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[UI] Lists: nested UI is confusing and too busy.

Feature Request

While the list of Lists view is nice for surfacing information about the lists, the way you expand lists is not very usable as the nesting of Notebook views causes redundant UI elements and very limited display are for the list contents. A better model would be to have the Sidebar be a collapsed tree, where you can expand the Lists item and it would simply list the Lists there.

  • Clicking a list in the current List view would also open that selector in the sidebar

  • Selecting a list changes to a new dedicated view of the list contents

Current view:

Suggested: (please excuse my very crude UI hack)

Posted by liquidmantis ·
Status: Completed8 comments

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  • Sasha changed status to Completed
    Team•

    Dec 2, 2025

    Pinned

    Its live.

  • Liya

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    Dec 2, 2025

    Hi,
    Yes, we were thinking the system is not ideal. You are right, and I will implement the change now.

    • liquidmantis

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      Dec 2, 2025

      Shazam! I like it! I do think it would be nice to still have the old view of lists when you just click on the List parent item though. Then you can see the info about the lists themselves like before.

      • Sasha

        Team•

        Dec 2, 2025

        But besides, the count.. which is displayed in the sidebar, idk what it was bringing exactly

        • liquidmantis

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          Dec 2, 2025

          Where can you edit lists now? There’s no way to rename them, modify the icon/color, or the description. The List view was treating them as first-class objects.

          • Sasha

            Team•

            Dec 2, 2025

            If you go on one you will have all things to edit it on it

            • liquidmantis

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              Dec 2, 2025

              Here’s a Verb list I created. There’s no visible way to edit it to add an icon, for example.

  • liquidmantis

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    Dec 2, 2025

    It’s probably not very obvious, but that “V” to the left of Lists is supposed to be the typical pivoting caret symbol used for folding UI elements.