# Inattentional blindness - search for views searches views across all tables - Wow, how cool!

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**Category:** Airtable Questions\
**Created:** [November 4, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/inattentional-blindness-search-for-views-searches-views-across-all-tables-wow-how-cool/970 "2023-11-04T21:39:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![itoldusoandso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@itoldusoandso](https://air.tableforums.com/u/itoldusoandso)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/inattentional-blindness-search-for-views-searches-views-across-all-tables-wow-how-cool/970/1 "2023-11-04T21:39:13Z")

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Call it _Inattentional blindness_.

Been Airtable user for 3y now but missed this. I didn’t know you can search for views across all tables and then switch them them … just like that. Just in case others didn’t notice.

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/tableforums/original/1X/4aed639a103b2477cba7f1918908b2dc01cfb23d.png)

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**Author:** ![Kuovonne](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/air.tableforums.com/kuovonne/32/17_2.png) [@Kuovonne](https://air.tableforums.com/u/Kuovonne)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/inattentional-blindness-search-for-views-searches-views-across-all-tables-wow-how-cool/970/2 "2023-11-06T16:40:38Z")

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Yup. You just have to be careful because if you don’t pay attention, you might change tables when you don’t want to. I tend to have a personal sandbox view in most tables, and I use this search functionality to find my sandbox view. However, occasionally I am in a table that doesn’t have a sandbox view yet (but I don’t know it), and when I search for my sandbox view, I end up going to a different table if I click before doublechecking that it is in the right table.

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**Author:** ![ScottWorld](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/air.tableforums.com/scottworld/32/5_2.png) [@ScottWorld](https://air.tableforums.com/u/ScottWorld)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/inattentional-blindness-search-for-views-searches-views-across-all-tables-wow-how-cool/970/3 "2023-11-06T23:09:43Z")

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Yes, I agree with @Kuovonne that this “feature” causes me a lot of ongoing pain.

This is because I usually have a view called “Scott Rose Test” in every single table, so when I’m playing around with filters & sorts when working on clients’ systems, that I don’t mess up any of their existing views.

But if I’m not paying close attention, Airtable will jump me to a completely different table and I’m completely confused for a bit until I figure out what happened.

I really wish they would remove this feature!

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**Author:** ![itoldusoandso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@itoldusoandso](https://air.tableforums.com/u/itoldusoandso)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2023, 5:27am UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/inattentional-blindness-search-for-views-searches-views-across-all-tables-wow-how-cool/970/4 "2023-11-12T05:27:10Z")

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Yah that is what I do too.  
I have too a sandbox view for every table, the view is called “Triage”. More pharmaceutical-scientific geeky name for the same thing haha.

And every view in every table starts with a short code for the table. If the table is called Inventory, then all views in that table start with INV, following whatever I call it e.g. INV - Triage, INV - Out of stock … etc.

The code galore doesn’t end here. Automations that get triggered by a table, have in their name the same code e.g. INV - … for automation that gets triggered in Inventory table.

Same goes for Extensions.

I like to organize. Airtable is extension of my brain 😀