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: [Sort buttons] You see four buttons on top of the lists of notebooks/notes. T…

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.

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. …

FWIW, I would recommend a different approach to the OP: "Toggle sort order field" and "Reverse sort order" are both commands that you can set arbitrary keyboard shortcuts to - if you define shortcuts that make sense to you, you won't need complex clicking sequences anymore. (and while the keyboard s…

... which then would take a lot of screen space in the standard layout, in particular if one likes to keep Joplin in a smaller window (say 25% of screen space), with the notes "column" as wide as 15 chars.

@TaoK The original post is three years old and Joplin now has these which it did not back then... [sort] Sort - Buttons [image] Sort - Keyboard Shortcuts

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

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renpj 28 February 2020 09:15 2

Hope this can be applied ASAP.

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

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