Manually order folders in the folder list
Feature Summary
Be able to:
- sort Accounts
- sort Folders within accounts
- choose the default startup folder
How would you like it to work
- Enable sorting the folders within an email account.
- When there is more than 1 email account, please enable sorting of the email accounts.
Can this functionality be available by default, without adding a plugin, in the Geary email client?
Relevant links, screenshots, etc.
There is a Thunderbird add-on which achieves this for Thunderbird called Manually sort folders.
By default Thunderbird sorts the folders of an account alphabetically. This extension allows you to choose a specific sort order for your folders, allowing you to put the most important ones on top, and manually order them.
This extension also offers another method for automatically sorting folders. Unlike Thunderbird's default, the extension's sort method takes into account Unicode special characters. If you do not wish to sort everything manually, you can use Unicode symbols at the beginning of your folder names to put them on top. For instance, you can put a Unicode star ✸ at the beginning of your folder name to put it on top of the list without having to sort everything manually.
This also works for newsgroups inside a news accounts, and also works for sub-folders, and sub-subfolders, etc.
As a bonus feature, you can also re-order accounts as well, there's an extra tab for that now. The latest version now also allows you to choose the default startup folder.
This is one of the top Thunderbird add-ons as shown in the graph below
https://addons.thunderbird.net/addon/manually-sort-folders/statistics/?last=365
What do you think?
Thank you