Week11

Dir Express | Directory Shortener to calm the folder navigation chaos and endless clicks

🥅 Goal:

• to simplify directory navigation. It is to allow users to create and use custom shortcuts for quick access to specific folders. Much like a URL shortener; but for folders.

🎁 Benefit:

• reduced the time spent on navigating lengthy directory paths.

💡 Question:

• Yes, you could make shortcuts of the folders but if you have more than a handful, you'll find them cluttering your desktop.

🆚 Difference:

• Through this tool, however, the goal is to have an instantly accessible search bar on which shortcodes can be entered leading to opening of corresponding folders.

🧰 Usage:

• [1] A user enters a long directory path they want shortened.
• [2] A short random string of characters is generated (which can be customized for better memorability).
• [3] Searching by a shortcode opens the corresponding folder.

💡 Where to start? (Ideas)

• Provide a way to insert a full directory path
• Generate/Ask for a unique string as a short code
• Save them in a table as a CSV [long dir path | shortened path]
• Click here to get this week's starting code.

Recommended Learning:

    Recommended Learning:
    - table (), saveTable (), loadTable (), +
    - TableRow (), findRow ()
    - launch ()

⏳ Submissions:

• Submission of this challenge, just like all of the Weekly Coder’s challenges, is to be within 36 hours after post. And so, here Sunday morning 12:00 LT.