I agree with bb45 that these are two separate requests. Keeping track of the entire tree state when filtering begins has time and space overheard, especially for large trees.

In (a), the suggestion of being able to view X levels in the folder tree, I think maybe this is a new view feature request altogether? (ie, i’d be all for it, but basically its a view option thats maybe independent of the request that “after filter section is closed, tree should revert to its view options that it had before filter tool was used”.

After removing filtering, all folders are expanded. I have then to Collapse All and start expanding folders one by one up to the level that I want –not very convenient. Solutions:

(a) What I suggested originally; be able to set folders to expanded up to a certain level -this is very common in mind mapping programs

(b) Alternative; being able to save the current state of the tree, thus being able to revert to it when finished with filtering

I don’t know which of the two solutions is easier to implement; for me any would be satisfactory.

This filtering does for web pages what “Everything” does for the Windows file system:

http://www.voidtools.com/

(No connection, just a happy user of both)

@Alex – yes filtering and seeing the result as you type makes it so much better. re. Expanding folders in a branch, by level – can you give an example of where this would be useful. You can already expand/collapse all folders in a selected tree branch.

Just one point: filtering expands the tree all the way, and this expanded state remains when the filter is switched off. For me this makes even more important a way to gradually expand/collapse levels across the whole tree, i.e. show 1st level folsers only, 2nd level, 3rd level etc…