A problem I frequently run into is that (shared) notebooks I create in response to topics on talk.observablehq.com clutter my own notebook index. I have no interest in keeping these around, but moving them to the trash makes them inaccessible. I’d love to see a feature to hide a notebook from my ow…

@mbostock Any thoughts on this request?

Yes, I have this problem too. :slight_smile: We don’t have an immediate solution, but we are looking for ways to better organize your notebooks—something beyond just public collections of published notebooks. I like the idea of “resolved” or “hidden” notebooks which are still accessible by link but …

It’s really inspiring to be a member of this community as Observable so rapidly grows and develops. Since we’re on the the topic of organizing private notebooks, I’d like to bump a related feature request from awhile back: enabling search within one’s own private, non-shared notebooks: …

[image] aaronkyle: … This might be an alternative solution to cutting through ‘clutter’ in one’s non-public notebooks. It would certainly be a useful enhancement, but does not solve my use case: I have several unfinished notebooks that I leave lying around for weeks or months at a time. Witho…

[image] mootari: Edit: A more flexible alternative to yet another fixed category might be the ability to organize notebooks in custom categories. Tags would be an alternative to categories that can also be integrated into a search. I like this idea too - even allowing for grouping private not…

Bumping this feature request, because frankly with every new notebook I’m one step closer to just deleting the whole bunch.

If you want to hide your shared notebooks, you can go here (replace my login with yours in the URL): https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock?types=public&types=private That’s our solution for the near future. There’s a huge amount of other stuff we are working to release, and we appreciate you wan…

[image] mbostock: That’s our solution for the near future. There’s a huge amount of other stuff we are working to release, and we appreciate you want certain improvements, but please be patient. That won’t work for my case, because many of my in-progress notebooks are also shared. But since I…

Updated the topic title to (hopefully) better reflect what is requested.

Feature Request: Unlist a shared notebook

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mootari May 30, 2019, 8:36pm 12

I’m marking this topic as solved because the recent addition of private collections provides a reasonable workaround.

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Feature Request: Unlist a shared notebook

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