When I use the dock menu to put clippings, say from Safari, into a folder with subfolders, there is one aspect of the process that seems illogical and requires extra remembering. Say the folder is entitled DOGS and within it are subfolders, MASTIFFS, RIDGEBACKS, MALEMUTES. Now I am in Safari, wanting to add an article to the folder DOGS but not put it into any of the subfolders.
I use “New with clipboard” from the dock menu. I see a hierarchical menu which has at the top the most recently used folders or subfolders, then an alphabetical list of all folders. A folder with subfolders has a flippy triangle which makes the subfolders appear and it is at this point that this little bump in the road appears. If I hover the cursor over the folder DOGS and drop the article right there on DOGS it will not go anywhere. I may think it did, and discover days later that it didn’t, no trace of it. Why? It is necessary to hover over DOGS, then follow the flippy triangle to the right where DOGS appears again with the subfolders underneath it. Then I can drop the article in that appearance of DOGS, as if it were a subfolder, and it will be put into the folder.
If my destination folder did not have any subfolders inside it, there would of course be no flippy triangle, and I could successfully drop the article on the name of the folder in the main list. But dropping an article into the folder name where it appears in the main list will not work if the folder has any subfolders.
This seems like more trouble to explain, than it is worth, and many may think so. But I find it a little jarring each time, because I have to remember to do something that seems out of logical pattern. I did in fact lose a number of items before I figured out what happened.
I can construct a view of the program in which it makes sense–it just doesn’t make sense to me as user. So I’m not asking for an explanation but wondering, if it is easy to change, whether you would consider changing it.
Some programs have an option of making a sound when an item is successfully clipped and saved, so if there were such a thing that would be a warning, albeit intrusive.