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Folders for simple organization of articles.

User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · Articles & templates · Created by Nightstroud
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The ability to create folders inside of article categories. When creating things for my dungeons and dragons campaign, I often times find that looking for certain items (cause I have a lot of them) takes a large chunk of time. I was just looking for a simple folder creation and or group creation that would allow users to group things up into categories of something like, "Weapons" "Potions" "Tools" ect...

   

And while yes I do understand that there is a search feature in place, I still would like to see a folder system just because I personally for my own sanity and ocd, (as I make quite a lot of new articles), like to keep things just a little more organized then they are.

   

Not the end of the world though, just a quality of life change.

The Team's Response

Hello there!   I am mighty confused by this suggestion. What is the difference of this any the categories system which is totally nestable? What am I missing. Anyone who upvoted this feature, please talk to me and explain your line of thinking at #development-discussion on our discord.
Current score

72/300 Votes · +7160 points

Votes Cast

  • +50

    by Xoilicec
    on 2021-10-30 19:13
  • -100

    by Tulcor
    on 2021-10-29 23:01
    I concur with the dissenters here. I think it is natural and intuitive to just use subcategories for exactly the same purpose.
  • +300

    by Kriltch
    on 2021-10-29 20:52
  • +300

    by IBeRad
    on 2021-10-29 16:31
  • +10

    by MayArtemis
    on 2021-10-29 12:59
  • +300

    by A Adorable Kitten
    on 2021-10-29 12:23
    It would be awesome if the sub-categories/folders could also be presented as books, like parent categories. It would make navigation easier and is visually more pleasing.
  • +200

    by Nyvanod141
    on 2021-10-28 21:50
  • +200

    by Skarpi21
    on 2021-10-28 18:15
  • +100

    by gildedgems
    on 2021-10-27 17:10
  • +200

    by PantSeatPilot
    on 2021-10-27 07:06
  • -300

    by DM-Ahsome
    on 2021-10-26 15:44
  • -100

    by Squanto
    on 2021-10-26 12:57
    This is just sub categories. No additional folders are needed.
  • +100

    by thechangeling
    on 2021-10-26 07:44
    I will say I understand why this feature might be useful- the way I organise my article using categories is very different from the way I’d organise them if I had private folders for myself, mostly because category organisation is oriented towards other people while folders would be personal to me.   That said, as others have mentioned this can be done via tags- I myself am only starting to use them so the following suggestion might be dumb / already in place (and I can’t really check rn), but maybe having a page that acts as a tag manager of some kind and lets you organise tags in different folders could be nice? And where clicking on a tag would display all articles tagged with it? (Again if smth similar already exist please ignore me!)
  • -10

    by A Mischievous Kobold
    on 2021-10-25 22:41
  • -100

    by A Fluffy Cthulhu
    on 2021-10-25 19:28
    You can simply add a category within a category, which is a folder for articles
  • +200

    by mezzopatricia
    on 2021-10-25 16:27
  • +300

    by Yrchdagnir
    on 2021-10-25 07:24
  • +100

    by Kalwitness
    on 2021-10-24 20:32
  • -100

    by Frogdrake
    on 2021-10-23 16:39
    Seems like analogous functionality already exists? You can make subcategories inside exiting categories. You can also tag your articles for easier searching.
  • +10

    by Maxpowerfreak
    on 2021-10-22 21:50
  • -100

    by scholarmage
    on 2021-10-21 11:06
    I'm a little bemused by this one, as your own request gives away the key word: "...group things up into *categories*..." That's exactly what I've done to keep my articles neatly organised for my own D&D campaign: categories can be created inside of categories. For example, I have my campaign category folder, with a sub-category of NPCs, then a sub-sub-category for the location where each NPC is. Also, you can add searchable tags to each article, which will bring it up in search results. If you want something prettier, it's easy to create pages which do nothing but automatically list every article with a specific tag, showing the name & excerpt, linking straight to that article. So for a large town I have a Dramatis Personae page, which has a list of all the merchant NPCs, followed by a list of the Town Watch NPCs, followed by a list of the other characters. This one's a solution in search of a problem, I think.
  • +100

