diff --git a/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/legacy/ListOrGridView.tsx b/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/legacy/ListOrGridView.tsx
index d024e8616b..f4750c6ef5 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/legacy/ListOrGridView.tsx
+++ b/apps/client/src/widgets/collections/legacy/ListOrGridView.tsx
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import { JSX } from "preact/jsx-runtime";
 import { clsx } from "clsx";
 import ActionButton from "../../react/ActionButton";
 import linkContextMenuService from "../../../menus/link_context_menu";
+import { TargetedMouseEvent } from "preact";
 
 export function ListView({ note, noteIds: unfilteredNoteIds, highlightedTokens }: ViewModeProps<{}>) {
     const expandDepth = useExpansionDepth(note);
@@ -140,7 +141,7 @@ function ListNoteCard({ note, parentNote, highlightedTokens, currentLevel, expan
                 <NoteAttributes note={note} />
                 <ActionButton className="nested-note-list-item-menu"
                               icon="bx bx-dots-vertical-rounded" text=""
-                              onClick={(e) => {linkContextMenuService.openContextMenu(notePath, e); e.stopPropagation()}} 
+                              onClick={(e) => openNoteMenu(notePath, e)} 
                 />
             </h5>
         </CardSection>
@@ -274,3 +275,8 @@ function useExpansionDepth(note: FNote) {
     return parseInt(expandDepth, 10);
 
 }
+
+function openNoteMenu(notePath, e: TargetedMouseEvent<HTMLElement>) {
+    linkContextMenuService.openContextMenu(notePath, e);
+    e.stopPropagation()
+}