Finding one profile among a thousand

Past a hundred profiles the names stop telling them apart. Half of them are Account 17 with a different number on the end.

So this is not a name search. With one line of letters you hit seven things on every profile at once, and a piece of a word is enough.

• The name

  What you typed at creation, or the number a batch gave it.

• The scenario

  The label shown on the card, not the internal word behind it.

• The tags

  Every tag on the profile, as one line of text.

• The proxy address

  The host and the port this profile goes out through.

• A group label that came by import

  Plain text on the profile, not a group you made in Groups.

• The notes

  Any word on any line of them.

• The profile ID

  Whole, or any piece of six characters or more.

A profile is often remembered by where it goes out, not by its name. Part of a host is enough to pull up every profile behind that address.

This is what makes Show profiles on a library row a real filter: the host goes into the same box and you land on the narrowed list.

The funnel asks narrow questions, and its button shows how many fields are on. Each field that is on also stands above the list as a chip with a cross, next to Shown 12 of 340.

Values inside a field combine with or, fields combine with and. Clear filters under an empty result also resets the box and the group.

Groups are not typed into the box. In Groups you click one and land on the list already narrowed to it.

A chip in the toolbar then carries the group colour and the cross that removes it. No group is a choice of its own, because the profiles nobody filed are the ones worth finding.

A batch of fifty gets a series of names, and ordinary text order takes that series apart.

1. 1

   By name

   The series order above, and the one the list opens with.

2. 2

   By newest

   Creation date, which is how a batch made this morning comes up together.

3. 3

   By last used

   A profile never opened sorts as never, not as today.

4. 4

   The other way

   Clicking a column already sorted reverses it instead of starting over.

Cards carry the whole profile at a glance: group, address, tags, Safe pace. The table gives every field a column of its own, and three of those reorder the list on a click.

Then 10, 25, 50 or 100 rows sit on a page, with the total and the page number under the list. Select all takes the whole found set across every page and not the page in front of you.

The star on a card, Pin to the top, lifts the profile to the top of the list in any order and direction, and inside the pinned ones the order you chose above still holds. In the table a pinned profile carries the star in its row, and you can unpin it right there.

An empty result is its own state, with that one button under it. It is not the same screen as a list with nothing in it yet, and the difference matters on the day you filter to a tag you already deleted.