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#16 A way to rearrange your phone book

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Win32-GDI
1.8b
2026-02-23
2025-10-11
omniphil
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I haven't figured out a way to rearrange entries in the phone book? Would be nice to have one.

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  • Stephen James Hurd

    Ticket moved from /p/syncterm/feature-requests/116/

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  • Stephen James Hurd

    You can use CTRL-S to change the sort order. From the CTRL-S menu, choose a field to sort by to add it to the list. When it's in the list, you can select it to reverse the sort.

     
  • Stephen James Hurd

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    • Output Type: --> Win32-GDI
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  • omniphil

    omniphil - 2025-12-15

    Usually I want to do something more granular than just changing the sort order. if I add a new entry at the bottom and later decide I visit the site a lot, I then want to move that individual entry up near the top.

     
    • Stephen James Hurd

      Yeah, me too, which is why my primary sort is "Total Calls (reversed)". It sounds like I don't understand what you're asking... can you expand a bit more?

       
      • omniphil

        omniphil - 2025-12-15

        If I wanted to manually move an entry at the bottom of the list to be second on the list for example. I know I have sorting options, but I don't have any way to move entries manually up or down in the list...

         
  • Stephen James Hurd

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    • Stephen James Hurd

      So basically a new editable field that is only used for sorting? Would that match your expectations?

      Essentially, a place you could enter an arbitrary number, and that number would be available as a sort key.

      The entries don't really have any meaningful inherent order, so the only way to have an order is to sort the list once it's assembled. I'm a bit confused about the concept of "moving" an entry.

       
  • omniphil

    omniphil - 2025-12-16

    This certainly isn't something that important. But i'm the type of person that like to organize. Several times while adding a new BBS entry in the list it went above or below where I thought it was going to go, so now the list is out of order for my liking. And your comment about them having no inherent order seems to make sense. But if what to order them the way I want them ordered I can't do that. If I have a list of 10 BBSs but I want BBS #8 to be at the top of the list I have no way of moving it from spot 8 in the list to spot 1.

     
    • Stephen James Hurd

      I've added the thing I described. :D

      Use CTRL-S when editing an entry and you can enter a positive or negative integer there, and add "Explicit Sort Order" to your sort criteria.

      You can download the latest nightly build here

       
  • omniphil

    omniphil - 2025-12-16

    I am totally missing something here so I apologize... But I can go to the CTRL-S menu and I can add Explicit sort order. But how do I get that sort order to do anything? I hit enter and it just toggles between reverse and normal, but nothing in my list gets sorted? What key do I press to actually do the sorting?

     
    • Stephen James Hurd

      From the listing, use CTRL-S and add "Explicit Sort Order" (the last item in the list) as a sort term.

       
  • omniphil

    omniphil - 2025-12-17

    I'm a so sorry for not understanding... So I can do CTRL-S and add "Explicit Sort Order" that part I have figured out. But how to I enable that sorting? Nothing in my list seems to change after setting that?

     
    • Stephen James Hurd

      The position in the sort order list is important... orders closer to the top of that list take precedence, so you likely want to sort by Explicit Sort Order first. You can add it to the beginning by pressing insert at the top of the list.

      Sorting is always enabled.

       
  • omniphil

    omniphil - 2025-12-17

    Ok, so I monkied around with it some more, I took the other 2 default entries I had in the Sort box out and then I can see that if I keep hitting CTRL-S on an item it moves up 1 entry at a time.
    That certainly works for me....

     
  • Stephen James Hurd

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