A Bit Better RTM

By Andrew Paprotsky Last update Sep 8, 2009 — Installed 25,565 times.

Is There Way for Smart Lists to Be On Top?

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WCityMike Scriptwright
MozillaMacintosh

Is there a way for smart lists to be on top, instead of on the bottom?

 
Andrew Papro... Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

Hi Mike,

The only good way I see is to implement manual (drag-n-drop) list sorting. However, it requires reasonable amount of time; it's hard for me to say now when I'll be able to start on this.

Regards,
Andrew

 
WCityMike Scriptwright
MozillaMacintosh

Darn. There's no "quick hack" methodology I could somehow implement? One of the big productivity problems I've been having is that all of my Smart Lists, since they're sorted at the bottom, are essentially off-screen. And, as they say, "Out of sight, out of mind."

I suppose I could just hide tons of the manual lists. That's highly unideal since I'd not see those individual project lists, though. :(

Just out of curiosity, if you weren't to implement it via drag-and-drop, but just by having first Smart Lists and then non-smart lists, is that an easier fix?

I strongly suspect that this preference (for Smart Lists to be on the top, instead of the bottom) is a preference most of your users share. I don't have hard data on that -- it's just my strong suspicion.

 
WCityMike Scriptwright
MozillaMacintosh

Have an idea. How about a "smart list only" toggle? It looks like a smartlist-only display is possible via toggling some CSS code on and off:

http://userstyles.org/styles/4802

Just an idea, but thought I'd throw that out there.

 
Andrew Papro... Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

For the time being you can hide regular lists (Settings --> Lists --> Hide)

 
WCityMike Scriptwright
MozillaMacintosh

Understood, but that can make it very easy to lose track of projects that have been individually hidden.

I'm just thinking that if you don't want to -- or for a while won't be getting around to -- coding up individually rearranging projects via drag-and-drop, this would be a quick solution.

You could have it be something someone clicks, or map it to a letter, but this way, all you'd have to trigger is whether the "normal" CSS was active or the "hide normal projects" CSS was open (#listtabs ul li as "display:none" and #listtabs ul li.xtab_smartlist and #listtabs ul li.xtab_selected as "display:block").

Just a thought.

 
Andrew Papro... Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

Hi Mike,
I think I'll start to work on lists re-ordering. From what I see now, the implementation shouldn't be very complex, and so won't take too much time.
Check back soon (approx. 2 weeks).

Regards,
Andrew

 
WCityMike Scriptwright
MozillaMacintosh

Sounds great! Thank you. :-)

 
Andrew Papro... Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

Hi Mike,
I prepared standalone "A Bit Better RTM" firefox extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/... with drag-and-drop functionality.

As it happens, it wasn't that easy to integrate drag-and-drop into greasemonkey script, it became too complex, and so I decided to compile the script into standalone extension.
Regards,
Andrew

 
WCityMike Scriptwright
FirefoxMacintosh

Thank you! I have it installed now and am giving it a chance.

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