todo: a favorites tab/panel for the file browser

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

todo/multi-user/add-a-favorites-tab-panel-to-the-file-browser.md

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+id: multi-user/add-a-favorites-tab-panel-to-the-file-browser
+title: 'Add a favorites tab/panel to the file browser'
+theme: multi-user
+status: open
+created: 2026-08-25
+date_source: stated
+order: 21
+---
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+**Add a favorites tab/panel to the file browser. Make it work.** Wanted 2026-08-25. A place to pin
+folders (and/or files) for one-click return, alongside the existing browse view — not a design
+proposal, a working feature.
+
+Nothing to build on directly: no favorites concept exists anywhere in `FileBrowser/` today, and no prior
+todo mentions one. This is new ground, not a gap in something half-built.
+
+What it needs, in rough shape: a way to mark a path as favorited, storage for the set (per user —
+`user_settings`'s jsonb, per `settings/a-user-s-settings-should-export-and-import-as`, is the shape
+already used for this kind of small per-account preference, though a dedicated table is also
+defensible if favorites want their own timestamps or ordering), a tab or panel surfacing the list, and
+navigation from an entry back into the browser at that path.
+
+Ties into two things already filed rather than duplicating them: the URL model in `todo/url-state/` —
+a favorited path should be a real link (`folderHref`), and a panel's folder is currently NOT
+addressable outside `/files` itself, which a favorites panel will run into immediately if it lives in a
+panel rather than the main screen. And a folder versus a file favorite may behave differently on open
+(navigate vs. preview), worth deciding rather than assuming both work the same way.