Auto-hide apps in folders from all apps list

[colourful-liability]

I'd like to make 2 suggestions to improve folders for my personal workflow immensely:

1) An option to hide apps added to a folder from the app list

2) An option to include folders alphabeticaly in the app list, instead of it's own seperate section

• Please refer to #2253

The reason for this is that I categorise my apps with folders and don't want my app list to be cluttered with individual apps. I know this probably only makes sense if you have a substantial number of apps intalled, but I hope this feature will be taken into consideration.

[romavonk]

I'd like to make 2 suggestions to improve folders for my personal workflow immensely:

1 An option to hide apps added to a folder from the app list

2 An option to include folders alphabeticaly in the app list, instead of it's own seperate section

The reason for this is that I categorise my apps with folders and don't want my app list to be cluttered with individual apps. I know this probably only makes sense if you have a substantial number of apps intalled, but I hope this feature will be taken into consideration.

1 is already possible, when an app is added to a folder, you can hide the app so it's removed from the list.

Although, it would be nice when this happens automatically, when you add an app to a folder.

I agree with #2 Please include folders alphabetically in the app list, this is more minimalistic. Now (1.2.4) there is an extra icon in the alphabet. And it’s more logical to me to find the “Games” folder at the “G”.

[Maxr1998]

#2 won't be worked on for now, but I agree with #1. Renaming this issue so that we can track it more easily.

[Ruco]

As an alternative to #2 I could also see it useful to allow us to move the folder section of the applist to the top (instead of being stuck to the bottom).

Reason being that since I have organised my apps in folders I am much faster at accessing apps by being able to go to their category/folder quickly.

Being able to do this would even (almost) eliminate the need for #1 for me. (Still nice to be able to clean up everything easily)

[Amorphous404]

As an alternative to #2 I could also see it useful to allow us to move the folder section of the applist to the top (instead of being stuck to the bottom).

Reason being that since I have organised my apps in folders I am much faster at accessing apps by being able to go to their category/folder quickly.

Being able to do this would even (almost) eliminate the need for #1 for me. (Still nice to be able to clean up everything easily)

Even though the folders are listed at the bottom of the app list, One can land directly on the folder section in by pressing 🔷 shape icon on the alphabet scroller.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/96917972/205481682-85564709-0ecf-4dcc-8731-b486e0391ae3.mp4

[Ruco]

@topsy-turvy99 Thanks. Yeah, I suppose I just haven't completely adjusted to the specific workflow of this new launcher yet. 😊

[ssssamstrup]

№2 If implemented it would be nice to be able to choose individually. I've put apps I don't use often in folders and enjoy them being out of the way and use the pop-up feature for when I'd like to have the functionality of a folder in the list.

You could also use the pop-up feature to make key apps work like folders.

I fx. use this for my weather related apps, I've renamed my main app "Weather" and added my other weather related apps (Rain warning app, Sunscreen warning app, etc.) to its pop-up. I also added a weather-widget to the pop-up, so I can use it to check the weather at a glance, and open one of the other apps right a way for more details. Working outside and living in a place where either sunscreen or rain clothes is needed most days, being able to see if it's gonna be sun or rain (widget) and check the uv-ratings app or precision rain-forcast app, works quite neat.

[McFaul4]

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For me it's way to time consuming to hide all Apps individually.. And I also think that just easily cleaning up the app list would improve Niagara a lot because then you would only have the important apps in the list and apps like wallpapers, photo editing, icon Packs could be in their folders, they are rarely accessed but you need them sometimes. And then the problem of forgetting the name of those rarely used apps would disappear.

[ssssamstrup]

Sure. It would remove some of the customisability of using Niagara though. Now you can have an app both show in the app list and in different folders (which I use for a few key apps). A setting for it would be welcome though. 😊 On 8 Jan 2023, 14.03 +0100, McFaul4 @.***>, wrote:

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For me it's way to time consuming to hide all Apps individually.. And I also think that just easily cleaning up the app list would improve Niagara a lot because then you would only have the important apps in the list and apps like wallpapers, photo editing, icon Packs could be in their folders, they are rarely accessed but you need them sometimes. And then the problem of forgetting the name of those rarely used apps would disappear. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: @.***>

[md9mx]

Allowing folders to be placed alphabetically in the app list would be very useful for me

[jstorrs]

As a slightly different suggestion:

It would be great if the popup customization menu just had a "Hidden apps" entry that would present the same interface as "Hidden apps" in settings but filtered to only the items contained in the folder. It would then be easy enough to manually hide all or show all or whatever you want from that list. The main advantage is the navigation and filtering. And maybe sometimes you really do want something in a folder and in the app list?

Refactoring folders and hidden is a real pain point because it requires a lot of tedious navigation through different ends of the app and maintaining state in my working memory. Basically it really harshes my zen.

[amanmajeed]

Would appreciate #1. Option such that any app in pop up folder is removed from the normal app list.

Currently I need to add apps to a folder, them remeber which apps I added and hide them one by one; but I end up forgetting what I have added or worse hiding something I have not added to a folder.

[GalenMarek1138]

I want to second both #1 and #2 feature requests by the original poster.

1 would keep the app list from being cluttered with apps that I've already put away into a folder. (Or thought I put away.)

When I added apps to a folder that is in my app list, I naturally expected those apps to no longer be listed in the app list, and was perplexed when they were still in the app list.

2 is something I also expected to be intuitive; I naturally expected the folders to appear alphabetically in the app list.

It seems like this future request just got shoved to the side? But I would also like to put my voice behind it.

I really enjoy the launcher. Thank you guys for what you do.

[GalenMarek1138]

Would appreciate #1. Option such that any app in pop up folder is removed from the normal app list.

Currently I need to add apps to a folder, them remeber which apps I added and hide them one by one; but I end up forgetting what I have added or worse hiding something I have not added to a folder.

My exact problem when I went to hide apps in folders.

[andrewteg]

My exact problem when I went to hide apps in folders.

Ha, mine too.... I just started a pro trial and figured this was the workaround, but wanted to confirm and ended up down this rabbit-hole. A bit disappointed to see discussion started in 2021 and hasn't been implemented, but I'll try the workaround. Since I don't add apps regularly it's a one-off which is doable. I'm thinking I'll add to folders 5 at a time because I'll run out of fingers when matching up which apps to hide as the second step :)

[PaulWebb]

Disappointing response from developers. 3 years on and nothing done....

[romavonk]

I added a new request, please vote: https://github.com/8bitPit/Niagara-Issues/issues/2925#issue-2538484266