Provide different options for sorting favorites - Discussion

Elliot Kirk 

I have a lo of favorites for both work and personal. I run into several issues and different needs based on work versus personal. For both I like to use the favorites bar exclusively. I find the favorites menu just a pain to use. Part of this is because the across and then down organization work better with my brains ability to remember where things are. The hierarchical down and down requires more scrolling and is something that my brain cannot remember specific links locations as easy. This means I have to actually look and read the list. In my favorites bar the majority of links I use on a daily basis I could get to without really thinking. This is crucial at work where I spend almost all my day working on web applications that I am an Administrator for so there are usually several links to different parts of the system as well as different instances. Finding and opening what I need quickly to either open or share make a big difference in my productivity. For example, I am on my personal computer right now but I could tell you the folder and list sequences of about 20 different links I use regularly. 

For Work, I like to organize favorites bar by folders then links primarily by relevance to how I work. This is probably closest to sorted by most frequently used. However, that may not 100% match. I do like to organize some of them manually. There are a few folders I organize alphabetically. For Personal, I like to sort exclusively by Folder then Links then alphabetically. 

Below are the features I would like that would help. 

• I would like to be able to set them by right click on the level and select the way to resort them. This is like in Internet Explorer. Frankly having to go to Manage Favorites and do this is a pain. Also since Edge did not have this option originally I had to do a web search just find out it was an option. 
• Settings for each folder to control how sub-folders and links are sorted in that folder.  This would be under manage favorites.
  • Sort sub-folders and links the same. For work I like my folders at the top level to be sorted manually but the links I put directly in the favorites bar to be auto sorted. 
    • No - additional options for the below would appear for the links. 
    • Yes - should probably the default because I think that is what most people would want. 
  • Automatically Sort By 
    • Alphabetical
    • Most Used
    • Turn Automatic Sort Off
    • Same as parent folder - This should be the default for everything except the Favorites Bar and Other Favorites folders.
  • Where to place new links. If the folder has an Auto sort set on it then when browsers is either closed or opened it should run the auto sort to move the new links to where they should be. This is because sometimes when I just add a link I want to find it easily to rename it or do something else. If I have auto sort on the folder was placed in then I want it to be auto sorted the next time I open by browser.
    • Bottom
    • Top
    • Auto Sort  - would no be disabled if "Turn Automatic Sort Off" was selected for Automatically Sort By
  • Favorites Bar View As
    • Icon Only - if at Folder would require a color to be set
    • Text Only
    • Icon & Text 
• Able to set Folder color or background color of Text. I do not do Icons only on folders because you would have no idea what they if the order changed. Color codling them would work/ Color coding is handy in general for Organization to make certain things stand out. So finding regularly used things from a glance instead of reading can be done. For instance I have different colors I associate with the different systems I am the Administrator for that I use for organizing all of my stuff for those systems. Being able to use this color coding system everywhere I have stuff related to those systems would be nice. For links this could be handy to identify links to Production instances versus Test instances to the same system.
  • If set on a link an option to use the color as the background of the opened tabs for the site.