November 20, 2025 / 🧑‍🎨 Gallery view, Open and preview files, Fibery AI: Build v2.0

[Renato_Carvalho]

@mdubakov

It will be added in the next release (Gallery View as Relation view)

Great to hear! I have big plans with gallery view as relation view

[nathan_jay]

Nice update!

@mdubakov

Long-awaited Gallery View is live today

Great addition. Just one thing, I can’t resize and move around the focus point for the uploaded image. If I upload a headshot they are cut off and no way to centre them without a lot of trial and error to resize the original photo.

@mdubakov

We decided to re-write it from scratch and implement multi-agents architecture. Today we’re releasing this new fresh and shiny version. Here are the main differences that you will notice:

• It works 2-3x times faster
• It makes no stupid mistakes

Awesome! Up to now I thought it was pretty good overall. It was slow it was good at using vague questions and interpreting the schema and giving well structured responses. Not so much with automations. I’m keen to test out the update and for “Report Agent”.

One thing I have thought about is the similarity with the agent browsers like Comet. It would be great to have something similar. For example I find myself trying to type a formula (which is really difficult btw) and would like to ask AI to simply “fix this” and the browser/agent has context. Like the persistent floating button (Intercom), or Cursor chats can pick up docs and active tabs/windows for context, or similar to highlighting text anywhere then a pop up with formatting options. Then you wouldn’t need all the “Generate with AI” buttons around the UI and instead have an “always available” AI assistant.

@mdubakov

We are not done here. New Files units will make it way better

Does this mean multiple Files will be displayed similar to a List View? Yes!

@Eva_Folch

I love the preview! Amazing! But, for me, Lightbox is a step back. I have to close the file to be able to copy or check what I have in the Entity

Yes exactly. For example, maybe a PDF is attached by an automation and then someone needs to check that specific details are contained in the PDF. Side by side view is needed to visually scan both PDF and Entity.

There are also plenty of times when I don’t want that although lightbox just feels inconsistent with the rest of the behaviour. Everywhere else seems to click Entity > open panel on the right. And more clicks and deeper nesting continues to open panels on the right; I’m used to that.

Also the lightbox only fires up if I click from the “thumbnail preview” mode and not “URL” in cases the File field in the properties. I expect preview to fire up in all cases unless I specifically click “download” or “open in new tab”

[Cddd]

I love the Gallery view. Would you consider allowing the Gallery to be shared publicly?

[mdubakov]

Unfortunately it is very hard to do, as with all other views. There are minimal chances it will be done next year.

[mdubakov]

@nathan_jay

Great addition. Just one thing, I can’t resize and move around the focus point for the uploaded image. If I upload a headshot they are cut off and no way to centre them without a lot of trial and error to resize the original photo.

Did you try Fit setting? Also in next release we are going to add Portrait | Landscape cards (now it is Landscape only)

[mdubakov]

@nathan_jay

One thing I have thought about is the similarity with the agent browsers like Comet. It would be great to have something similar. For example I find myself trying to type a formula (which is really difficult btw) and would like to ask AI to simply “fix this” and the browser/agent has context. Like the persistent floating button (Intercom), or Cursor chats can pick up docs and active tabs/windows for context, or similar to highlighting text anywhere then a pop up with formatting options. Then you wouldn’t need all the “Generate with AI” buttons around the UI and instead have an “always available” AI assistant.

This is a very nice idea consistent with our AI in Context vision. We are thinking about it

[mdubakov]

@nathan_jay

Does this mean multiple Files will be displayed similar to a List View? Yes!

Overall, we will bring Files into all views, like Table, List, etc. And on Entity itself you will have more options to present them as well

[Rasto]

Great updates! Especially looking forward to using the Gallery View and Fibery AI in its new cloak.

[nathan_jay]

Oh no I didn’t see that it sounds like that would fix the problem. But I just tried to and couldn’t find it anywhere?

[mdubakov]

Try this one, I did not spell it correctly

[nathan_jay]

Thank you! It was hidden, I didn’t realise I had to select the database dropdown again. Yes it definitely helps but I’ll still need to crop my original image

[Viktar_Zhuk]

I guess, you can use the same undocumented api/images api.

[jandrabek]

Would be nic to be able to select image ratio.

[mdubakov]

in next release we are going to add Portrait | Landscape cards (now it is Landscape only)

[Lee_Denny]

@mdubakov

Portrait | Landscape

Square might also be useful (eg for headshots and logos)

[bear]

@Viktar_Zhuk

Thanks! @RonMakesSystems just helped me with something and I now see that I can console.log things (I printed things first to html). That makes developing a lot easier, I will use this newfound ability to trial-and-error my way to get these thumbnails appear in my PDFs. Edit: unfortunately it doesn’t work in the PDF generator - I can’t do console.log there and make the messages appear

Ron helped me use an API from CloudConvert to shrink PDFs. Works like a charm! So thanks Ron and also for the rest, if you have this need you have a way to do this, try is yourself or hire Ron!

