Organising the Chaos: Group Labels for Views, Shortlists & Filters

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

I don’t know about everyone else, but at this point I’ve got like eleventy-two hundred saved views, filters, and shortlists — all crammed into one endless scroll. Finding the one I actually need is like flipping through a proverbial scroll bar needle in a haystack!

It’s powerful that we can create so many custom setups — but there’s zero structure once you’ve built more than a dozen. We need a way to organize the tools we rely on most.
💡 Feature Suggestion: Custom Labels or Group Tabs

Let us create bespoke folders or labels to group our saved configurations.
For example:

• Pitching Views: “Dev Sliders,” “Fireman Finder,” “Rotation Recon,” “Stuff Progression Tracker”
• Hitting Views: “Contact Trends,” “Prospect Bats,” “Bench Role Audit”
• Shortlists: “Rule 5 Watch,” “Trade Targets,” “Injury Rehab,” “Offseason Cuts”
• Filters: “AAA Call-up Ready,” “Aging Veterans,” “Stagnant Prospects”

Each could be accessed via a dropdown or tabbed header, keeping the full list organized by category instead of one giant scroll abyss.
🧭 How It Could Work

• Add a “Label” or “Group” field when saving or editing a view, shortlist, or filter.
• In the dropdown menu, entries appear grouped under collapsible headings or tabs by label.
• Labels could be color-coded, sortable, or even filtered by type (“show only Shortlists”).
• Bonus: drag-and-drop reordering within a label for power users.

🎯 Why It Matters

• Cuts down on wasted scroll and misclicks.
• Makes custom setups discoverable again after the first few dozen saves.
• Encourages more creative use of filters and views — because people won’t avoid making new ones out of fear of “losing them forever.”

OOTP already gives us some good level of customisation; this is about making that power usable.

[Sweed]

Yes, I've often thought the view list should be done like my bookmark list in my browser.

I'm sure you already know but the best one can do for views is use the editor option from the view menu. With this you can put your new view where you want it or reorganize the order of the entire list if you so choose. After a few years I just went through and reordered mine so they are at least sorted by use, with the most used categories at the top of the list. IE General, Batting, Pitching, Fielding, FA evaluations, Draft evaluations, etc. etc. etc. The trouble being each of these categories has anywhere from 2 to 6 views. I'd love to make each of these an actual category header where I could place the views.

The view editor is a bit of a pain to use but at least it is there and works. What would be really nice to go along with your idea is make all of the views draggable, the same as a browser's bookmark menu.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

100% draggable - would be a great little QoL addition.

similarly the ability to click to select one player on a list, and then ctrl click another lower or higher on the list and it selects all players in between.
i know you can filter as a work around but being able to click and control click and then say 'request scouting report or 'add to shortlist' would just add speed/efficiency to those administrative processes- which is always a positive improvement to experience!

[snepp]

Originally Posted by Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

similarly the ability to click to select one player on a list, and then ctrl click another lower or higher on the list and it selects all players in between.
i know you can filter as a work around but being able to click and control click and then say 'request scouting report or 'add to shortlist' would just add speed/efficiency to those administrative processes- which is always a positive improvement to experience!

This gets me every time I go through a round of playing FM, where I use ctrl and shift routinely for selecting masses of players.

Then I constantly find myself trying to do it in OOTP.