[mdavej]

Hi all,
Thanks for the replies! A couple of things:

I misspoke when I said importing csv bookmarks creates multiple files. I should've said multiple "songs".

The way csv bookmarks works isn't really ideal for me. I don't like have hundreds of songs cluttering up my library. I understand I can organize them with set-lists and collections, but that sometimes I need to browse through all my pieces for various reasons and it's quite messy. I also am sometimes needing to flip around in the hymnal during a service, and if all the songs are separated, I lose that ability.

Pdf bookmarks work a little better for me, but I find that the interface leaves a lot to be desired when I'm trying to scroll through hundreds of songs.

What would be awesome is if I could make my own table of contents as a several page document in a pdf editor, and enter hyperlinks to the necessary page. That way I could format it to my taste.  Is something like that possible?

I did precisely that 20 years ago using Excel and Adobe Reader on a laptop before any music reading software existed, creating a hyperlink to a specific page in a specific pdf for every song in every pdf book I had. However, using songs in MSP is far superior to this method in terms of organizing, searching, filtering and navigating. You say too many songs leads to clutter. But this really isn't true. If you put each in the proper collection, they can be managed and filtered quite easily, much more easily than some master pdf bookmarks file. I have over 6000 songs in my MSP library consisting of the contents of dozens of books and hundreds of individual pdf scores. Using collections and custom fields to filter and organize, I can usually find the song I'm looking for within a few seconds. I encourage you to embrace MSP's song concept and organize them using collections. That's really the best way.

To do kind of a hybrid approach, you can make a song for each complete hymnal, then use the pdf bookmarks within each hymnal. MSP would list the hymnals. But there would then be no way to search across hymnals. With the song file for every song approach, they would be searchable. To make your own pdf bookmarks, I recommend JPdf bookmarks. In there, I do multi-level bookmarks, with a clickable letter folder bookmark (A,B,C,etc.) with all the other bookmarks underneath. You could do number ranges or whatever works best for you.