Highlighting or marking collections,folders, etc

[kimaldis]

I appreciate that this is a long shot, that there's probably not a solution but I'm looking for a way to highlight or mark collections and folders in the left panel. By way of explanation, I have a plugin that creates notes in Bear and associates them with collections, folders, published folders, etc in Lightroom. This is working realy well; I can open notes associated with sources and the plugin adds backlinks in a note to a note's associated source but I'd like some way for sources to be flaggged in the UI so a user can see which of them have notes attached. I've considered colour labels but this is problematic because a) any given colour may be being used for other purposes; b) it would effectively exclude any other purpose for labels because a collection can have only one colour and c) adding colour labels can't be done programmatically.

So, any thoughts?

[kimaldis]

Answering my own question, and I really dsidn't expect this to work, it looks like emojis can be used in collection and folder names. This opens up a whole new box of tricks for collections

 

[dj_paige]

Is that correct, that emojis can be used in folder names? I really didn't think the operating system would allow that.

[kimaldis]

It seems to be fine. Bearing in mind I've not used them much. I don't really see why the OS would be bothered by it, an emoji is just a Unicode value in the string. 

[kimaldis]

It's probably of more use than the colour label, with a little up support. 

[Conrad_C]

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@dj_paige wrote:

Is that correct, that emojis can be used in folder names? I really didn't think the operating system would allow that.

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I've seen it be the opposite…major OSs now support emojis, so it is more likely that emojis will work, and if they don't work in a certain app, it's probably because that app uses a custom text engine. For example, I am able to paste and type emojis into an app that's supposed to be a plain text editor. (That makes sense because people use emojis in text messages that don't allow any other kind of rich text formatting.) I think the reason it works is that emojis are part of the Unicode standard, so the OS sees and draws them the same way it would an non-Roman character set for another language.