I agree with
@Chen both that there's a problem, and that there's a better way. Yes, it's a problem that you can't see a node's child nodes without also seeing that node's fields. I also think there's a better way.
Create an "Outline" view. That is, in addition to List, Table, Cards, Tabs, and Calendar views, add an Outline view.
The minimum viable solution for the Outline view would be to simply hide fields by default. Then the Tana team could add features to Outline view over time.
I can think of a couple of features to add, but these are beyond the basics.
One would be to allow users to show selected fields as nodes with a colon between the field name and the field's value, like "Author: John Smith." A series of auto-complete steps in the ctrl+k menu would accomplish this. The user would ctrl+k on a field and then type out the following:
Show field in Outline view: only this instance
Show field in Outline view: all instances in this outline view
Show field in Outline view: all instances in all outline views
The last option would change a toggle on the field's configuration page.
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I agree with @Chen both that there's a problem, and that there's a better way. Yes, it's a problem that you can't see a node's child nodes without also seeing that node's fields. I also think there's a better way.
I can think of a couple of features to add, but these are beyond the basics.
One would be to allow users to show selected fields as nodes with a colon between the field name and the field's value, like "Author: John Smith." A series of auto-complete steps in the ctrl+k menu would accomplish this. The user would ctrl+k on a field and then type out the following:
The last option would change a toggle on the field's configuration page.