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SebastianMC / obsidian-custom-sort

Take full control over the order and sorting of folders and notes in File Explorer in Obsidian
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Determine folder age recursively #132

Closed bibermann closed 4 months ago

bibermann commented 4 months ago

Hello,

this Plugin is really nice. The main reason why I was looking for such a plugin was that folders were not sorted by date. So I was glad to find the "advanced modified" sort order.

However, I'd like the function determineDatesForFolder to go recursively into sub directories, so that also parent nodes are pushed to the top when I change a deeply nested note. This behavior could be a distinct sort order, e.g. "recursive modified".

Is there a reason why we are only looking at the first level currently?

SebastianMC commented 4 months ago

Hi @bibermann

the plugin release 2.1.8 contains the feature which you asked for.

The names of new orders are advanced recursive created and advanced recursive modified

Introduced under the disclaimer 'experimental feature' - use with care, for extremely broad and deep vaults the overhead could be noticeable on slower mobile devices

Let me know if it works on your side

bibermann commented 4 months ago

Hi @bibermann

the plugin release 2.1.8 contains the feature which you asked for.

The names of new orders are advanced recursive created and advanced recursive modified

Introduced under the disclaimer 'experimental feature' - use with care, for extremely broad and deep vaults the overhead could be noticeable on slower mobile devices

Let me know if it works on your side

Works like a charm, thank you very much!

Is your statement "experimental feature" explaining why you've not added this to the documentation yet?

SebastianMC commented 4 months ago

Hi @bibermann

regarding the documentation ;-) it is (very) outdated now. In the sense that it doesn't describe most the recent features added in the past year or so. I only managed to extend the documentation with the bookmarks plugin integration feature. The main reason for the docs not being up-to-date is their format - it was just recently that I decided to migrate and update the documentation to a new very convenient format (for the reader and also for the author). I borrowed the idea of incorporating Material for MkDocs for documentation from the well-knowns Obsidian dataview plugin. There is a fresh new documentation project started a month ago with the intention to migrate and update the documentation. So this is the big picture.

The meaning of "experimental feature": this label is used for a feature, which is not settled down yet, needs time for real-life testing by users, can then evolve in a more advanced or mature form or be replaced with an equivalent feature.