Nested spaces

Feature Request
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A really cool feature of outliners are that any block can become the title for a new “document”, by zooming-in. For example if you had

# Animals
- Wolves
  - They eat deer
- Cows
  - They eat grass

you can zoom-in and have a document like

# Wolves
- They eat deer

I think a feature like this for kinopio would be awesome. What I’m imagining: on any card, you can press a button, and it will bring you to a new blank “virtual space” with only one card in the center—the card you clicked on. This would make organizing ideas a lot easier. If something grows too large or too disconnected from the current space, you easily retain the existing connection and still have a new space to work with.

This can already be sort-of accomplished by manually creating a new space and using a link. But that has many issues:

  • It is extremely tedious
    • The space, initial card, backlink, and link have to be manually created
  • There’s no obvious link between a card and a space
  • It clutters the list of actual spaces
  • If you remove everything in a child space, you have to manually delete it
    • Virtual spaces don’t suffer from this, on account of them being dynamic
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It clutters the list of actual spaces

why would you not want the ‘subspace’ to be listed as a space?

muse (https://allume.com/) had a similar model, but it made retrieval very awkward if you wanted to get to something and you didn’t remember the golden path of where/how things were nested.

maybe another way to frame this is to ask , are your zoomed in spaces smaller in scope than a normal space? are they typically going to be simpler lists or data that could be captured as a card specific note or linear doc?

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for me, a space is something very large, i hardly ever create new spaces and mine tend to be rather large. in part due to the more linear way spaces are managed.

which as you can imagine having virtual spaces would let me clean it up a bit

i dont think retrieval should be a problem also, thats what search is for

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