Favourite pages

[mejo-]

We should allow to pin a limited amount of pages (3 or 4) as favourites that are always listed on top of all other pages.

[mejo-]

From design call:

• [ ] Favourites will be personal (not shared among the Collective)
• [ ] Favourites will become an additional on top as flat list (favoured pages continue to be listed in normal hierarchy below). This seems like the best solution to the problem how to display favoured subpages.
• [ ] Landing page should list personal favourites as well (see #311).

[mejo-]

Notes from another design call:

• [ ] Limit favourites to maybe 5, not sticky
• [ ] After 5 favourites? Stop allowing favourites with an alert like Signal
• [ ] Favourites limited to Collectives, don't show in Files!

[mejo-]

marked #379 as a duplicate of this issue

[mejo-]

marked this issue as related to #379

[foerster-finsternis]

Dear contributors. Is there a possibility to deactivate the display of recent pages and collective members? It's a nice feature for sure, but forcing it without any visible way for deactivation is not a very good approach.

[juliusknorr]

Can you file a separate issue for this please?

[punkyard]

hi how do we get rid of the automatically pinned pages? this function appeared suddenly and we can't find how to get rid of it, especially on public pages and the term "landing page" we can't find any topic about this on the nc forum thanks

[max-nextcloud]

The recent pages were introduced as part of #311 and then discussed in #835.

They are not related to favorite pages thus far.

[punkyard]

thanks @max-nextcloud so we'll have to wait to get rid of it?

[viktorix]

We use Collectives a lot, and it would be nice to have a favorites feature for quick and easy access to articles I go to often. Here's a quick mockup of what that might look like:

[punkyard]

We use Collectives a lot, and it would be nice to have a favorites feature for quick and easy access to articles I go to often.

And it would be so nice to move 'team over view', 'landing page' and 'recent pages' to this side of the Collectives ✌️

[mejo-]

For me there's still a few open questions how to approach favourites in Collectives:

• Are favourites personal or shared among the collective? I can see arguments for both: personal favourites help to pin pages that you often use (like pinning in Signal or like classic bookmarks), shared favourites help to pin pages that are important to the whole team (like important threads in discourse).
• Are favourites per collective or global to the collectives app (like the mockup by @viktorix suggested)?

My current vision would be to pin favourites as first pages inside the collectives page list and somehow highlight them, and maybe limit the amount of allowed favourites (like Signal limits them to four). I don't have a clear preference on whether to make them personal or shared yet.

@nextcloud/designers what's your thoughts here?

[marcoambrosini]

My take:

• Favourites should be personal, collective members can use order to prioritise certain pages
• Favourites should be on a per collective basis. This is consistent with Notion and Anytype. When you enter a team space, you're in, and everything in the UI is pertinent to that. We shouldn't require to open the sidebar to see the favourites.
• I wouldn't limit the amount. Scroll is always available and users can decide for themselves how many they want (same as files, talk, notion, anytype, ...)

[nimishavijay]

I can imagine it being something similar to Notion as a collapsible section on top of the page list which is shown only if you have set at least one favourite page in that collective. We could also think about adding a hairline as a separator to distinguish it from the other "normal" pages. What do you think? :)

[mejo-]

https://github.com/nextcloud/collectives/tree/feat/favourite_pages implements the current development state.

[mejo-]

Here's a screenshot from a first impementation that poses some questions:

• Shall favorites be displayed as expandable if they have subpages, or not? I'd vote for not allowing to expand favorites, and listing them as simple flat pages instead.
• When a favorite is opened, shall both representations of the page (in favorites and in normal page order) be highlighted (like page "Title" in the screenshot)?

Cc @nimishavijay @marcoambrosini

Actions of non-favorite page	Actions of favorite page

[nimishavijay]

Nice! Looks great! To address your questions:

Shall favorites be displayed as expandable if they have subpages, or not? I'd vote for not allowing to expand favorites, and listing them as simple flat pages instead.

• The pages themselves can be flattened, but since a person may have many favourites, it would be nice to be able to collapse them to view the other pages easily (similar to Notion)

• This "Favorites" parent page can be similar to the favourites navigation item in Files (so that it can be distinguished from a regular page)

  • it would have a star Material Symbol instead of a page emoji and a chevron-down symbol on the right, both in --color-main-text. Something like this (rough mockup, do you get the idea?)

When a favorite is opened, shall both representations of the page (in favorites and in normal page order) be highlighted (like page "Title" in the screenshot)?

That's a great call! I agree. Nice catch there :)

Some more small points:

• In the favourites section the pages don't need to have the little yellow star in the corner as it gets repetitive
• Instead, the favorited pages can have the star in the normal page list (so the first "Title" wouldn't have a star but the second "Title" would)
• Afaik we are using a darker color for the favourite star for a11y reasons, --color-warning if I'm not wrong (ref Files)

Super nice work! :) 🚀

[juliusknorr]

One additional suggestion, not sure where to put it but maybe it also makes sense to show favorites at the start page of collectives when you have not navigated to a specific collective?

[punkyard]

great idea! to me, it would make sens to see them in the left panel on top of the list of pages and folders - and to make this rubric only visible if a favourite has been chosen - otherwise it would be hidden not to add more distraction to the web page ✌️