Databases

One dataset, many views

A database in Atlas is a collection of pages with shared properties. The view only decides how these pages are shown:

View	Shows	Good for
Table	all properties as columns	overview, sorting, filtering
Board	cards in columns by status	workflow, kanban
Gallery	cards with cover	visual collections

Properties

Every property has a type. The most important ones:

• Text and Number
• Select with coloured tags (blue, green, orange, purple)
• Person with avatar
• Date
• Progress as a bar from 0 to 100 %

Filters and sorting

Filters belong to the view, not to the database. Two boards on the same database can therefore show completely different entries.

Example: board by status

{
  "view": "board",
  "groupBy": "Status",
  "filter": { "Area": "Concepts" },
  "sort": [{ "property": "Due", "direction": "asc" }]
}

Relations

A property of type Relation points to another database. Rollups compute across it – for example the sum of all open tasks of a project.