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.

    • akilouOP
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      1 year ago

      Why shouldn’t subfolders be alphabetical? It’s logical.

      • alex_herrero@lemmy.worldM
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • akilouOP
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          1 year ago

          But that same logic should apply to top level folders. It doesn’t make sense to on have some folders alphabetized but not others.

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            1 year ago

            But folders organize different things and depending on what type of organization it is, I’d want things sorted differently

          • Iapar@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            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
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          1 year ago

          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
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        1 year ago

        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.