Sorting search results

[naviji]

@laurent

In that case, maybe that would be the only thing that affects relevance and the results would be sorted by creation date.

Yes, but if we only sort by, let's say, ascending creation date, won't that be too restrictive? There's an equally valid case where users might want the notes to be sorted by descending creation date.

@laurent

If the query is “created:2015” indeed it means that the note creation date is important and should affect relevance more

What do we do with created:2015 updated:2020 ?
Is creation date the sole factor for relevance or created and updated both or maybe just ordering by title is enough. Seems like the user doing the search would be more informed about how to go about this.

And sometimes people just want the notes sorted alphabetically by title (ignoring any complicated relevance algorithm)

Here's a popular post by @foxmask about ordering the search results.

Notes/Notebook/Tag/Task: Filtering and Searching

what do you think about such a proposal ? Inside the exising search field, we could enter :date :-date (for descending) :tag :-tag :task :-taks :location :-location :tsize :-tsize to sort by one of that value, below is a proposal of the layout resulting from that choosen sort Notes list : layout of sort by date : could it be displayed like Today v * [ ] note title2 tag1 tag2 * note tile3 tag3 tag4 yesterday v * [ ] note title1 tag1 tag2 01/01/2018 v * no…

Trilium allows sorting search results by note attributes.

It's possible to order the results by one or more attribute, e.g. @orderBy=year,-genre will order notes by year label in ascending order and then by genre label in descending order (because of - sign).

So does Evernote.