Saturday April 22, 2023; 10:38 PM EDT
- Fields in Tana are quite powerful. #
- You can create a set of default fields for Supertags, and they will automatically be suggested below the node as soon as the Supertag is assigned.#
- The problem: They are distracting! #
- Structured data is great; but sometimes you just want to focus on the text. #
- For Fields to feel really good for me in Tana, they need some enhancements around visibility. The following might help:#
- Ability to adjust the default show/hide preferences for a field for each Instance of that field.#
- e.g. I may want "Area" to be "show when empty" on a project, but "always hide" on another Supertag.#
- Ability to quickly toggle the visibility of all fields on a node. #
- i.e. collapse them, without collapsing the sub-node contents.#
- This should be assignable to a keyboard shortcut (which is easy to do as long as its in the Command Line.#
- Ability to adjust the show/hide default for a particular session. Like adjusting light/dark mode.#
- When I'm writing-focused, for example, I want to be able to enter a "hide all fields, unless I toggle them on for a node" mode. #
- In summary:#
- Adjust default show/hide for each instance of a field (on different supertags).#
- Ability to toggle the collapse status of fields per node.#
- Ability to toggle the default collapse status of fields globally.#
- Currently, I don't use Fields as much as I could be, due to their overwhelming presence. I believe these changes would help users get the most of Fields, while allowing them to fade into the background when possible.#