Usability issues

Hi Guys,
For the past couple of weeks I am trying to give Aperture a chance to replace iPhoto... I have a quite large collection of pictures, and iPhoto is simply getting too slow to cope with it (yes, yes, i did library rebuild etc..).
I love editing features of Aperture 3, but have quite serious usability issues with it. First of all it really doesn't look or feel like Apple application. But anyway...
My biggest problem is with the way Aperture is organizing pictures. I mean - by default, newly imported pictures are going to the end of project list , there is no way of automatically sorting projects by date (well, i can in "Library", but not in the actual project list on the left). Also, as a result, my entire library is sorted alphabetically by the name of the event rather than by date. It looks like the app missing the most basic organization feature there is. Or am I missing something?

DanInDub wrote:
... Or am I missing something?
Yes. At the risk of a mildly "wise" answer, you need a quick hour with the manual (its online) or the Apple Aperture Tutorial.
Aperture can organize your images sixteen ways to Sunday, and will even let you arrange some one way and the rest another. And date order is always there as one of the factory smart albums.
Read the book and you will be very happy!
Or you can do what some of us dinosaurs do; begin the name of each Project with the date, as in "20100725 - Trip to Pub."
DiploStrat

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