I have very long objects (which would be the equivalent of 40-50 pages in a regular document) and would like to be able to filter elements within those objects (so for example, I only see bullet points that relate to topic A, or only bullet points that have tag 1).
I believe this will only be truly possible once we have blocks as objects. In the meantime, I would like to create separate objects for each elements and turn my long object into collections of many objects. However, it’s very important for me to see as much of these elements in the collection so I don’t have to always open the object to see the content.
I know there is already a feature request for this, document view, but for now I’m looking for an alternate solution
So far the only thing I can think of is to use many text relations and display those in a gallery view. But it’s really not great, as relations don’t wrap (yet) and I can only see the very beginning of the text.
Does anyone have another solution or method I could try?
hi, I am confused with the below quote from your post:
It seems you speak of a singular object having 40-50 “pages” of content, and wanting to break it up
(there is a request I believe is worked on to allow collapsing any block)
What is confusing to me, is that you say you are unwilling to break up sections of this object into linked objects because “it’s very important for me to see as much of these elements in the collection”
but…
A collection shows you an object and its relations (properties), not the actual contents of the object!
Could you better explain what you mean please? Or perhaps you are using the terminology improperly…
Exactly, that’s my dilemma I’m looking to filter things based on tags, so I need to break up a long object into many smaller objects and display them in a collection. So my question is what is the way to see as much of those smaller objects’ content directly from the collection, without opening them individually?
That’s my biggest regret with Anytype. There is no blocks as objects, so no way to query specific blocks, to create sets of them, to add relations to a block…
@anton had previously talk about it, but I’m not confident to see this coming live anytime soon, if ever…
Why not use the /toggle block? You can make as many as you want. Within the toggle, you can put loads of text, or other blocks as well, such as callouts, etc. Or just plain text. Anything really.
So if you sectioned off your page into many toggles, you would achieve what you want.
However, there is no way to toggle all of them on or off. You have to toggle each manually.
There is a feature request for this started recently…so it may take a while to get that feature…
One hacky way: put all your toggles into a parent toggle. You can then toggle all of them on or “the state they were in” with that parent toggle. Notice I did not say "on or “off” because the parent toggle will not toggle the child toggles…it will make them hidden or visible in the state they were in.
But perhaps the toggle would satisfy your needs for now?
Let us know.
There is no good solution yet.
But I have here something that could help a bit.
The idea is, to split the Object into sections that are separate child Objects (that you can give Tags and show in a Set), but to show some of their content (a good part of the description) in the preview of a Card in the parent Object.
Unfortunately there is no way to have everything readable in one large Object AND to have the content splited for managing the Blocks in a Set.
The parent Object in my Video has the purpose, to give another overview then a Set, with the additional possibility to write something over, under, or beside the Cards.
– A feature that a Set doesn’t have.
ahhhh now I understands why it might be useful using the description field…sort of like summaries that can be used as previews. Till now I thought the description field was useless…
I’m learning lots from you and others - heartfelt thank you for taking the time!
Yes. It’s one of the most important fields for me.
Also: You may have more then one “John Smith” in your database.
With the Description you can differentiate them.
John Smith
My cousin’s friend
John Smith
My old classmate
John Smith
The winner of the tennis tournament 2012
Unfortunately does Anytype not show the Description in the Object selector boxes for chosing an Object that we want to link etc.
– I believe I have requested it long ago, but I’m not sure.
I’m looking to filter things based on tags, so I need to break up a long object into many smaller objects and display them in a collection. So my question is what is the way to see as much of those smaller objects’ content directly from the collection, without opening them individually?