Is there a spreadsheet app that's geared more toward creating sortable lists of stuff? I know I can do this with Apple's Numbers app, but it feels so clunky. I don't want column "A" "B" "C" and so forth. I want to name the columns, just as the columns in iTunes are named (song, album, rating, etc). I don't want to right click a column and choose from a list of options to choose "Sort Ascending/Descending". I want to click the column title and have it sort based on that column, just as iTunes does when in song view, or in a playlist. Click song, the list is sorted by song. Click album the list is sorted by album. I'm not working with any calculations. I want to create easily sortable lists of my stuff... like wine!
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posted by Mr Ected
on Jun 15, 2013 -
12 answers
I constantly have a huge list of things to do in my head and I'd like to get better at organizing/prioritizing them.
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posted by sprezzy
on May 21, 2013 -
21 answers
I'm making several lists of suggestions/call fors - the things that an audience would call out at an improv show. Help me, hive mind!
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posted by booksherpa
on May 14, 2013 -
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We currently have a number of different list serves, google groups, yahoo groups, and meetup groups in our town, all involving family activities and community events. The different groups cover different neighborhoods, and there is a lot of overlap. I am wondering if there is some kind of service or tool that could be an giant umbrella for all of our groups, with subgroups according to interest, age of kids, neighborhoods, schools etc.
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posted by alball
on Apr 15, 2013 -
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My kids (a boy and a girl) are now five years old, and my wife or I read to them every night before bed. I'd like to start reading larger books to them which we can stretch out throughout a week or more, by reading them a chapter a night. Please help me put together a great reading list of age-appropriate books that will capture their imaginations and inspire happy dreams.
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posted by zarq
on Apr 2, 2013 -
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I am new to this so this may be a very basic question. I am starting a mailing list of about 1000 people with 3-4 subgroups. I want to structure it so that people working for me can design and send out campaigns but I want to find a way by which they can't download the mailing list and share it with others or use it for purposes other than my campaigns. Is there a way to do this?
If not in MailChimp can I do it in another software?
posted by london302
on Feb 3, 2013 -
2 answers
I love reading lists with exquisite explanations of the things on the list. For example
Time's list of the 100 best novels of all time or top ten lists that have descriptions of why the included items are deserving of being on the list. Could I get some more lists with this kind of breakdown?
posted by holmesian
on Jan 29, 2013 -
8 answers
I have been running a couple of email announcement lists for a while, and want to clean out all (or most) of the addresses that are bouncing. What is a good way to do this?
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posted by ManInSuit
on Jan 23, 2013 -
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I'm looking for the best tool to maintain a list of long-term goals and a resource for generating short-term ones.
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posted by stefnet
on Jan 16, 2013 -
7 answers
Is there a good SMTP service to send bulk emails (or another good solution for sending bulk emails, using the tools I already have, rather than a service like Mailchimp?)
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posted by ManInSuit
on Jan 16, 2013 -
14 answers
As a reader of fiction (especially if you're a devotee of
speculative fiction), how much do you like detailed descriptions and/or lists as part of the story? What if the story switches between detail and expediency?
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posted by batmonkey
on Dec 28, 2012 -
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Is there any way to make the new iTunes tighter and more minimalist? For example, I want my podcast and artist lists to be like the small-font, compact lists they used to be. Similar to the column browser, but on the side, NOT the top (which is all kinds of stupid up there). Basically, I want to see as many artists as possible with as little scrolling as possible. Any add-on or script or setting I'm overlooking that could take care of this, and perhaps other inefficiencies of the new iTunes?
posted by iamkimiam
on Dec 28, 2012 -
6 answers
There are lots of Top
n Albums/Songs of 2012 lists all over the internet, but is anyone aggregating them to figure out what the overall internet consensus of top albums/songs of the year is? That is, is there a fivethirtyeight for music?
posted by capricorn
on Dec 25, 2012 -
6 answers
I want to create a spreadsheet from the hyperlinks and words in a word list on Wiktionary. Please take me through the steps. Thanks!
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posted by iamkimiam
on Nov 20, 2012 -
8 answers
Sometime before the summer of 2000,
Inquest Gamer magazine (the collectible card game/role-playing game offshoot of
Wizard, originally just called
Inquest) ran a pair of articles listing 100 movies you should watch and 100 books you should read in order to improve your DMing ability. I'd like to read those lists again. Does anyone know which issues had them?
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posted by themanwho
on Oct 1, 2012 -
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I'm looking for A-Z lists, similar to the NOAA hurricane naming system. Instead of 26 names, I would like lists that follow a theme. Geeky lists / themes are a plus!
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posted by Real.Wolf
on Sep 20, 2012 -
25 answers
I'm memorizing all of the world capitals. What other flash-cardable things would be useful/impressive to memorize?
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posted by cmoj
on Apr 16, 2012 -
32 answers
Are email lists for group discussion dead? If you were starting a new group -- for networking or to talk about a local issue -- what would you use to bring people together online?
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posted by amanda
on Mar 27, 2012 -
15 answers
I'm looking for a free program/app/webpage, etc that will allow me to create 6 or 7 rounds worth of golf foursomes with as little repetition as possible.
