Option to Flip the Direction of the Table View | Transposing of the table base view

Use case or problem

Right now table view only support

Title Author Rating Status
Book A Smith 5 Done
Book B Jones 4 Reading

Arrangment

Due to height, being conceptualy unlimited, but width being very limited, it is suited to
“Many notes” “few properties”
But not the oposite.

A fliped version of

Title Book A Book B
Author Smith Jones
Rating 5 4
Status Done Reading

would allow for much more freedom in that regard.
Important distiction here, is that it is a table, and therefore it supports editing of cells.

Purpose

Main reason for such design, is a “single note” bases
that allow for easy input of selected properties at any point in the note.
What is really usefull if there is a lot of properties you are using.

Proposed solution

After i look at it, it seems as an extreemly simple addition, that while can be created using a plugin, feels too minor to actualy justify a full plugin, and would make much more sence to be addes as a toggle for the default table view, in the core plugin.

Current workaround (optional)

was my vage attempt to vibe code it, what made me realise that is should be extreemly easy to add.

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To make this post easier to find, I’ll mention that “transposing” is a more common term to what you describe as “flipping direction”. And agreed, it sounds simple enough to have an additional “transpose” toggle in the “Configure view” pane.

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