A well-stocked library is only useful if you can find what you need quickly. Anara gives you three tools for this: filtering, sorting, and search. Use them individually or combine them to surface exactly the papers you're looking for.

Click Search in the left sidebar to open global search. It finds documents by title, content, authors, and other metadata across your entire library. This is the fastest way to find a specific paper when you remember something about it.

Click Filter in the library toolbar to add one or more filters. You can filter by any of these 20 fields:

Filters combine. For example: File type: Document + Added: last 30 days shows only recently uploaded papers.

Click Sort in the toolbar to change how files are ordered. Sort by title, date added, publication date, citation count, and more. Click again to toggle between ascending and descending order.

Sorting by Citation count is a fast way to surface the most influential papers in your collection.

Click Display in the toolbar to show or hide columns in the library table. Focus on the fields most relevant to your workflow. Available columns include Title, Authors, Added, Full text, File type, Summary, Tags, and Progress.

Filters and sorting apply to whatever is selected in the sidebar. If you have a folder selected, they apply to that folder's contents. Click Library in the sidebar to return to your full library before filtering if you want to search everything.

For more on organizing your library, see Organizing with folders and Using tags.