Organizing the steam game library

how do you delete a category :/

Edit: seems you have to just remove them all one by one, bit of a design flaw/inconvenience

Installed/Not installed. Only categories you need.

Only tagged games that I completed, which I'll probably never play again.

Granted, I do not have such a big library of games so my list is relatively short.

I put the 10 or so games I actually play on my desktop...

Uninstall 300, play the 15 you have, uninstall those, install the other 15.

Seriously, why do you have so many games INSTALLED?

If you really want to organize those games, make shortcuts and organize them by folder outside of steam.

I do a Games currently playing category, then label the rest under fps, adventure, rpg, etc....

i pretty much do this:
"aced games" - the ones i've got 100% achievements...
"notebook games" - the one's i can run on my note... so i won't spend my desktop time on them
"hunting" - the games i'm playing only for achivements
"favorites" - the 10-20 games currently installed, that i'm playing for fun
"others" - the games i haven't played yet.. or are just uninstalled for now

I use the search and besides that the games I play often I mark as favorite

I had around 20 categories for my about 200 games, and one day Steam decided to delete them all. So since then I've just gone by installed only.

sort by Metascore

There is a search bar, what's the big deal ?

What I ended up doing is a few categories, but mostly: "Alpha A" through "Alpha Z". I also have " Now Playing ", "Demos", and a couple others, but so far, simply doing it alphabetically has been the best choice for a few months now. I really hope Steam supports tags instead sometime.

(The advantage of putting them into seemingly-redundant alphabetic categories is so that things like "Final Doom" still get sorted into the "Alpha D" category. Also, I almost never have to scroll down as long as I have only one Alpha category opened at a time.)

I used to have "Beaten" and "Completed" and all that, but then new achievements or DLCs get added and I don't want to have to always be aware of and re-categorize for that. Without tagging instead of categories, I don't think sorting by genre would ever work for me (plus I want tags for things like "co-op", "online only", etc that aren't genre-dependent). Also used to have a "Non-Steam" category, but decided that was dumb. I'm trying to decide what to do with the F2P/MMO-type games still. And I also have an "Emulators" category and a "Service, Magazine, Other" category and "Beta".

I accidentally added every shortcut known to man into my steam library... I am gutted I need to go through them all 1 by 1

I add to favorites the game that I currently play, simple.

My categories are: Completed Games, Free Games (the ones that are free on Steam), Game Mods, Games Bought, <then all the bundles that I have, seperately each bundle in own category which is named as the bundle is>, Steamgifts/trades (the ones I got here or traded them on the sister site) and The Orange Box. :)

And I have a question - Is there a possibility that you uninstall a game and it's still on your list (but in other text color like it is if you have never installed it yet)? I'd like to do that but when I uninstall a game it just vanishes completely from my library.

I use just a few categories, and added my non-steam games in (I like that the overlay / screenshots work with 'em)
boogity-boogity-boogity for racing games
war is hell for well... war games
old school for old quarter-munchers
murder inc for fps and shooting / fighting games
then just leave the random stuff in the default Games category

it works well for me - for the level of organizing you want, I would suggest creating shortcuts
and organize them in folders so you have total freedom over them - then when you run the shortcut
it will launch steam then the game (doesn't launch steam if you have non-steam games tho')

I try to sort them in the category they belong to the most. Any games that I have completely and thoroughly completed I move to the completed category. Said category is really tiny right now. >_<

First of all - I have chosen to show the list of games installed. All the rest are hidden till I need to install another game.

For such cases I have devided my games into several categories:

• Adventure (puzzles, quests and adventure games like Psychonauts)
• Arcade (Alien Shooter, Bit Hazard, Sideways New York)
• Indie (for all those countless indie games that do not fit into Arcade category)
• Action & Sport (Choplifter HD, Dirt2)
• RPG
• Shooters
• Strategies
• Valve games (all games by Valve belong here)
  Seems pretty logical to me. The hardest moment is to sort all those indie games.