How do I alphabetize the Characters list?

Hi,

V2 user here. V3 now. Before, there was a button to click to sort the Characters alphabetically. Can’t see that now?

How can I alphabetically sort the characters in the Characters panel. Same question for the places in the Places panel.

Thanks!

TLH

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This isn’t currently available in version 3, however it is something that has been requested before, so it is on our list to look at adding in the future.

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I’m a history teacher. I feel confused and sad about Aeon. Here is a list of the “characters” on a timeline I’ve built over a long period of time:

Louis XIV of France
Queen Elizabeth I
Thomas Hobbes
Marie Curie
Johann Sebastian Bach
Miguel de Cervantes
John Locke
Isaac Newton
Jane Austen
Johannes Kepler
Louis Pasteur
Napoleon Bonaparte
Florence Nightingale
William Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
George Washington
Antoine Lavoisier
William Wordsworth
Charles Darwin
Queen Victoria
Immanuel Kant
Galileo Galilei
Sigmund Freud
Charles Dickens
Thomas Jefferson
Karl Marx
Ada Lovelace
Leonardo da Vinci
George Stephenson
Charlotte Brontë
Benjamin Franklin
Giuseppe Garibaldi
George Eliot
Ludwig van Beethoven
Samuel Morse
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Nikola Tesla
Henry Ford
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernán Cortés
George Sand
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Louis Braille
Carl Linnaeus
William Herschel
Emilie du Châtelet
Albert Schweitzer
Thomas Huxley
Lise Meitner
Francis Galton
Gertrude Bell
Thomas Paine
Hedy Lamarr
Emmy Noether
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Mary Leakey
Henrietta Lacks
Joseph Priestley
Katherine Johnson
Rosalind Franklin
Niels Bohr
Lord Byron
Michelangelo
Lavoisier’s Wife (Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze)
Marie Tharp
Florence Bascom
Rachel Carson
Gregor Mendel
George Washington Carver
Clara Barton
Auguste Rodin
Emilie du Châtelet
Emily Dickinson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Clara Schumann
Robert Frost
Louis Braille
Mark Twain
Marie Antoinette
Ada Lovelace
Alfred Nobel
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Claude Monet
Henri Poincaré
Gerty Cori
Alice Ball
Simone de Beauvoir
Emmy Noether
Marie Skłodowska Curie
Clara Barton
George Washington Carver
George Eliot
Carl Jung
James Clerk Maxwell
Virginia Woolf
Margaret Atwood
Barbara McClintock
Richard Feynman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fanny Mendelssohn
Frédéric Chopin
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Barbara McClintock
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Auguste Rodin
Enrico Fermi
Barbara Hepworth
Guglielmo Marconi
Emily Carr
Hildegard of Bingen
Rachel Louise Carson
Valentina Tereshkova
Clara Zetkin
Edwin Hubble
Mary McLeod Bethune
Harriet Tubman
Gerty Cori
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Margaret Mead
Elizabeth Kenny
Frida Kahlo
James Clerk Maxwell
Marie Skłodowska Curie
Ada Lovelace
Rosalind Franklin
Emily Roebling
Antoine Lavoisier
Gertrude B. Elion
Elizabeth Anscombe
Virginia Apgar
Patsy Sherman
George Washington Carver
Bertrand Russell
James Clerk Maxwell
Gertrude Stein
Isaac Newton
Rachel Carson
Hedy Lamarr
Nellie Bly
Wangari Maathai
Clara Schumann
Margaret Sanger
Maria Montessori
Rosalind Franklin
Mary Anning
Chien-Shiung Wu
Ida B. Wells
Clara Barton
Hedy Lamarr
Emmy Noether
Gerty Cori
Rosalind Franklin
Barbara Hepworth
Valentina Tereshkova
Mary McLeod Bethune
Rachel Carson
Virginia Apgar
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Margaret Mead
Elizabeth Kenny
Frida Kahlo
Marie Skłodowska Curie
Ada Lovelace

In the absence of being able to alphabetize the names, please explain an efficient way for me or students to find characters on the list?

I think the search function would be best.

Hi,

I think you may have missed my point? My question was relative to efficiency.

When you say “best” here, it seems you’re really saying “a way”, or even “the only way”?

You’re right, we CAN use search.

But “a way” and even “the only way” seem categorically different from an efficient way?

It seems fair to say that there ISN’T really an efficient way?

How do you see things?

Sincerely,

Blaise

I mean “best” because it’s the best option you’ve got, bud.