Reordering of sections, lists, and list items has been the most requested feature for a while now. You may even be thinking, “Why the hell did it take so long?”.
First, it’s trickier than it appears to be to implement well. Secondly, I’m only one person who works on Sofa in my spare time. Things naturally take longer.
For those of you whoâve been waiting for this feature, thank you for your patience đ
One of the main benefits for using Sofa over a basic notes app is improved organization. Between Sections and Lists, you get a lot of ways to organize your movies, books, video games, etc.
The way it worked previously was like this:
This makes sense, but doesn’t give the flexibility needed for deeper organization. Sometimes you want a specific Section or List to be at the top or middle. Whatever makes sense to you.
For example, I personally have a Section called “Currently”. This section has lists of things I’m currently watching, reading, playing, etc. I prefer this to be my top-most Section so I can see it right away when I launch the app.
Before, I would have had to call it “A – Currently” or some other hack to get to be the top-most Section. Now, I can simply change the order of it.
Pro Tip: Lists use the first item (top) for itâs cover image
Creating new sections has also been improved. Before, you could only create a new section when creating a new list. Most of the time this makes sense, but there are plenty of times when you just want to make a new section and move a bunch of lists to it.
You can create new sections by tapping the big blue + button in the bottom right corner, then tap âNew Sectionâ.
There are a couple things to tackle next for Sofa, but the most important is iCloud Syncing and a way to support Sofa financially. iCloud Syncing is necessary to make a lot of other future work happen (for example, an iPad app). Iâm not sure how long it will take to implement, but it will be my main focus for the next few months.
Head over to the App Store and enjoying reordering your stuff đ