Folders for Favourite Homes

For us it would be incredibly useful to organise your favourite houses in folders instead of sorted by when you liked them. For example ā€œSummer 2024ā€, ā€œChristmas with friendsā€ or ā€œOne Day in the Futureā€

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I agree! I would use totally different categories, but making your own folders and being able to move conversations there would be great! Outlook has it, so Iā€™m sure it will be possible.

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Couldnā€™t agree more! I would probably organise mine by country or city :slight_smile:

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Me too!

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Yes!!! Great idea! That would definitely be useful! By now Iā€™ve liked so many homes that itā€™s hard to find a particular one again when Iā€™m looking for it ā€¦ :see_no_evil:

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Yes, please! Folders would be amazingly helpful!

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We need more votes for Folders. Heck, even a search feature in the favorite homes would be helpful. I would even pay for an ā€œupgradeā€ fee to have them. Thatā€™s how bad I need them.

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I suggested folders to Home Exchange ages ago but did not get much of a reception to the idea. I have just done a huge clean up of favourites to get rid of homes/locations we are no longer interested in. Folders would have made this so much easier.

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Annette, TY for starting this thread on ā€˜Foldersā€™. I suggested this to the original creator and former owner, Ed Kushins amongst other IT tweaks and he came right over to my house with his team and programmed the ā€˜Saved Foldersā€™ tool within a week. It was one of the most useful go to tools provided for our membership. Itā€™s a simple idea and I was able to categorize by area, country, theme like ā€˜Lakeā€™, ā€˜Oceanā€™, etc. Iā€™ve requested this tool now multiple times since Ed retired & the new owners took over starting with a bare bones website but keep getting a response that they have made a note for their list of future upgrades but so far nothing has happened. This has been now going on a couple of years & honestly put me off of power using the site. Iā€™m back active now and my ā€˜Favoritesā€™ looks like a confused mess, LOL. Please, everyone send in a request for this tool. It made HE life so much more organized.

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I would like this very much, too.

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Yes! Much needed. My ā€œfavoritesā€ are so many and so all over the place that I have trouble finding them when I need them.

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Yes, yes, definitely would love that!

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Hello,

yes we need folders. My favorites are chaos. It would be easy for HE to at least sort them by region/ country.

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yes please, thatā€™s the first thing i thought of when i saw the favorite list. we need to be able to sort or organize it. my list is getting huge haha

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I suggested this to the HE team too several months ago

Totally agree, and Iā€™ve requested it personally too by email (and got a disappointing reply). If we ever reach this point of foldersā€¦ (since weā€™re dreaming of approvements): why not add the option to check CALENDARS of your FAVOURITE homes per folderā€¦ (e.g.: youā€™re looking for a trip in a specific weekend; are any of my favourite homes available?). Just like Airbnb has enabled. Everybody happy!

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Many of us have asked for this for years

HE just sent an email about new updates but from what I can see they still havenā€™t updated a sorting favorite homes folder tool. How do we get this tool back? Ed Kushins (HE founder) responded immediately when I requested it when he owned the site. Seems like the HE team just keeps ignoring this request. Thoughts?

The staff is quite bigger now, it doesnā€™t work on the same way anymore. Every change has to be studied with data team, marketing team, see with mobile team to check if possible to do the same on the apps, etc. Itā€™s not a company with just a few people anymore, there are more than 150 employees now, itā€™s not just a boss deciding himselfā€¦

Thank you Etienne for your reply. I know Iā€™ve been asking for this ā€˜Favorite Folderā€™ tool for years and if you read the other responses in this topic thread you will read that many other HE members are requesting it too. It may seem insignificant to data teams or 149 of the 150 employees but as a long time legacy user this favorite folder organizational tool is a best of class. There is nothing more frustrating than trying to find a favorite listing in what is now a cluttered disconnected mess of haphazzard cluttered favorite listings. For members, this is not efficient & honestly has stopped me from starting new searches as it is to dissorganized. Since the staff is now over 150+ who do we need to speak to or communicate our request too? So far, the only response Iā€™ve received is my request will be added to an IT queue and nothing happens from there. Appreciate your help to communicate my/our request to the management/IT team or let us know who to send our request to. Adding an organization tool such as list/folders in ā€˜Favoritesā€™ seems like a reasonable & not out of the box idea/request. Amazon, Netflix and every other SAS system seems to offer customizable ā€˜Listsā€™ without question. Happy organized travels, Kendall