One of the challenges of developing a system like Fibery (or indeed Notion and other similar things) is that there can be many ways of doing something and, before they are implemented, there are many ways to even conceive of accomplishing the goals of some group of users.
What you’re suggesting here would seem to map fairly well to the way I see embedded Views working:
In particular, and as an extension to that idea, if there were a way to (optionally?) show a “loose” or “ad-hoc” relationship between an Entity and any View that embedded it (this could just be in the existing References section, but it might be beneficial to have it separated out, I’m not sure).
Looking at the above feature request, would it address your need here, and if not, what is it lacking? I ask because I think embeddable views are an extremely flexible way to solve a variety of challenges, including (potentially) this one. Whereas I don’t see a clean and obvious solution to what you’re suggesting. Although…
OK, I just had another thought. Which is a pretty radical change to how Fibery works, so probably not likely to be implemented. But… What if we had a “switch” (toggle) at the top of the Entity view that toggled between edit or “linking” mode, and view/reference mode. In Edit/Linking mode you’d see every field, relationship, etc. regardless of whether there was anything in it. While in view/reference mode you’d only see fields that had data, including relations. And perhaps you could control globally for your user account whether entities defaulted to View or Edit mode.
Hmm… Like I said, it’s a radical change, but I’m curious if there is any nugget of value in it. It’s a simple-seeming thing that could actually help address a number of other challenges outlined here in the forums… @mdubakov any thoughts?