Tab Folders

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!

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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

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?

@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.

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!

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.

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”.

MisterTwo Creative

MisterTwo would it be possible to turn this into a button somehow?

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

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.