We use views as a broad term in Capacities whenever content (one or many objects) is displayed in a certain way. We distinguish between object views, data views, and the graph view.

• Object views are what your individual notes look like when linked to elsewhere
• Data views are what your object types look like
• Graph view is the diagram of how notes connect

Object views

Object views are the views for a single object. Here are the different object view categories using the example of a location object, London.

Links can sit in two places:

• Inline — inside a sentence (underlined text with an icon)
• Block — on their own line or paragraph (small card, link block, embed, and so on)

Only block links use the views below. You pick the default link option in each object type’s settings. See Choosing a default link view.

Inline Links

Link Block view

Small card view

You can customize what appears on this small card view.

Wide card view

Embed view

Page view

Choosing a default link view

You can pick the default link option in each object type’s settings. Open the object type settings, then go to Configuration > Card view and linking and choose the view.

If you always want inline links, turn on Always create inline links in Settings > Editor.

You can still change any link’s view afterward from the block menu (... → Change view).

Data views

Data views are the views for a group of objects.

These views occur on many occasions, for example when displaying the content of an object type, query, a collection, or a tag. On phone, you only get list view. Gallery, wall, table, and embed are available on tablet and desktop. See Mobile.

The small card object view is used for wall and gallery views.

Table view

Table View is the most detailed of our data views. It shows you a bird's eye view of your objects, showing all the properties. It's great for reviewing your content.

You can customize your table view to get the exact configuration you need. Read about this here. A table shows a calculation in the column footer. List, gallery, wall, kanban, and embed show that result at the top.

Gallery view

Customize this following the small card customization docs.

Wall view

Customize this following the small card customization docs.

List view

List view shows the title and the tags. Open the customize menu in the top right to choose what that list shows.

Embed view

Calculations

A calculation summarizes one property across the objects in the view. You can add one in a list, a gallery, a wall, a table, a kanban, or an embed.

A table shows the result in the column footer. List, gallery, wall, kanban, and embed show the result at the top. When the view is grouped, each group shows its own result.

Click Customize view (the sliders icon), then Calculations, then Add calculation. Pick the property, then the calculation. In a table you can also click Calculate in that column's footer.

The menu only lists calculations that fit the property:

• A number can be a sum, an average, a median, a minimum, a maximum, or a range. A number can also show a unit, Compact, or a prefix and a suffix. Compact shortens a large number. See Number formatting.
• A date can show the earliest, the latest, or the date range.
• A checkbox can show how many are checked, or the percent that are checked.
• Other properties can be counted, including how many are empty.

On a query, the properties you can choose come from the object types in that query. Groups and calculations share this Customize view menu. See Group by for arranging the groups.

Graph view

See Graph view.

FAQs

• Can I link in text but have link block (or another view) by default?
  Pick the default link option in that object type’s settings. See Choosing a default link view. If you always want inline links, set that in Settings > Editor.
• How can I change my inline link to another view?
  If your link is underlined, click on it whilst holding down the Option key (Mac) or the Alt key (Windows). Click Turn into block. Then you will see the three-dot menu (...) on the right-hand side of the block. Click that, then go to Change view.
  To make that view the default for future block links to that type, set Default link view in the object type settings.