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When working in Fibery, we regularly juggle several things at once. Here is a typical workflow:
Navigating through this workflow in Fibery has been like kissing a cactus:
Cognitive load because of ever-changing context is unnecessarily high.
With panels the cactus turns into a tomato:
While there are straightforward practical benefits, the idea behind the multi-panel navigation lies deeper. With bi-directional links, the new navigation, and future Blocks we are making a tool that encourages questions:
The navigation reduces the friction to explore — our ideal user is a curious one.
We are influenced, among others, by Andy Matuschak and Szymon Kaliski as well as Obsidian and Innos.
However, unlike these tools for thought, Fibery holds structured relations. This means we can derive meaning from links and open panels differently depending on the context:
⬅️ going back to the source of knowledge: ex. many-to-one relation, back-reference.
➡️ digging deeper: ex. to-many relation, entity mentioned in rich text.
Left-right behavior is still an experiment though: maybe, predictability for an average user turns out to be more important — and we’ll always open new panels on the right.
In line with our dogfooding tradition, we’ve been using the multi-panel navigation within our team for a month before today’s release and the feedback has been suspiciously positive:
Now that I'm used to our multi-panel navigation, Notion drives me crazy without it.
Also, we announced the panels as an experimental feature and a few customers have been brave enough to enable it. This might be their real feedback or a product of some kind neural network:
Love the multi-panel navigation 😍 It's much faster for me now to navigate into things, and it's especially useful with the snappy navigation back and forth between collapsed panels on left and right side!
Re: Multi Panel - It great, zero desire to go back to the old way! When starting at the view level, it would be nice to support having that in the panel, so it's fast to toggle between an entity and a view.
the multi-panel is absolutely amazing and we can now work in fibery with 1 tab open instead of several! now if we could minimize tabs to get back to later, we'd have perfection. But even as is, it's an amazing improvement, love it!
While positive feedback is great, we admire honesty even more than kindness. Please send us your impressions via Intercom or community:
If you really hate the change, please feel free to disable the multi-panel navigation via experimental features while we are improving it.
Since it’s pretty hard to describe the panels behavior in a concise and clear manner, we had to get creative: