Forward & back button and other file browser like features.
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:44 am
I've been using Everything as a file browser more than a search engine since I have like 100TB of files and I don't know were anything is anymore. lol.
Anyway, so to make file browsing more effective, I think a button bar with forwards and back button would make navigation a lot better. Also the ability to add menu commands as buttons would be great.
Other things I think are:
1) Tabbed windows so one could go back between searches.
2) A space under the words in the search box were if clicked, it would grays out the word removing it from the search but re-clicking it un-grays the word and adds it back to the search.
3) Adding a simple file browser window as tabs into the Everything window and have context menu that sends folder and/or file name into everything search box. Basically make the file browsing and search browsing seamless. Here is an example of what I mean. I have too much files so I don't know where anything is and I don't remember a lot of the file names but I do put them into folders of the same type and in around the same time period so I throw a bunch of downloaded programs into a folder while a bunch of TV shows goes into another folder. Hence of have scores of folders with TV shows and scores of folders with programs, then folders with music, movies, documents, pictures etc.. etc.. So suppose I want to watch music videos of a particular group but I forgot the name of group but, I do remember I put it in the same folder with a U2 video. Current method is: I search Everything for U2, select "open path" from context menu, look in the folder for the actual group I want to listen to - say Third Eye Blind, copy and paste the file name "Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Live" into Everything. Delete the " - Semi Charmed Live" from the search words. Now I finally have all the music videos Third Eye Blind. Ideally I would like it to work like this:
1) type U2 into search box.
2) Right click on a U2 file and open it in Everything.
3) select a Third eye Blind file name and click the part of the file name you want to select(click "third" once it selects "third", click it twice and it selects "Third Eye" click it 3 times and it selects "Third Eye Blind") and from context menu send those words to searchbox.
This wold be my dream file management system!
Anyway, so to make file browsing more effective, I think a button bar with forwards and back button would make navigation a lot better. Also the ability to add menu commands as buttons would be great.
Other things I think are:
1) Tabbed windows so one could go back between searches.
2) A space under the words in the search box were if clicked, it would grays out the word removing it from the search but re-clicking it un-grays the word and adds it back to the search.
3) Adding a simple file browser window as tabs into the Everything window and have context menu that sends folder and/or file name into everything search box. Basically make the file browsing and search browsing seamless. Here is an example of what I mean. I have too much files so I don't know where anything is and I don't remember a lot of the file names but I do put them into folders of the same type and in around the same time period so I throw a bunch of downloaded programs into a folder while a bunch of TV shows goes into another folder. Hence of have scores of folders with TV shows and scores of folders with programs, then folders with music, movies, documents, pictures etc.. etc.. So suppose I want to watch music videos of a particular group but I forgot the name of group but, I do remember I put it in the same folder with a U2 video. Current method is: I search Everything for U2, select "open path" from context menu, look in the folder for the actual group I want to listen to - say Third Eye Blind, copy and paste the file name "Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Live" into Everything. Delete the " - Semi Charmed Live" from the search words. Now I finally have all the music videos Third Eye Blind. Ideally I would like it to work like this:
1) type U2 into search box.
2) Right click on a U2 file and open it in Everything.
3) select a Third eye Blind file name and click the part of the file name you want to select(click "third" once it selects "third", click it twice and it selects "Third Eye" click it 3 times and it selects "Third Eye Blind") and from context menu send those words to searchbox.
This wold be my dream file management system!