# Change deck order on main screen **URL:** \ **Category:** Add-ons\ **Created:** [October 23, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/change-deck-order-on-main-screen/14366 "2021-10-23T11:12:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/change-deck-order-on-main-screen/14366/1 "2021-10-23T11:12:46Z")
Hey, I think it would be great if we were able to change the order of decks on the main screen, and not have them be sorted alphabetically. This would be especially useful for those of us that use the “deck, then due date” sorting when reviewing cards and want to see the decks in non-alphabetical order. Please do let me know if such an addon already exists. ---
**Author:** ![schmidhauser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/schmidhauser/32/34739_2.png) [@schmidhauser](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/schmidhauser)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/change-deck-order-on-main-screen/14366/2 "2021-10-23T18:27:53Z")
Why not number them? An example: ![x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/e/e1b963d793998ec33a3ce2498b24582e8ba56926.png) ---
**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/change-deck-order-on-main-screen/14366/3 "2021-10-23T19:06:08Z")
Because aesthetics. ---
**Author:** ![jg\_2022](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jg\_2022](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jg_2022)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/change-deck-order-on-main-screen/14366/4 "2024-03-10T16:23:42Z")
did you ever manage to find a solution to this? ty ---
**Author:** ![bschmid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@bschmid](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/bschmid)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/change-deck-order-on-main-screen/14366/5 "2024-03-10T16:37:19Z")
I personally number them but for the first 9 I put numbers 0 before them. Someone showed this to me on Reddit and gets the job done the way I want it to. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/c/1/c1016cbd4a6d4ebb99584ae0e922af7a4be5a997.png) ---
**Author:** ![jg\_2022](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jg\_2022](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jg_2022)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/change-deck-order-on-main-screen/14366/6 "2024-03-10T16:38:55Z")
Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/change-deck-order-on-main-screen/14366/7 "2024-03-10T18:42:51Z")
You can also use punctuation, or some folks use emoji – any characters that will sort in “ASCII-betical” order. ---
**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Robert)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2026, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/change-deck-order-on-main-screen/14366/8 "2026-10-13T11:52:15Z")
Apologies for deadposting, but I found an invisible solution: Adding one or multiple [zero-width spaces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space) before the deck name makes it so the decks are sorted by the amount of spaces added. However, the visual display on the deck screen is not changed.