Request for more rule organizing options

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Hello,

I would like to make a request for more organization options in RM. it would, for example, be great to have folders you could send rules to. So if I drop down the parent app, I could see sub folders with categories of rules in them. Lighting, climate, etc.

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Not disputing the value of such a feature - in the meantime, since rules are sorted alphabetically, you could always prefix the rule name with your desired folder, e.g. Lighting - outside lights

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Thanks! Yes, this is how I currently organize.

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I think it is @lewis.heidrick that uses emojis to organize his rules. It might be his devices instead but he definitely uses/used emojis.

I thought that was a great idea.

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I use them on my devices. A lot of apps use the device name in the app name so they show up there too. Some of the apps you name manually I have to put them in there but I usually just copy whatever emoji I need from another app or device.

I used emojipedia.com for picking emoji to use.

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That’s cool. It understands when you out emoji before the device how to organize based off that emoji?

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Yes

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This is brilliant! .... I'm off to rename all my rules

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Does it have to look up the emojis online in order to display them?

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@Inge_Jones No

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Plus one on the folders idea.

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Coming from Homeseer, it allows rules to be organized into folders. Definitely more helpful than a list of rules sorted alphabetically. I would say this is much more efficient than adding emojis, which is a bit of a hack. Another option is to tag rules and then be able to filter on tag.

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If I ever get around to it, I'd like to take this a step further and group together different apps and devices that are related, allowing for multiple layouts for different purposes...

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This is also similar to some of the Homeseer functionality. For example I can search for all events triggered by a specific device. Also with add-ons I can look for all events that contain certain devices, etc. This "topic" based approach makes it really easy to hunt through rules. But starting with some simple grouping - folders, tags, etc. would go a long way.

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