Feature request: One-click (or one-keystroke) sorting

[memophen]

It takes six mouse clicks to change the sorting order of my notes from alphabetical + ascending to last edited + descending (or vice versa). It becomes more and more irritating, so I want to propose a one-click solution:

You see four buttons on top of the lists of notebooks/notes. The first three are a set of radio buttons, the fourth is a toggle for ascending/descending. Maybe they should be highlighted to indicate the current state, but I don’t care so much.

Doesn’t this setup require two mouse clicks? Not necessarily. I think there are two ways to facilitate one-click control:

1. Replace the notions ascending/descending with customary/contrary. Alphabetical sort is usually ascending, and time sort is usually descending (in the context of a picklist of objects in an app).
2. Let Joplin remember the ascending/descending status for all three sorting attributes separately.

In most cases, I would only need to click the [A] or the [✐] to switch the order of my notes.

There are other ways to make sorting more convenient. For instance by predefined hotkeys, or user-definable hotkeys in combination with some kind of macro facility. These alternatives would make me evenly happy.

[renpj]

Hope this can be applied ASAP.

[laurent]

I think that would be a useful feature but also eventually we’d like to have multiple columns in the note list, so in that case sorting will be done by clicking on the headers.

[nr458h]

While I see the need for a lean user experience, I’m a little bit worried because I do love the simple and buttonless UI.
As you are not changing the sort order all the time Probably an idea could be to have a little button for sorting and this opens a menu with the proposed options.
Just an idea.

Also we should think about the context, would we need/expect two different sorting orders in the sidebar and the note list or could or should they apply to both …