Sidebar The Sidebar contains the Library folder, the default ComicRack™ folder that contains your entire comic book collection archived with ComicRack™. The Sidebar is also needed for creating, organising, and accessing reading lists. The Sidebar is an essential component of the Browser, and changes its content according to the tab open in the Browser Tab Bar. There are 3 tabs in the Browser Tab Bar, viz. Library, Folders and Pages. Out of these, the Library and the Folders tabs are integrated with the sidebar, while the Pages tab does not contain the Sidebar. Just like the browser, the sidebar is referred to as the Library sidebar or the Folders Sidebar, depending on which tab is open in the Browser Tab Bar. There are as many as 3 ways to toggle the sidebar on/off: • Main Menu → Browse → Sidebar • Clicking the docking grip on the left border of the Reader window • Shift+F5 keyboard combo Please note that the default ComicRack™ layout has the sidebar open. An overview of the Sidebar is shown below:
Library folder
Gauges
The default (albeit virtual) folder containing all the comic books added to ComicRack™
These are visual indicators for new/unread/total books in a list. The Red gauge represents new books added in the past 10 days. The yellow gauge indicates the unread book count, while green one shows the total book count.
Smart Lists
The default folder containing a number of Smart Lists for you to start with
Temporary Lists
Arranging files and folders in the Sidebar
Double-clicking any reading list from windows explorer opens it directly in ComicRack™. This is made possible by means of the Temporary Lists folder. It can also be used to store experimental reading lists, as any list kept here is deleted on the next run of ComicRack™.
You can make folders within folders for arranging your lists . Any number of lists can be kept within a folder, and can be dragged up or down, both within a folder and from one folder to another. Lists or folders can be placed at any level of hierarchy
Sidebar Context Menu Right-clicking on any folder or list in the sidebar brings up the Sidebar context menu. It contains a number of options, many of which share an overlap with the Sidebar Toolbar and are covered in the next section.
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Arrange lists within a folder in alphabetical order Lists can be copied and pasted from one folder to another within the sidebar Export Reading list saves a reading list on the desktop or any folder of your computer. You can then transfer it to use it on another system or share it with your friends, who can use the Import Reading list option to add it to their ComicRack™ sidebar