Folder View

A table view over a collection of notes with sortable columns and grouping. Like a database for your notes.

When to Use

When you want a database-like overview rather than the linear sidebar list. Especially useful when notes have custom properties you want to compare side-by-side.

Columns

By default the table shows:

• Title
• Tags
• Created
• Modified

You can show / hide columns including any custom property:

• Click the column picker in the header
• Toggle each property on/off
• Drag headers to reorder

Property columns let you sort and filter by typed values (numbers, dates, select).

Sorting

Click any header to sort. Click again to reverse direction. ⇧+click for secondary sort (sort by A then B).

Grouping

Group rows by:

• Folder
• Tag
• Property value (e.g. all rows with Status: Live)

Group headers count rows and roll up subgroup counts.

Filtering

A filter bar above the table accepts:

• Free-text search across visible columns
• Property-specific filters (e.g. Created after: 2026-01-01)
• Tag filters (#tagname)

Active filters show as chips you can dismiss.

Tag values suggest themselves

A Tags contains (or does not contain) condition does not make you remember how a tag is spelled. Click into its value box and memrynote lists your five most-used tags, drawn as the same coloured pills you see everywhere else. Type and the list re-ranks on each keystroke, finding a nested tag by its last segment too — design surfaces work/design. ↑ and ↓ move through the list, Enter puts the highlighted tag in the box, and the table behind the popover narrows straight away.

Opening a row in a background tab

Middle-click a row — in the table, list, or gallery layout — to open it in a background tab, the same gesture the sidebar rows support. On a tag page this follows the row's kind: a task row opens Tasks and an inbox row opens the Inbox, exactly as a normal click would.

Density

A density toggle in the toolbar:

Density	Row height
Compact	minimal padding
Normal	comfortable
Spacious	extra room

Persisted per device.

Inline Editing

Click any editable cell to update a property in place. Supported types:

• Text
• Number
• Date
• Select / multi-select
• Checkbox

Some fields (e.g. created date) are read-only.

PDFs, images, and other attachments

A folder can hold PDFs, images, audio, and video alongside your notes, and they get their own rows in the table. Tags and properties live in a note's frontmatter, which only Markdown files have, so those cells are read-only on an attachment row: existing tags still display, but there is no remove control and the value cannot be edited. Renaming, moving, and opening an attachment work as usual.

Bulk Operations

Select rows with checkboxes for:

• Move to folder
• Add / remove tags (Markdown notes only)
• Set / clear properties (for editable types, Markdown notes only)
• Delete

The bulk action bar appears at the top of the table when rows are selected.

Dragging rows onto a canvas

With a canvas open in the other half of a split view, drag a row onto it to place it as a card. Drag one of several selected rows and the whole selection goes over, laid out as a grid; rows already on that canvas are skipped. This works in every layout and on tag pages too. To add a whole folder, tag or saved view without selecting anything, use Add card → Add all from on the canvas (see Cards & Links).

Saved Views

Save the current columns, sort, group, and filters as a named view with Add view in the toolbar. Switch between saved views from the same dropdown, duplicate one as a starting point, set one as the default, or delete it. Saved views persist across restarts and sync to your other devices.

Opening a tag (see Properties & Tags) shows this same folder view, scoped to that tag, with its own set of saved views — a "By status" view saved on tag work doesn't show up on tag personal. Renaming a saved view isn't available for tags yet; rename, duplicate, default, and delete all work normally.

Breadcrumb

If you opened folder view from a folder, a breadcrumb at the top lets you navigate up to parent folders. A tag-scoped folder view shows the tag instead, as a locked tag = <name> filter chip that can't be removed — it defines the view.

Staying Up To Date

A folder view refreshes itself as the vault changes, so you can keep one open in a split pane next to the note you are writing.

Rows appear, disappear, and move immediately when a note is created, renamed, moved to another folder, or deleted — whether you did it in Memry, another device did it and it arrived over sync, or you did it in Finder, Explorer, or Obsidian. Tag-scoped views update the same way when a note gains or loses the tag.

Row contents — Modified, word count, properties, title, emoji — settle a few seconds after you stop typing rather than on every autosave. Which notes are listed is never delayed; only their columns are.

See Also

• Properties & Tags
• Tabs & Split View — folder views open as tabs