Add the ability to set a custom sort-title or exclude specific strings/chars

[fischgeek]

Is it possible with this to exclude a string or specific chars or just allow regex patterns to sort the list?

A quick example would be,

• sort alphabetical
• ignore the string the

Or, even better, have it sort based on meta-data within the note with a sort-title key/value pair.

The Awesome Note.md
---
sort-title: 'awesome note'
---

[SebastianMC]

Hi @fischgeek

sorting by metadata value has been already supported as a result of feature request #23 Simple documentation of that feature is available in #23 and also in example 14 of advanced-manual

For the metadata from your example: sort-title: 'awesome note'

the simplest sorting specification to order by metadata in the root vault folder looks like:

---
sorting-spec: |
    target-folder: /
    < a-z by-metadata: sort-title
---

Entries in root folder not having the sort-title metadata will land below these with the metadata. Grouping by metadata is also supported, if you want consciously handle the cases of different metadata fields and/or order items with and without metadata in the same folder.

For other questions in your message:

• excluding words or phrases of note's title from sorting is not supported
• regexps are supported in a limited way. Fully free-form regexps not allowed intentionally for folder entries matching
  • at the same time regexps are supported in the target-folder: syntax, yet this is not what you are asking for

Let me know if you have more questions

[fischgeek]

Thanks so much for the detailed reply @SebastianMC! I'm going to try the meta-data sort right now!

[fischgeek]

The plugin won't install for me. Just fails with no reason.

[SebastianMC]

Please try now, the 1.8.2 version is correctly published on github. I messed up the version numbers in the relevant json files vs the release package content and tags.

[fischgeek]

Perfect! Thank you!