Manual Sorting of To-Do: Doing Changes Order

[Javier]

Hello everyone. First of all, congrats to all of the Joplin devs. I started to use it after being frustrated by Evernote and OneNote. Really nice work.

Now my question. I don't know if it is a bug or not, but I like to manually sort notes and todo-notes.

Problem is that for todo-notes, whenever you mark a todo-note as done, it no longer respects the manual order.

Let me give you an example:

[ ] TODO BBB
[ ] TODO AAA
[ ] TODO XXX

If I check TODO AAA as DONE, it goes to the bottom:

[ ] TODO BBB
[ ] TODO XXX
[x] TODO AAA

If I uncheck TODO AAA, it goes back to the original place:

[ ] TODO BBB
[ ] TODO AAA
[ ] TODO XXX

Is it possible to keep the manual order ignoring if it is checked/unchecked?

Use case, I have a list of tasks that need to be done in order:

[ ] TODO 1ST
[ ] TODO 2ND
[ ] TODO 3RD

If I finished task 2nd, I want to stay in second place, and, if for some reason I want to move it, I can do manual sorting and move it to whatever place I want.

EDIT: Also, I cannot mix/match TODO notes with NORMAL NOTES.

I cannot do this for example:

[ ] TODO1
NORMAL NOTE
[ ] TODO2

It is like there is a sort order that is

[ ] UNCHECKED TODOs FIRST
NORMAL NOTEs SECOND
[x] CHECKED TODOs THIRD

And you cannot manually sort them as you can with them individually.

Thanks!

[dpoulton]

@Javier welcome to the forum.

Unticking this setting may help with the sort order.

[Javier]

Thanks, dpulton! I feel so stupid I didn't see the option.

Mixing TODOs/NOTES is a MINOR thing but this was very important for my workflow.