Enhancement: Bookmark Feature

[ohneda]

What features would you like to see added?

I would like to suggest adding a bookmark (or star) feature to conversations.

More details

As the number of chat messages increases daily, managing them becomes extremely challenging. Having a feature to mark important conversations would make it much easier to organize and navigate through them.

A Collection feature that allows grouping conversations, like the one provided by Perplexity, is also appealing, but it would require a more complex UI design and take more time to develop. On the other hand, I thought that the bookmark feature could be implemented relatively easily and potentially bring significant benefits.

If others find this feature attractive and approve it, I would be happy to proceed with the implementation.

Which components are impacted by your request?

Here are the steps I believe are necessary to fully implement this feature:

• Add a property like bookmarked to the conversation model
• Add a function to update the bookmarked property to true or false (this may require modifying data-service.updateConversation or adding a new bookmarkConversation function)
• Add a filter to the backend API to retrieve only bookmarked conversations

Picture

I have implemented a sample UI for this feature. We could simply add a bookmark icon to the conversation's drop-down menu. If there are any UI/UX suggestions, I would be happy to incorporate them.

bookmark.mov

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[berry-13]

Nice! This is a great feature we could add. How about a folder feature? or even better, something like multiple bookmarks, so tags.

check it out: https://discord.com/channels/1086345563026489514/1110235266645491773

update:

sorry, I hadn't read your entire description. I understand that adding a folders/tags system is more complex, but I personally think it's much better for users. we could also integrate this with Meilisearch

[ohneda]

Oh, if there's already such a request, I should definitely implement it. I thought designing the UI for collections would be difficult, but after seeing the discussion on Discord, I realized it could be done like that.
We could add tags to the conversations in the database, like you said, and represent them as folders in the UI. I will first design a UI and review it.

[Joshfindit]

Great discussion and I'm happy it got implemented!

I just tried the current bookmark feature and wanted to share some UX feedback as it threw me off entirely.

I was in a conversation I wanted to bookmark, clicked "Add Bookmarks" (the icon) > "New Bookmark" and gave it a name.
I thought that would be it, like a browser bookmark or one in an actual book. "Add to current conversation" threw me off for a minute and I left it unchecked because I thought it was some sort of power user feature where I could add the contents of the bookmark to conversations, but I digress.

Then I saw the "Bookmarks" (same icon) in the left sidebar and clicked it only for it to say "it seems like you have no bookmarks yet. Click on a chat and add a new one" which was doubly confusing. I had just bookmarked a conversation I thought. Maybe the page had stale data...

Then it dawned on me: These actually work like tags!

In the tag paradigm you create a categorization label then you can assign a label to any content so that you can group by those labels later on.

Now asking to [label this conversation] when you create a bookmark makes sense.
So does the confusion around the sidebar list: I hadn't actually applied the [tag] to any conversations, only created it.

I know it's a departure from how things have been done, but I think it's worth renaming the bookmarks "Tags" since they do not mark specific discrete places but are instead used to categorize and filter multiple conversations at once.

[berry-13]

yea I agree