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Guilhem Cozier's avatar
Guilhem Cozier
New member | Level 2
2 months ago
Status:
Gathering Support

Viewable tags next to folders/files when you try to preview them.

Hello Dropbox team 👋

I would really really love to be able to see tags appear besides the name of the files in any view, or folder, and on the mobile app, web version, and desktop app. Just a nice coloured tag left to the star icon would be wonderful.

Yes, I know at Dropbox you are not a big fan of small, seemingly unnecessary cutomizations that don't serve an immediate and measurable purpose, but making customers happy is very important (here by improving UI and UX significantly and seemlessly for a small amount of time and effort). I'm sure the intern could figure it out in three days.

Also if you are hyper motivated you can add a filter for tags to sort files (but NOT necessary, making them visible and coloured is already a great improvement).

Here is what I imagine when I say tags:

For colours you can do just like in Notion, where you can choose from pre-determined colours:

Organize
sort
Web

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  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    31 days ago
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  • RyanFromDropbox's avatar
    RyanFromDropbox
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    31 days ago

    Hi, Guilhem Cozier​ -- Thanks so much for the feedback & idea! 

    I'm on the Product team here at Dropbox, and I'd love to learn about how you're using tags in your workflow today. Would you mind sharing a bit more?

    For example:

    • Why are you adding tags to files/folders today?
    • What kind of files are you adding tags to?
    • What kind of tags are you adding?
    • How might a quick view of these tags (colored or otherwise) be helpful?

    If you're open to it, I'd love to speak with you directly and hear more about your use cases for tags. Would you be willing to connect with our team?

    Cheers,

    Ryan