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[Feature Request] Explorer Tags for Group by #11417

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Satanarious opened this issue May 22, 2021 · 6 comments
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[Feature Request] Explorer Tags for Group by #11417

Satanarious opened this issue May 22, 2021 · 6 comments
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Idea-New PowerToy Suggestion for a PowerToy Resolution-Duplicate There's another issue on the tracker that's pretty much the same thing.

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@Satanarious
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Satanarious commented May 22, 2021

The group by feature in windows is quite restrictive, considering a plethora of group by options for files and folder which are of no importance/use to most of the users.
I'd like to propose a feature wherein, you can add a particular tag to a file/directory and then use the group by option in a directory with those tags.

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  1. Say we have a directory with 83 items of all types (In this case: Directory, MKV, Rar).
  2. We tag 39/83 item with tags, namely: Action, Sci-Fi, Romance. The rest are automatically considered untagged.
  3. Then while using the group by option and selecting tags or any other custom group by type should group them something like this.

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Here's a mockup of how the properties may look:

Screenshot 2021-05-22 174624

@Satanarious Satanarious added the Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams label May 22, 2021
@Satanarious Satanarious changed the title Explorer Tags for Group by [Feature Request]Explorer Tags for Group by May 22, 2021
@Satanarious Satanarious changed the title [Feature Request]Explorer Tags for Group by [Feature Request] Explorer Tags for Group by May 22, 2021
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Honestly, file labels are pretty close to what you're asking here. The problem is that labels can only be given to a finite number of file types (mostly mp3s, images, Office files, and so on). If only labels would work on more/all file types, there is no need to create something new.

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While that is a valid point, there is nothing of that sort for directories. It would be really great to have a universal tagging/labelling feature.

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Jay-o-Way commented May 25, 2021

True.
It's related to #150 and #6157 asks for color coding folders. There, somebody mentions the program Foldermarker. Maybe you want to try that, in the mean time?

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Satanarious commented May 25, 2021

Yes, this is quite similar to the above-mentioned issues. But #150 covers it all, as mentioned by him, this goes beyond colour-coding folders. Storing the metadata in the desktop.ini files look like a great way to keep track of the tags. This will ultimately provide more decorum in fields of classifying items, irrelevant of their types.
Also, I'll definitely check out Foldermarker.

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True.
It's related to #150 and #6157 asks for color coding folders. There, somebody mentions the program Foldermarker. Maybe you want to try that, in the mean time?

Well, I checked Foldermarker. That's not it. It's just putting predefined icons for the folder through the context menu, which is an extremely basic approach. It doesn't serve the purpose of tagging which brings in various management and organizational features.

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crutkas commented Dec 7, 2021

I feel like this should be labeled is included with #150

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