Alphabetically sort folders in the side panel

[mariomui-viscira]

It's not a bug but before I work on it, I'm just gonna put a general issue out here so there's no duplication of effort. As a user, I should be able to sort my folders by alphabet, descending or ascending.

[arcturus140]

You can drag your folders with your mouse in any order you like. Alphabetical order doesn't make much sense to me. It should be based on priority since it has the same order as the drop down from your Markdown note. How many folders do you have?

[mariomui-viscira]

I have about 30. If there was a filter search for only folders that would be good too. Then a view would be created with a more manageable subset of folders. This is good for weeding out duplication of folders etc etc

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You can drag your folders with your mouse in any order you like. Alphabetical order doesn't make much sense to me. It should be based on priority since it has the same order as the drop down from your Markdown note. How many folders do you have?

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[arcturus140]

@mariomui-viscira I think I have the same problem as you do:

1. too many folders
2. I am trying to avoid making more folders
3. I don't know which folder a note should go in

I think we can make this issue into a discussion. My suggestion for you is to create separate storage locations and redistribute your folders into subsets. For example storage locations for

school, university, work, live

and folders within them for

maths, history, javascript, computer-science

distributed in above storages.

I currently have 2k5 notes. I went a different approach, ditching folders completely and using only tags. So this is not perfect either.

Sorting folders is different from search filters. I feel like we should describe the problem first before suggestion solutions. Can you share your thoughts on my suggestions, and which limitations there should be improved?

[arcturus140]

Edit: the Tags in the sidebar cannot be combined with the search so currently this is not an option for me.

[Flexo013]

While you can't specifically search on tags, they are still used. A note with tag #hello will show up when searching hello, even if the word hello does not show up in the note.

[arcturus140]

@Flexo013 hm, I see. In Boostnote 0.11.12 you can specifically search on tags. A note with tag #hello will show up when searching #hello. In Boostnote 0.14 you cannot specifically search on tags, the 5 notes tagged #hello are in a list of 50 notes that contain the word hello. From those 5 notes two use the word world of which one is the note I am actually trying to find.

The problem here is that hello has a weight, world does not. It is different from searching hello world. I don't know why Boostnote 0.14 has abandoned this concept. I reverted back to 0.11.12.

The problem I have with 0.11.12 is that #c++ #project #testing myproject involves a lot of typing. I wish I could select the tags with the mouse then type myproject. It would be much faster for me.

Generally speaking I think Boostnote search lacks the concept of weight, e.g. folders, categories, tags, keywords, anything like that and exclusion, for example exclusively per storage location.

The good news is that Boost Note already implemented this. The search of Boost Note is far superior to Boostnote. I think we shouldn't bother improving this in Boostnote, in my eyes this feature is already obsolete.

[sulcino]

You can drag your folders with your mouse in any order you like. Alphabetical order doesn't make much sense to me.

Alphabetical order is standard. If you have hundred folders, searching something in unuedered list is a nightmare. Folders cannot be dragged, there’s no way to organize them.