Making comic book chronologies using Custom Lists Custom lists are best suited for organizing chronologies of comic book events. To demonstrate the power of custom lists, we made a demo list for Siege, a recent comic book event. Free preview pages were used to make the demo comic book files shown in the list. Here is how to use custom lists for making comic book chronologies: • •
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Select all comic books belonging to a particular crossover / storyline and then add them to the list. Select this list in the sidebar, so that all the comic books in this list are now visible in the browser window. Now, we have to arrange them in chronological order. Here the Alternate number field in the Info dialog comes to play.
For each individual comic book in the list ,you will have to input a numerical value in this field to help ComicRack™ decide the chronological order of the comic books. Here you can use the Autonumber wizard script for numbering. The Alternate series number should not be confused with the series number. Select the details view in the browser. If not already selected, right-click on the details columns and select the Alternate number field to be displayed. Drag the column to place it on the extreme left. Now, click on the alternate number column title to arrange the comic books in the list according to it. You can now view the comic books in the chronological order anytime by clicking on the list in the sidebar.
Any Custom list you already created can also be changed later on: rename it, add or remove comic books from it. You can, of course, delete an old custom list, and backup or export your lists out of ComicRack™. These topics are discussed in detail later in the Working with lists section. Disclaimer: This list is for demonstrational purposes only and in reality does not contain the actual comic books shown here. We used the freely downloadable comic book covers and preview pages for the respective comic issues displayed and saved each of them as a small cbz file. The list is made of these cbz files.
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How can I quickly access the lists I use the most?
If you have lists that you use very frequently, you can have them displayed in the favorites window. Just right-click on any custom list (or smart list) and select add to favorites. Your list will now show in the Favorites panel and can be accessed more quickly. Add to favorites option in the sidebar context menu
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The favorites panel showing the added reading list