Unfortunately, as you add tools to your Custom Menu, it can quickly become difficult to find the specific tool you want. Unless, that is, you enforce some order on your menu.
For example, I have many different commands on my Custom Menu. Until I reorganized it using submenus, it sometimes took me several seconds to find the command I needed. It's now much faster, with just seven titles in five sections. Here is my Custom Menu before and after I reorganized it:
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Here are the menu outlines for my Custom Menu before and after I reorganized it:
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In the new menu, I've created submenus with logical groupings of the commands. I've grouped commands for working with a selected item in the ODB into one submenu, commands for dealing with files into another submenu, and commands for searching in the ODB and on UserLand's website into a third submenu. If I created a new tool to construct a Yahoo search and extract the results into an outline, I would add that to the Search submenu, as well. And then I'd have no problem finding it when I needed it again. (I may just do that; it sounds pretty useful--and would let me avoid all the ads!)
Your groupings, and therefore your submenus, will probably differ from mine, because the tools you use will be different. For example, you might have tools for interfacing with QuarkXpress and Microsoft Word, which don't even appear on my Custom Menu.
Now let's take a look at Organizing Your Custom Scripts
Page 1: The Custom Menu
Page 2: Organizing Your Custom Menu
Page 3: Organizing Your Custom Scripts
Page 4: Custom Menu Management Approach
Page 5: How to Clone Your Custom Menu
Page 6: A Few More Tips
Page 7: About the Author
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