Date Filters for Custom Collections

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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