Custom lenses

Create dynamic lists of related pings.

July 13
- Thinking about lenses more intently has me wondering whether the experience might be lighter if the UI only showed the lens you were currently viewing rather than the carousel that we currently present.
- I'd love for lenses to be more place-like, distinct...
July 7
- I can see a future where different lenses behave differently
  - Maybe the lens in which the pings I currently "placed" in capture enables me to manage those things (e.g. remove, re-order, etc.)?
July 3
- I’d like to be able to configure the order in which lenses are shown
June 30
- What might it look like to customize the look and feel of a lens…to make the space feel more embodied…
- I’d love some suggestions I could consider creating lenses for upon landing in search
June 29
- Would it make sense to pre-fill capture with lens query if you tap capture from within lens?
- Kinda nice to swipe through saved lenses and remember - at a high level - what’s been on my mind
June 22 (Day 0)
- I’d like to see how many pings a search returns so that I can get a sense for how big/durable/meaningful the search query is.
  - Read: am I likely to use this? Do I talk about this often?
- Wow: @daughter search brought me back to the ping about the bike seat…
- I’d love for the search page to offer some kind of suggestions so that I can think of lenses I might considering saving…

As of mid-July (2025), I've been using the 6 default lenses we seeded the app with:

In this time, a few things have surfaced:

I (and other Practitioners) noticed themselves wanting to see "all pings" immediately rather than "re-pings" as we initially configured to show first upon navigating to browse from capture
Practitioners have expressed curiosity/uncertainty about when/why to revisit Pings
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In response to "1."

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