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JoseTomasTocino / QuickBookmarkToFolder

Google Chrome extension to easily find folders for your bookmarks
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Feature request: show the entire folder path instead of the folder name #11

Open syldub69 opened 6 years ago

syldub69 commented 6 years ago

Would it be possible to have an options to show the entire folder path instead of the folder name? I often have the same folder name in many different locations (because I use the same structure of folders in the Bookmarks Toolbars and in the Bookmarks Menu). And I have a lot of nested folders, it is not easy to know which one is the accurate one for storing the bookmark if I only see the folder name. 2018-02-27_20-21-34

JoseTomasTocino commented 6 years ago

Currently it shows "parent folder - folder", or just the folder name if it's a topmost element. Not sure about those "IBM" elements. Are they stored in the bookmark toolbar?

syldub69 commented 6 years ago

You are right! Actually, I did not remark the "Parent folder - Folder" feature, because I already use this type of naming in my folders (as in "Hardware - Tools - IBM servers")... The 2 IBM folders are root folders: one on the Bookmarks Toolbars and one in the Bookmarks Menu. But the 2 could have been on the Bookmarks Toolbars, as Firefox allows to have many folder with the same name on the same level. I think for showing the "Parent folder - Folder" structure it will be better to use the slash \ character, which is more easily interpreted as a path separator. The best would be to have the full folder path, something like : "Root folder \ Level 1 folder \ Level 2 folder \ Final folder"

yphastos commented 6 years ago

I support this idea. I have the exact same problem, i.e. having several folders with the same name but in different parts of my whole folder tree.

e.g.

reference/php reference/js/jQuery tutorials/jQuery/jqGrid utils/jQuery/tools utils/php utils/php/PHPExcel etc...

as syldub69 suggests, change the hint from having hyphens '-' to '/' (or '\') indicating different folders. And show full paths all the time, instead of only 'parentFolder-folder'.

Another cool feature would be to also highlight the matching text, and even match children folders based on a matching parent name, (i.e. not only match final folders, but any level) e.g. if I type 'utils' it should show:

utils utils/js utils/php utils/mysql

Then I could choose among all those, and not just the utils parent folder.

IMO it would make the add-on MUCH more useful.

sahil48 commented 4 years ago

I would like this feature too. I would probably like the entire folder path to be shown below each entry in a smaller font, or as a pop-up tooltip when you hover over a given folder.