Filters That Stick: Make Your Artifact Remember Your Choices

You open the live project page you built earlier in this series. It loads, pulls fresh numbers, and shows you everything: every project, every owner, sorted by name.

But you never look at everything. You look at your team's work, due this week. So you click the filter, narrow to your team, set due-this-week, sort by deadline. Three clicks. Now the page is useful.

Tomorrow you open it again. Every project, every owner, sorted by name. Three clicks again. You've done this maybe twenty times.

The page isn't being stubborn. You never told it to remember.

The fix is one sentence added to how you build it.

#The reconfigure tax

A filter is a choice about what to see. A live artifact re-fetches your data every time you open it (that part the first articles in this series already solved) but it renders that data into whatever starting view it was built with. So every session, you re-apply the same narrowing by hand.