diff --git a/apps/client/src/menus/context_menu.spec.ts b/apps/client/src/menus/context_menu.spec.ts
index a6f385de02..def6d108ed 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/menus/context_menu.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/client/src/menus/context_menu.spec.ts
@@ -132,6 +132,44 @@ describe("contextMenu", () => {
         expect(menu?.querySelectorAll(".dropdown-item .use-note-color")).toHaveLength(1);
     });
 
+    it("puts itself away once a submenu's parent acts, and stays up for one that only folds", async () => {
+        const menu = buildPage();
+        const contextMenu = await buildContextMenu();
+        const picked: string[] = [];
+
+        const show = () => contextMenu.show({
+            x: 10,
+            y: 10,
+            selectMenuItemHandler: (item) => { picked.push(String(item.title)); },
+            items: [
+                { title: "Open note", command: "openNoteInNewTab", items: [ { title: "New tab" } ] },
+                { title: "More", items: [ { title: "Archived" } ] }
+            ]
+        });
+        const pressRow = (title: string) => {
+            // Read off the row's own line: its text also holds whatever its submenu lists.
+            const row = [ ...menu?.querySelectorAll("li.dropdown-item") ?? [] ]
+                .find((item) => item.querySelector(":scope > span")?.textContent?.trim() === title);
+            expect(row, title).toBeTruthy();
+            const press = new MouseEvent("mousedown", { bubbles: true, button: 0 });
+            // happy-dom leaves the legacy `which` unset, which is what the menu reads for the
+            // primary button.
+            Object.defineProperty(press, "which", { value: 1 });
+            row?.dispatchEvent(press);
+        };
+
+        await show();
+        pressRow("Open note");
+        expect(picked).toEqual([ "Open note" ]);
+        expect(contextMenu.isShown()).toBe(false);
+
+        await show();
+        pressRow("More");
+        expect(picked).toEqual([ "Open note", "More" ]);
+        // Nothing ran, so the menu is left standing for the submenu to be reached from.
+        expect(contextMenu.isShown()).toBe(true);
+    });
+
     it("says whether it is up, for a host whose own press would otherwise not know", async () => {
         buildPage();
         const contextMenu = await buildContextMenu();
diff --git a/apps/client/src/menus/context_menu.ts b/apps/client/src/menus/context_menu.ts
index be9f511bb9..06ac965e6d 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/menus/context_menu.ts
+++ b/apps/client/src/menus/context_menu.ts
@@ -396,8 +396,12 @@ class ContextMenu {
                     return false;
                 }
 
-                // Prevent submenu from failing to expand on mobile
-                if (!("items" in item && item.items)) {
+                // A submenu's parent stays open so that it can still be expanded. One carrying a
+                // command or handler of its own is dismissed like any other item once it has run.
+                const opensSubmenu = "items" in item && !!item.items;
+                const acts = ("handler" in item && !!item.handler)
+                    || ("command" in item && !!item.command);
+                if (!opensSubmenu || acts) {
                     this.hide();
                 }
 
diff --git a/apps/client/src/menus/link_context_menu.spec.ts b/apps/client/src/menus/link_context_menu.spec.ts
index a0d3d2c2ac..ca34f29fdc 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/menus/link_context_menu.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/client/src/menus/link_context_menu.spec.ts
@@ -92,7 +92,11 @@ describe("getItems", () => {
     it("folds the three places into one submenu, quick edit standing on its own", () => {
         const open = linkContextMenu.getOpenNoteItem(contextMenuEvent());
 
-        expect(open).toMatchObject({ title: "link_context_menu.open_note" });
+        // The entry acts as well as folding: picking it opens the note where it is opened most.
+        expect(open).toMatchObject({
+            title: "link_context_menu.open_note",
+            command: "openNoteInNewTab"
+        });
         expect("items" in open && open.items?.map((item) => "command" in item && item.command))
             .toEqual([ "openNoteInNewTab", "openNoteInNewSplit", "openNoteInNewWindow" ]);
         expect(linkContextMenu.getQuickEditItem()).toMatchObject({
diff --git a/apps/client/src/menus/link_context_menu.ts b/apps/client/src/menus/link_context_menu.ts
index e8c61320f6..1e84f46b06 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/menus/link_context_menu.ts
+++ b/apps/client/src/menus/link_context_menu.ts
@@ -41,12 +41,14 @@ function getQuickEditItem(): MenuItem<CommandNames> {
  * The same places, folded into one submenu, for a menu that lists entries of its own beside them.
  *
  * The items keep their commands, so `handleLinkContextMenuItem` handles them from a submenu as it
- * does from the top level.
+ * does from the top level. The entry carries the first of those commands itself, so that picking it
+ * opens a new tab without going into the submenu for the place it is opened in most often.
  */
 function getOpenNoteItem(e: ContextMenuEvent | GeoMouseEvent): MenuItem<CommandNames> {
     return {
         title: t("link_context_menu.open_note"),
         uiIcon: "bx bx-link-external",
+        command: "openNoteInNewTab",
         items: getOpenItems(e)
     };
 }
diff --git a/apps/client/src/translations/en/translation.json b/apps/client/src/translations/en/translation.json
index def6b34fc6..7172334414 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/translations/en/translation.json
+++ b/apps/client/src/translations/en/translation.json
@@ -3429,7 +3429,7 @@
     "insert-above": "Insert new above",
     "insert-below": "Insert new below",
     "move-to-top": "Move to top",
-    "more-columns": "More states…",
+    "more-columns": "More…",
     "delete-column": "Delete column...",
     "archive-column": "Archive column",
     "unarchive-column": "Unarchive column",