How to add a Smart Shelf
Smart shelves are a fun addition to Delicious Library 2 which allow you to use your computer’s brain to do the sorting for you, using criteria that you set yourself. This allows you to not have to think as much, and therefore makes your life easier. For example, you can set a smart shelf to sort out all your blue items that start with the letter “P” and are worth less than a dollar. Or, for a less useful shelf, sort out all your books that were published before a certain date and are worth more than $100. The smart shelf possibilities are endless.
To add a smart shelf:
Click the button located in the lower, left-hand corner.
Choose Smart Shelf from the popup panel.
Name the shelf.
Set the criteria you wish to sort by.
Press Add
Smart shelves use booleans to sort, so first choose whether you want ‘All’, ‘Some’ or ‘None’ of the following to be true, then set what you want that All, Some, or Nothing to apply to.
In this example, we want a shelf that only contains books, so you start your smart shelf like this:
Now, you have a shelf that will only contain books, so next, we want all the books that were published before 1950. By clicking on the + buttons on the right you can add additional sort criteria to your Smart Shelf. Your shelf now looks like this:
Lastly, we only want books that were published before 1950, AND are worth more than $100, so press the lowest + button on the right one more time, and you’ll be able to set another criteria, and your Smart Shelf will look like this:
You now have a shelf that contains only your books, which were published before 1950, and which are now worth more than $100. To make things more complicated, we could add a second boolean, ‘None’, to eliminate some books that you don’t want included in this shelf. For example, let’s say you only want your books on this shelf which are NOT fiction.
Control-Clicking on the + button on the right will allow you to add a second global boolean. Here is a shelf that contains all your books published before 1950, worth more than $100, EXCEPT those books in the fiction genre:
The criteria of these smart shelves can go on forever. Simply combine any combination of All, Some, and None, when applied to any field, to have Delicious Library 2 do the sorting work for you.