Table / spreadsheet functionality

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#12

Hey, thats amazing stuff… is it possible for me to use it (like a anki add on) ??

#13

Working on the release right now actually. :smiley: I’m ready soon™

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#14

Just to be clear on this: My snippets are just visual sugar to display normal rems in multiple colums or make them look like a table. This means:

  • Things like sortable or filter columns will never work (except with what is possible with the Automatically Sort Power Up).
  • And the table data must be written as direct children of the parent which is formatted as table/columns. It is not possible to collect it from template instances for example.
  • When using template instances (with descriptors) as content they still show the descriptors in a table cell. Of course they can be hidden (and only shown when focused) with even more CSS.

More powerful table support must be implemented as a plugin or builtin.

Keeping that in mind, which kind of tabular thing are you most interested in (see other replies for demos)?:

  • Columns - Plain and simple, like in Notion.
  • Column Tables - All children of a parent form a column with the children name used as the heading and its children as cells.
  • Row Tables - The first child and its children will be used as headings. All following are rows. (See “Groceries” example; this is the hardest to implement)
  • I don’t need any of these gimmiks. I want real tables!

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#15

To be honest, I’d probably avoid tables until they are properly implemented within Remnote (as you said, your solution is a temporary one).

#16

If I may make an argument for column tables: they seem like the most future-proof version, since they should maintain some readability even if they return to their outliner form. With your earlier worries about updates to css breaking things, this seems like the safest option. Great stuff as always!

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#17

I agree with you and Hannes. tables are vital in some use cases (not everything can be in the form of bullets). So it’s best if the RemNote devs actually go ahead and implement tables as a builtin functionality, with card features.
And as for the plain columns like Notion, I can’t tell you how much I want a table thing in Notion. Making an entire database for something like similarities and differences is really weird. And plain columns easily lose their row-height stability, so it’s not good for tables. And the lines are gone as well. I remember making tables like this in TiddlyWiki:

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Note that I can do alignment with spaces for horizontal, and ^ or , for vertical. that h or f in the end denotes headers and footers, which would work even if I put that h in any other row as well.
It’s simple and it works like magic. I was using TiddlyWiki before I found RemNote.
Maybe something like this could be done. Just an idea.

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#18

@Martin / @mattygrov I see a table in this screenshot. Does this mean we’re getting tables soon? :smiley:

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#19

Looks like just an screenshot of a table

#20

ETA for official table feature in RemNote?

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#21

I’ll just leave this here for fun and profit:

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#23

Hey did you post the css code (Regarding Spreadsheet functionality in RemNote) somewhere here? Because I cant find it. Could you post your implementation?

Thank you for your work!

#24

WIP: Table Layout is one possible CSS solution. If you only want side-by-side viewing, you can use the Columns layout from the Library.

Otherwise it is somewhere burried on my Custom CSS:

Here is the unpublished Custom CSS stuff from my main account: RemNote
There is also some more on my dev account, which I have not used in a while. It is not up to date with the latest markup changes: RemNote Something like data-rem-tags → data-rem-container-tags should get most things to working again.

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#25

@hannesfrank , I’d like to have a go at this table implementation. Did you publish it somewhere?

Note I’m referring to the one I’m replying to now (with each row being a different parent Rem), not the main one (which you probably already published).

#26

No, it’s not published but it’s somewhere in my Custom CSS for which I posted the shared articles a while ago in Discord’s developer channel.

It requires an update though because the CSS is from before the November 2020 update. I’ll clean it up and add it to WIP: Table Layout when I find time.

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#27

I would love to have the ability the add Plain Tables into a RemNote cell :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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#28

Almost one year later, and lack of a table/database view is still the main reason I haven’t moved to RemNote yet.

Is this being worked on? Any ballpark ETA?

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#29

H there! This is a request to have tables in remnote.
Thanks to CSS I’ve been able to make tables in remnote, which I found incredibly useful when trying to compare different pathologies.
With the new update, everything’s been lost and I can’t use tables anymore. I know there are more people affected and I think it would be wonderful to have tables again.
Thanks!!!

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#30

I have been waiting for 1.5 years for the table, used to use css workarounds, now that also doesn’t seem to work…

I just hope we get tables as an update

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#31

How much longer is it gonna take for Tables?

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#32

How much longer is it gonna take for Tables? x2 :worried:

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