Save tabs into specific groups based on rules (URL/regex, date, etc.)

josh-berry / tab-stash

Firefox extension to save and restore tabs as bookmarks. Clear your tabs, clear your mind.

https://josh-berry.github.io/tab-stash/

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Save tabs into specific groups based on rules (URL/regex, date, etc.) #530

Open strunberg opened 2 months ago

strunberg commented 2 months ago

Problem Statement

It would be nice if we can have options for sorting stored tabs.

Preferred Solution(s)

Domain based sorting. For instance I want to be able to create a folder that would dump all youtube videos I tab stashed. All while having the option of not having sub folders such as a folder for specific dates.
Option to disable/enable the creation of folders based on the date the folder was created.

Alternative Solution(s)

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josh-berry commented 2 months ago

Not sure I fully understand what you're asking, but there is an issue open for sorting here--is that similar to what you're expecting?

I'm also not sure I understand what you mean by "disable/enable creation of folders by date"--if you try to stash something, it has to go into a folder somewhere, so Tab Stash has to create a folder if one doesn't exist. There's not really any way around it. Can you expand more on what you'd expect to see instead?

Also, FWIW, the search feature will search based on URL as well as title, so searching for "youtube.com" would find all YouTube links across all folders, regardless of where they are stored.

gDansel commented 2 months ago

Had a similar thought.

I've been using tab stash for a while now and while I'm very happy with it, one thing I've found my self wishing for is a little bit more control of where a tab is stashed. Admittedly, this is probably more of a UX issue than anything else.

At the moment, when I stash a tab, I use the button next to the tab in the sidebar. In order to directly stash a tab to an existing group I have to find that group in the list and choose to stash active tab into that specific group. It's not a huge issue, but I have enough bookmarks by now that I find my self scrolling up and down the list to find something occasionally.

If you could define a regex or pattern or something for a group, and whenever a tab matching that regex is stashed it is placed there. I.e. if I have a Stash with the regex "(?:.*)?(?:youtube.com)", any tab matching that regex will be placed there. (I did not test that regex)

josh-berry commented 2 months ago

Got it; I'm going to re-title this accordingly, because it sounds like this is different from #194 (which is specifically about sorting, rather than automatic grouping, which it sounds like is what you're both asking for here).