mariacarlson.com

What It Is

Sort My List is a web-based text list organization tool on mariacarlson.com. It is designed for text that is pasted in or loaded into the page, offering operations such as sorting, cleaning, replacing, case conversion, delimiter conversion, and adding tags. The page indicates that JavaScript is required, and it supports loading text from a local hard drive, saving locally, and printing.

Core Features

The tool’s strengths are list sorting and text cleanup. Its sorting options go beyond standard A–Z sorting and include sorting names by last name, sorting address lists by the name on the first line, sorting book/movie titles while ignoring articles, sorting email addresses by domain, sorting HREF tags by visible text, sorting while ignoring the first word, numeric sorting, weekday and month sorting, sorting by length, as well as shuffling and reversing lists. For cleanup, it supports removing duplicates, deleting non-alphanumeric characters, removing all line breaks, removing line breaks while preserving paragraphs, trimming items, trimming leading and trailing spaces, and removing extra whitespace. It also supports case conversion, search and replace, mirroring items, reversing word order, transposing rows and columns, and converting delimiters between commas, new lines, blank lines, spaces, tabs, and custom characters.

Pricing and Openness

The scraped text does not mention pricing, payment methods, an account system, or subscription information, nor does it state whether the tool is open source. No API, SDK, CLI, or self-hosting options were found, so it is better suited as a manual in-browser tool rather than a service that can be embedded into a development workflow.

Pros and Cons

Its advantages are broad feature coverage and many sorting rules that closely match everyday data-cleaning scenarios, such as grouping email addresses by domain, sorting HTML links by link text, and organizing names and addresses. The page also provides examples, making it relatively easy to learn. Undo, redo, local loading, and local saving also improve usability. The drawbacks are the lack of automation interfaces, team collaboration, batch-processing pipelines, and clear documentation commonly found in modern developer tools. Information about privacy, where data is processed, and maintenance status also cannot be confirmed from the page content.

Who It’s For

It is suitable for editors, operations staff, webmasters, developers, and data organizers who need to temporarily process name lists, email addresses, links, addresses, to-do items, or messy copied text. It is less suitable for teams that need scripting, CI integration, or large-scale data processing.

Access in China

The scraped text does not make it possible to determine accessibility from mainland China, so it is marked as unknown.