Convert pinned filters to tabs

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There was a discussion at some point about view tabs. I still think there’s a lot of value in having one “view” with multiple tabs for different views of the data, but another idea that could solve a lot of use cases is making the quick filters into tabs.

For example:
Pin the status field as tabs results in a tab per status option. Ideally some tabs can be set to hidden / a filter applied.

Then I can see a calendar view of projects, and add tabs per client, filter to only show active clients, and now I have a neat calendar of projects per client.

Can this calendar be made INSIDE the entity view? Yes, but that means the person needs to be a creator of that DB, and that entity might already have a lot of things.

Its a BIT different to the way tabs currently work in entity views and multi-relation views, but I think it could be quite elegant.

People coming from notion really miss tabs from what I see.

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Sounds a bit like a ‘horizontal’ version of smart folders - instead of having in the sidebar a smartfolder entity for each client (with a context calendar view mirrored to each one) you would have a tab per client, with context views mirrored to each tab.

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Yeah you could think of it like that!

Similar concept, a difference is that you could make the tabs also based on single or multi select. I think it’s a bit neater for a couple reasons:

  1. Embedable into documents / rich text. (main reason)
  2. More intuitive flow. If people want a calendar view per client, they won’t think to make a smart folder, then a context view, then mirror. They will think to make a calendar view then filter it to see the right client.
  3. More clear location of views. This is clearly a top level view, with tabs as filters. Context views in smart folders don’t have a clear location/storage in the workspace. To me at least.
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Yeah, I wasn’t suggesting that smart folders could be as good for your needs as your suggestion - just checking that I got the gist.
(and yeah, you’re right that smart folders don’t support select fields).

I am however intrigued by this:

I wonder if other people feel similarly. I’ve not heard this expressed before :thinking:

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Yup! Similar idea indeed.

Regarding context views, you can see some confusion on it here: How to manage "Existing Views"?, Cannot remove views from folders that are inside smart folders

There was one more topic someone shared where when marking something as favourite, being confused why there were many views inside of it. Can’t find it now but sure it was there!