sorting & filtering?

[travger]

Hi

I have again some questions about sorting (and how to best set up my library).
Let's say that I have a story "Moon" in several collections.

*How can I find only collections with that story, but not "Moon Maid", "Moon & the Cow" etc?
*How can I find only stories with same name, but different authors?

Pasting toc of the collection/anthology into comments field should help with first, but it won't filter out all the other moons.

*What if collection has 3 stories belonging to 3 different series? (For a while I wanted to make empty books for the stories, but now when I think more then if I search series name, collection should come out if that name is in comments. It just won't be in right place in the series.)

I played with an idea to use color for some things, like for example if series has novels+shorts (so I know that not all are grouped together when I click series column). Can I do it somehow without adding special tag to whole series?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by travger

Hi

I have again some questions about sorting (and how to best set up my library).
Let's say that I have a story "Moon" in several collections.

*How can I find only collections with that story, but not "Moon Maid", "Moon & the Cow" etc?

I use the method you referred to:"Pasting toc of the collection/anthology into comments field", but I use special formatting for the comments when I think I might want to search it.
This search will find all those books:

comments:moon

That's my quick and dirty search. To find only books that have a story titled "Moon" I'd use this search in my library:

comments:"title:'moon'" or comments:"story:'Moon'"

I might also use this:

(author:"Various Authors" or tag:multibook or tag:anthology") comments:"title:'moon'"

My multiple books/anthologies, magazines, etc.are tagged as above and titles of stories/books are in comments in this form:
title:'Moon' for multibooks
or
story:'Moon Maid' for anthologies

*How can I find only stories with same name, but different authors?

If you search on the above, you get all authors. Isn't that what you want?

Pasting toc of the collection/anthology into comments field should help with first, but it won't filter out all the other moons.

I'm not 100% clear on what "filter out all the other moons" means, but if you are worried about comments using the word "moon" for non-story titles, I use the tags above for anthologies and multibooks and title: or story: with single quotes for title names as above.
You could also consider using a custom column (tag-like) for contained story titles.

*What if collection has 3 stories belonging to 3 different series? (For a while I wanted to make empty books for the stories, but now when I think more then if I search series name, collection should come out if that name is in comments. It just won't be in right place in the series.)

I'd use "series:'series_name'" in the comments and search there.

Basically, I just use comments like a grab bag to store things I might want to search for later. The name of the "thing" is followed by a colon, like "title:" or "pseudonym:" or "illustrator:" or "editor:" or "story:" and the content of the thing is inside single quotes. Then I can search for the "thing" and its contents, with exact matching, if necessary.

[travger]

Thank you.

I'm still a bit confused. If an anthology has story "Prisons" by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason, must I enter it in comments as

story:'Prisons' - Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason ?

I would prefer minimal changes to pasted toc, putting quotes around every story in every anthology and collection is quite a lot of work.
As of now I have entered them like that (in omnibus):

StoryTitle - Author (year)

or in collection:
StoryTitle (year) var awards (or aw or Hugo or Nebula)

It makes for nice-looking toc in comments.

"filter out all the other moons" means that if I search for Moon I do not want to find Moon Maid. (And vice versa). What should I change to achieve it? If possible, I'd like to avoid adding quote marks.