Filter what is displayed on a tab

Thanks. I'm not so familiar with using commands. From what I know, I understand I have to create a button to execute these commands? Is there any way to associate the command with a view or a tab, so that it gets applied to the items in the tab without having to click the button every time? Was there a reason that the more advanced filter options that could be set using a UI as described in this thread have all been removed? That seemed like useful functionality. There seems to be no straight-forward way in DO to easily construct a complete definition of a "view" (columns to display, sort to apply, filters to apply, view type: icons, list, thumbnails, etc and the display scope: normal, flat, flat with no folders, etc) and then associate that with a tab, and have that persist wherever I navigate to in that tab. But this feels like something so obvious to want to do that I must be missing something obvious in all the powerful complexity of the software. Can you please help me to understand how to do what I just described? That would be much appreciated.