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Add a Favorites section to the Search screen

Feature Request

When swiping up to open the search in Niagara Launcher, there is quite a lot of unused space around the existing suggestions.

It would be great to have a dedicated Favorites section directly below the search bar, where users could manually pin apps that they use frequently but don't necessarily want on their main home screen.

For example:

  • Banking apps

  • Navigation apps

  • Games played during breaks

  • Shopping apps

  • Travel apps

  • Other apps that are frequently used but don't need to be on the main screen

The search screen could be organized as:

Search
Favorites
Suggestions

Favorites would be manually selected and remain fixed until the user changes them, while Suggestions could continue working as they do now.

This would give users a second place for their most-used apps, allowing them to keep the main Niagara home screen clean and minimal while still having very quick access to apps they use regularly.

Category
Productivity
Posted by Andrei Bodorin ·
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  • NL Help Bot

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    Aug 24

    Thanks for the detailed write-up! The same idea is already collected here: pinned apps on search results. Upvoting there helps more than a second post, since we work through requests roughly by upvotes.

    Your layout sketch (Search, Favorites, Suggestions) is a nice addition to that thread, so feel free to drop it there as a comment.