I wonder if a label system like Gmail uses could work here. Then, should it be at the series level only, or also at the volume level? There’s a whole lot to spec out there for considering an implementation. (There’s also questions about where to store the tags and how indexable they should be for speed considerations.)
The first consideration here would be “what do you actually use”?
Looking at what Mokuro already has:
A-Z: Margially useful if you are looking for something (but good luck if you don’t know the sort order of kanji).
Z-A: Probably entirely useless.
Smart: I suspectt this is just “last read, then A-Z for the rest”, which I imagine is what most people would use.
On my Kobo e-reader, I use:
Last read
Last added
The latter is good for finding recently-added items that I want to start reading.
I know Mokuro Reader currently tracks some timestamps, but I’m not certain for which events and for which items.
Looking at the provided screenshot, it also includes:
Characters: I think Mokuro Reader exposes this information, but I’m not 100% certain
Last Update: How does this differ from “Added (id)”?
Progress: Is this series-level progress, or progress through the current volume you are reading? (What if you’re in the middle of multiple volumes for a series for reasons unknown?)
Yeah it can be tricky… there is no one right answer…I plan on doing a bunch of sorting of mokuro on the laptop and then probably have a better idea …
but ultimately I’d personally like a way to sort them by files/folders and group them however…
as one example… say all the adventure stuff in a folder/shelf…then within that shelf… maybe i sort them by type of series or by author… such that ultimately I have control of how I want to organize the mess…
Maybe I want to group all the BL together then break up sub groups in that own thing…and possibly then group a single mangaka into it’s own shelf … It’s not bad when there are 10 but when there are so many… gets messy fast when it’s just a bunch of books scrolling by…
There are some that I’d like to just collect by mangaka and shove into their own separate folder…and right now no real way to do that with the current mokuro-app.
Once I get it cleaned up and organized I’ll have a better idea of what works for me but basically full customization of organization so it not limited by title, or when it was read, … want to eat my cake too LOL …
edit:…after doing a few of these…some constructive thoughts…
an undo might be nice to have (at least for the most recent move - accidentally sending it to heck knows which book/series…
the real important feature IMO is if someone is trying organize shall we say 13 vol of something…clicking through each one and each drop down one at a time then clicking back and having to scroll down…oof… would be nice to do 1, then click the rest of the vol and say add to this series at once instead of 1 by 1…
might have other thoughts as I use it more but these are the two big ones right now…
edit 2: more of a bug (not your problem but mentioning it…)
the new spine view alpha is pretty neat…but when you go back to the mokuro page it loses the view and goes back to default… looks like though we are going to be getting more customization options in the near future possibly…
