The file picker has always been one of the weakest parts of our GUI paradigm, and it has been since the Mac.
Navigating file system via GUIs is slow, painful, and for me takes a ton of cognitive effort after a short amount of time of accumulating files. Coming up with a system for organizing files is kind of hard in itself. Reorganizing as the number of files outgrows the system is also painful.
And choosing a place to save a file is often the best time to start a reorganization. But if I save a file in a new location, having to switch apps and now go back to that same spot in the hierarchy and reorganize is painful.
I don't have a good solution, just complaints, unfortunately. But after ~50 years of GUIs and hierarchical file systems I'm surprised somebody more clever than me hasn't come up with a better solution.
Navigating file system via GUIs is slow, painful, and for me takes a ton of cognitive effort after a short amount of time of accumulating files. Coming up with a system for organizing files is kind of hard in itself. Reorganizing as the number of files outgrows the system is also painful.
And choosing a place to save a file is often the best time to start a reorganization. But if I save a file in a new location, having to switch apps and now go back to that same spot in the hierarchy and reorganize is painful.
I don't have a good solution, just complaints, unfortunately. But after ~50 years of GUIs and hierarchical file systems I'm surprised somebody more clever than me hasn't come up with a better solution.