Better Document Organization
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Daniel Funk
When you use the app for mainly mortaring like I do (and I’m sure many others do), it gets very easy for the notes to get cluttered. I would love to see nested folder support, possibly tags for types of documents and the ability to organize the order of the documents within a folder the way I want them instead of last opened.
Alex Louden
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We made a first pass at better document organisation in Flow version 2.6: https://moleskinestudio.com/new/en/flow/2.6/
You can order documents automatically by name, viewed at, updated at, or choose a custom sort order by dragging documents into the order you'd like them in.
You can also pinch to zoom out and view a lot more documents at once.
Please let us know your thoughts!
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Daniel Funk
Alex Louden: It’s definitely better but still not quite where I was meaning. I’m looking for nested folders, like a folder within a folder (folder-caption, if you will). I have probably around about 100 folders by this point and would love to be able to clean that up a bit and drag folders into another folder. Doesn’t have to be infinite levels deep, just the main level > folder > folder > document would be great!
Alex Louden
Daniel Funk: Ah thanks for elaborating! Would you mind creating that as a separate Canny post, so we can track it? I'll give it a vote too - that sounds useful! :)
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Daniel Funk
Alex Louden: Nested folders was actually the original intent for this post, I did mention it in the description but I guess it got lost because everyone in the comments is talking about the tags 😅 I saw that someone already posted about this here as well: https://bonobo.canny.io/flow/p/folder-structure-for-collections
Pete Padilla
Yes!! I use Flow as my work notebook so sorting by date created to be able to go back to a specific date would be a life saver.
Spencer H
Yes, simple folder structure is a must! I do a combination of design and coaching work. I do documentation of idea and client sessions but it just gets really cluttered in Flow so have considered switching to another product. I’d like to be able to select a folder which would just open up to any documents in that folder and have them not arranged by last opened but by name of file. Thanks for working on this!
Ben Hamey
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This is something we are working on at the moment and will share more details soon.
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Elisa Alexander
Ben Hamey: yes please! I understand why having your most recently viewed document move to the top can be useful, but for my school notes I want to keep them in chronological order. Anytime I open an older document to review, it messes up the entire order. Please please prioritize this update, thank you!
Pete Padilla
Ben Hamey: Any updates on this? It’s been 3 months since we last heard about this being in progress.
Spencer H
Ben Hamey: I’d love to see things in a folder where I could see more items. For example, it could be a list view of titles or just a view w/ smaller icons. It is helpful to visualize the whole content of a folder versus scrolling through many pages vertically to find what I need. The ordering would be best ‘fixed’ in place as well. It is very easy to get mixed up when things move to “most recently opened” order instead of being in a certain reliable location.
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Cristian James
Please, please add the ability to change which Collection a note pertains to - if you start taking notes in the wrong collection, you're out of luck right now because there's no way to add it to an existing Collection after you've created it.
Marianna Carrera
Cristian James: you can drag and drop it on another collection (I'm using Flow 2.5.1)
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Cristian James
Marianna Carrera: Thank you for letting me know!
Rica
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Make “Collections” more like tags
David Sharpe
Allow me to assign multiple tags to a flow. For example, I’d like everything to stay in my “Timepage” collection but would also like to differentiate work, school, and personal.
Rica
Merged in a post:
Tags to divide and access “sections” in Infinite Board (bookmarks?)
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Manuel Lora
Adding a flag or tag to divide a section in the infinite board. One scenario: I’m working in multiple features of an app, I could identify easily each one if they were tagged and I’d had a way to click a button while exploring in the “infinite horizontal/vertical scrolls”. Instead of looking for a keyword manually I could just have the document divided in parts.
Rica
Merged in a post:
Tags
neto from Brazil
Would be nice to have the ability to add tags for searching. Hard to find documents without searching engine.
Rica
Merged in a post:
Search function for inserted text or tags
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Bernard Chow
Allow us to insert text and also #tags and then allow a search function to locate the right notes
Rica
Merged in a post:
Text search within notes
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Matthew Ringer
Would like to be able to search for words within notes. For example if I searched ��to do” it would return any note with “to do” in them
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