Custom fields
The seven field types, required fields and the closure window, and default fields that every new list inherits.
A custom field records something about every item in a list beyond its title — a rating, a release year, a director, a due date, a set of tags. Fields are defined per list, from list settings, and can be dragged into the order you want them shown.
The field types
- Text — any words.
- Number — stored as a real number, so it sorts and exports as one.
- Date — shown in whichever format you chose in Settings.
- Tag — several free-form values per item; you type new ones as you go.
- Dropdown — one value from a fixed set of options you define.
- Multi-select — several values from that fixed set.
- Rating — stars, on a 1–5 or 1–10 scale.
The difference between tag and multi-select is who decides the vocabulary: a tag field accepts anything you type, a multi-select only the options the field was given.
Required fields
Any field can be marked required. That does not block you from adding an item — capturing the title quickly is the point of the add bar — it blocks completing one: marking an item done opens the closure window and asks for the required values that are still empty.
Default fields
If every list you make ends up with the same three fields, define them once in Settings → Default fields. Every newly created list is born with a copy of them.
They are a template, not a link: editing the defaults later does not reach back into lists that already exist, and editing a list's fields never changes the defaults. That is deliberate — a retro-active change would silently reshape lists you had already curated.
Fields on the catalogs
Kufaryk kinds, the Kinaznautsa film catalog and the Guliona game catalog each have their own field sets, using these same seven types. Film and game fields are yours alone: the catalogs are shared, but nobody else sees the fields you define on them or the values you type. What is extra there is where a field shows and who owns its value — on the catalog card, on the linked list items, or both — which is what lets you rate the same film differently each time you rewatch it. Those pages explain it.
What happens to values when a field goes
Deleting a field sends it to trash with every value it held. Restoring it brings the values back too, attached to the same items — not an empty column.