Bases: Temporary / Quick Search

Use case or problem

Bases currently allow for creating filters on views. In some cases, it would be nice to be able to filter based on properties you know are in the view. Imagine, for example, a view with books: It has a row for titles, a row for authors, and a row for series.

Sometimes, I might want to search up a specific series or author, without creating an entirely new view for this.

Proposed solution

Allow for searching through CTRL/CMD+F or add a search box at the top of the base. This could either be normal text based search, or use a similar format to the filtering used for base view filters and/or graph view filter. However, it would not be persistent.

Current workaround (optional)

Create temporary filters and delete them later, or create very specific views.

Related feature requests (optional)

N/A

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Currently, views allow for predefined filters to narrow down records. However, this approach can be overkill for quick, ad hoc lookups. For example, in a base displaying books with rows for Title, Author, and Series, a user might want to quickly find all entries from a specific author or series without having to create a dedicated view or modify existing filters.

Does my FR here to quickly enable/disable filter groups (Bases: Quickly enable/disable filter groups via buttons) serve as a decent solution to this problem? You could make a filter group per author or whatever, and quickly enable/disable it as needed.

Here are some mockups:


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