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[FEATURE]: Add named project groups #39284
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Feature hasn't been suggested before.
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Describe the enhancement you want to request
When many projects are open, the project list becomes difficult to scan and unrelated repositories are mixed together. I would like one-level, user-defined project groups that can be named, collapsed, and reordered locally.
Projects could be assigned from their context menu or by dragging them onto a group, and moved back to an Ungrouped section. Group membership would be per-server local UI state and would not change project paths, IDs, or session data.
The closest older request was #15469, and the related sub-project implementation in #16934 closed after inactivity. This proposal differs by using arbitrary named groups rather than parent/child project relationships.
I have a working local prototype for the legacy project sidebar. Before preparing a PR, should this target the legacy layout, the new project UI, or shared state supporting both?
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joshbla commentedon Sep 26, 2026
Please!
opencodejr commentedon Oct 28, 2026
Thanks for the detailed proposal, @rayborg! To restate it: you'd like named, one-level project groups in the project sidebar. They could be collapsed and reordered, projects would be assigned from the context menu or by drag-and-drop with an Ungrouped section as the fallback, and membership would be per-server local UI state that doesn't change project paths, IDs or sessions.
Maintainers will consider this, including your question about whether a PR should target the legacy layout, the new project UI, or shared state for both. It's probably best to wait for their answer before preparing the PR.
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dluc commentedon Nov 2, 2026
This would help with large workspaces. In addition to named, collapsible groups, please consider nested user-defined groups and labels as an organizational option, independent of the actual directory hierarchy. I currently rely on project-name prefixes just to group projects alphabetically, which also makes the single-letter project avatars less useful. A project → sessions view within these groups would make navigation much easier.