While we wait for DT3 to provide the ability to group items within the Favorites (on the L sidebar), I came here looking for a not-too-laborious way to do this manually.
I add things I need to find to Favorites but can never remember the file name and can’t easily find them in my long list of Favorites. You would think search would help, but I am too clever but half when I name things…
I didn’t find a method here so I used this low-tech, inelegant way to organize my Favorites.
Make category names: On top menu R click + > plain text, name a file for each desired category*
Add color indicator to each file: Data>Label >Choose a color (ignore the text)
Add the files to Favorites: R click File, choose “Add to Favorites”
Position item in Favorites: find file at bottom of Favorites, hover over the thumbnail, R click and drag to desired position**
Revise file name: hover over filename, R click once to edit name field**. I removed the file extension and added asterisks before and after text e.g., ADMIN with 10 asterisks before & after. An efficient person would do this when they first named the file…
Position your files under the appropriate category as in step 4
*You can use an empty folder instead of a file but you can’t color code a folder.
**Sometimes this opens the file, try again being sure to R click only once.
Nice!
When I choose a folder, Data>Label is greyed out.
My searches for “label folder” in Help and in “Take Control…” came up empty. Where may I find that option?
I tried your method years ago, and eventually quit because it became too tedious to scroll up and down a long list…
my own workaround is to simulate the ability to group favorites
create a group called “. Favorites as Replicants”. Note the :F , not F because I want the : Favorites to be listed at the beginning of all my groups of my database. The location at the top of the list makes it easy to find when I want to add replicants with ⌥ ⌘ drag and drop.
in the . Favorites as Replicants group, I add a multitude of subgroups by category, each containing only replicants of files and groups pertaining to that category and which I want to put into favorites.
I add each one of those subgroups to the favorites list
It also makes things a bit easier to tidy up no longer necessary favorites: just delete the replicants instead of having to “remove from favorites” each time.
disclaimer: my spouse says that I am not very intelligent
Good workaround, I’ll see if I can replicate as my list is likely to grow much longer.
Thank you!
RE disclaimer - Haha - Was she talking about DT3 workarounds? We are all bloody idiots in some area or another…