Separate sort order for each notebook

[AdmiralP 83]

From Evernote Help and Learning:

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Evernote offers several options which you can sort your list of notes by. The sort order is an application-wide setting, so all notebooks, search results, and other note lists are all sorted the same way. You cannot set different sort orders for different groups of notes.

It would be cvery useful if we could specify different sort orders for different notebooks
I would like to be able to sort some by Date Created, others by Title of Note,,,

[gazumped 11,666]

In Evernote Legacy it's already possible to save searches.  Saved search results can include the sort order of those results.  One possible search is "notebook:<keyword>".

Does v10 operate in a similar way?

[PinkElephant 8,115]

Safed searches are possible in v10 as well.

[gazumped 11,666]

17 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

Safed searches are possible in v10 as well.

Thanks - but is it also possible to save the sort order?

[PinkElephant 8,115]

Yes, it does save the sorting order as well as other criteria. Possibilities are by Relevance, or by title, creation or change date, the last 3 up or down.

[CalS 5,280]

1 hour ago, PinkElephant said:

Yes, it does save the sorting order as well as other criteria. Possibilities are by Relevance, or by title, creation or change date, the last 3 up or down.

I don't think new EN allows one to save the view order by search, sort or columns as does the older version.

[PinkElephant 8,115]

The question I answered was "Are there saved searches in v10, including the possibility to save the order for the results". My answer was yes.

For notebooks the view can't be saved in v10. Using a saved search is sort of a workaround for this restriction.

You create a saved search with the notebook as sole search criteria, establish your sorting order, and voila - you get the notebooks content in an order specified by you, per notebook, whenever you call the saved search.

[Alxa 480]

I voted this up since this little feature we had in EN legacy and lost with EN 10 was very handy. It really annoys me to constantly switch sorting when switching notebooks. The saved search is a workaroud. But since the sorting of the saved searches is unfortunately not "remembered" on mobile (Android) it has its limits. Would be nice to have the sorting saved which each notebook as with EN legacy in the past.

[lady jess 0]

Please, please, please bring this back. I have entire notebooks that are based on templates using different sort orders, which now have to be manually re-sorted since I have to pick only one default for all of my notes.

[agsteele 2,950]

6 hours ago, lady jess said:

Please, please, please bring this back. I have entire notebooks that are based on templates using different sort orders, which now have to be manually re-sorted since I have to pick only one default for all of my notes.

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[gazumped 11,666]

- Just contributing another work-around... 

1. If you sort your notebook as required,  then create a Table of Contents note,  you have an 'index' to your specific sort for that notebook.  When you add a new note,  just add a new link to the ToC index.
2. Or even...  Why not do a ToC on the unsorted notes and then sort the items in the ToC note so you have your index without ever having to sort the notes at all...