Bulk selection in o(1)
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Yotam Dvir
It is common UX to allow selection of multiple objects in one go via mouse and/or keyboard. Usually, by dragging the mouse with or without pressing shift over the desired objects to either select or deselect them. Right now, you have to go one-by-one and click every object you want selected.
Also common is selection of all objects (e.g. by pressing ctl/cmd-A). Exercising some foresight in the context of Capacities, I think it would be useful to be able to select all the objects in the "conceptual view" even if separated by pagination (see image). For example, if I have 67 people that fit a certain filter to which I want to apply a batch modification, it would be useful to select all of them at once, instead of going through 3 pages and repeating the process.
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Luca Joos
Merged in a post:
Selecting Full Text is Very Difficult
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Umut Genlik
MacOS app, In Notion you can select entire block or text easily and copy paste that to other places with your app that seems not possible majority of the time
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Roz Coffey
this has singlehandedly made me go back to notion in 2024, even though i prefer capacities in every other way. extremely frustrating and make or break for me.
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Amir Azimi
Improve the selection of blocks by simply holding the mouse and hovering over the blocks from within the space of blocks, not just from outside of them. Please watch this screen recording to understand what I mean:
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Andreas B
As a "early believer" (and paying), I DO believe Capacities have the highest potential of all these new PKMS tools out there.
But there is for sure a lot of improvements that can be done to the UX, I have been manually moving over content to Capacities and struggle often to do basic things that one expects to do in a tool like selecting things. Selecting, drag+drop-ing and these types of things will be very appreciated (and needed) in the future.
And I am not allowed to select more than 25 items after painfully clicking each one (and not miss-clicking deselecting everything), this is just... frustrating :(
I kinda hope this is very implicit, and was already on the roadmap, but need to point it out anyhow.
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Elisa Moreno
Please, put this on priority, I know it doesn't have many votes, but I am SURE it's a big friction to people, for me at least is.
As the app suggests, I had to read the documentation and watch a video teaching me how to bulk select, but in the end I have to click ONE BY ONE... That wasn't a good experience at all...
Firstly, I tought that maybe I was doing something wrong, or that Capacities had a different keyboard shortcut. But no, it simply doesn't have any option to REALLY bulk select things.
I was setting up a new object with 3 properties yesterday that were multi-select and lost 30 minutes clicking one by one once to change color, and to click one by one to change the icon again... It just doesn't make sense, on such an amazing and inter-connected app not to provide the simplest and usually default on many systems and apps.
Please include that as soon as possible! 🙏🙏
Steffen Bleher
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Ven Popov
Steffen Bleher this is one of my biggest friction points in Capacities right now. I am still in the process of figuring out the best way to organize my space, and I often need to apply operations to objects in bulk. So I'm hoping to bump this up in the priority list.
Desiderata:
- ability to select multiple obejcts in any query, dashboard, table, etc view. Via cmd+A, keyboard keys up and down (just like files in a folder), click mouse and drag, etc