So I went ahead and bought Battlespire. When I went to my library, I was a bit confused about where it was. After checking the product page I found it near the top, because its name is "An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire". That strikes me as a bit silly. The other games ignore the "The" at the start of the name ("Elder Scrolls: Arena, The"), and it would probably be appropriate to do the same here. "Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire, An" would sort it in with the rest of the Elder Scrolls games.

Mostly posting this here to see if people agree.

Yeah, I used to whine about this issue for a while. They don't seem to care.

From March 8, 2017: And then nothing happened.

You can use Adalia Fundamentals to manually sort your library. Obviously this is less than ideal, but it might be an option or at least a workaround.

And while we're at it, sorting for Baldur's Gate EE, The Blackwell Legacy, Broken Sword, Master of Orion, Shadowrun Returns, Trine and their respective sequels is messed up, as well.
It's a bit cruel to completely disregard series continuity in your sorting algorithm and then take away your users' ability to fix that.

Which they also promised to fix - three years ago: "...we will be changing the way that titles from a series are ordered (i.e. Broken Sword should always show up before Broken Sword 2)."

That's one of the reasons I don't depend on my games library on the website for sorting. I put the names in a file ordered the way I like, in whatever groups I want, and as many times for a game as I desire. I slightly mark it up with HTML, for links and such.

I do appreciate there's a search field in the games library on the website, because it finds games instantly with each letter typed, wherever those letters might be in the name of a game. That's great for locating a game I've yet to download. Though, I get a similar search experience when I locate mention of a game within my document of notes, too, f.e. with a Find command in any editing application.

How do you go about marking it up? I've always been interested in using markup to take notes and sorting but I was always confused by the tags. I'm used to the tags here: , , ect. but sometimes the tags for text programs are different and have a slight learning curve but I'm still impressed by what they could do.

They have several people putting things in the folders and on the lists with zero syntax or naming conventions specified, so you get a silly and odd mishmash of games sorted by "the" or not based on which person entered it or haw they were feeling today.

Well, that actually should be neither difficult nor time consuming. Maybe the issue is prioritization and the situation needs more community attention.

We do have these in the community wishlist:
Sort titles by using "sort titles" and not "titles"
Sort by series order in "Sort by Title" in collection

The librarian in me agrees with you but with multiple people inputting game information and/ or not having a very specific ruleset on how to do it, you get stuff like this.

There's a recent thread about mis-categorizing games. Same problem.

(I can't find the thread right off.)

Here you go:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_will_you_please_correctly_categorise_the_genres_of_games

By the way, if anyone wants to discuss the game Battlespire, feel free to post on the Elder Scrolls subforum; I regularly check it, and if you post a question about the game mechanics or character builds, I will likely reply.

(I really wish that particular subforum would see more activity.)

Since an HTML file is just a plain text, much like a forum post, I just start typing some text and eventually add HTML along the way. I stick to the basics:
   • <p> for paragraph;
   • <ul></ul> for unordered list with an <li> inside for each list item;
   • <a href=""></a> for anchor, which is a link (like the url tag here in the forum).

Sometimes I feel like using h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, or h6 for headings, though I rarely go past h4.

Those basic HTML tags became more familiar to me after adding information about a few games with them. Keeping it basic has also helped. There are a lot more HTML tags in existence, but I don't need them. Paragraphs and lists are all I need for organizing, and some links for connecting to my other HTML files or some other websites. I typically use the headers h1, h2, and so forth instead of bold.

Only the headers, links, and lists always need the end tag:
   • <h1></h1>
   • <a href=""></a>
   • <ul></ul>

List items <li> don't need an end tag (but it is okay to add it) because they have to be within a <ul> tag anyway. Paragraphs <p> generally don't need an end tag, either, though it is okay to add it.

I use the editor's search (a.k.a. the Find command) to quickly jump to the game info in the file when I want to edit it, or maybe place another game after it. I'll probably first look at the file in a web browser, figure out what I want (probably with the Find command in the web browser), then go to the text editor and find it there. No need to scroll the text forever back and forth in the text editor trying to imagine what the HTML means, or for me to be intimately familiar with the layout. I can forget about it all, but still figure out where anything is quickly just by using the common search feature in whatever web browser or text editor.

So, that's pretty much how I go about using HTML and editing files for my games (and other notes, too). Though most of the time I'm just viewing it in a web browser (t.i. an HTML viewer) or clicking the links I've put in my notes.

Thank you :)

Things were kind of messed up this morning.

Much appreciated. Copied and pasted. I'm going to try using some of the tags you listed. I've learned more basics here than reading some of the official stuff listed elsewhere.