I absolutely love “Smart Overviews” – but as my list of searches has grown, it is becoming a bit unwieldy. I would love to see a way to organize types of smart overviews to group them together into categories. For instance, I have a smart overview for each of my team members, so I can easily look at all notes that include them. But as my team is growing so is the list. Same goes for specific tags or more complex searches.
There are a number of posts here already discussing this:
- Organize Saved Overviews into Folder,
- Sort Saved Overviews, which as of April 2024 seemed to be coming fairly soon (also discussed here)
- Add Saved Overviews to Categories
I believe allowing searches to be added to Categories would solve all of the issues discussed in the linked posts. People could either create a distinct category for smart searches (possibly with subcategories), or alternatively add them to existing categories (or both) as they prefer.
Categories and Subcategories are already existing concepts in Agenda and Overviews and Smart Overviews (if there are more than 5 saved searches) are visually identical in the sidebar with Categories and more or less act like these. Moreover, items within Categories can be easily sorted. Therefore, using Categories seems to me the most straightforward solution for organizing Smart Overviews (and therefore preferrable to adding Folders/Subfolders). And the “pin” icon would still allow us to easily differentiate them from projects.
Thank you for considering this!