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Display notebooks in unordered collection by publishing date #433

Open mootari opened 2 years ago

mootari commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Notebooks in an unordered collection are listed in the order in which they were added to the collection. This might work well if the intent is to track new additions. However, if the use case is to categorize notebooks, then this behavior is not desirable because even old notebooks will be listed at the top of the collection if they were added last, giving them more weight than recent notebooks.

There is currently no way to reorganize notebooks in an unordered collection without completely removing and readding every single notebook.

Describe the solution you'd like

Preferably, I'd like to have an option in a collection's settings that lets me change the order in which its notebooks are displayed to "publish date" (descending).

Alternatively, I'd like a button in the collection settings to manually reorder all notebooks that are currently in the collection by descending publish date.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Ordered collections are not an alternative because:

  1. they serve a different purpose and are shown in a different UI
  2. notebooks are always added to the end, which would require constant reordering in an increasing number of notebooks