Rethink Annotation Tab: Folders, Performance, Backend-Search, Sort with Dataset?

[fm3]

The Annotation Tab feels dated. Even if we don’t fully unify annotations with datasets, we should consider

• Introducing Folders
  • Possibly use the dataset folders, and put the annotations there with them?
  • Or use completely parallel folder tree for annotations?
• Speeding up the load-time
  • It takes three seconds to go from the annotation view to the dashboard annotation list, should be snappy
  • Is the reload needed?
  • Do we need to load 1000 annotations? Backend search and tighter pagination might solve that
• skeleton/volume/hybrid tag should go
• add right sidebar with details view like datasets tab? could list layers, sharing permissions, description, contributors

[MichaelBuessemeyer]

It takes three seconds to go from the annotation view to the dashboard annotation list, should be snappy Is the reload needed?

As far as I remember this is done to ensure an updated wk frontend for users who do not reload regularly by themselves. Closing an annotation and going to the dashboard view is a relatively frequent action that we use to reload to the newest frontend version :) -> Of course this could be done more complexly by checking in the background whether the frontend version changed and only reloading in this case :)