[resolved] Sorting Label Notes files

I don't know whether this has been suggested before, or whether there's already a way you can do this that I'm overlooking.

But I would love to have a way to sort my Notes either chronologically by when they were added, or alphabetically by Label attribute (with secondary sort on the value of each attribute).

For example, I use one Notes file for storing all my highlighting that has an associated Label. I have several such highlighting styles that use different attributes (e.g., Author, Tag, BibleRef). I would like to be able to sort these by attribute, so that I can see all the Author ones grouped together (and in turn sorted secondarily on the name of that author), then all the BibleRef ones grouped together (and within that group sorted by Scripture reference), and then all the Tag ones grouped together (sorted alphabetically by Tag). Currently they all show up in an apparent jumble

I actually cannot tell what Logos's default sort order is for these. It certainly isn't chronological, nor alphabetical by title of the resource. It seems utterly random. I know I can drag notes around to reorder them, but I'd really like some better sorting capabilities that take into account Labels.

Thanks!

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Graham Criddle

But I would love to have a way to sort my Notes either chronologically by when they were added

You can do this

or alphabetically by Label attribute

I don't know if the "sort by title" option would help here at all

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/721059#Comment_721059

Thanks. I should have checked the panel menu.

Sort by date works, so that's great.

"Sort by reference" and "Sort by title" seem to do inscrutable things. Here's "Sort by title:

It's not in order by Label or Title of the resource. It appears to be in alphabetical order by the beginning few words of selected text that the label/highlighting was applied to. Hmm, very strange.

Here's the top of the "Sort by reference" results:

And here's the bottom:

That's not sorted by reference (if by "reference" I'm to understand "Scripture reference"). There is Numbers at the top of the document and two Genesis entries at the bottom, with a lot of non scripture-reference stuff in between.

BTW, it would also help if there were a checkmark next to the currently selected sort order on the panel menu, as otherwise there is no way to tell what sort order you're supposedly looking at, and when the results don't seem to have any bearing on what I selected (except for the date ones), it's kind of hard to remember what I chose.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/721066#Comment_721066

That's not sorted by reference (if by "reference" I'm to understand "Scripture reference"). There is Numbers at the top of the document and two Genesis entries at the bottom, with a lot of non scripture-reference stuff in between.

The sort "by reference" works if you have created notes by reference against a Bible passage

From your screenshot I think you have notes by selection and the title includes a biblical reference. Is that correct?

BTW, it would also help if there were a checkmark next to the currently selected sort order on the panel menu, as otherwise there is no way to tell what sort order you're supposedly looking at, and when the results don't seem to have any bearing on what I selected (except for the date ones), it's kind of hard to remember what I chose.

That would be helpful[Y]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/721073#Comment_721073

The sort "by reference" works if you have created notes by reference against a Bible passage

From your screenshot I think you have notes by selection and the title includes a biblical reference. Is that correct?

Yes, you are correct.

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