One of my original ideas for Snowfox includes a highly customizable content area. In other words, user should be able to create tabs, split tabs, open up a sidebar etc. In this post, I'm gonna talk about the Sidebar in specific. Here are the different roles that this UI element can play:
Bookmark Manager:
Firefox users should be familar with this. Usually users are able to organize their bookmarks through this window. Snowfox aims to use a similar idea. Bookmarks in Snowfox are like virtual folders where users can organize content located anywhere on their computers. As Snowfox will flatten the "tree-view" of our file system, bookmarks will be cruical to throw back some hierarchy.
Search Bar:
Okay, this is a feature "borrowed" from the traditional windows explorer. Though there is a search bar beside the addressbar, if users want more control over their searches they can do it through this special sidebar mode.
Folder Tree:
If you really really miss your old explorer, there should be no reason why you cannot make Snowfox look like it. In this mode, the sidebar shows an explorer style tree-view of folders.
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