alternative option of collection sorting/ordering

ieiwk · September 10, 2012

now it seems that zotero automatically sorts collections by their names. but often I would like to put them into another order yet not by renaming them, e.g. '1 b', '2 a'.

thanks!

Gracile · September 11, 2012

This has been requested before: it would be a nice feature but, as far as I understand, pretty complex to implement. Renaming them seems to me an acceptable workaround.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/33/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/694/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2909/custom-numbering/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20958/reorder-collection-and-subcollection-folders-by-dragdrop/

wbt · April 24, 2013

See also:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1905/attachment-order-and-reordering/
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1583/notes-grouping-alphabetically-instead-of-chronologically/

Sorting notes within an item by manual order is in my view a good first step and possibly a bit simpler to implement, but there is some common code.