Most file managers treat an archive as a dead end. You see `photos.zip` sitting in the list, and to find out what's in it you have to *leave* — double-click, wait for some other app to open, hunt through its window, drag things back out. For a file you only wanted to glance inside, that's a lot of ceremony.
Every one of us has a handful of little rituals. Open these images in that one app. Back up a few files before trying something risky. Make that JSON file readable. Shrink thirty photos for the web. None of it is hard — it's just fiddly, and you do it again and again.
Everyone has this folder. Two hundred photos called `IMG_4471.JPG` through `IMG_4670.JPG`. Scans named `Scan_001`, `Scan_002`, with no clue what's in them. Downloads with the site's naming scheme baked in, spaces and brackets and all.
Ask anyone what a file manager does and they'll say: copy, move, delete. True — but that's the easy half. The part that actually eats your time is the step before: gathering exactly the right files. The forty photos out of six hundred. Every `.tmp` file except the one you still need. The invoices from March, but not the drafts.
Think about what you actually do when you move a file in Finder.
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