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Arc's new "live folders" that automatically open GitHub Pull Requests in a folder is a game-changer too. Would love some exploration into features like this at some point. First automatically moving tabs to a folder based on some rules and then maybe opening them proactively (ie. GitHub Pull Requests, JIRA tickets, et cetera).

    3 months later

    There is another post from Dec 2021 asking for this feature. They included this screenshot:
    . I think this is great when the tab bar is is dragged to the left as far as possible!

    However, I would also love the option to label these dividers such that, beyond just a visual degree of separation, when the sidebar is opened the label becomes visible. I've spent a little bti of time editing a screenshot of Orion to show what I mean:

    I'm not anything more than a beginner programmer, so forgive me if the language is incorrect:

    • I imagine that an intuitive way for users to create tab groups would be to right click in the side bar (or set a shortcut to accomplish the same thing), and create a new divider.

    • The divider could just be initialized with "Tab Divider" as the title, but upon creation of any tab divider the user would be able to rename the tab divider title to whatever they want. Furthermore, double clicking on the tab divider title would also allow users to rename the tab divider.

    • Users could drag individual tabs under respective tab dividers, and perhaps users could select multiple tabs using shift or cmd, but I understand if implementing this change would cause other issues.

    • Another feature that could be very useful would be collapsing dividers. Dividers might have a chevron next to them that, upon clicking, would toggle collapsing. I personally do not need that, but other people may like it.

    I believe Arc has this feature, but I find Arc to be a pretty crappy browser in every other aspect. I do not have it installed currently and do not wish to install it which is why I cannot provide a screenshot of this.

      @eirk Just saw the tab folders post, it definitely is a duplicate. Sorry about that, it hadn't come up when I initially searched before writing this post!

      Merged 3 posts from Dividers for Tabs with Labels.

        <Use a descriptive title! This is what most users will see before upvoting your suggestion. Then, describe your suggestion in detail, including how should it be implemented in Orion and what your expectation is. If relevant, upload screenshots/videos examples for the feature from other browsers.>

        This is one feature that I will consider move to Orion

        The idea is from Arc browser, that you can save a tab into a named folder or subfolders. You can close the tab, however the tab in the folder will still remain just as bookmark. This is a great way to organise common used links without locating the bookmarks

        Space is also a concept in Arc. You could use space to cross cut the collections of links that you will use and immerse yourself in it.
        https://resources.arc.net/en/collections/3674563-tips-for-organizing

        • Vlad replied to this.

          stephencoz It is not clear what the suggestion is. Starting from current Orion functionality, what would you change in the interface to accomodate the desired feature? PLease be descriptive and do not assume we are familiar with how other browsers do it.

              2 years later
              Merged 3 posts from Space and Tab folder and always pinned tabs in folder.

                would it be possible to have separate dividers/sections on the vertical bar

                it would be neat to have one for instant messaging, notes, etc

                  We can potentially separate nested tabs to begin with?

                    3 years later
                    Merged 3 posts from Dividers/sections on vertical bar.
                      25 days later

                      @Vlad Is there any update on this? Looks like positive signs until about 1 year ago but radio silence since.
                      This is the single most helpful feature in ARC and the lack of it prevents me from switching to Orion.

                      • Vlad replied to this.

                        GSinIL Planned for later time as we want to focus on stability vs new features. You can simulate folders with the bookmarklet trick for now.

                            Vlad This is very good concept. I just really hope this gets implemented soon. This adds TREMENDOUS amounts to productivity for my work!

                            It is to this merrit, that I will have to use Arc for the time until this gets implemented in Orion Browser, as I have A LOT of folders saved for references and work.

                            Looking forward to this feature!

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                              19 days later

                              Vlad Does this bookmarklet trick survive an Orion restart for you? Its a great workaround but I would need folders that stay until closed. Either way happy to wait while the team focuses on stability.

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                                Nevermind, I’ve found a hacky persistent workaround. Create a bunch of html files that only set the page title to what you want your folder name to be then open them locally in Orion and move your tabs under those “sites”.

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                                  Really want this to be a thing!! When switching from Arc, this is the biggest thing i've missed!

                                    17 days later

                                    I've created a Shortcut for this.

                                    First, create a folder with the following inside:

                                    zNewFolderTemplate.html

                                    zFolderLight.png

                                    zFolderDark.png

                                    Install this shortcut and edit the note at the top to the path of your folder containing those files above:
                                    https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/13efb87d2bc54770919225e4ab67ee87

                                    To create a "new folder", just run the shortcut and enter your desired name and it'll open in Orion. I personally use Raycast to run shortcuts quickly, I think you should be able to do the same with Spotlight. They'll be stored as .html files in the same directory as the other files.

                                    There's a bug in Orion where it doesn't show locally stored images as favicons, so you should probably upload your chosen folder images somewhere and change the html so it points to that/those url(s) instead. I don't want to encourage hot-linking to my uploads above!

                                    The ones I made are from SF Symbols and the same colours Apple uses in Finder. The html's background colours (in light and dark) match Orion's colours. But of course, you can change the html (and icons) to your own tastes.