Re: Sorting for applied and thanked reviews

Mark Brown
2026-03-17T22:21:42Z

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On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 05:03:51PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> We currently split all your tracked series into "action required" ones at the
> top and "action not required" ones at the bottom, which is why all your
> snoozed and waiting series are below everything else. Within these two
> sections, the series are sorted by when they were last added to your tracking,
> not by most recent activity. I used to sort them by latest activity but I
> hated that they jump around -- if you have 5 series that you're working on
> throughout the day, you benefit from visual memory if they all sit in one
> spot.

Is "last added" last update to the series? I did notice the order
seemed to move at times.

> I was expecting that "thanked" series would be prime candidates for archiving,
> which is why they are kept in "action required". However, it's an easy change
> to add them into "no action required".

Given that I'm using the queued thanks feature things sit in applied for
a bit before they actually get pushed out and thanked, the sorting of
thanked mostly followed from expecting applied to get moved out of the
active list while I go through other things that might get applied.

I'm not actually currently archiving anything because I need to sort out
how I sync that between machines (which is one of the things I've jumped
on b4 review to solve) but that's a separate thing. I think I know what
I'm doing there but I didn't actually do it yet.

> We can instead differentiate this into:

> active:

> - new
> - reviewing

> action required:

> - replied

As a side note b4 is picking up replies I send with other mail clients
but doesn't track them as changing series state AFAICT. I'm not sure if
this shouldn't sort into inactive (as waiting for reply) but it's going
to be more a case by case thing I think ("Thanks for doing this, let me
test!" vs "Could you clarify these things?").

> - accepted
> - thanked

> inactive:
>
> - snoozed
> - waiting

> Does that work, and how would you sort these?

That would work for me I think.

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