February 27, 2025 / 🐳 Share Database with Group or everyone, New Sidebar, Copy as Markdown, Timeline and required fields improvements

[mdubakov]

@grex22

All Favorites does, at this point, is allow me to expand/collapse my entire Personal tab (minus Private section). It seems like an extra UI element / indentation that’s not needed, considering we can throw folders over there and so on.

This is exactly what we had before the final release. However, it was somewhat “unpleasant” to have everything without Favorites folder.
Also we do have plans to add more special sections into Personal:

• Recent - a list of recently accessed entities and views
• Popular - a list of entities and views you visit often

[njyo]

@mdubakov

Unfortunately this will not be done, since Folders are just UI thing for Fibery.

I noticed

[Lee_Denny]

Awesome! Thanks for the special shoutout

Looking forward to doing a deep dive restructuring and tidying of our Fibery.

I read you might be changing how Documents work by moving them from a view to a global database; is it worth waiting for that to get stuck into a major tidying session?

[mdubakov]

@Lee_Denny

I read you might be changing how Documents work by moving them from a view to a global database; is it worth waiting for that to get stuck into a major tidying session?

This is at least 3-4 months away. We might start it in Q2 only

[interr0bangr]

@mdubakov

We have smart folders improvements on the radar around Q2. This context empire is a complex beast, so we want to untangle it a bit and streamline with other things. Grouping is what we likely will add.

Amazing to hear, really looking forward to this. Thanks.

[Yuri_BC]

@mdubakov

Copy as Markdown action for entities and docs

I use copy pasting markdown like all the time (either manually or in automations). Nearly every entity I create needs to be processed by ai using markdown.

The first need I have is to copy the rich text field (Description) as markdown.
This is not yet possible, since the new markdown integration feature requires to copy the entire entity with multiple fields as markdown; for that reason, I never use that new feature.

Please allow rich text fields to be copied as markdown.
I currently have to use third party tools to accomplish this.

[Illusory]

@Alex_Rublev

Now it would make sense to add color coding for folders, so that the entire top-level isn’t just gray

+1 for this please. As we replace “spaces” with “folders”, this will be very helpful in distinguishing side items.

[helloitse]

I agree that there should be some distinction between spaces and folders, but I wonder if color is the way to go. Tbh, the way things are headed it feels like spaces are more a backend distinction. In a year from now, they may even hide spaces from users altogether.

[Illusory]

I think Custom Sections would be most helpful. Similar to the way Smart Folders creates their own section within the sidebar. Then, we can move folders under specific sections.

[mdubakov]

@Yuri_BC

The first need I have is to copy the rich text field (Description) as markdown.
This is not yet possible, since the new markdown integration feature requires to copy the entire entity with multiple fields as markdown; for that reason, I never use that new feature.

Possible in today’s release March 13, 2025 / ⛅️ Weekend days setting, Avoid weekends on timeline, better required fields UI

[njyo]

Circling back to the sidebar after using it a while and coming to terms that the Workspace and Personal tab will remain with Favourites and Private, I would like to ask for the following refinements:

1. Top level nodes (folders or spaces in the Workspace or the Private, Favourites section) should have a slightly larger margin on top, so that they are easier to recognise. Not much, but a little more.
2. There should be a clear gap between the last element in Favourites and Private.
3. I would like to be able to create folders in Favourites to manage the chaos a bit more as I find myself not switching tabs that much.

Thanks!

[Illusory]

After some testing, I wonder if the “Private” space under the Personal tab should be a true “Space”, in the sense that you can create databases within it.

Currently, I have a “for-me-only” Space in within Workspace and then I “favourite” it so that it is visible within the Personal tab. Seems a bit counter-intuitive. Wouldn’t it be simpler to have “Private” space act as a true Space where you can create new databases and dump data without cluttering “Workspace” or the Favourites section?

[Chr1sG]

Private database - my space

Hey, This is a feature I’m missing, coming from Notion. I’d like to create a database with content only visible to myself, to handle my personal task management (TODO list / GFD style). Unfortunately, at the moment I can only create a database in a space, which means all workspace admins have access to it. Only workaround I’ve found is to use my personal fibery/google account to hold this, but this a pain to use because fibery does not support 2 connections in the same browser.