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by ricg 1733 days ago
Thanks for your feedback! The spreadsheet view works in combination with metadata fields.

Let's say you have a number of notes for your contacts. You tag each note with #contact and add a few fields like "Name", "Department", "Diet".

Type #contact into the location bar to find all contacts and switch from there to the spreadsheet view.

You'll get a list of your contacts and you can quickly tell who is a vegetarian, for example. Great for planning a party (once in person meetings are a thing again).

Another neat thing:

Add a new note and add the tag #contact. The right sidebar will now suggest fields and headings that you used in other contact notes. This way you can use the same fields to keep your notes consistent.

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Really nice design; do you have a “rename field” action for editing all those metadatas across matching tags at once?
Not yet, but that's on my list. Same for headings. I'm still debating if I implement this as a separate "rename" feature or instead implement a project-wide search and replace.