Date Filters for Custom Collections

Feature Requests
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The new custom collections feature is fantastic. It allows me to naturally use supernotes for a variety of workflows that I had to somewhat clunkily cobble together with tags, dummy parents, and temporary filters before.

Sorry to throw a feature request out so soon, but being able to specify a collection using date related filters (created, targeted) would make them even more useful.

Thanks so much for continuing to make a great application, @tobias and @connor!

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Happy to hear you’re enjoying Custom Collections @solsen. We considered that this would probably come up! The reason this doesn’t work, as you’ve noticed, is that date filters are entirely missing as they’re handled by the daily views rather than filtering / collections.

So, we have two thoughts right now:

  1. Add a new date filter type. The drawback here is that it complicates things, as you’ll be able to create dates in multiple places. For example, you could create a “Today” collection and also a Daily view “Today”. Updating collections between days also becomes an issue.
  2. Scope collections using daily views / sidebar calendar. The advantage here is that if you’re in “Tasks” collection and press a day in the sidebar calendar, you can then see only the Tasks for that day and quickly switch between days (or even a range of days). However, this is then an extra step as you’d have to click on a collection and then filter by day.

This aren’t strictly separate features, it’s possible to do both. However we’d like to make dates as simple as possible as there’s already too many card date properties :joy:

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I prefer solution 2. Suppose someone has a custom collection with cards tagged “journal”. They could then filter journal entries by date or date range.

Or this could open up the possibility of filtering the task collection by “tasks with today’s date” or tasks “created the past week” etc.

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I would love to see date filters - and would prefer solution 2 as well. With that you could do a quick review of cards created in a specific date range.

We had that in the forum before: maybe a combination with the heatmap is possible so only the days matching to the filter are colored.

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I would also like to have date filters. Personally I think having date filters would solve most cases, even if you can “duplicate” your “Today” view, I think this should be fine and make things more flexible

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I’m quite new to SuperNotes (I only really started a few days ago), but I have already migrated almost 700 notes from my Obsidian vault. Now I’m adjusting to new workflows, which is working great!

One thing I noticed is the behavior of the Calendar widget. This feature is great (especially for the visual heatmap aspect), but when using a collection (essentially applying a filter to all your notes) and then using the calendar to pick a date, the filtering from the collection is lost. I would expect (and love!) if the calendar would extend the filtering applied.

For instance, I have a collection for my weeklies. These all have a targeted date of “Monday.” I would like to select my weeklies collection and then have the calendar update to this collection. This would allow me to navigate to a specific weekly note using the calendar and also visually check that I have weeklies for every week.

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Hi @mjax! Great ideas - there are some discussions going on that. Maybe you want to have a look