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Provide different options for sorting favorites - Discussion
You can sort favorites alphabetically today in Edge. To do so, navigate to edge://favorites. Right click in the gray space to access the context menu and click on the "Sort by name". This performs a onetime sort of items in a folder. If a new item is added to the folder, it is placed at the bottom of the list. To have that item sorted into the list, perform the “Sort by name” action again.
We hear your feedback and have plans to make this option easier find within Edge and to add additional options. The Favorites team is always looking to listen to feedback and improve these experiences. Would you like to sort by name in favorites in other parts of Edge? Are there other ways Edge can help you sort favorites?
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- The problem right now is not only sorting the favirotes, but the way to get to a favirote(s) . For example if a user is importing their favirotes from Edge;they have to open that menu scroll to "a imported from Edge" open that sub-menu to get to their favorite. This causes half of the browser interface being taken up by the favirotes menu.
The old Edge menu was simple and easy to use. I would like to have the option to sort folders recursively. It is a pain to browse through each single folder and to sort each folder individually. I have a favorites collection with approx. 2,000 items in a hierarchical folder structure. Currently I use a Chrome extension (SuperSorter) but it does not correctly handle German umlauts and certain special characters. I would prefer to have that function as a native browser feature. Maybe you want to consider sorting options like in file explorer (enable / disable numerical order). Furthermore I want an option to exclude the favorites bar, where I prefer a manual order.
I find that I always want my favorites sorted alphabetically. I think it would be good to have an option that, as new favorites are added, they are sorted automatically. Elliot Kirk
For me it would be more useful to sort by date added. I appreciate this information may not exist.
My usage is reviewing old favourites with a view to removing those that are no longer needed.
Highlighting favourites that are now broken links would potentially also be useful.
BedfordTim Elliot Kirk Even more useful would be the ability to sort by the date of the last visit to the favorite url. This way old favorites can be cleaned-up much more easily.
- sorting by date added might be useful too
Elliot KirkMy favorites bar is still broken. In Canary, I can't change anything (including showing only the icon) without it resetting and going back to what it was before. It is a sync problem and used to crash edge 20 seconds after I opened it every time, but thankfully that's fixed. I've had to take a few day brake because of that issue and I hope its gone now, but my point is that you need to put more emphasis on the sync problem.
- Same here..so I just fresh installed Edge insider canary, hoping all my favorites were synced but then I realized all the changes I made to my favorites in the last 4-5 days (deleting, adding etc) were not synced. the browser wasn't giving me any errors and the sync icon was always solid green.
- Please add an option to let us add separator lines in the middle of favorites and preferably make it a colorful line so we can pick up custom colors.
so like I want to have the first 100 favorites of mine to be on the Tech category and the next 20 favorites be in the movies section and so on.
I know it can be done via folders but folders all look the same.
so either do that or please allow us choose custom color and picture for our folders in favorites so they will be easier to identify.
and lastly, let the favorites sync also sync these new details as well.
Thanks I use both the favorites bar and folder. I would like any bookmarks I add to the folder to be automatically sorted alphabetically. However, I do not want my favorites bar automatically sorted alphabetically because I arrange them in groups/importance instead of alphabetically.
- Bond/EK, an "auto-sort" isn't likely to be implemented if there are "gotchas" that go with it (I suspect). I'm with you that I'd like an optional check-box to "auto-sort" all favorites. I too organize my Bookmarks, but it's quite easy to have both worlds if "auto-sort" is implemented (by prefixing your 4 or 5 or whatever folders with numbers): 1Favorites, 2General, 3CrazyIdeas, 9Temp. (<-- for example)
Just a thought or 2. Thanks for your post. This is all good stuff and feedback for Microsoft. Hopefully they make some of it happen!!! Take care, Mark
NoahWMicrosoft
Hello, I'd like to be able to configure automatic and ongoing alpha sorting of my Favorites so that even as I add new Favorites or reorganize my Favorites the result is auto-sorted (subfolders first by alpha sort, then bookmarks by alpha sort). I'd like that setting to roam with my profile, so as I use Edge on different devices the behavior is consistent.
I'd also like to suggest considering ways to provide a dynamically created favorites folder that perhaps is based off my Windows timeline (much like Office document history) or perhaps apply some AI algorithm to suggest items in my Favorites that I may be looking for based on the current site I'm browsing/search criteria. One of the scenarios I struggle with the most is knowing that I've stored the site I'm looking for in my Favorites - but finding where it is, what I named it, etc... often leaves me finding the path I took to get to the site originally vs. quickly leveraging the Favorite.
I completely agree with NoahW about the first part.
In an enterprise environment the IT-department often manage a list of favorites that are mandatory for all, and then the users can add their own favorites as well. Normally we would prefer all the corporate favorites on the top as they are the ones our uses need the most - we have ususally accomplished this by naming them with a "-" as the first character.
(An even better solution would be if the favorites had a "favorites managed by your organization" section and a "favorites managed by you" section.)
The problem is every time we add a new favorite it ends up in the bottom.So we need a group policy to enable automatic ongoing alphanumeric sorting so that no matter how many new favorites are added, they are still in an alphanumeric order.
- Beside sorting i would suggest to add "select all" option as well
It's the Right click in the gray space that makes this really difficult to find. Why only in the gray space?
