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[Feature Request]: Library selector UI with previews #1376

@NunexGTX

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@NunexGTX

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Hi, I wanted to make a small suggestion in the UI.

When the program starts, by default it opens the latest opened library. This is fine, but the only way to open any library would be to go to the file explorer selector or the recent opened libraries.

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My suggestion would be to give the option for adding libraries to a selector. At startup and when a person wants to close a library, they would come to this screen in which you get a preview of 2-3 files (like a folder in a file explorer) of each library you added and switch from your let's say animanga library to your invoices library or to your video editing assets bank library.
And instead of having to have to open them at least once, we could have the option to either select multiple folders at once, or a parent folder that holds all these libraries as their subfolders.

Alternatives

I do not like the idea of having completely unrelated stuff boring stuff in the same place as my memes for instance. So only using tags to categorize certain totally unrelated files can become a bigger mess. I'm also thinking about the possibility of me wanting to share my memes in a easily sharable way with my friends and end up having a pdf with my address somewhere in the middle. So a more friendly way to show the user to switch the active library with an easy preview and title would be really nice and instinctively faster.

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