I'm just curious how many of you guys use this tool and how do you usually manage them.
Would you mind to share yours?

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I use Favourites simply to keep track of games I've played, not finished but am still interested in playing.

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only keep a couples installed at any given time so I manage them that way.

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I have 2 categories:
Played, with 345 games finished or abandoned
Early Access: with 5 games waiting so they finish Early Access
And Uncategorized, with 266 games that I still have to play...

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The only right and correct way to categorize one's Steam library is by genre. Because genre is a completely OBJECTIVE criteria.

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Also i have some of the crappy ones.. And Finished.

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My library is like this :P

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My favorites consist of games at the forefront of my backlog, both installed and not installed, so I'm reminded to play them.

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Yes I use Favorite and only 2 more categories, that's all, no more.

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Oh. Well...

I have the following categories: "active" (what I'm playing actively right now or these days), "sometimes" (for the games that I keep installed but play only once in a while, like Audiosurf for an example), "multiplayer" (for the coop and multiplayer games that need to stay installed because I never know when someone will contact me with a L4D2 or TF2 invite) and "finished" (for the games I've played through the main campaign and do not plan to play any more for the time being... which does not mean I'm not going to play them again, because I sometimes do that and go back to CoD1 or Bad Company 2 or Plants VS Zombies... nevermind).

BUT...

I also use favorites for the games I play actively or are in the multiplayer category but are more up the queue /more important than the other games, because I like to collapse all the categories and leave only favorites open... because otherwise I'd become mad because of the number of games in the list (yeah, I use list view only, not a fan of thumbnails and details at all).

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No but... I kinda forgot about that feature. I really should use it more.

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I use favourite as "games I need to play". Its basically my backlog.

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where is the poll ???

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I have my games categorized by genre, some of them are even in multiple genres.... By categorized I mean first 100 games, the rest will have to wait :P
My favorites are the ones I have installed haha :D

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This is what I use as my favorites.
Gotta love Rainmeter.

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Nice ubuntu layout!

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I also have another "dock" on the opposite corner of my screen, which pops out on mouse-over.

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Very nice, but its windows theme or linux?

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Not sure if this is what you're asking, but this is Rainmeter, an application to edit and add skins to your Windows desktop. ^^
Rainmeter
Zon3 Bar skin
Unity skin

You can do some pretty neat stuff with it, see my entire desktop below.

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Thanks 4 the tips!

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I put my backlog into favorites it's a fairly big list so it's easy to see what i have left to play

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I do, though it's not because I like a game better than others but because I'm currently playing it.
I basically favourite the one's I'm currently playing, so it's easier to find and start it.

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Yeah, I do. Less for the games that are my 'Favorites', and more to keep all the games I'm currently playing together in a tab at the top of the list.

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My categories:

  • Favorites
  • Completed
  • Ignored
  • Low Priority
  • Must Play!!
  • Streaming/Windows
  • Games (for me, playable on SteamOS)
  • SteamVR
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Other chategories are Installed, Not Installed and Not Installed (Favorites)

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I use it for games I'm currently playing. I remove games from there if I finished them or have no plans to play them soon.

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On my desktop I have shortcuts to all my non steam games so I can see everything in one place. So I use favourites to separate whats actually installed from what steam thinks is installed.

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Yes.
I have also made custom categories but now that I no longer want the categories I can't delete them, or maybe I'm missing something.

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I think you can delete categories easily. Just select all the games you want to uncategorise by SHIFT-clicking them or CTRL-clicking, then right-click to set category, then deselect every category in the list.

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Ah cool thanks PoM I didn't know that.

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I use the favorite tag for games I am currently playing or intend to play soon.

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