Typed collections
Typed collection gives the ability to collect homogenous information with certain common attributes.
Ex: People, Bookmarks, Movies, Books, Wander list, Bucket list, Product Ideas, Content ideas, Quotes, Recipes etc
Properties
Property as the name suggests is a mechanism to add additional information for the nodes. As an alternative, we can add all the information in text format on our markdown. But, properties makes capturing this additional information and later visualizing it much better when compared to full text based information.
Example:
I can capture my recipe experiments in Recipes collection. I can choose to give rating or add date in markdown itself. Or I can choose to create properties like rating, date, ingredients etc.
Using properties will unlock possibilities like quickly capturing rating or date from mobile when I add my new recipe entry or later visualize my recipe experiments on a nice Calendar heat map etc.
Property types
| Property type | Description | Configuration options |
|---|---|---|
| Text | To capture simple text information | - |
| Single select | select from predefined options | 1. Default value 2. Grouping 3. Option color |
| Multi select | multi select from predefined options | 1. Default value(s) 2. Grouping 3. Option color |
| Number | to add numerical information | Default value |
| Rating | To quickly add a value in a given scale of range | 1. Rating avatar 2. Color |
| Checkbox | To add true or false kind of information | Default value |
| To add email address - checks for validity of the email address | - | |
| Link | To add a web address | - |
| Time tracking | To track time and have aggregate associated to it | Sync with Pointron |
Property categories
| Category of property | Description |
|---|---|
| Normal | Normal property types - requires user to set defaults and input values |
| Automatic | The property values will be automatically populated from the metadata. Ex: created time, updated time, location etc * Values cannot be edited by the user. |
| Universal | Similar to normal category but the property options are pre populated by Memotron so that user doesn’t have to do all that work. * Options cannot be edited. |
Use Universal properties to quickly create properties without the need to worry about creating select options etc.
Ex: Country, Currency, Language, Movie,
Extending a type
Extend an existing type to make use of a base collection to have derived collections with different properties.
Ex: Base collection: People Extended collections: Authors, Entrepreneurs, Influencers, Public figures etc
Updated on February 26, 2025