Steam allows you to organize your library into "collections", which is nice. You can't customize them aside from their name and contents, however. You can't even reorder them... or can you?

If you try to create two collections of the same name, you'll get an error message saying "Cannot overwrite collection (name here). Please choose a new name".

But did you know you can still make two collections look like they have the same name?

Try having two collections, and for example name one "Games" and the second "Games(space)".

Steam will hide the spaces when displaying the collections to you, allowing you to make as many collections as you like with the "same" name.

Note that the "New collection" menu doesn't let you put spaces in the name like this, and will automatically remove them. So you have to do this by renaming a collection after it's created.

The last trick probably doesn't sound so useful, until you try putting a space at the beginning of a name instead. Yes, it will be hidden in the same way as a space at the end.

The result is the collection being pinned to the top, above any collections without spaces at the start of their name. As the spaces are invisible in normal usage of Steam, this effectively creates a way to control the order of your collections, ignoring normal alphabetization rules.

If this is not sufficient to reorder collections to your liking, just add additional spaces. More spaces = higher up.

Other techniques for reordering collections might involve clever use of synonyms, numbers, alphabetical lists, or other symbols, but I like this one the best because it is totally invisible once done.

If you haven't heard of the soft hyphen[en.wikipedia.org] before, it's an invisible character that Windows users can enter by holding Alt then pressing 0, 1, 7, and 3 in that order and releasing Alt, and users of other systems can look up how to enter Unicode characters for their system and then enter in the one corresponding to U+00AD.

For this guide, it's useful because 1. it's invisible, and 2. if put at the start of a collection's name, it will sink to the bottom, the opposite behavior of the space.

As before, add more of them in a row if you need further control over the order of things.

You can put emoji in collection names. It's probably not very useful unless you want to decorate your collection names.

If a collection name is ONLY spaces, then its entry in the right-click menu will be unusually small.

Even though collection names appear to be in all-caps, the duplicate name error message preserves the capitalization that you just tried to enter in, which can look rather silly.