It’s hard to understand why one cannot sort a collection of papers manually. This doesn’t seem hard to code in. Without this basic feature, it’s difficult to prioritize ones reading list. Using other schemes like tags overlooks this point: manual sorting should be an easily implementable feature!
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts on manual sorting @champignon. We understand that being able to manually sort your papers could be useful for prioritizing your reading list.
While it might seem straightforward, implementing manual sorting involves some technical complexities in the browser, so we don’t have plans to add manual sorting at this time. We recommend starring papers or using labels (e.g., “Read next”) to organize and prioritize your papers effectively.
Thank you for your response, Suzanne. May you please provide some technical details as to why this is too difficult to implement such that there are no foreseeable plans for this basic feature? I think some details would help allay concerns amongst your paying customers. Many of us are scientists and programmers and would find such a technical explanation to be a fuller more satisfactory answer. The methods you mentioned for manual sorting of collections are suboptimal and ineffective to a degree that has led us to search for alternatives to Paperpile.
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If not manual sorting, at least sorting by tag or by starred vs non-starred