This feature request will be used by JupyterHub's team-compass and possible Jupyter Book's team-compass.

Use case

MyST is used to archive notes of meetings, e.g.

• January 2026 as 2026-01-01.md
• February 2026 as 2026-02-01.md
• March 2026 as 2026-03-01.md
• ...

Visitors of the MyST powered web site are probably more interested in the latest meeting (e.g. 2026-03-01.md) instead of the first ever holding meeting (e.g. 2026-01-01.md). For this, it is nice to be able to list the archive notes in chronological reverse order.

Proposal

Expand Glob pattern matching to accept a option reverse. For example, the pattern-matching is

version: 1
project:
  toc:
    - file: root.md
    - pattern: '*.md'
      reverse: true

and the no pattern-matching is

version: 1
project:
  toc:
    - file: root.md
    - file: 2026-03-01.md
    - file: 2026-02-01.md
    - file: 2026-01-01.md