Why is there no way to organize automations?

[CentralCommand (Mike)]

No it does not exist. Most voted Month of "What the heck?!"

Why are all automations in one big list?

I’m finding it increasingly difficult to keep track with my 200+ automations. It would need something like folders, groups or tags.

and Feature Requests

Grouping Automations on frontend for organization

It would be very nice if we could add a group tag, or create “folders” to sort and organize the automations that are created in the front end. Maybe even add the option to sort, filter, search based on the content of the automations, like the trigger platform, or the action data.

Although I should note that while “pro users” definitely want this too they may not want it as much as you’d think. While I’m sure there are users with hundreds of automations many users begin to learn techniques for reducing the number of automations.

Usually you can merge many similar ones together into a larger automation with multiple triggers and choose actions. And users can often reduce them even further as they get familiar with templating to reduce the amount of copying and pasting around hard-coded entity IDs and values required.

Not to say you shouldn’t vote on those two, it is certainly a valuable feature. But if you find yourself quickly building up an overwhelming amount of automations consider searching around this forum for tips on combining many smaller automations into one larger one.