Reorder notes and notebooks

Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.5 13

Desktop version info

Desktop windows version

What issue do you have?

New to Joplin, running into quite a few challenges migrating from OneNote. Things I don't see and was wondering if were a setting or plug in. Colors for notebooks?, ability to free reorder notebooks and notes, example I have a Prime Notebook, and like to have an Inbox at top, but could not drag and drop to reorder, kept putting it under whatever notebook it was closest to, or at bottom of all the notebooks, asked AI and can do something like 01 Inbox, but seems cumbersome, and lack of color makes it hard to orient on a notebook or section, also just very plain. Migrating around 50k notes and these are some basic features I would expect to see. I browse my notes for inspiration and search if I need a specific ones, but was hoping this would be somewhat easier.

There's no color settings for notebooks, however, you can give them icons (right click on a notebook | edit and you can set an icon as either an emoji or a supplied icon file)

for sorting the best that you can do currently is what you mentioned (using a prefix in the notebook title to change the sort order): Cannot sort top-level notebooks via drag & drop · Issue #10474 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub

We can't change the color of notebooks directly, but we can create custom images to use as covers. I use a set of 3 tiers for my notebook structure. I also use the johnny decimal method of organizing that allows me control over the order in which they appear.

Interesting; any way I can generate a list/index of my directory tree if I use that method?

Not directly. But you can export your Joplin notes to markdown and run one of the following commands from the root directory of the exported notes:

(Windows) dir /A:D /B /S > FolderList.txt

(Mac OS) find . -type d > FolderList.txt

The resulting text file will contain a list of all of the folders and subfolders in the notebook tree.