List view of child notes

[msbentley]

I'm currently trying to move away from a combination of traditional note-taking software (Evernote) and a hierarchical outliner (checkvist) and would prefer to end up with one tool (open source and self-hosted).

So far I've been looking at Joplin and Boostnote on the note side, but then came across Trilium. I think it has the potential to fit both of my use cases, but I would love a more structured view of child notes (i.e. a list view of titles and creation/modification times, preferably with sorting).

Essentially an option to switch the "block" display of child notes to a table/list view would be amazing.

Thanks! Mark

[zadam]

So if I understand it, you'd like something similar to 3-pane design of e.g. Evernote or Outlook - where we currently have the tree pane, detail pane, but not the note-list pane.

Frankly, I'm not really convinced this would be that useful. My approach is to integrate all the navigation/manipulation of notes into the tree pane instead.

[msbentley]

I guess I wouldn't need a third panel per se but a way to order the child notes e.g. by date created, or date updated. The other change that would be useful for my workflow, would be to add the option to view the child notes as a list. i.e. instead of the blocks containing the title now:

to have something like:

(excuse the horrible copy'n'paste mashup!).

I am of course open to changing my workflow, and haven't yet explored all that Trilium has to offer. Typically in Evernote I "live" at the top of a list of notes ordered by recently changed, to pick up where I left off. Perhaps there is already a way to do this?

[pcause]

agree. like to see this view. also, if the not has no content and children can the top of the display be smaller so we can see moreof the children. when there is content you can switch the css applied to be one that shows more of the note

[Sytten]

I was looking for something similar, I think a a type similar to Book but only displaying the title of the the children nodes would be very clean.

[meichthys]

@msbentley I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but if you create a new tab and click the following button it will list the most recent pages you've edited:

Also, for what it's worth, the Ctrl-J shortcut is so easy that I hardly ever need to browse the tree to find a note anyway.

[msbentley]

Thanks @meichthys I'll give it a try.

[msbentley]

I also wondered if this could be implemented with using the API/scripting? I know very little js, but if it's in principle possible it could be an interesting learning experience...

[zadam]

Yes, with a custom widget. But this is not really documented so I can't recommend doing that ATM.

[msbentley]

Hi @zadam I saw in the last few months a bunch of commits referencing a list view, but I guess that didn't make it to the 0.46 beta? Is this anything like the above, or something different? Many thanks!

[zadam]

You can now switch the "children overview" into a list view:

[msbentley]

Ahhhh, great, thanks @zadam! I was looking in the note type drop-down and didn't see the extra icons! Great!

I'll leave this ticket open, if it's OK, because I don't see an option to sort (e.g. by created/updated time), which for me would be the final "icing on the cake" :)

[meichthys]

@msbentley I think you can sort. Not sure when the feature was added, but you can now sort by right clicking on a node in the tree:

[newmedicine]

You can now switch the "children overview" into a list view:

Has this functionality gone? I see can change #viewType=list/grid but the buttons aren't there any more

[meichthys]

@newmedicine Yes, i think the options are no longer there, but you can still add the #viewType attribute and then sort using the advanced menu item.

[meichthys]

This is handled using the viewType attribute as described in the wiki:

viewType - Allows setting the view of the child notes inside the editor to a grid or list. Possible values:

    grid - displays child notes in a grid
    list - displays child notes in a list

If you want to apply the view type globally, you an just add the attribute to the root note and make it inheritable.