snippets Two Snippet management improvement requests

[Chris Messina]

I'd like to request two improvements to Snippet management:

 

1. The ability to drag a snippet from one Snippet Collection to another
2. The ability to change a snippet's Collection without being taken to view that snippet in the new collection. 

 

I'm currently in the process of reorganizing a couple dozen snippets and it's HIGHLY inefficient to try to move these things between collections.

[Chris Messina]

I did discover that I can multiselect snippets and right-click to show a "Move-to" menu, but I had expected to be able to drag and drop.

 

[dfay]

You can just do this with the .json files in Alfred.alfredpreferences/snippets .  Folders there are groups in Alfred.  

[Chris Messina]

Ah, handy, thanks. But seems like it'd be more user friendly/discoverable just to support Finder-like conventions in the UI?

[Andrew]

Drag and Drop snippets between collections is already in the plan, so you can expect this in a future release  

[Chris Messina]

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• Deselect all in snippets table after moving snippets from one collection to another using the popup menu

 

Whohoo! Spotted in Alfred 4.3.1 [1208]

[Chris Messina]

On 12/15/2020 at 5:25 AM, Andrew said:

Drag and Drop snippets between collections is already in the plan, so you can expect this in a future release  

 

@Andrew just playing the squeaky wheel here and bumping this request.

 

I'm trying to re-organize a large number of snippets and the current drag and drop behavior is very unconventional. I expect moving snippets around to be similar to moving files in Finder, but there are several inconsistencies, some of which I identified in my original post.

 

Additionally, the Snippets "Filter" interface should probably be within the Collection view, since it filters snippets in the selected group, rather than ALL snippets (which would also be useful).

[deanishe]

On 6/25/2021 at 10:41 PM, Chris Messina said:

I'm trying to re-organize a large number of snippets and the current drag and drop behavior is very unconventional.

 

For the time being, you might find it easier to re-organise your snippets in Finder. Each collection is a directory and each snippet a JSON file, and they tend to have fairly descriptive names.

[Chris Messina]

On 6/27/2021 at 4:58 AM, deanishe said:

For the time being, you might find it easier to re-organise your snippets in Finder. Each collection is a directory and each snippet a JSON file, and they tend to have fairly descriptive names.

Ok, I'll give this a go, thanks!