[whpalmer4]

That hope is probably going to go unfulfilled in OF 2.0. The place where you can't manually sort is context mode. All the sort options given to you are well-defined, and the computer can sort the data into that order every time. If you want a manual sort, that means that somehow your sort order needs to be stored, because a manual sort that doesn't persist (and doesn't get synced to other devices) isn't very useful. Unfortunately, to store and sync that information, the database format would have to be changed, and they've said that they have no intention of changing it for OF 2.0 in order to preserve sync compatibility with OF 1 and the iOS versions.