Godot: Logical folders in Project List

[ghost]

Hello guys,
in a past weeks I collected a lot of demos and example projects for Godot and I have them all loaded to Project List. But having 50+ projects in the list became confusing and harder to browse (even though ability to favourite is useful). So I ask if it is possible to add logical folders to Project List so me and some other hoarders could better organize their projects.

[reduz]

Good question, I was thinking of maybe having categories or tags, or having
a project come with a default category but then allowing you to change the
tag to something you like?, I'm not sure.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Martin Novák [email protected]
wrote:

Hello guys,
in a past weeks I collected a lot of demos and example projects for Godot
and I have them all loaded to Project List. But having 50+ projects in the
list became confusing and harder to browse (even though ability to
favourite is useful). So I ask if it is possible to add logical folders to
Project List so me and some other hoarders could better organize their
projects.

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[ghost]

Custom tags could be nice aswell. :)
This arrangement of tags is what came to my mind right now so they could be used for searching in Templates library:

• primary: 3D, 2D, 2D&3D, ...
• secondary: demo, example, project, ...
• third level (user editable tags): platformer, RPG, controls, FPS, ...

First two levels of tags might be selectable from predefined list of tags and the third could just have suggestions (maybe from tags already used in project uploaded to Templates).

[bojidar-bg]

Pretty bump, any updates here? (tagging as pr-welcome for all free contributors :wink: )

[nunodonato]

just to leave my (irrelevant) 2cents here:

for me this is totally a non-issue, I never felt the need to organize a projects list. Because you usually work in one (or very few) projects at a time. Its not like a photo album. I even remove projects which I consider finished, if I need them later I'll import again, but its so rare. I prefer a clean and usable projects list than a complex one full of hierarchies.

there's also a searchbox, which will probably filter faster what you need than (de)selecting categories or folders

[DriNeo]

Do you think that bundling all official examples projects into one, or a few projects, could be relevant ?

[nunodonato]

@DriNeo as far as I know, the official demos will be moved to the asset lib and users can download them on-demand

[eon-s]

I'm facing this problem, my solution is a different self contained Godot for different purposes, I can't test issues, do experiments and other things and work on my _serious_ projects on the same place, is a mess.

Also without project descriptions you are limited to search by project name and there is a point everything turns into trial and error :sweat_smile:

[nunodonato]

@eon-s I have 1 or 2 junk projects where I just go to test stuff out, there's no need to create yet another project just for testing something. That's why we have scenes which can run independently :)

Just spend 5seconds writing a good project name and it works wonderfully :)

[eon-s]

@nunodonato yes, I do that too but I can't do it for everything (because settings and other specific mess I do xD ).

I have mentioned description and project "tags" on another issue, that could help on the organization.

[Zireael07]

My projects are named "xxx xxx xxx prototype" and then after I create copies of it for whatever reason, I end up with several project with the same name (as far as the project list is concerned) but in different folders.

[vnen]

Of course, different people have different workflows. This feature just needs to be non-obstructive for the people who won't use it.

[Zireael07]

Folders/tags/renaming, either of the three would help massively.

[nunodonato]

@Zireael07 you can rename a project in its own project settings

[eon-s]

Imagine using Godot for a course, having class material and student projects = hellish project manager

[nunodonato]

create a "students" folder, then filter by path ;)

[eon-s]

@nunodonato path filtering is useless if does not accept multiple words, there is where tags are stronger.

[DriNeo]

I didn't find a way to clear the project list. If it is possible easily this could help to keep a clean project manager.
Edit: Or alternatively every scan may reset the list ?

[Anutrix]

Just wanted to mention this. Sometimes the list of projects randomly gets reordered for me. Don't know why.

[KoBeWi]

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