It’s still nice to shrink the images, because generating the PDFs takes a lot of time if there are a lot of high resolution images which is not the best user experience.

[Oshyan]

First and foremost this is a fantastic release. Love gallery view and love the new AI approach! Multi-agent totally makes sense. I’m excited to see what you’ll do with a whiteboard agent!!

@mdubakov

We’ve removed all data sources except Fibery, since they were astonishingly unpopular (less than 80 reports were created).

I can’t say whether this was the right call, probably it was. But I’m not at all surprised that Fibery data was the by-far most popular source. No one could have hay any idea that Fibery could do reports from e.g. Google Sheets or other sources until they went to create a report, and why the heck would they think of Fibery in the first place if they had a need for a report from some other data source? Nobody is in Google Sheets and thinks “Hmm, I want to make a nicer report. I wonder if the totally separate database and project management tool I use can do that.” But they might be excited to know that it does! I for one did use a Google Sheets-sourced report and if Fibery had better ( Google Sheets Integration ) ( Integration to Google Sheets: Import table to Fibery ) then I probably would have used it more.

I’ve suggested before the approach of “Fibery is your hub and data ‘multi-tool’” which could easily have included a campaign around how Fibery can extend other tools. Before Notion had Charts it could have been a huge differentiator “Connect with Notion, visualize its data in fancy ways”, and Fibery’s charts are still better than Google Sheets once you have any complexity. To get any adoption you would have had to do some promotion on it, specifically. I still think making charts with other data sources was a great feature that was just underrecognized and underutilized. But it’s also fair that I mostly only visualize Fibery data.

@RonMakesSystems

Also out of curiosity, was it considered to use the two-panel navigation to open files instead of a lightbox? This would allow to maintain context, make edits to entity, write notes, as you have the file open. This might not be relevant when the new Files Unit in entity view is released for a to-one file. then the entity itself acts like the file, so to speak.

Love this idea! Maybe a preference or an alt/option-click kind of situation, or even a pop-up set of buttons with options similar to the Search where on-hover it gives you regular Search (current pane) and options for Left/Right pane Search.

@nathan_jay

Like the persistent floating button (Intercom), or Cursor chats can pick up docs and active tabs/windows for context, or similar to highlighting text anywhere then a pop up with formatting options. Then you wouldn’t need all the “Generate with AI” buttons around the UI and instead have an “always available” AI assistant.

Also a very cool idea and a potential real differentiator for Fibery AI! Not sure how hard it would be to implement but I love this conceptually.

@mdubakov

What are your thoughts about it? Why not Notion or Obsidian?

I have 5000 thoughts on this and could suggest a marketing campaign around it too… (e.g. “Notion makes your PKM pretty, Fibery makes your PKM useful”). But I’m also a weirdo, clearly the market likes Notion (I use it for my other business but constantly encounter friction).

@Pinnau

Yeah, columns in rich-text-fields would be nice in Fibery but it is not essential.

This does actually already exist, though it’s not as (theoretically) powerful or flexible as Notion.

[Fede_Vela]

Hi everyone! this update is great, but im looking for some details that can be improved.

1 - When you select “Display as LIST”, then droping items is a litlle hard to do, like is no the square that is on the thumbnail, you have to aim with the mouse to find the place to drop the items…. It should be great to have an square to drop the items like we have on thumbnails option…

2 - Im thinking it should be a great idea to have an “Sort by ….” in this section of the Files…
So we will be able to sort items by Name (AZ - ZA), by adding date, by size, etc…

Thanks!!!

[helloitse]

@Oshyan

I’ve suggested before the approach of “Fibery is your hub and data ‘multi-tool’” which could easily have included a campaign around how Fibery can extend other tools.

What makes the sudden depreciation much harder to stomach is that we’re losing functionality without any meaningful alternative. Fibery does not have a simple integration building framework like Coda Packs do or a thriving third-party integration scene where users regularly deploy solutions for ingesting data from other services into Fibery natively.
Look at the popularity of the Stripe integration feature request for example.
I reached out to most partners early this year about paying for a Clockify integration and no one was ready for the work.

If we can’t easily bring data into Fibery, then why stop our ability to report on activities outside of Fibery. TBH, I would have expected that more services like Stripe, YouTube, etc be added to Vizydrop to supplement the gap in integrations.

It’s hard to build an operating system in Fibery when so much of the info regular businesses need (not just software developer businesses) is stuck on the outside.