Ooh this one is turning six years old in a half a month! I still want it badly. This is like my top request right now. That's my image up there in the base post, though it might have been for one of the variants that got merged into this post.

My Symbols panel contains over 800 items and half my time at work is spent in Illustrator. Being able to organize this into folders would be a massive improvement every. single. day.

I don't want AI features and I'm not sure they've added any features in the past 10 years that have been useful in the work I do. But being able to properly organize the assets we work so hard to create? THAT is useful.

Surely Adobe's analytics would show what tools their users rely on the most. And it's doubtful the AI stuff they're putting so much effort into gets much use beyond "Hey, what does this do? .....Oh, nevermind."

Adobe: Please prioritize application performance and real-world workloads over bloated features nobody asked for.

I still want this. Badly. But instead it looks like we're gonna get another dev cycle of AI garbage.

This has been requested since 2017, so I don't understand how this is not implemented yet. This is a critical feature for people who work with a lot of assets.

make this possible please

Still hoping this will become A Thing!

What morally dubious act can I offer to an Adobe developer in exchange for doing this. Or perfectly moral exchange, is there a furry on the dev team who would like me to draw the heck out of their fursona if they get this one rolling?

Seriously I have about 600% more graphic styles in the average page of my comics than you have ever tested these things on, I need to be able to organize this palette with folders and subfolders SO badly.

InDesign allow to make groups within Paragraph / Character Styles panels to sort our styles efficiently, not relying on naming conventions to get these sorted, or manually rearranging them (it get reset anyway).

Illustrator does not have folders like these in its Text styles panels.
Please make these.

I would still consider committing heinous acts in exchange for this feature.

I would like the ability to group symbols like you can sort swatches to better find them in a hurry.
I have people symbols, medical symbols, tech/IT swatches I used on a regular basis and I have to name them all in a funky way to get them to appear together. When others use the file, they don't remember how to name them. it would be easier to be able to drag them to a group.

I want to be able to group symbols into folders (collapsible).
Further improvement would be to add meta tags and and a filtering function.

Related to (but not the same as) the Brush Groups idea: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31609249

Hi. I still could really really need this. Please?

I'm doing a comic right now that has sets of styles for two characters, plus an outfit variant for each of them, and a second outfit for one, plus an assortment of styles for the backgrounds, and my Styles palette is just stupidly gigantic. They make it super easy to draw a character quickly but scrolling through them takes an absurd amount of time and thought, I wanna be able to say "okay I am drawing Chloe in the dance costume so I need to open up the base folder and the dance outfit folder" and close everything else so I'm not trying to remember where everything is in this roughly sixty-inch-tall palette.

Just imagine that every blank style in my screenshot with a name like " CHARACTER NAME" is a folder, that has a disclosure triangle next to it so I can open it and close it. Being able to nest style folders would be super nice, I could just say "Okay time to draw Chloe" and have all her alternate outfits lurking under her base styles, then finish drawing her and hide them all away with one click. But if that's too complicated, just having folders at all would be a MAJOR boost.

And the ability to treat them as Symbol groups for tools which operates symbols.

It would be great to add folders to symbols window to better organize them when we have many.

I just learned how to use symbols and it is very helpful with global edits for me. After learning how to use this feature. My next search was to find out if there was a way to create a library for different styles. A bit disappointed this feature is not available but hope to see it available at some point. Would help keep work organized.

yes please!

I draw comics, and use Graphic Styles to keep my characters consistent across panels and pages.

A simple character might involve a half dozen styles. A complicated character can involve a lot more - see the attached screenshot.

Add in a good chunk of Graphic Styles for recurring background elements and I'm constantly dealing with triple-digit number of entries in the Graphic Styles palette. Finding the set of styles I want to use becomes an increasingly tedious process as pages get more complicated.

I would like to be able to create folders of Graphic Styles, which I can open and close in a similar fashion to opening and closing layers.

Being able to nest them would be nice; in the attached screenshot I have styles for two variants of a character's vehicle, with their own subsets of styles for drawing them at different sizes. Being able to nest all of these into "KIRT MECH" would be great for when I'm working on a page involving three giant robots fighting.

I would also really really love it if these folders were preserved when pulling styles out of a style library, or when copying art to another file.

Basically I have been using a LOT OF Graphic Styles to make some pretty complicated artwork, and I am finding myself direly in need of a way to fold away the parts of the complexity I'm not thinking about at the moment.

It would be great if there were a way to quickly save a selected custom brush and/or graphic style to a single user folder. This would make access easier, and enable better organization.

I agree, this would be an excellent addition.

We use a large library of symbols so our Symbols window is a very long list. Many of these items are rarely used, or behind-the-scenes symbols that are called out via scripting and don't even need to be visible in our list. If symbols could be grouped like objects in the Layers window it would be a huge help in cleaning-up a very long list of Symbols. Groups could then be collapsed so they don't show the dozens of symbols inside.

This would help in organizing symbols by task, for example, and make it easier to separate the symbols we use every day versus the uncommon ones that might be used once a month.

Can we get the ability to create folders for brushes?

I would like to be able to group my brushes by length, width, style, color, etc. As it is now, I have to wait for the tooltip to show up before I know whether my brush is a medium, short, long stroke...