Favorites reloaded? Or: nesting and renaming of favorites

DEVONthink
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Hi, just curious what other people are doing to get more out of favorites - or perhaps there is something I don’t understand about them that would help:

I’d love to do two things with my favorites:

  1. Nest favorites
    I.e. I would create favorite “groups” that I could name “Work” or “Open Projects” or similar, just to get a bit more structure set up

  2. rename favorites
    I tend to structure my groups into subgroups and sometimes sub-subgroups. I.e. for a particular customer, I’ll have subgroups for each project and in these subgroups on “Project management”, “commercials”, “support issues”, etc.
    If I drag a “commercials” Subgroup into my favorites it, well, is called “commercials”. If I do that for several customers, I will have several favorites called “commercials”… I’d love to just rename them to “Customer 1 Commercials” without actually having to name the group they link to in such a complicated fashion.

Ideas, anyone? Or is that something for DevonThink 4? :slight_smile:

Best regards,
Nick

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  1. Grouping Favorites is planned for a future release.
  2. You can already rename a Favorite without affecting the actual group.
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Fantastic, thank you!

ad 1) looking forward to it!

as 2) super - as removing a favorite is done via a right click, I thought a rename function would be there, too (it isn’t, ergo it isn’t possible to rename a favorite). A single click and hover does the trick, though. Thank you, that really helps! Recommendation: put it in the right-click menu as well (for those with thick heads like me).

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You’re welcome!

Recommendation: put it in the right-click menu as well (for those with thick heads like me).

Actually, there is no Rename option in the contextual menus of any item.

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You’re right.
In the Finder there is, though, and that is probably why my expectation was that there would be a Rename function in the right click menu here as well. Just to explain.