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