Thoughts collection issues

Hey!

New user, finding that “parent cards” are not disappearing from the thoughts collection at all.

Perhaps I’m overthinking things. Do cards need a parent as such?

Also my lifeOS collection is showing only one card and if I select other items and tags in the filter- my one card disappears despite having the tag I select!

Hi @G91Productive, welcome to the Supernotes Community :tada:

I’m guessing you’ve not added any content to the parent cards, and are just trying to use them like folders. Since they have no content, they’re still classified as thoughts. Try writing a little summary of what you’re trying to achieve with that parent card within it, or adding a few links to important child cards that are housed inside – giving you a way of navigating to them faster.

If you share your lifeOS collection with us below, I’ll happily have a look and see where it might be going wrong :slight_smile:

Thanks for the reply, so I have my lifeOS 2.0 attempt at collecting all my life notecards here in this collection.

Now that I reimpliment this I can apply the filter and one notecard shows as expected with that same tag applied. Oddly though if I add more filters for different tags it fails to show them. Is this because there is no link to the cards with the tags? Do I need to make parent links to the cards I want to see in this collection?

I might be misunderstanding!

I shall try the content addition! Thanks!

Basically the minute I select two tag filters to show, I lose the one note I had under another tag! so its ok with one tag but the collection shows nothing as soon as I select a second tag to show in the collection.

Filters are logically combined by a logical AND by default. This means you will only see those cards in the noteboard that fulfil all of those conditions, i.e. cards that have both tags attributed.

If you want to show cards that come with one or the other tag, you can change the logic to OR, see screenshot.

However, given the situation where you view a collection, filters will not be able to somehow extend the base of cards that are shown, but rather narrow it down.

That being said, it is possible to define collections with an OR logic in place, if that is what you are looking for.

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Oh wow I cant believe I hadnt spotted that! doh!

Thank you ever so much! I cannot wait to utilise this for university projects too!

I wish I had this back when I was in university :wink:

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