Bookmarking: Filtering with search bar when bookmarking (in case of many folders)
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abdullah_bal
Motivation
I want to request a search option when adding a bookmark, if that is easier to develop. I already have 200+ bookmark folders in my Al-Quran App. So whenever I want to add a verse to a bookmark folder, I have to scroll through all the bookmark folders to find the one I am looking for.
Objectives
Make it easier to search for a bookmark folder when adding a verse to a bookmark.
Proposed Implementation
In the Library tab, there is a search bookmark option. Would it be possible to use a similar implementation to add the same search option in "Add Boookmark"?
Drawbacks
The search option could slow the add Bookmark process depending on how many bookmarks someone already created.
Detailed Use Case (shared 2 years ago)
I have a request to add some extra features to organize the bookmarks. I usually use the bookmarks in the Al-Quran app as labels. For example, All the verses that describe the afterlife are bookmarked by the label “Akhirah”, so that when I want to remind myself about the afterlife, I can go to the bookmark and read all the verses related to it. Currently, I finished only 2 Juzz and I marked around 80+ bookmarks. Hence, it becomes difficult to search for bookmarks and sometimes I have multiple bookmarks with similar tags. Could you please provide a search and serial number options with the bookmarks? Particularly, when bookmarking a new verse, going through previous bookmarks is much more time-consuming.
To solve the bookmark search, I rename all the bookmarks on my Quran app and included a bookmark number (sorted from 1- #of bookmarks) with every bookmark name. Then I export the bookmark to my pc and open it with Excel. Now I can search Excel, get the bookmark number, and scroll in the Quran app to find the bookmark name. For example, if I need to find "charity", I search the Excel and get 53 as a bookmark number for "charity". Then I scroll through bookmarks on the Quran app to and locate "53 Charity". JazakAllah Khair, for your patience. I hope, you understand what I try to explain. However, I think only the search option is enough. Placing a bookmark number is to make it more user-friendly. May Allah give all of the team members the best rewards in this life and the hereafter.
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Araf Mohammad Mahbub
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Assalamu Alaikum,
Jazakallah Hu Khairan Katheera for this splendid effort in the form of Quran and Hadith apps ... And for the patience in listening and accommodating our feedback in improving functionality further.
Thank you Abdulla bai for this request thread ...
I just wanted to start a new thread for this exact purpose, good I found yours ...
A Collection_Label_Search option will make adding the right bookmarks to the right labels with ease and efficiency.
Currently scrolling through a huge list trying to locate the right labels to add the current bookmark is proving to be quite difficult ...
IMPORTANT : when ever this feature is added make sure this collection_label search is granular in the sense that entering a phrase/word/string should be enough to throw the labels with that string ... also ... if possible a step further where a typographical error in the entered search text should show result closest to that string something like how keyboard apps throw the close words for the entered keys ... that way we don't have to remember the exact label name or phrase.
Further if a particular phrase is entered then results should show labels with those individuals words as well ...
Eg. 'Mecy of Allah' ... when entered should show results such as ...
Besides the exact matches ... It should also list out the following in the results ...
- (did you mean) Mercy
- Every label that has the word 'Mercy'
3.Every label that has the word 'Allah'
- Every label that has the word 'of'
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Etc
And when an entered search word/phrase does not have an exact match provide a + button next to the entered search string clicking on which should create a new label and add the current verse to that newly created label.
A sub folder in a tree structure(nesting) would also bring great value that way the primary categories will hold sub categories under them making the library more efficient and organised ... Like how the great Hadith books are categorised/indexed ...
+1 to the ability to share our bookmarks would be good too ...
That's a lot of trouble Abdulla has gone to be exporting the labels to Excel and going back and forth with the search in the worksheet and then locating the same within the app library ...
Inshaallah ... The GTAF team may be able to end you misery by providing a great library/bookmark management tool within this app ...
PS : the suggestion provided here are to be taken as being suggested to both the Qur'an and Hadith apps simultaneously ...
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omar68
I like this.
1) Also, if we can make bookmarks within bookmarks, so folders within folders, so that we can have topics and sub topics to our bookmarks more organized.
2) And also the ability to share our entire bookmarks with others.
There are probably people like Abdulla_bal who have already done an incredible job organizing their bookmarks and it would be great others could just copy theirs and save time.
3) Lastly, it would be great if we can see our bookmarks from the Quran, Hadith and Dua apps all in each app, so that way if we were looking at (for example) our Quran bookmarks regarding fasting, we could also see the Hadiths and Duas regarding fasting that we have saved in the same folder without having to switch apps.
Araf Mohammad Mahbub
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alaminbn12
Right, it is really helpful