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List View

List view is the default and most versatile way to look at a Closot database. Items are stacked in a clean, scrollable list, and every row is also a full page you can open and write inside. It works equally well as a complete overview of a dataset and as a home for collections where the content lives inside each page — research notes, reading lists, document archives, or meeting minutes.

Properties you've chosen to display appear alongside each item, so you can keep the layout as dense or as uncluttered as you like.

Create a List View​

New Full-Page List Database​

  1. Click + next to Private Pages, Public Pages, or a workarea in the sidebar
  2. Choose Empty database
  3. The database opens with a List view already selected

Inline List​

Type /list on any page and press Enter. The database appears as a block inside that page.

Add List View to an Existing Database​

  1. Click the settings icon in the database toolbar to open View settings
  2. Select Layout
  3. Choose List

To add a second view alongside the current one, click + next to the view name at the top of the database.

Bulk Editing​

You can select and edit several items at once instead of opening each one:

  • Hover over any row — a checkbox appears on the left
  • Click the checkbox to select that row
  • Click the checkbox beside the Title column header to select every row
  • Hold Shift and click a second row to select everything in between

Once rows are selected, an action bar appears with options to bulk-edit properties, delete, duplicate, or move the selected items.

Customization​

Rearranging Rows and Columns​

Rows: Hover over a row to reveal the ⋮⋮ drag handle on the left, then drag the row to a new position.

Columns: Click and hold a column header and drag it left or right. Resize by hovering over the right edge of a header until the resize cursor appears, then dragging.

Alternative ordering: Open View settings → Property visibility and use the ⋮⋮ handles to reorder properties without touching the headers.

Show and Hide Properties​

  1. Open View settings → Property visibility
  2. Click 👁️ to show or hide individual properties
  3. Drag with ⋮⋮ to set the order

Wrap Cell Content​

Long values are truncated by default. To let cells expand vertically instead:

  1. Click the column header of the property you want to wrap
  2. Select Wrap text

Cells then grow to show their full content across multiple lines rather than cutting off.

Calculations Row​

At the bottom of each column, Closot can summarize every value in that column. Available calculations depend on the property type.

Available for all property types: Count all, Count values, Count unique values, Count empty, Count not empty, Percent empty, Percent not empty, Earliest date, Latest date, Date range

Additional for Number properties: Sum, Average, Median, Min, Max, Range

To add one:

  1. Click the property column header
  2. Hover over Calculate
  3. Pick the calculation you want

How Pages Open​

Choose what happens when someone clicks an item:

  1. Open View settings → Layout
  2. Set Open pages in to Side peek, Center peek, or Full page

Side peek is the default for List view.

FAQs​