    by Denji
    on 2021-10-21 07:32
  • +300

    by Aspects Untold
    on 2021-10-20 03:25
  • +300

    by CaptainMikeHawk
    on 2021-10-19 18:04
  • +100

    by Coocooforyou
    on 2021-10-18 15:07
  • +20

    by Barbog
    on 2021-10-18 12:51
  • +100

    by xavi_the_magic_boi
    on 2021-10-18 05:27
  • +50

    by SilverLeaves
    on 2021-10-17 20:51
  • +300

    by Singleminded82
    on 2021-10-17 13:42
  • -50

    by juldum54
    on 2021-10-17 13:26
  • +300

    by frotierkilla
    on 2021-10-17 05:05
  • +50

    by DarlingDori
    on 2021-10-17 01:50
  • +200

    by Makoto Ichijoji
    on 2021-10-16 01:15
  • +100

    by Nemesis 1
    on 2021-10-15 20:10
  • +200

    by LadyEllisandra
    on 2021-10-15 07:37
  • +50

    by googolplexicon
    on 2021-10-14 23:15
  • -100

    by Amancham
    on 2021-10-14 21:39
    I don't think I get what you are looking for? You can make sub-categories within categories already. (as in folders within folders?)   I am guessing that the issue is, that you can't have an article in more than one category, which means you have to pick one way of putting content into categories. However, I would strongly suggest you look at tags. I didn't use them at first, but they are amazing. You can automatically generate lists of one tag (e.g. list all entries with the tag #potion) so you can then set up an article with the tags listed.   Another option might be content trees. you can add articles manually and sort them the way you want them, so you could make a content tree for all the potions, or weapons or whatnot. They might be locked behind a higher tier level, though. I'm not quite sure right now.   TL;DR: What you are looking for might already be possible, just in a slightly different way?
  • +100

    by Chillian
    on 2021-10-14 17:55
  • -300

    by A Rambunctious Dimensional Horror
    on 2021-10-14 16:45
    You can put a category inside a category, a category is like a folder
  • +300

    by cutlasskiwi
    on 2021-10-14 13:38
  • +200

    by cedes
    on 2021-10-14 01:42
  • +300

    by Voxol Tetra
    on 2021-10-14 01:12
  • +20

    by A Roaring Elf
    on 2021-10-13 15:56
  • +300

    by bladesmoss
    on 2021-10-13 14:26
  • +300

    by TheEmberland
    on 2021-10-13 10:36
  • +100

    by PrussianBlue
    on 2021-10-13 10:16
  • +300

    by Game Master Guru
    on 2021-10-13 04:54
  • +10

    by RoyalWolfXD
    on 2021-10-12 20:28
  • +300

    by MDPreston
    on 2021-10-12 20:22
  • +50

    by CinderLight
    on 2021-10-12 19:04
  • +20

    by Anerak
    on 2021-10-12 17:39
  • +100

    by MrGunn
    on 2021-10-12 15:42
    I thought this already existed?
  • +300

    by Gigaclown
    on 2021-10-12 15:02
  • -10

    by RheaIsaac
    on 2021-10-12 13:55
  • -50

    by sadwaffle
    on 2021-10-12 13:33
  • -10

    by Michael Chandra
    on 2021-10-12 12:06
    Why not combine subcategories and tags? If you tag items as "potion", you could then use the (ignore the --) [ --tagged:potion|block|Potions] command in an article to display links to all potions.
  • +10

    by GlJonny
    on 2021-10-12 12:02
  • -300

    by A Uncontrollable Dimensional Horror
    on 2021-10-12 10:52
    This is what the categories / sub-categories we currently have .. are?! I have no idea what you are on about Nightstroud - Have you read any of the documentation mate?
  • +50

    by Timekeepers
    on 2021-10-12 09:22
  • +300

    by PhntmDrgn
    on 2021-10-12 08:23
  • +300

    by Nubs
    on 2021-10-12 06:25
  • +20

    by A Wild Cthulhu
    on 2021-10-12 03:07
  • +10

    by mithrom
    on 2021-10-12 02:49
  • -300

    by amelianite
    on 2021-10-12 00:07
    You can already add sub-categories to your main categories.
  • +300

    by ForgetfulRiver
    on 2021-10-12 00:04
  • +100

    by A Sneaky Orc
    on 2021-10-11 22:07
  • -300

    by SoulLink
    on 2021-10-11 21:25
    That is what categories are.
  • +10

    by sybolton1!
    on 2021-10-11 20:49
  • +300

    by Nick_Scryer
    on 2021-10-11 19:48
    As an additional feature I'd say definitely yes. As long as it doesn't replace anything we have right now
  • +100

    by TheFailicus
    on 2021-10-11 19:20
  • +50

    by Aune
    on 2021-10-11 19:12
  • +300

    by SparkedPersephone
    on 2021-10-11 18:03
  • +300

    by Nightstroud
    on 2021-10-11 18:02