1-Click switching between Filters and Sorts. Also 1-click enable/disable.
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Nigel Ashworth
The ability to switch between multiple filters with a single click. Or sorts.
And the ability to turn on or off a filter or sort.
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Beth
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You can do this with queries :)
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I am not 100% sure this is identical. But just now I was also thinking about easy to toggle filters. In my mind it was 'global temporary persistent filters.
I am in particular thinking about tags as special global filters in the above sene here.
The idea would be: select on or multiple tags that remain active filters for a session (until they are deselected). During that session only entries in relation to that 'master'-tag are shown. (And all newly generated entries of that session automatically receive that tag.)
As often ideas are born out of restrictions / bottlenecks. In this case I was thinking once again about the non-transparency of different notebooks / capacity instances, and that I wouldn´t expect that to change too soon.
But in my case – as probably in many others – it there are different projects or project strands that in time overlap; or that alternatively I do not want to overlap in a certain take. The fundamental decision 'do these entries belong together' (should they share the same notebook / instance is ambivalent and dynamic.
Global and temporary persistent tag filters would be an elegant solution to this problem (and cover some other scenarios as well). Effectively they are working
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notebooks. But they remain in the boundaries of the tag-system/-logic. Which is neat.... and it would even leverage some further non-trivial and interesting options: like selecting a set of projects (e.g. Project Ocean and Project Extractivism) in a temporary link; which again would be dynamic. For another set-up I could add Project Biology to the mix; and then in a different work scenario shed Project Extractivism again, because for the session I am only focussing on scientific aspects and Marine Biology, let´s say.
Effectively this would allow me to turn to Capacities with a basic decision what 'glasses' I want to wear / concentrate on in a particular session / work / think scenario...
... and it all works on top of the existing tag system.
Steffen Bleher
vision assemblies: I 100% agree. Thanks for describing this in such a detail.
If I got you right, you are basically looking for this: https://capacities.io/feedback/p/smart-queries-to-collect-content-based-on-rules.
Smart queries to collect content based on rules. Am I right?
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Steffen Bleher:
hello Steffen,
thx for thinking along :-)
I hope the length was not redundant / wasting bandwidth.
so: almost like filtering.
that's why I felt need to explain.
think of it as basically a virtual, but more versatile ' virtual notebook ' via tags; or via extending tags just a little bit.
the difference(s) to 'simple' filter:
• persistence, i.e. it's not a one time operation (result list), but would last as long as a certain tag ( combination of tags is 'toggled on' – this it works like a mode (or notebook)
• this brings some small, neccessary differences vis-a-vis 'simple' filter:
-- it probably doesn't need to encompass all kinds of properties; just those that make sense to keep over longer sessions
-- it probably needs a certain kind of extra visibility, as it modifies behavior throughout longer intervals; so one would need a visible cue, to flag one is in 'permanent filter' mode
-- for coherence creating new entries would need to be 'marked up' accordingly (= tag applied)
is this clear enough?
best!
Steffen Bleher
vision assemblies: You have a perfect timing with sharing these thoughts. I'm currently drafting the smart query feature. It won't be simple filters but more what you're describing. Combining tags, content types, also simple filters, views, etc. in one object. You can create them starting from a search query and then also globally persist them. hope that makes sense. I think it's very close to what you're describing. Will be magical, I agree :)
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Steffen Bleher: :-) :-) :-)