Notes: Sort by Title

[artemanufrij]

Hey,

would it be possible to implement a function for sorting notes by Title?

Best Regards

[korelstar]

The app has two type of notes lists:

1. All notes, sorted by last modified date (default view for quickly finding recent notes)
2. Notes in a specific category, sorted by title (stable view to find a known note at the same position again)

So, yes: we have already sorting by title. You just have to select a category.

I think it's a good compromise between UI complexity and customization. Do you think we should change this?

[mmartinortiz]

Hi,

From my user experience, I miss an option (maybe on the "settings" menu) for sorting by title. Maybe it is because how I use my notes, but for me the titles are more useful that the date of modification.

I saw in another issue that not getting overcrowded the settings menu is one of the reasons for not implementing this option on the sorting, but I do not see the settings panel so crowded.

Do you think that the sorting option could be integrated?

[korelstar]

See the answer above (https://github.com/nextcloud/notes/issues/298#issuecomment-466655703):

Notes in a specific category are sorted by title (stable view to find a known note at the same position again). Is this really not sufficient?

[mmartinortiz]

I do not categorize my notes. The main reason is because the categories only make sense for me on the web-side, when I'm working with the notes on my computer, they are plain Markdown files.

The way I use to work with the notes is as follows (it could be that I'm not using the extension as it is intended): I write them from my desktop, using mainly Atom. When I need to check them from a different computer, I use the web interface, since I do not have the desktop client installed in those other computers.

[stefan-niedermann]

The main reason is because the categories only make sense for me on the web-side, when I'm working with the notes on my computer, they are plain Markdown files

For your info: the categories are only plain folders and are synced, so editing them with your atom editor is still easy and possible :)

[korelstar]

@mmartinortiz
You can select "Categories" in the app navigation and then chose "Uncategorized" in order to sort your notes by name.