Summary:
I can only filter by tags but what would make most sense for me is to filter by parent cards.
Details:
I use parent cards for projects, areas, resources - using PARA method by Tiago Forte (see attachment). So one card almost always has 2-3 parents: project, resource (topic), area. I do it because cards are hierarchical while tags aren’t manageable enough for this. I use tags for consistent metadata like #document or #in progress. Power of networked note-taking is in discovery of connections. Now it’s very limited for me in Supernotes Overall, Supernotes are super, though
Great feature request @nikita.korobkin! Love the clear layout, really helpful for us.
This makes a lot of sense. We will overhauling Filters to be a lot more flexible in a future update – to support more data types such as parents and dates as well as have nesting support. Looking forward to sharing this with you!
Fellow PARA user here, and I came to make this request as well.
Supernotes’ multiple-parent hierarchy is a great fit for the paradigm: a weekly team meeting could be a child of cards for the team (implemented as an area), discuss a project, and be tagged with the attendees (implemented as
Being able to filter like described would put the ability to find things in a PARA system over the top.
Any news on parent filters? Is it still being worked on? Is it in planning stage. Is the team still convinced on implementing it, even if not right now?
Tags aren’t really manageable at scale, (think of people tags or even worse, topics and subtopics). I really think this feature request adds a lot of power to existing features, doesn’t require any new complexity for novices, and fits perfectly with one of the key features of SuperNotes that really sets it apart from other competitors it’s awesome multidimensional hierarchy
We’ve already been testing this internally. We were waiting to release this with custom collections, but may add it sooner.
I can confirm that the highly anticipated View Depth feature will be arriving in the upcoming 2.4 release, so it would make sense to be able to filter by parent as well.
Hi Tobias, I’ve just joined Supernotes and this is great news! Are you able to tell me how to actually search for notes with multiple parents? Or is that not possible, can you only search for one parent at a time?
For example, if I have many notes about servers, where all have a parent of ‘server’ and some have a parent of ‘dev’ or ‘test’ or ‘prod’ etc. How would I then find all notes that have a parent of just ‘server’ and ‘prod’?
Currently I’m resorting to hash tags as this allows the AND operator so that I can find all notes with the tags of ‘#server’ and ‘#prod’. But this is double entry as I already have the parents set up
So, if I can search for notes with multiple parents with the AND operator that would save me much work. Thanks in advance Tobias!
You can indeed filter by two parents and then see all the cards that share those parents, to do so just right-click on a card or a card name in the Outline – to then see the “Add as Parent Filter” option. Add both the “Server” and the “Prod” cards as filters, to see all the common child cards.
I just tried this and it works perfectly, thank you for your quick reply. I currently use Workflowy, but from what I can see with Supernotes, I think that I will now be switching. You have an amazing product and I believe that it will go a long way towards organizing my personal and work life.
One last question, how can I filter by the title words in cards within the Filter menu rather than right clicking on a card? What I mean is, can I filter by just searching the Titles of cards? Thank you!
You can filter by title by typing any search term into the filter menu. After that a filter result with a magnifying glass icon will appear. However this filter includes both the title and the text content of a card, not just the title. There is currently not an easy way to filter only by title in the filter menu.
That said what you can do is open up the “Universal Search” and click on the magnifying glass on the left side of the input. That allows you to switch between searching by all card properties, just card titles, just card contents, or just card tags. You can also press tab while in the Universal Search to toggle between these different modes.
If you want a custom collection rather than a filter, you can easily use the "name" filter type to create a collection that only considers a cards name (vs "markup" which is only for the text body and "content" which combines name and body).
Finally, if your goal was to actually filter by parent title, that is not currently possible with our filtering functionality.
Overall, Supernotes are super, though 