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posted by jenny76
on Feb 22, 2012 -
6 answers
[PunctuationFilter] When you are writing a list of people with their credentials, do you separate the person with their credentials from the next person with their credentials with commas?
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posted by Kimberly
on Feb 16, 2012 -
13 answers
Looking for a web-based self-serve tool to manage existing distribution lists that will work with Exchange 2003 and 2010.
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posted by multiphrenic
on Nov 22, 2011 -
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The end of paper: what’s a good smartphone for journalling in (while on the subway)?
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posted by foxjacket
on Nov 15, 2011 -
9 answers
Is there some code or a twitter client that will let me view all the "@username" messages to a list of a few hundred people?
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posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo
on Oct 5, 2011 -
0 answers
Where's the best place online to gather simple reference lists and charts to transfer to my Kindle 2, likely as PDFs or monospaced text? Stuff like US presidents and World Series winners, with enough basic info on each line to fit the screen's width. Is there a site that specifically has stuff like this for the Kindle? Google searches for "Kindle reference "and "Kindle lists" don't really help. Thanks.
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing
on Aug 3, 2011 -
7 answers
I am on the lookout for a free online database and would like your opinion on the options out there.
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posted by mooza
on Jul 12, 2011 -
5 answers
What's a good resource for finding words that define performance levels? Think along the lines of bronze/silver/gold, or touchdown/field goal/safety, but I want a huge list that I can look through and choose what best fits the situation.
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posted by snapped
on Jun 8, 2011 -
4 answers
[Philosophy/Language/HistoryFilter]: What's the name of this rhetorical or logical technique, where you explain a subject by making a lot of lists?
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posted by gallusgallus
on May 27, 2011 -
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OrganizationFilter: When scheduling tasks for a day, do you just throw them into a giant list and move through it, or do you come up with specific times and orders for things?
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posted by SNWidget
on Apr 15, 2011 -
17 answers
Google seems to have changed their 'reply to all' feature recently for lists with a 'reply-to' email address specified. Now when you click 'reply all' it sends an email to the person who sent the mail as well as to the list.
I'm on a list where like 90% of the people use gmail and it's causing a problem, because some people habitually click 'reply-all' and some people usually click just 'reply'. What happens is, I'll click 'reply all' to an email, and some other person will click only 'reply' to mine and the reply will go back to me personally, instead of the list.
Is there a way to revert this behavior?
posted by empath
on Mar 10, 2011 -
9 answers
I'm looking for lists of extinct surnames - family names that have fallen out of use entirely, on a global scale. I'm particularly interested in surnames of Anglo-Saxon/Brittanic origin, but would welcome resources from other backgrounds as well.
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posted by dorothy humbird
on Jan 14, 2011 -
9 answers
I want to read some worst-somethings-of-the-year lists.
Albums, movies, books, tv shows, games, celebrities, words, tweets, new products, headlines, geopolitical trends, anything and everything--just as long as it's the worst ones of 2010.
Whare are some great worst-somethings-of-the-year lists?
posted by box
on Jan 1, 2011 -
11 answers
I have a box about the size of a microwave. Please help me come up with thirty small gifts that will fit inside.
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posted by saguaro
on Nov 11, 2010 -
15 answers
What are some clever ways to categorize movies? Each category needs at least sixteen items.
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posted by troika
on Nov 6, 2010 -
8 answers
I listen to a lot of music. I also just have a lot of music that I have laying around on my computer waiting to be listened to that never does. There's also a lot of music that I want to have that I never really get around to buying/downloading. How can I organize my listening to make sure all my music gets some love?
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posted by azarbayejani
on Nov 4, 2010 -
22 answers
Email Distribution Lists: we set up a bunch of distribution lists at work and guess what? They started off real useful, and now they've spiraled out of control and their effectiveness has been eclipsed by users receiving excessive amounts of email traffic. How do we get out of this? Shut them down? Police them? Re-train?
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posted by forallmankind
on Nov 1, 2010 -
4 answers
Some more exercise blog/site recommendations for a capable non-specialist.
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posted by cmoj
on Feb 8, 2010 -
8 answers
How can I get lists of all residential mailing addresses for a single town in the USA?
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posted by crapples
on Oct 30, 2009 -
10 answers
What foods are commonly (or rather, uncommonly, i.e. not necessarily breakfast foods) served with a fried or poached egg?
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posted by CharlesV42
on Oct 28, 2009 -
56 answers
I have two lists of numbers. I would like assistance creating some kind of program or method to output a list of all numbers that are present in one of these lists but not the other.
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posted by sineala
on Sep 28, 2009 -
16 answers
Help me find the website/youtube vids of this handwritten to-do list methodology, please! I can't remember it and can't find it in my saved links.
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posted by lucyleaf
on Sep 28, 2009 -
3 answers
I'm going through a spreadsheet or a hand written list which requires me to check off each item as it's completed (common boring, repetitive work). I find that the process of switching back to that original list and checking/crossing out/deleting each item as it's done is the most time consuming part due to the context switch (having to move your eyes to a different interface/screen/paper). Are there any tricks (ruling out additional data entry to consolodate the data into a single interface) to minimize or eliminate this inefficiency?
posted by parallax7d
on Sep 3, 2009 -
7 answers
