# Custom sort order

**URL:** <https://forum.paperpile.com/t/custom-sort-order/224>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [November 8, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/custom-sort-order/224 "2014-11-08T21:44:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![stefan](https://forum.paperpile.com/user_avatar/forum.paperpile.com/stefan/32/1729_2.png) [@stefan](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/stefan)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/custom-sort-order/224/2 "2014-11-10T15:25:45Z")

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I’m not sure how this would work. It would require defining a custom field that is sortable. The closest that would come to my mind is a “rating” field, which some programs have. We don’t have plans going into this direction though.

A simple workaround would be to define multiple labels, e.g. “must read”, “read later”, “maybe sometimes”. That would be the same as defining a score 1,2,3.

See also @Kerim’s nice tip here: [Tip: use unicode ★ character to add ratings](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/tip-use-unicode-character-to-add-ratings/137)

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