Given that the new UI takes a departure from minimalizim , how about introducing an option where we can see our notebooks as tiles (current view) or ‘details’ (proposed new view option), similar to the different view choices one has in a file browser? When I search and get a lot of results, I would prefer to see a list of e.g. 100 notebook details as table rows w/o images sometimes, so as to focus on author, title, creation date, fork info, current version number, etc. maybe you can also offer small view tiles like a file browser?
Thank you for this platform, and thank you to this community.
Cobus
June 6, 2021, 5:05pm
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I think this is related to this feature request:
opened 11:35PM - 03 Mar 21 UTC
**Problem statement:** Currently notebook pages such as [@mbostock?tab=notebooks… ](https://observablehq.com/@mbostock?tab=notebooks) support two possible views, a "grid" of little squarish cards with a thumbnail and information below, or a "list" of rows with smaller thumbnails and information to the side. Unfortunately, the "list" view takes just as much or more space than the grid view (most of which space is blank), and has no other obvious advantages, making it largely useless.
**Proposed solution:** I'd prefer if the list view looked more like a GUI file manager list view, with information arranged in sortable columns, with a very small thumbnail. This would have the advantages of showing information much more densely, showing additional information not included in the grid view, supporting sorting by arbitrary columns, and possibly better supporting future features like multiple selections for applying notebook operations (say, applying a license, moving to the trash, or adding to a collection) to multiple notebooks at once.
**Bonus idea:** A row in a list view of a collection could include a disclosure triangle that would show all of the included notebooks underneath, like a folder in a GUI file manager list view.
**Partial workaround:** Implement a sortable table view in a notebook, e.g. [@mootari/sortable-notebook-list?username=mbostock](https://observablehq.com/@mootari/sortable-notebook-list?username=mbostock). Downside: this only supports published notebooks, so will not apply to the author's own unpublished/shared notebooks. It is also unlikely to be noticed by most site users.
Would suggest adding your thoughts there.
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Looks like @jrus already covered it all!
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