Sort Order

[Owyn 457]

Each client seems to have it's own view of what the correct collation sequence is for title sort. I also had a personal question about what the correct special characters were to use to prefix tags and note titles to get specific order.

Finally got around to getting a definitive answer and created a notebook with a bunch of test notes to examine the issue.

The notebook has been shared and should be visible on any client which supports use of shared notebooks.

http://www.evernote.com/pub/owyn/testsort

[Owyn 457]

PS: Was making some changes to the notebook. Stable for the moment.

[Owyn 457]

Updated notebook to include:

-UTF-8 character coding for test characters.

-Test results for Windows, Web & iOS clients.

e.g.

!"#$%&'()*+,-./09:;<=>?@[\]^_`AaZz{|}~ (Windows) (NOCASEUTF8)
!"#$%&'()*+,-./09:;<=>?@AaZz[\]^_`{|}~ (Web)
`^_-,;:!?.'"()[]{}@*/\%+<=>!~$09AaZz (iOS)

Would like to add test results for other clients which I don't have (see my sig). Please.

[jonc 0]

Interestingly though when a bunch of tags are added to a note, the sort order of the tags within the note is different than the sort order of the notes based on the tags.

 

e.g. Tags within a single note in Windows client will sort thus: : ~2014, 800, Call BUT when a number of notes (using a selection of the same tags) is sorted by tags the notes sort like this: 800, Call, ~2014

 

Can you make any sense of that - I can't but I could just be tired from a long week?