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Hi Rainer, thank you for your feedback! I totally understand where you're coming from.

- Have you tried `Address book > List display options > Switch to horizontal layout`? The tabular layout will allow you to sort by most fields including organization etc.
- If your search words are unique enough, searching (which is filtering) e.g. for a unique term in Organization field may also work well.
- Are you aware of `Advanced Address Book Search` (Edit > Find > Search Addresses)? That should find the needle in the haystack.
- We have restored Custom1-4 fields in Bug 1776129, will land in release channel soon. You can definitely use those for targeted searching/filtering. You might want to adjust your AB quickfilter search `≡ > Preferences > General > [Config Editor…]`, then search for `mail.addr_book.quicksearchquery.format` and add Custom fields if they're missing. Alternatively, you could abuse the nickname field and populate that with unique identifiers for each group.

Otherwise, I think this is essentially the same as your bug 1777471; pls don't refile.
Bug 1777471 has been resolved as duplicate of bug 75711, which imo is correct.
I'm a strong advocate for bug 75711 (14 duplicates), we really need proper categories for contacts. Maybe for 114, because atm it's all about removing rough edges from the new AB.

Hi Rainer, thank you for your feedback! I totally understand where you're coming from.

- Have you tried `Address book > List display options > Switch to horizontal layout`? The tabular layout will allow you to sort by most fields including organization etc.
- If your search words are unique enough, searching (which is filtering) e.g. for a unique term in Organization field may also work well.
- Are you aware of `Advanced Address Book Search` (Edit > Find > Search Addresses)? That should find the needle in the haystack.
- We have restored Custom1-4 fields in Bug 1776129, will land in release channel soon. You can definitely use those for targeted searching/filtering. You might want to adjust your AB quickfilter search `≡ > Preferences > General > [Config Editor…]`, then search for `mail.addr_book.quicksearchquery.format` and add Custom fields if they're missing. Alternatively, you could abuse the nickname field and populate that with unique identifiers for each group.

Otherwise, I think this is essentially the same as your bug 1777471; pls don't refile.
Bug 1777471 has been resolved as duplicate of bug 75711, which imo is correct.
I'm a strong advocate for bug 75711 (14 duplicates), we really need proper categories for contacts. Maybe for 114, because atm it's all about removing rough edges from the new AB. Grouping by category then becomes the next logical step UI-wise.

Hi Rainer, thank you for your feedback! I totally understand where you're coming from.

- Have you tried `Address book > List display options > Switch to horizontal layout`? The tabular layout will allow you to sort by most fields including organization etc.
- If your search words are unique enough, searching (which is filtering) e.g. for a unique term in Organization field may also work well.
- Are you aware of `Advanced Address Book Search` (Edit > Find > Search Addresses)? That should find the needle in the haystack.
- We have restored Custom1-4 fields in Bug 1776129, will land in release channel soon. You can definitely use those for targeted searching/filtering. You might want to adjust your AB quickfilter search `≡ > Preferences > General > [Config Editor…]`, then search for `mail.addr_book.quicksearchquery.format` and add Custom fields if they're missing. Alternatively, you could abuse the nickname field and populate that with unique identifiers for each group.

Otherwise, I think this is essentially the same as your bug 1777471; pls don't refile.
Bug 1777471 has been resolved as duplicate of bug 75711, which imo is correct.
I'm a strong advocate for bug 75711 (14 duplicates), we really need proper categories for contacts. Maybe for 114, because atm it's all about removing rough edges from the new AB. Grouping/filtering by category then becomes the next logical step UI-wise.

Hi Rainer, thank you for your feedback! I totally understand where you're coming from.

- Have you tried `Address book > List display options > Switch to horizontal layout`? The tabular layout will allow you to sort by most fields including organization etc.
- If your search words are unique enough, searching (which is filtering) e.g. for a unique term in Organization field may also work well.
- Are you aware of `Advanced Address Book Search` (Edit > Find > Search Addresses)? That should find the needle in the haystack.
- We have restored Custom1-4 fields in Bug 1776129, will land in release channel soon. You can definitely use those for targeted searching/filtering. You might want to adjust your AB quickfilter search `≡ > Preferences > General > [Config Editor…]`, then search for `mail.addr_book.quicksearchquery.format` and add Custom fields if they're missing. Alternatively, you could abuse the nickname field and populate that with unique identifiers for each group.
- Also note: In composition, you can display `Contacts side bar` (F9) which will also use `mail.addr_book.quicksearchquery.format` iirc.

Otherwise, I think this is essentially the same as your bug 1777471; pls don't refile.
Bug 1777471 has been resolved as duplicate of bug 75711, which imo is correct.
I'm a strong advocate for bug 75711 (14 duplicates), we really need proper categories for contacts. Maybe for 114, because atm it's all about removing rough edges from the new AB. Grouping/filtering by category then becomes the next logical step UI-wise.