Better way to organize torrents in the main view, e.g. by label or watch/download directory about rtorrent HOT 5 CLOSED

Yup, it's called a front-end for rTorrent. ruTorrent allows you to apply filters on top of filters. And automatically group torrents with expressions. It's mind boggling what can be done in PHP and JavaScript! https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent

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I'm aware of ruTorrent, but was looking for a solution that just utilized the base rtorrent. That doesn't exist, but I was able to replicate this functionality by running multiple instances of rtorrent. Of course, that doesn't scale well, but I only needed 2 or 3 degrees of separation and it's fine for me. For anyone wondering, here is a blog post that walks you through that set up: https://kernelwho.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/running-multiple-instances-of-rtorrent/

The tl;dr is make different rtorrent config files (make sure they are not named rtorrent.rc) with different sessions and port ranges and you can run as many rtorrent instances as your heart (and patience) desires.

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For posterity, while it's not possible to change the main view, it is possible to create new views and filter them as needed:

view.add = movies # Create the view
view.persistent = movies # Persist it across restarts
method.insert =	d.is_movie, simple, "equal={d.custom1=,((cat,movies))}" # Helper method to check the custom1 value (AKA the ruTorrent label)
view.filter = movies, ((d.is_movie)) # Filter the view on startup
schedule2 = filter_movies, 22, 33, "view.filter = movies, d.is_movie=" # Keep filtering the view every 33 seconds

Alternately the pyrosimple tools (which I maintain, for full disclosure), make on-the-fly filtering very easy:

rtcontrol label=movies --to-view=movies

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