue, as sets and collections wont show up properly compared to a competitor like the notion mobile app.

This can make it frustrating to see the sets and collections you have set up with specific filters not be visual on mobile, again compared to something like notions mobile app.

Also not having Calender, Kanban and other views on mobile is a issue.

Whether or not this feature is close to being added or not, I hope the future of the sets, collections and overall mobile experience becomes highly prioritized and the best that it can be… potentally even better than notion’s mobile experience.

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I was really liking what I could do with Anytype, but what is killing it for me is the iOS app and inline sets. I have so many inline sets that it makes the iOS useless for me.

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Do we have any update on this guys? I have been utilizing my inline-collection to make my second brain more streamlined, but seeing the inline-collection not showing on mobile really cripple the experience.

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can this post get more recognition? the mobile version definitely needs its love and needs to get prioritized.