Possible Mac Bug and certainly annoyance: Saving Collections on Favorites or Toolbar

(sigh) I would love to hear about this as well. To get at a resource in a desired collection is four steps. Open collections, open the correct collection, scroll to the resource that you want and then click on it.  It would be easier to have your collections saved in favorites and in the tool bar. Is this too much to ask?

Also, the lack of integration into the Library window is in the same realm of frustration and I have mentioned that on here before.  It seems that the main purpose seen by programmers for the collections is to manage lists of resources so that you can search them.  Without a doubt this is true.  The other purpose of your collection is to help you manage a large library so to in effect filter out a lot of stuff when you are narrowing down what you are looking for.

The current model was fine when we had resource libraries under 1,000 or so. Now that we have gone much further beyond this, collections if well integrated into the UI are a possible answer to assist with filtering through tons of stuff you need to cut away to focus.

My two pence worth!

I do have lots of collections, but at any point I am studying on a subject which I am commonly going primarily to four to six collections on a frequent basis.  Of course this is dynamic, just as you shift from library shelf to the other and varies from month to month.

Especially in a large library, it is easy to forget what you have on a large subject, so the collection tends to serve like a library shelf for me to go browse.  I am a visual processor, so even seeing the book cover can remind me of something that I read in that particular book.  Again, collections act like a filter at least in my usage. 

I do use the command bar and library find box when I know what I am looking for, want to look for books collected on a tag, etc.  Some of my collections are based heavily on tags, so yes this could be done in the library find box. But that involves opening the library box and a series of keystrokes. If you are frequently doing this, then why not have it in a collection and put it in favorites or if it really is frequent, in the shortcut bar?  It's all about time and ease of workflow particularly for repetitive tasks.

At least for now I will concede that anything will ever be done with the library window as this has been talked about for two years now (at least).  I'd be happy just to see the favourites work and bonus would be to be able to have come collections in the short cut menu bar.