Folders in After Effects timeline

To be honest I’d happily pay for a plug-in to enable this.

Obviously I shouldn’t have to, but it would revolutionise my workflow.

Indeed a quick improvement of the application. And that would really be something, if adobe actually listened to the users that already pay the subscription. I do not hope that Adobe will fulfill this improvement like they do in illustrator. To edit curves other than like 30 years ago you have pay for a plugin...

Oh please, do this!

Seems we are being totally ignored here. How can this be put more directly...?

Adobe, why is adding such a simple function and at the same time significantly improving the animation process such a difficult challenge for you? Neither precomposition nor shy layers are the solution when it comes to sorting out a mess with multiple layers. To avoid chaos and a headache, the timeline must allow you to group selected layers and open only the selected ones with one click, without going into a separate composition.

Seconded ('A-Millionthed').

Please do this, or at least adress why it's something you're unwilling to implement.

Guys, we all beg you, we pay montly, just listen to the crowd, its the best you could do...

Yes. This would be a great help. Precomps have their place and are incredibly essential. But this would better help organize complex projects.

I don't imagine it would be relatively hard to add in either...

For God sake, please add it...