Sorting entities (Arc, Character) similar to Aeon 2

Mac & Windows (Desktop)
#1

I have just updated to Aeon 3.0.21 on my mac and it works fine. One thing I hope you soon will have time to fix is the way I may show/sort the entities. As it is now they are shown somewhat random, possibly with the newest entries at the bottom of list.
Since my very large projects contains maybe 1000 entities, sorting by dragging is NOT an option I like.
Still, when I click the + sign in the Relationship part of the Inspector Panel to pick one more, all my entities are listed sorted numbers first and then alphabetical, making it easy to find the correct one, so I gather it is just a minor coding job for you to ad the useroption to sort a-z or z-a???

Kind regards

Palle Jensen

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#2

This is something that has been requested before, so is on our list of possible feature requests to implement in the future.

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#3

I am having this challenge as well. I have a large character list that I’ve accidentally created duplicates on due to not being able to sort by the name of the entity. Good to know it’s on the map!

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#4

I have the same problem… it would be such a good and useful feature to add to a next update! Thanks in advance

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#5

Well it is now june 27 2022, and my hunger for this sort-option grows for every minute.
I know I probably is running timeline way out of “intended size”, but frankly the software still behaves excellent om my Mac Mini M1.
For my data collections in Scrivener I want to use Aeon mostly as a way to find relations resulting from my “what if this xxx happened simultaneously with yyy and zzz…”??? But as it is now it is not really posible to set up such queries, because my character list is some 5.000 items and "scrolling such an incoherent list is NADA… (Arcs goes into the hundreds)… so my friends, once you make it possible to sort arc and characters (like in version 2) the usefulness will increase hugely for me, and others.

Kind regards

Palle Jensen

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#6

Hi Palle,

While your timeline is on the larger size, we understand how this can be useful to a lot of people still. It is something that is still on our list to look at implementing, it is still just a matter of sorting priorities, but we will take onboard your comments about it.