Preserving the order of the output markdown by adding a incremental numeric prefix

[YoungY620]

Describe the feature here.

I mean is it possible to define a rule so we can change the file name of output Markdown?

I think this is the only drawback of this tool.

[alxnbl]

Hey @YoungY620 , could you give more detail of your use case, and how you would expect the new feature to solve your issue.
Thanks

[YoungY620]

I want to export my notes in Onenote to Markdown files. As described in the README, ordering of output markdown files is based on their file names. So, I want to add a number before original names so the files will be ordered by its numeric prefix. For example, "fileA" is the 1st file in a notebook and "fileB" is the second, so the output files are "1-fileA.md" and "2-fileB.md". It is also the way I control the ordering of files when I take notes with Markdown now.

However, there still exists a problem. When the total number of files in a folder is more than 10 or 100 for example, the output file must be "01-fileA.md" or "001-fileA.md".

I was going to add this feature myself and pull a request, but I found it is implemented in C#, about which I know nothing....XD). So, I dont know whether it is difficult for you.

[alxnbl]

I understand, indeed it can be useful.
It should not be tricky to implement, but not straightforward either. We need to add a new setting, add a counter inside folder loop, and add a new function to generate page file name. Most of the change are located in MdExportService.cs
I will try to implement it in a future version, but probably not before some months...
If you want to experiment C#, feel tree to send a PR :).

[YoungY620]

Thank you for your reply! It is interesting. Unfortunately, I also have little free time now. After the current rush is over, I would really love to try it if you haven't do that then.

[alxnbl]

We can imagine to have a setting that allow to define the template of file name. This template would support some tag like like $filenumber$ allowing the alphabetic order to follow the original ordering of pages inside a section.

MR welcome from any volunteer ;)