FEATURE: Favorite list folder

[mr-scrpt]

Did you check the docs?

• I have read all the docs.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In a project, there are often key directories that you would like to have quick access to. For example, my project uses the FSD methodology, where the project structure is predefined

• shared/
• entities/
• features/
• widgets/
• page/
• app/

For example I am working with a file in the entities layer, let entities be user, inside this directory I have a controller directory and in it the file user.controller.ts. So I am in src/entities/user/controller/user.controller.ts and I need to open the features folder to see what I have there - now I have to open the neo tree and manually navigate to the right directory or use the search which often has a lot of unnecessary results.

Regardless of architecture and methodologies, projects often have popular catalogs that I would also like to have quick access to.

Describe the solution you'd like.

I would like to have a favorites mechanism to which you can add directories, for example as it is done in the harpoon plugin or something similar
While in neo tree on any of the directories you can press a key combination that will add the directory to favorites, it can be a separate tab in neo tree.
Then, when working with files we can call the list of favorite directories, select the one we are interested in, then neo tree will go to the selected directory and we will see all the contents.
It's possible to improve this behavior - to make it like harpoon - move to the added directory by hotkey. To open neo tree in a favorite directory we can press <leader>ega, <leader>egs, <leader>egd, <leader>egf - and so on. Where A,S,D,F - corresponds to the serial number in the favorite directory.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

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Additional Context

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[pysan3]

Unfortunately with the current state of neo-tree there is no way to persist some memory to the next process (meaning that neo-tree will forget what was saved when you relaunch neovim).

However, there are plans to add persistency so that neo-tree can relaunch itself to its old state with the auto-session plugins and this feature may also be implemented together.

IMHO I think your idea is pretty interesting and I'll stick it into my (very long) TODO list :)

I will add the gauging interest tag to this FR and see if more people are interested as well for now.

[mr-scrpt]

Hi, everyone. If anyone is interested, I have implemented this functionality. Here is the plugin for neotree.
neotree-favorites
The code is fully generated by AI.

[pynappo]

on a per-project basis, i think that the ignore file feature i added recently can cover this use case. you can add a .neotreeignore or .ignore file to the root of your project dir, and use gitignore syntax to hide certain files you don't want to see.

i can see some sort of argument for a global harpoon-like list of folders you might want to edit (like say you have a project, your nvim config, etc in different directories but want them all in a quick sidebar).