diff --git a/oshipka/persistance/__init__.py b/oshipka/persistance/__init__.py
index 4b9e3e4..0ae08d7 100644
--- a/oshipka/persistance/__init__.py
+++ b/oshipka/persistance/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import datetime
+import json
 import os
 import re
 from json import JSONEncoder
@@ -6,10 +7,14 @@ from uuid import uuid4
 
 from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
 from flask_security import Security, SQLAlchemyUserDatastore
-from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declared_attr
+from markupsafe import escape, Markup
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declared_attr, DeclarativeMeta
 from flask_security import RoleMixin, UserMixin
 
 from config import SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI, MAKEDIRS, DATABASE_FILE
+from sqlalchemy.orm.collections import InstrumentedList
+from sqlalchemy_utils import Choice
+from tww.tww import solve_query
 
 db = SQLAlchemy()
 
@@ -61,6 +66,74 @@ class ModelController(ModelJsonEncoder):
     id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
     uuid = db.Column(db.Unicode, default=str(uuid4()))
 
+    _excluded_serialization = []
+
+    def serialize(self, with_=None, depth=0, withs_used=None):
+        """
+        Serializes object to dict
+        It will ignore fields that are not encodable (set them to 'None').
+
+        It expands relations mentioned in with_ recursively up to MAX_DEPTH and tries to smartly ignore
+        recursions by mentioning which with elements have already been used in previous depths
+        :return:
+        """
+
+        MAX_DEPTH = 3
+
+        def with_used_in_prev_depth(field, previous_depths):
+            for previous_depth in previous_depths:
+                if field in previous_depth:
+                    return True
+            return False
+
+        def handle_withs(data, with_, depth, withs_used):
+            if isinstance(data, InstrumentedList):
+                if depth >= MAX_DEPTH:
+                    return [e.serialize_flat() for e in data]
+                else:
+                    return [e.serialize_flat(with_=with_, depth=depth + 1, withs_used=withs_used) for e in data]
+            else:
+                if depth >= MAX_DEPTH:
+                    return data.serialize_flat()
+                else:
+                    return data.serialize_flat(with_=with_, depth=depth + 1, withs_used=withs_used)
+
+        if not with_:
+            with_ = []
+        if not withs_used:
+            withs_used = []
+        if isinstance(self.__class__, DeclarativeMeta):
+            # an SQLAlchemy class
+            fields = {}
+            iterable_fields = [x for x in dir(self) if not x.startswith('_') and x not in ['metadata',
+                                                                                           'item_separator',
+                                                                                           'key_separator'] and x.islower()
+                               and x not in self._excluded_serialization]
+            for field in iterable_fields:
+                data = self.__getattribute__(field)
+                try:
+                    if field in with_:
+                        # this hanldes withs nested inside other models
+                        if len(withs_used) < depth + 1:
+                            withs_used.append([])
+                        previous_depths = withs_used[:depth]
+                        if with_used_in_prev_depth(field, previous_depths):
+                            continue
+                        withs_used[depth].append(field)
+                        data = handle_withs(data, with_, depth, withs_used)
+                    if isinstance(data, datetime.datetime):
+                        data = str(data)
+                    if isinstance(data, Choice):
+                        data = data.code
+                    json.dumps(data)  # this will fail on non-encodable values, like other classes
+                    if isinstance(data, InstrumentedList):
+                        continue  # pragma: no cover
+                    fields[field] = data
+                except TypeError:
+                    pass  # Don't assign anything
+            # a json-encodable dict
+            return fields
+
 
 class Role(db.Model, ModelController, RoleMixin):
     name = db.Column(db.Unicode, unique=True)
@@ -89,6 +162,29 @@ security = Security()
 user_datastore = SQLAlchemyUserDatastore(db, User, Role)
 
 
+def register_filters(app):
+    _paragraph_re = re.compile(r'(?:\r\n|\r|\n){2,}')
+
+    @app.template_filter('nl2br')
+    def nl2br(text):
+        text = escape(text)
+        result = u'<br>'.join(u'%s' % p.replace('\n', '<br>\n') for p in _paragraph_re.split(text))
+        return Markup(result)
+
+    @app.template_filter('format_dt')
+    def format_datetime(dt, formatting="%A, %d %b %Y"):
+        """
+        Formats the datetime string provided in value into whatever format you want that is supported by python strftime
+        http://strftime.org/
+        :param formatting The specific format of the datetime
+        :param dt a datetime object
+        :return:
+        """
+        if type(dt) is str:
+            dt = solve_query(dt)
+        return dt.strftime(formatting)
+
+
 def init_db(app):
     app.config["SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI"] = SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI
     app.config["SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS"] = False
@@ -100,9 +196,11 @@ def init_db(app):
     db.init_app(app)
     security.init_app(app, user_datastore)
 
+    register_filters(app)
+
     for dir in MAKEDIRS:
         os.makedirs(dir, exist_ok=True)
     if not os.path.exists(DATABASE_FILE):
         with app.app_context():
             db.create_all()
-            return True
\ No newline at end of file
+            return True
diff --git a/oshipka/webapp/views.py b/oshipka/webapp/views.py
index 4be3449..338b203 100644
--- a/oshipka/webapp/views.py
+++ b/oshipka/webapp/views.py
@@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ def list_view(model_view, template):
     return inner
 
 
-def get_view(model_view, template):
+def get_view(model_view, template, template_ctx):
     def inner(uuid):
         model = model_view.model
         instance = model.query.filter_by(uuid=uuid).first()
         if not instance:
             flash("No {}:{}".format(model_view.model_name, uuid))
             return redirect(request.referrer or url_for('home'))
-        return render_template(template, instance=instance)
+        return render_template(template, instance=instance, **template_ctx)
 
     return inner
 
@@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ class ModelView(object):
                               'list_{}'.format(self.model_name),
                               list_view(self, list_template))
 
-    def register_get(self, retrieve_template):
+    def register_get(self, retrieve_template, template_ctx=None):
         url = '/{}/<uuid>'.format(self.model_name_pl)
         self.app.add_url_rule(url,
                               'get_{}'.format(self.model_name),
-                              get_view(self, retrieve_template))
+                              get_view(self, retrieve_template, template_ctx))
 
     def register_update(self, update_template):
         url = '/{}/<uuid>/edit'.format(self.model_name_pl)