SebastianMC
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8 months ago Hi @Lisandra-dev
thanks for your input! Your suggestions sound reasonable, let me recap them with my comments for clarity:
- Ability to recreate the entire Vault folders tree in bookmarks, with one click or one command
- for large vaults this could be an overkill, let the user decide if s/he wants to use it
- an operation to be performed once (or rarely), hence exposing it in context menu doesn't seem to be the best option
- exposing it as a command in commands palette - looks like the way to go
- at the same time I can imagine executing the function on a subtree of folders - in that case the context menu would be more appropriate than a command
- technically implementation is trivial, given the framework created within the plugin with 2.0.2 release
- let's wait for more feedback for 2.0.2 release of the plugin
- Auto-update of bookmarks-for-sorting when files and folders are created, added or imported
- seems like a candidate for plugin setting, a new checkbox (toggle) in settings pane
- there are several ways to use the bookmarks integration for sorting and the auto-update must consider and handle all of them correctly. This can be tricky.
- in a folder, no items, or only some items can be bookmarked-for-sorting (intentionally), or all items can be bookmarked-for-sorting. This can represent various usage patterns
- implementation is potentially complex and still doesn't guarantee that all files are captured correctly (mostly due to edge cases)
- probably the solution is a new plugin setting (a toggle) enabling the all-or-nothing simplistic approach. It would cover only the most 'greedy' scenario, when the user wants to keep the bookmarks-for-sorting structure 1:1 automatically reflecting vault folders tree
- in 2.0.2 version of the plugin, scenarios of items removal and rename/move are already handled, in a simple reasonable way (e.g. when you move an item between folders in File Explorer, the item disappears from bookmarks-for-sorting, yet is not added automatically in target location mirror in bookmarks)
To sum it up:
- items 1. and 2. seem to be related together
- in most 'greedy' scenario, 1. and 2. represent the function 'keep bookmarks-for-sorting 1:1 with folders tree automatically' and the user would only need to turn it on (in plugin settings), no context menu nor commands are needed
- more fine-grained usage patterns seem to be possible and valid
- introduction of more settings and context menus could be more confusing than helpful to the users
- current implementation of the bookmarks integration feature (in 2.0.2 release of the plugin) represents the fine-grained approach: the user has to explicitly bookmark-for-sorting the items (all or selected)
Let's wait for more user feedback for bookmarks integration. At the same time I need to sleep with the new suggestions, they are tempting and they can be an overkill at the same time.
Mara-Li
Hello! I will love to the plugin allow me to recreate my folder tree in the bookmark, so I can sort it directly without add it manually.
The settings will allow to add all file into bookmarks in one click.
More over, when a file is created, directly bookmark so I can move it freely.