Indicate "isFavorite"

[MBaas]

Wouldn't it be nice if Favorites (files and folders) were easily recognizeable when looking at the listing of a folder?

I think so! Perhaps there could be a special color combination for favorite items in lists or maybe their names could be prefixed with a certain (unicode) symbol like "★" etc. Or maybe the names could use certain typography....

[phred]

I don't know about files, but all my favorite folders are displayed in bold when appearing in the list tree. Are you not seeing that?

EDIT: I meant to say favorite entries are bold in the TREE, not the list.

[MBaas]

Interesting - I don't see that.

I did search settings for "Fav" - but nothing came up that would have this effect - so I wonder why I'm not seeing that...

[phred]

I apologize. Favorite entries are bold in the TREE, not the list.

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[MBaas]

Ah, ok - that explains it. I don't use the tree (I try to avoid using the mouse).

[Horst]

I also don't see my favorite folders bold in the tree
I have already set "Mark Favorites (bold)" under Tools / Customize Tree

[admin]

Not planned. Nuff colors in the list.

[eil]

@MBaas the easiest solution for you would be to either make colour filter or additional colour-tag, and manually mark all Favourites with that. You can even make a scripted button to do same marking in future, right before adding to Favourites.

[MBaas]

That's a neat idea, thanks! Will experiment...

[kiwichick]

make colour filter

That's a really good idea. What pattern would be used for the filter?

[eil]

That's a really good idea. What pattern would be used for the filter?

Depending what user needs, the criteria can be say file/folder has tags, or some common part in names/paths, etc.

[kiwichick]

Depending what user needs, the criteria can be say file/folder has tags, or some common part in names/paths, etc.

Thanks, I was hoping there would be some way to refer to Favourites specifically which would be much easier.

[MBaas]

There is a better way! (at least IMHO)

You'll need a label "Favorite" and then you can do this:

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    // get all items with Favorite tag
    $lst = quicksearch("label:Favorite", "*",<crlf>);

    // remove all Favorite labels
    tag("Favorite",$lst,0,2);
    
    $favs = favs("d","",<crlf>);
    $favs = favs("f","",<crlf>);

    foreach($f,$favs,<crlf>) {
    if (($f==" ")||($f=="-")){continue;}
        $f = regexreplace($f,'"[^"]*"\s*',"");
        // tag zuweisen
        tag("Favorite",$f,0,0);  
    }

Needs to be run whenever you change favs. (WIBNI we had a CEA for that?)

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@MBaas

Did you (eventually) mean:

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    $favs = favs() . <crlf> . favs("f");
    
    foreach($f,$favs,<crlf>,"e") {

?

Otherwise you'll only process the file favorites...

[MBaas]

duh...you're right (ofc). Thanks!