Forum Discussion
Collections Feedback
dgkimpton Great work on showing how collections could be improved.
The most important thing for me is to allow me to 'update' a collection. For example, if I have a collection of 'news sources' and open them all, I would like to choose to 'update the collection'.
The way it works now is that it creates a completely new collection. Adding a website page to a collection just does not work well with many sites in a collection.
Yeah I agree, the process of adding tabs to a collection needs improvement. There's of course an option in the Collections panel to "add current page", and an option when right clicking to "Add all tabs", but both of these options pose their own problems.
If you open all pages of a collection, open additional tabs, then want to add the new tabs to the collection, using the "add current page" method is tedious because you have to do it for each individual tab. And if you do "add all tabs" and select the same Collection you initially opened all of the pages that were already in the collection that are currently open as tabs are duplicated inside of the Collection.
Ideally, using the "add all tabs" option should only add tabs that aren't already in the collection. This would be a decent enough implementation, and would essentially allow "updating" a collection, which would make the feature much more useful. Additionally, having an easy way to remove a specific tab from a collection without having to either have the Collections panel pinned, or opening the Collections dropdown and deleting it.
As it's implemented currently, it's just a slightly improved version of bookmarks. But with an update functionality like you suggest, it could become a very useful method of essentially suspending a browsing session dedicated to a specific task and coming back to it later. And I think that would make for a much more game-changing "Collections" feature .
Personally, if I were to design a Collections feature for a browser, I would include a per-collection toggle for a "dynamic collection". Any collections with the "dynamic" setting selected would essentially run as their own browsing session, with their own copy of the browsing history unique to that collection, and after ending the session would snapshot the current state for later. Then when you re-open the collection later you can pick up again right where you left off, no need to manually add or remove pages that way but it also doesn't prevent them from being used the way they are currently implemented either.
Maybe that's just me though, idk.- Well done explanation.
I realize that I would also like to
* 'archive' some groups when a project is done.
* have the subgroup option you spoke of
In the end, AI will help us take browser tabs and the rest and manage it intelligently so we will have more complicated problems. hehe.
