I would like to request something very similar to be implemented and available anywhere in Fibery, or more specifically, in the Sidebar nav. This is very similar to how Notion and ClickUp do things.
So basically, outside of Entities, for all Views, perhaps a similar approach could be something like a “Meta View”, “View Collection”, etc. in the future (i.e. a new kind of object that lives in the Sidebar and holds multiple Views). Or maybe you can just create a new View from within a View and it then becomes part of that View’s “tabs” in a similar way. And maybe the icon in the Sidebar nav changes to show it has multiple views.
It seems somehow a little clunky to have a separate “View Collection” object type, yet it also makes things a lot clearer I think for e.g. moving Views in and out of these “dropdowns” (think of an existing workspace today and wanting to move a bunch of related Views into a single tabbed View “collection”/space like this). And I guess in a way Folders and Smart Folders are a kind of organizational precedent (not in a direct functional sense, but conceptually, i.e. these are “objects” that exist solely for organizational/nav structure purposes). So perhaps this would just be another type of “container” that lives down there with the Folder options.
Tabs for views would be a huge usability boost in Fibery. Right now, filtering is frustrating—you have to constantly toggle filters on and off.
In Notion, we used tabs in our Projects view (video below) to effortlessly switch between different perspectives of the same data. In Fibery, the only options are dealing with a cumbersome filter system or creating separate views, which clutters the workspace and makes navigation harder.
Tabs would solve this cleanly, making workflows much more intuitive.
This is true. One problem though is that in Fibery View is first class citizen. In Notion you create Page and you can have Database inside that naturally can be visualized via different views in tabs.
In Fibery you create, let’s say, Table View. We can add such tabs, but it will mean that Table View contains… other views. And this is weird. So we do want to add it, but not sure how so far
What if each folder has a setting for “Show items as tabs”. Then if you navigated to the view / entity from the folder, it will show the other items as tabs in the top. That way its not nested views, but grouped views. Using a mechanism that already exists.
Not sure about if you navigate to the view / entity not from the folder, if it should show or not. Just a thought.
Views Collection. Clear concept that will reduce items in the sidebar, but… it is one more concept to learn, so more complexity for creator.
Just allow to create Views inside, well, Views, and maybe people will be OK with that.
Folder can indeed show all views as tabs theoretically, but views will still be visible in the left sidebar and it will not de-clutter the setup as I see it.
Makes sense. I see how the first two can add quite a lot of complexity. Third option is how Notion also does it with database views, where when you click on the folder it goes to the first item (first time, and last viewed view times thereafter). So yes, you can open the folder and see clutter, you can also click on the folder without opening it making for less clutter. Most people either click on the database (would be the folder in fibery), then choose the view in tabs, or navigate to that database in another way (shortcut / link / custom nav), and then use the tabs, rather than needing to open the sidebar to change views. This would mean in fibery that any time you get to a view, it will show you the other views / docs in the folder. Could be quite nice to have this in Fibery as well :))
Would fit nicely in context views in smart folders too. (Add a tab for the entity view as well even). Could get complex if there are many smart folders with the same entities, which tabs do you show if you navigate to the entity not from the smart folder? Not sure…
