My personal bookshelf in my pocket

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Hello all,

This isnt really me passing on a tip or two - its me asking how others might implement such a thing.

I have been using Supernotes as much as possible for the majority of my knowledgebase both for personal items and a little bit of side work too.

I also wanted to use SuperNotes as my own personal bookshelf since I have become a keen reader over the last few years. Was previously using Workflowy for it but since discovering SuperNotes and its beauty I wanted to implement a system here.

As you can imagine, with many different authors and titles there are several ways books can be organised in an app like SuperNotes. My current configuration is as follows but I am not set on it if I am honest.

I have three areas: Books Owned, Books Wishlist, Books read/completed.

Books Completed is one long numbered list on one card.
Books Owned is currently one long list on one card.
Books Wishlist is where I was experimenting because the list had gotten so long, it started as one card but got out of hand as my wishlist was forever growing as my love for reading is getting greater! So I started to experiment with the Wishlist.

Books Wishlist holding card with a few ideas of series of books and a few authors someone might tell me about but I have yet to find a title of a book for them.
Attached to the one card are additional notecards per author and listed on those cards are numbered lists for the books that they have released.

I like this approach for the wishlists but as you can imagine, I might have the same author on my owned list but those items are in that other singular list. I was considering an owned holding notecard and then seperate author cards attached but then I would have the same author with two notecards for different purposes. I guess this is where I might lean on this community for some ideas as to how I should or could better organise these cards!

Thanks in advance!

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The status read/unread or owned/wishlist could be a tag. That would make sense if you build a system where a book is represented by a card, which you can then organize within a card reflecting the author/publisher/topic by attributing that card as a parent.

You could drop your list cards in this, and restore a view of all your read or owned books using filters (or the collections feature).

One advantage of this system would be that you can collect literature notes as children of a book’s card.

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Aha so in theory every author and book has its own singular card? The differing feature that defines its status (read, owned, want) is a tag of its status?

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I think I might need a visual cue to better understand how I should be doing this :roll_eyes: its breaking my mind!

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Exactly. This could look sth like this.

Fiction
└ Book A #wishlist #unread
└ Book B #owned #unread
Neuroscience
└ Book C #owned #read
Authors
└ Author 1
  └ Book A #wishlist #unread
  └ Book C #owned #read
└ Author 2
  └ Book B #owned #unread

Note that while the Books appear multiple times in this tree hierarchy, in practise there would be a single card that has multiple parents.

Remember that this is not the “right” way of doing it, but just the way some random guy on the internet would probably implement it.

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Thank you, I will give this a go!

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