Sort and group automations (rules)

[Crease]

I’ve argued in favor of some of these things (sorting in emojibetical order^[1][2] and allowing easy duplication^[3]) elsewhere before and became aware of this topic just today. It gets my vote.

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1. Wyze app 3.0 - Released 7/24/2024

   So the path the user takes to get to modifying an Automation matters and can potentially break things? Yeah, that sounds like a . I like this idea. I like this idea less, mostly because adding another tab seems like it shouldn’t be necessary. The idea of using filters and/or sorting in ascending or descending alphabetical order—something that users are frequently presented and that makes intuitive sense and which would also conceivably sort/group ite…

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2. Wyze app 3.x - Additions and changes

   That’s just wrong. It does the same thing with Automations. Then, guess what?! When I tap the Wyze icon to open the app again (yes, I realize it didn’t actually close the app, more like Android’s version of minimize), the app opens back up right where I left off! If this isn’t at least a partial argument for letting users choose their own Home tab, then I don’t know what is. At the very least, though, if Favorites is the Home that’s being forced on everyone, then going through steps…

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3. Wyze app 3.x - Additions and changes

   Copy Automations On the Automations tab (or within Automations themselves), I’d like to see a way to copy Automations. I’m imagining a user experience could happen in at least a couple of ways: A user could tap into an Automation as if to edit it, and there could be a “copy” or “duplicate” or “clone” icon (e.g., Clone Icon | Font Awesome) near the top, which is how Google Home finally got around to doing it. A user could long-press an Automation’s tile in order to get a pop-up menu (similar t…

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