Forum - View topicOrdering "My Anime" List based on Order Watched, not Alphabetically
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Estelle the White Mage
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I have a question regarding ordering the "My Anime" List.
I don't like the list to be in alphabetical order, but rather in the order that I watched the shows, oldest at the top followed by most recently watched at the bottom. Is there a way to do this, either with some settings, or creating a custom category? Any help is appreciated 
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Blood-
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It looks like there is a way, but it is indirect. If you assign each show you watch a number in the Comment section: 1 for the first show you watch, 2 for the next and so on, then click on the triangle that points down at the top of the Comment box, your list will be ordered from the largest number down to 1. Since the largest number will always be the most recent show you've added and 1 will always be the first show you watched, your list will be ordered the way you want.
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Estelle the White Mage
Posts: 51 |
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This answered my question, Blood-!
Thank you for your help! |
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Blood-
Bargain Hunter Posts: 24370 |
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You're welcome. Actually, I only discovered this method because of your question. When I first read it, my initial thought was that there was no way to do what you wanted. Then, just for larfs, I went into My Anime and looked at my "Want to See" list. I clicked on the up and down arrows in the Title section, and as expected, all that does is list titles from A to Z or Z to A. Then I noticed the up and down arrows in the comments section, but I had no idea what they actually did. I clicked on them, and I could tell they were re-arranging the titles but I couldn't initially figure out what the significance was. That's when I noticed it was arranging numbers either from lowest to highest, or highest to lowest.
tl;dr - thanks to your question, I learned something I didn't know before. 
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Zalis116
Moderator
 Posts: 6902 Location: Kazune City |
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Indeed, sorting by comments (IIRC a suggestion of mine a number of years ago) will order the titles based on the first character in the comments box, whether it's a number, a letter, or a symbol. It's a good way to create a custom arrangement like by watching order, or to sort out titles that have no comment at all, since blank fields will go to the top or bottom of the list.
Though for the numbering, it would be good to add zeros at the start. Going 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... will lead to things going out of order very quickly, but going 001, 002, 003... will last a long time, and 0001, 0002, 0003... will last even longer. |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Indeed. I can't imagine myself seeing ten thousand titles (I'd burn myself out long before that happens), and I watch more anime than most, so a four-digit code is plenty for us mere mortals. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
 Posts: 3794 Location: Montreal |
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Actually, no. Comments are sorted numerically first and lexicographically second. So '2' is sorted before '10'. |
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Touma
 Posts: 2651 Location: Colorado, USA |
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I was not expecting that, but I just confirmed it with one of my own custom lists. This definitely simplifies the creation of numerical lists. Thank you. |
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