This is an interesting idea. How would folders be different to the tags system? What else would they add?
The main thing would just be the ability to collapse everything into folders. I currently have over 50 snippets. Mostly active but some that will be in the future for purposes not needed now. Just adds up to a giant list we are always fishing through.
You could probably just use the current tag system so as not to introduce any new tagging/folder naming and just allow us to view the snippets grouped by tag. The problem with this would be snippets with multiple tags (unless you show snippets in all groupings they are attributed to. Just thinking out loud here..maybe an additional folder system is neccesary?
By ‘grouped by tag’, do you mean displaying multiple tags on the same screen, but arranged into separate tables or separated by dividers?
I mean just kinda treat them as folders where you have an option like “View Snippets Grouped by Tag” and it then just shows you a list of your tags with a count indicating how many snippets are “in” each tag. With a single snippet being able to be attributed to multiple tags I would recommend not looking at this as a problem and let the same snippet appear when the user clicks either of the tags it is attributed to.
I think this is best because it doesn’t add any new functionality to the backend and is, I think, just a front-end endeavor(?).
By the way, thanks for being so responsive with this. I think this will add real value to those of us who have a bunch of snippets we are working with. What I believe this evolves into, at least for me, is a way to sensibly organize them together because the next most logical step (beyond just being able to manage the snippets more effectively) is to determine which groups of snippets should be isolated (in our thinking) and turned into an actual plugin.
