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Feature request: Open entire bookmark folder from the Vomnibar #2191

Open HugoMillwood-zz opened 8 years ago

HugoMillwood-zz commented 8 years ago

Hi,

In Chrome/ium you can middle click on a bookmark folder to open all of them in separate tabs, which I find very handy and use often in order to open all of my news sites, for example.

I'd love to be able to hit shift + b and type news and have a single entry for the news folder and have it open all of the bookmarks within the folder.

leoj3n commented 8 years ago

Would be nice if could interface with Vomnibar to inject such items via an adjacent chrome extension.

dagerikhl commented 7 years ago

This is something I've been wanting as well, and I think it's a feature many people would use. Just to embellish the feature request a little I'll write up some scenarios I think are relevant, as well as some alternative suggestions for how this could be achieved.

I'm not sure how much work this would be, as I'm unsure how hard-coded the search for bookmarks are. But it's definitively a feature I would like to see implemented. For me, it grates a bit that we are exposed to the "interface" of bookmarks through the "bookmark"-omnibar, but we are excluded from parts of the normal bookmark "interface", i.e. the folders.

Scenario 1

I have a folder deeply nested in my bookmark-folders that I would like to open quickly, e.g. all the relevant web-pages for my current project, such as issue tracker, current issue, homepage, and localhost.

Scenario 2

I have a bookmark-folder for my "daily" things to check, like e-mail, newsletters and the like. I want to be able to open them all easily, using vimium.

Alternative solutions

  1. As @HugoMillwood suggested: Include bookmark folders in the omnibar search (b, SHIFT+b).
  2. Add new function to search only bookmark-folders, e.g. by adding a new shortcut: 
    b      Open bookmark
<s-b>  Open bookmark in a new tab
<a-b>  Open all bookmarks of bookmark-folder in new tabs
  3. Allow specifying folder in omnibar search when opening bookmark:
    1. Press b.
    2. Write f<space>. (Or any other letter.)
    3. Now the bar will only output bookmark-folders in its results.
    4. Select folder and open.
    5. All bookmarks of selected folder opens in new tabs.

Hope to see some response from the team and what you think about this! :)

psvkushal commented 1 year ago

Is this request being worked upon?