Text searches produce results that are listed in random ways. With Evernote the most recent notes where always at the top. Usually, I want to edit something I modified today. But things that are years old pop up first in the search results list. This makes finding things hard. What can be done about…

We should probably invite @laurent into the discussion but here was his response from the ticket: I wish this had been discussed on the forum first so as not to spend too much time on the implementation. I'm not very keen to add this to be honest because I don't think it's the right solution to wh…

I agree that sorting search result is rather critical. I also handle quite a large number of notes. The best option I found so far is rather cumbersome and the lack of date sorting of the search result does not help. The way I do it is to use tag/labels per year. So current notes are labelled 20…

[grafik] Most of the time I sort my search results by date of change, but I want to be able to switch and not have an algorithm tell me what it thinks is right. Therefore I had created the PR, but it was not accepted.

Hello JackGruber, the option you are describing, to sort search results (when searching across notes) by updated date, is exactly what I need. I am very unhappy with Joplin's "relevance" sort. I simply want to sort by updated date. How can I upvote your recommended PR?

As far as I know, the decision to accept @JackGruber 's submission is up to the main developer @laurent who I believe feels the algorithmic search works well. With respect, I have also made my feelings on this clear that it would be great to have the option to sort results by last update. I have …

The following would help as well: `type` can't be negated · Issue #8039 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub

Isn't Joplin supposed to be free and open-source? So couldn't we just add this extremely useful feature ourselves? Seriously, I'm bewildered that "sort search results by date" isn't at least an option.

I find that last updated date is usually not useful to me but I could see how that might be very helpful for other workflows. Instead, created date is the important parameter for my situation. The algorithmic search that exists now does not work for me if I'm searching for something that was perhap…

I need to sort search results by title. Is there a plug-in for this?

Check out the Note Overview plugin as a desktop workaround for sorting search results.

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TimInAus 29 November 2024 17:58 29

What I need most is SORT SEARCH RESULTS BY DATE.
The 'VS Code...' plug-in is great, but changing 'Updated' drop down from ascending to descending does nothing at all.

VS Code Style Search Plugin

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