Sorting

[tucoawa]

Good evening everybody.
Quick question: Is it be possible to sort a folder first based on a criteria, then on another? Like, first sort by #author, then by #year ( I simply tried putting "#sorted=author #sorted=year" in the Owned Attributes of the folder, but the #sorted=year criteria seems to have no effect on the child notes ordering)?
Thanks in advance!

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi @tucoawa! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the Trilium team.

Trilium currently only supports sorting folder contents by a single criterion using the #sorted attribute—if you specify multiple #sorted attributes (like #sorted=author #sorted=year), only the first one is used and the rest are ignored. Multi-level sorting (e.g., first by author, then by year) is not natively supported at this time. The sorting logic applies just one property or label for ordering, as described in the documentation and confirmed by the codebase behavior see docs.

If you need multi-level sorting, there isn't a built-in workaround. You could consider combining your criteria into a single custom label (like #sortkey=Smith-2023) and sorting by that, but this requires manual management. Expanding to true multi-level sorting would require changes to Trilium's sorting logic.

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