Yes. That's the way I've been doing it so far, but it is far from idea as if I want t insert several notes between 2 and 3 I end uo with 02a, 02b, 02c, etc. Makes it look messy.
I think there are many occasions where being able to manually sort notes would be useful such as prioritizing a list of things to work on, sorting out notes I've edited and ones I haven't etc.
I take it for granted that you can do this kind of thing in Scrivener, but totally understand it adds a whole new need for recording the current manual sort order.
Have to say though, that with a few tweaks here and there, Joplin could be an excellent writers tool in which they could store all of their work from multiple projects.
Keep up the great work - you've done an AMAZING job so far - and if it is ever possible to add manual sorting of notes, note status (e.g. ability to set it to draft, completed, etc), and a built-in thesaurus then I'll be a fan forever 
