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MicrosoftIntroducing improvements to the Collections experience
Over the last few months, we’ve introduced you to updated experiences for favorites and history that are designed to help you stay in your flow and finish tasks faster. Today, we’re excited to share that we’re bringing many of the same improvements to Collections and downloads in the Canary and Dev channels.
The updated Collections menu opens on top of the web, allowing you to view, edit, or add to a collection without the webpage shifting and resizing. It’s also easier to dismiss, saving you clicks and helping you get back to what you were doing faster.
Want to keep Collections open so you can continue working in it? Simply click the pin button () to open Collections in the classic sidebar experience. Once Collections is pinned, it’ll stay that way until you close it. From here, you can even drag-and-drop content from the web into your collection, including links, images, text, and more.
In the spirit of getting things done faster, we're also introducing a way to add an item to a collection in just two clicks! Hovering over any collection now shows an add button () on top of the preview image. Simply click it to instantly add the current page to the collection and close the Collections menu. It’s never been easier to quickly capture that important webpage.
Of course, Collections still supports all of the features you know and love, including integration with Microsoft Office and Pinterest, as well as the recently announced price comparison feature to help you save money.
What do you think of the improvements to Collections? Please let us know in the comments below, as well as via the in-app feedback tool. And check out our deep dive on the new downloads experience as well!
— William Devereux, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Edge
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- Al reinstalar window , pierdo todas las colecciones ,
necesito ayuda por favor . Hi William.
Thank you for developing collections. Its a major leap forward in browsing and researching. But, if I may there is just one little thing missing. Searching. Please have your team create a search function for collections. In mvho being able to search through existing collections for links would be a ground-breaking improvement.
Cheers,
John, Australia
- Windows Edge Browser. Collection tool, management page. Local tool.
Please add some new thing. It's hard to use collection now.
We need search bar, a way to share/collaborate our collection.
We need management tool, page.
Please help us to send a feedback. Thank you. Hi, I really like Windows Edge, Collections. To do some quick note.
That make my information ,easy to use. really helpful.
So, I really want to share and communicate with others.
The thing is, I want to make a web tool, or a website.
That can share like Evernote, but in Edge browser, collection style.
I need some help. To know how to make it happen.
I want to contact. Feedback this questions, needs. Thank you.
Is it possible to force this new UI? I have it on one MacBook but not on another, and also not on a Windows PC. I would like to have this new flyout on all of my computers! William Devereux
William Devereux Kudos for preserving the state of the pin between Collections opens!
I had this feature until today's that is latest update. I am on Microsoft Edge Dev channel. Now, I do not have this feature anymore. Any suggestions to get this feature back?
Suraj_Umesh09 wrote:I had this feature until today's that is latest update. I am on Microsoft Edge Dev channel. Now, I do not have this feature anymore. Any suggestions to get this feature back?
These are controlled feature rollouts, they will come back for you eventually 🙂
Like the new improvements to Collections. Did not know about the 'pin' feature or the way to add to an exist collection with two clicks.
If you have a LOT of collections it still can be time consuming to find the ones you want to add to. Having a search feature would help or even allowing Collections to present by Alphabet. I keep thinking about how my Windows phone allows me to click on the first letter of Contacts to find ones beginning with that letter...
Continuing to test all this and comparing to existing methods. Collections could be a much better replacement for Favorites down the line ?
R_Starzuft wrote:Like the new improvements to Collections. Did not know about the 'pin' feature or the way to add to an exist collection with two clicks.
If you have a LOT of collections it still can be time consuming to find the ones you want to add to. Having a search feature would help or even allowing Collections to present by Alphabet. I keep thinking about how my Windows phone allows me to click on the first letter of Contacts to find ones beginning with that letter...
Continuing to test all this and comparing to existing methods. Collections could be a much better replacement for Favorites down the line ?
I also felt the need for a search bar on Collections panel, to search through collections and items inside each collection would be very useful and convenient.
i sent feedback for it using feedback button on Edge, if you haven't already please do the same 🙂
- I'm thinking about Edge browser Collections tool, or Webpage. That can let you share easily.
Is there a way to do the Feedback? And there is still no search bar on it. I'm so confused.
William Devereux Every time my DEV browser is updated and new features like improvements to collections are announced I never see them till a few releases later. Is it a geographical roll out? How to see the new features immediately?
Dano1400 wrote:William Devereux Every time my DEV browser is updated and new features like improvements to collections are announced I never see them till a few releases later. Is it a geographical roll out? How to see the new features immediately?
Same here, in fact everyone is experiencing this.
can't tell which country receives a feature first. for example, History and open tabs sync were at first available to UK only and then rolled out to everyone in the world.
now the web widget is available mostly to US but it should gradually rollout to everyone in the world as well.
if you want to get the features first, the easiest method would be to use a system-wide VPN, aka not an extension VPN, but a VPN that runs on OS level, then try out different countries.
I've tried it many times and confirm it works. after you switch countries, make sure to restart Edge 2 or 3 times, wait few seconds after each restart.
Have been a Windows insider since 2014. Over time the testing and launching of features and builds has become more elaborate. Rollouts may be announced but we may not be immediate candidates. Depending on a number of factors it can be a few days or more before we get to test. Instructions for the Windows insider program even state that some users may get a different version of a new feature than others. One could guess that if your device lends itself to one variant working better than another that is what you might get first. Also, there may be a process needed to turn the feature on. The Edge 'flags' settings are currently used to turn on Vertical tabs for some versions of Edge. If you don't change the 'flags' setting you might not see it. Also, some features require user effort to turn them on and require a re-boot to activate. Lots of variables here. In the end we will (likely) get features or variants to test that will likely be better than the initial release.
A bug that is still not fixed concerns the "send to WORD" feature : the available styles for notes formatting ("header 1", "header 2", "header 3" and "paragraph") should be converted into the corresponding WORD styles ("title 1", "title 2", "title 3" and "normal") because for now all these notes styles are converted to WORD "normal" style, with a 13.5 pt font, thus making nearly all the notes formatting lost when exported to WORD ; that is a pity since it is otherwise a pretty handy feature.
