[Feature Request] History & Favorites

[aras-p]

Yeah, a simple case of “store current selection and allow going back/forward in history” is pretty simple to do. A whole bunch of people have done it already, here’s a ransom selection:

• Selection History | Utilities Tools | Unity Asset Store

• Selection History for Unity's Editor

• GitHub - acoppes/unity-history-window: A simple selection history window for Unity.

• Unity Selection History Navigator

• GitHub - mminer/selection-history-navigator: Unity editor extension to navigate between object selections.

• GitHub - justonia/UnitySelectionHistory: Selection history and navigation for Unity

• GitHub - garettbass/UnityExtensions.SelectionHistory: Adds navigation menu items in Unity Editor: "Edit/Selection/Back", "Edit/Selection/Forward"

What some of those do not handle, is multi-selection.

What none of those handle, is “non-object based selection”, e.g. selected nodes in an animator state machine, or a shadergraph, or timeline clips, or preferences window pages, etc.

The “built-in” feature for all of this has been attempted several times over the years, but never shipped for one or another reason. The latest iteration was when I worked on adding it in late 2021, but then I left Unity The “mostly finished” (famous last words…) state has been passed on to the relevant people, but at this point I don’t know if/when they plan to ship it. Or whether it has faced the same fate as some previous iterations, where it was discarded.