There's a button to "sort" folders in the settings which sorts the currently existing folders alphabetically. Then when you create a new folder it gets put at the bottom. Can we just have them sort alphabetically automatically?
Also when you click sort, it only sorts the top-level folders. The subfolders don't get sorted at all.
This is the kind of rough-around-the-edges stuff that Proton really needs to sort out before adding more and more services.
7 Comments
Ledivin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
akilou@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 2y
Why shouldn't subfolders be alphabetical? It's logical.
alex_herrero@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Because people could want them in a specific manual order other than using the alphabet. Well, you could put a number as prefix to order them, I know, just pointing the fact.
akilou@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
But that same logic should apply to top level folders. It doesn't make sense to on have some folders alphabetized but not others.
Ledivin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
thisisdee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
But folders organize different things and depending on what type of organization it is, I’d want things sorted differently
Iapar@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y
There should be an option for the cascading sorting but it shouldn't be default. I want to change the things I am interacting with in that moment and not something way down. Maybe there was a reason not to sort it alphabetical.
Broken@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Numbering the folders isn't dynamic though. If you add a folder later you might need to rename others, which is annoying in itself but then would break any filters applied to them too. I'd rather just organize them as I want manually. It's not hard to drag and drop them.
Broken@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
I 100% do not want my folders sorted alphabetically. The importance and workflow of my folders doesn't fit into that scheme.
I love the fact that I can drag my folders into my preferred order.