Force-sorting is the process of
re-naming a file, folder or other computer information in order to control the order in which information is displayed in a device, generally a portable
music player or cellular
phone.
A common examples is the addition of punctuation or additional numbers or letters to artists names in a software program like iTunes so that they appear early or later in your playlist.
For instance, renaming "Loudon Wainwright
III" as "!Loudon" in order to ensure that Loudon Appears at the top of a list of names.
Other examples included adding additional spaces, changing "
Elissa Robbins" into "E lissa Robbins," so that your best friend appears at the top of the list of "E"s in your cellular telephones address
book.
I went to call
Charles and instead of having to scroll down past
Caleb, Carl, and Cecilia, I luckily had used
force-sorting and as a result, he appeared at the top of the list as C harles.